Georgia Man Lived 10 Days With Missing Hinsdale Mom Before Her Arrest

Missing mom Linda Fellenbaum took a job as a live-in housekeeper for a Georgia man after she disappeared from Joliet.

Missing Mom Linda Fellenbaum Found in Georgia Jail—Update!

The Hinsdale and Joliet resident was arrested in Fulton County, Ga., and used a fake name but was identified through fingerprints, police said. Detectives believe her missing son is safe, too.

Missing mom Linda Fellenbaum has turned up in a Georgia jail cell and detectives believe her toddler is safe as well. Fellenbaum, 33, who recently lived in Hinsdale and Joliet, was last seen the night of Oct. 21 when she ran barefoot from her boyfriend's Joliet home. Besides her shoes, Fellenbaum left behind her cell phone and Toyota Camry. The whereabouts of Fellenbaum's 2-year-old son, Jonathan, also were not known. Joliet police Cmdr. Brian Benton said it appears the boy had been legally adopted and that detectives are currently confirming this. Benton said he is not aware whether the couple knew police were searching for the boy. “We’ve had no contact with the adoptive parents and we don’t plan to,” Benton said. Benton also did not …

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10:57 am on Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Friend you are a very creepy guy aren't you. Taking picture of her loading dishwasher from behind house plants and trying to get her to have sex with you. Know body believes she stole any thing from you. You are 15 years older than her and a retired trucker so obviously you are fat too. Get a life creepy guy! She deffinitely doesn't want a thing to do with you!   more ›

Missing Mom Wanted on Arrest Warrant & Evicted Weeks Before Vanishing

Missing mother Linda Fellenbaum—who is wanted on an arrest warrant—was tossed out of her Hinsdale apartment a month and a half before she vanished. Her toddler son remains missing as well.

Just a month and a half before she supposedly ran barefoot into the Joliet night, never to be seen again, DuPage County Sheriff's deputies served an eviction order at missing mom Linda Fellenbaum's Hinsdale apartment. Fellenbaum's possessions were carried from the apartment on Sept. 5 and left outside. By then, according to police, Fellenbaum, 33, was living with her new boyfriend, Donald Wolak, in his house on Joliet's west side. According to the report, she did not return to collect her things. Wolak and Fellenbaum's relationship started after they met online in late August, police said, but the affair had apparently soured by Oct. 16. That was when Wolak, 40, told police Fellenbaum stole a "large sum of cash" and one of his handguns. …

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Is Grand Jury Investigating the Case of Missing Mom Linda Fellenbaum?

Joliet police have asked for a grand jury to investigate a missing person case opened the same day Linda Fellenbaum's family reported that she had disappeared.

Police have asked a Will County grand jury to investigate a missing person, a theft and the theft of a gun related to a case filed the same day a former Hinsdale woman's disappearance was reported, according to court papers. Circumstances described in the Nov. 6 motion to appoint a grand jury and grand jury investigators—the theft and the theft of a firearm—match allegations made in the Linda Fellenbaum case. Before the mother of three vanished on Oct. 21, her live-in boyfriend, 40-year-old Donald Wolak, reportedly went to Joliet police and told officers she stole a "large sum of cash" and one of his handguns. Fellenbaum, 33, returned to Wolak's 3608 Crockett Court home five days later, on Oct. 21, police said. Wolak expected her to return…

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