The Case of Linda Ann Weston Part 1

Tawana Watson
2 min readNov 28, 2022

Linda Ann Weston, the ringleader in kidnapping and torturing mentally disabled individuals for her own personal gain, was charged, along with her associates, with 196 criminal charges by a federal grand jury in 2013. The victims were found by the police in the basement of a home in Philadelphia, now known as the Basement of Horror. According to police reports, when they entered the basement they found a mentally ill man chained to a furnace, and three other adults hiding under filthy blankets and rags. They also discovered eight children in Weston’s upstairs apartment. According to police…

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Tawana Watson

I am a certified peer counselor, minority mental health advocate, and African American women’s advocate.