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Linda Duffey was such an animated character few questioned her wacky and wonky story about the sudden and violent death of her husband, Patrick, who was found dead on their living couch after Linda said she shot him twice in the head accidentally. 

In fact, police detectives were charmed, bamboozled, and "entertained" when she described how the tragic so-called mistake happened. She said she was showin’ off her cowboy style shootin’ known as “fan firin,” a trick she learned from watching Looney Tunes cartoons. 

The wacky widow said they were just reenacting a scene from Buggs Bunny when that "Wasally Wabbit" mixed it up with his persistent, dim-witted rival Elmer J. Fudd. 

Just like the bumbling cartoon hunter, Linda told police she too thought there were “no more “buwwets ” in her gun when she fatally shot Patrick while he was on the couch. 

No one looked too closely at her story and within no time she had moved out, moved on, and moved in with a new a husband, a professor in Mississippi. 

When the law did catch up with Linda, she was sunk by her own looney defense and finally nabbed by those meddling detectives.    

Join us for the latest episode of the Gulf Coast Confidential Podcast Linda Duffey's Buggs Bunny defense - 'No more buwwets!'

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