Linda Murphy is the woman who went viral on the internet as the obsessive ex-girlfriend who got arrested for calling her ex-boyfriend 77000 times within a week.
An article stating that a woman in New Mexico was arrested after calling her former boyfriend 77,639 times in one week has turned out to be a hoax.
The fake story posted on World News Daily Report, a satirical website, claimed that Linda Murphy also sent 1,937 emails, 41,229 text messages, 217 sung messages, and 647 letters in the same seven-day period.
The story went viral on Reddit and soon took over the internet, becoming a meme on different sites like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. People soon jumped on the bandwagon, calling her crazy.
The story went viral in 2014, and people are curious to know where the girlfriend is now in 2022. So, let us learn more about the story and where Linda is now.
Reddit: Who Is Linda Murphy? Woman Arrested For Calling Ex 77000 Times
In 2014, a Reddit user posted a mugshot of a woman named Linda Murphy crying with the title, “This woman got arrested for calling her ex-boyfriend 77000 times in a week,” with a link to an article leading to the World News Daily Report.
The bogus report read: ‘Linda Murphy, who has an history of obsessive compulsive behavior, would have badly taken her breakup with William Ryans, with whom she had had a relationship for three weeks. She is accused of using up to three phones at once to call him, 24 hours a day, on his cell phone, home number and at work. The woman would have ingested large quantities of energy drinks and amphetamines to remain awake and would have gone sleepless for a week, calling her ex nonstop.
“‘My client is profoundly relieved that Ms. Murphy is finally behind bars,’ stated the plaintiff’s lawyer, J.D. James Kilroy. ‘He hasn’t been able to sleep, work or enjoy life in any way, for more than a week. He was having a hard time thinking clearly and was nearing depression, it was about time the harassment ceased. Now all we want is for Ms. Murphy to get the medical help she needs, and for the law to keep her away from my client.’
On the website, the article stated that Linda Murphy was a Mexican woman who the Albuquerque Police Department arrested for an extreme case of stalking.
It further claimed that the girlfriend was 28 years old and was obsessed with her ex-lover leading her to call him 77639 times in a week with 1937 emails, 41229 texts, and 647 letters within the same week.
Murphy, diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive behavior, did not take her to breaking up with her boyfriend well and used three phones to call him 24 hours a day with the help of energy drinks to stay awake.
The news later read that she finally got arrested, which gave a breath of relief to the victim.
Linda Murphy’s Boyfriend Revealed
William’s attorney, J. D. James Kilroy, stated that his client suffered from a lack of sleep and depression due to his ex-girlfriend’s actions.
He also claimed that Ryans were finally relieved with Linda Murphy behind bars and wanted medical help and the law to keep his ex-girlfriend away from him in the future.
Where Is Linda Murphy Today?
Linda Murphy, the woman who called her boyfriend 77000 times a week, becoming an internet sensation, does not exist. The whole story of Linda turned out to be a hoax and a complete joke by the website, as it seems they post troll articles.
Call me 77000 times so I know it’s real pic.twitter.com/DnPAh4ayOO
— marissa richter (@richter_marissa) June 30, 2014
The woman whose mugshot the article used is a woman named Ciera Steed from Oklahoma. The article used her mugshot from 2010 in their writing with a fake storyline.
Ciera did get arrested in 2010, not for stalking but for crawling through a McDonald’s drive-up window after being drunk.
She got a lot of negative attention on social media after the story with her mugshot went viral, which she addressed on her Facebook.
Ciera left a message to others in her comments, writing,” Take note folks: don’t do drugs and climb through the drive-thru windows or this may happen to you.” and asked people to stop messaging her about the meme since it is fake.
Few media outlets picked up the story without confirming the validity of the content.
However, the story has no truth to it and the woman in the mug shot is an Oklahoma City woman named Cierra Reed.
Reed, who was arrested back in 2009 after she crawled into a McDonalds drive-through window, took to her Facebook account to clear the rumours.
Currently, the real woman behind the fake Linda Murphy works at Pro Shopper and as a chemist at Drugstore Cowboy in Oklahoma with her child.
