[4] Carroll received national attention in 1993 when one of her patients, the fugitive Katherine Ann Power, turned herself in to authorities after spending twenty-three years eluding police.
[6] Born and raised in San Francisco, Linda Carroll now lives in Corvallis, Oregon, with her veterinarian husband, Tim Barraud.
[8] Fox lived under the roof of acting coach Stella Adler at the time, as did then unknown actor Marlon Brando.
[14] She was adopted by optician Emil "Jack" and Louella Risi, a Catholic family of part Italian descent, and raised in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco.
[12][15] She divorced Harrison after 18 months of marriage, alleging that he had given her the drug LSD, and brought her daughter Courtney with her to Marcola, Oregon.
Carroll and her veterinarian husband, Tim Barraud, began to teach a couples course based on the Imago work of Harville Hendrix, the PAIRS training of Dr. Lori Gordon, and their own insights, study, and practices.