World's top shoe owner `murdered' A WOMAN who had world's biggest collection of shoes has been found dead in her backyard pool in suspicious circumstances. Her ex-boyfriend had been arrested on charges of murder, according to reports in the US media. The Riverside Press Democrat named the womas as Darlene Flynn, 58, who had a record 15,000 pair collection of shoes according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Police found her body in the pool of her house in Menifee in southern California on Monday afternoon. According to reports, Flynn appeared to have been killed as the result of blunt force trauma. Officers arrested her ex-boyfriend, Justin Charles Smith, 29, after he was spotted fleeing the property.