Linda Barber，Linda Irene Barber was born in Waverly, Tennessee on May 23, 1954. Her parents were Enid Haney,a Director of Schools and Orvel Barber, a pipefitter foreman at TVA. Linda had an idyllic childhood roaming the banks of the Tennessee River, but she dreamed of leaving the small town to become an FBI agent and got her Criminology degree from FSU.