Stephen Lindquist

 VICTIMS : 0

Stephen is 22-year-old former resident of Auburn, California that was apparently quite obsessed with serial killers. What a weirdo, huh. He is currently sitting in a jail cell for allegedly trying to kill two people that he planned to eat before committing suicide. Getting interesting now isn't it?

I bet your all just dying to know exactly what our young hero did. Well, young Stephen was at his friends (a 21-year-old woman and her 15-year-old brother) house on February 24, 2000, when he put his plan into action.

He walked up behind the woman (whom he used to work with) as she worked on a computer and began hitting her in the head with a sap, or blackjack, or at least that's what the sheriff called it. I'm guessing it was a bit off a tree.

Unfortunately he didn't silence her quickly enough and she was able to alert her little brother who came running into the room to help his poor old sister. Lindquist then turned on the boy and began hitting him with the short club.

But poor Stephen was just never going to succeed. While her brother was being attacked, the woman grabbed Lindquist's legs, and he fell to the ground. She and her brother then held down a no doubt very wound up psycho until the cops arrived.

When police had a chance to talk to Mr. Lindquist he told them that he had planned to knock the two unconscious and use a rope he had in his pocket to strangle them. So at least he had a plan, even if it was very basic, and very flawed.

But there was more. He claimed that once the two sibling were dead, he was going to have a massive fry up, where the only meat cooked was to be that of his intended victims. Yum.

Once he had eaten his fill he said he was going to join the two victims in the afterlife.

When police checked out Stephens background (and house) they found that he not only had numerous books about serial killers, he also had posters of our favourite nutters on the on the walls at his home. Friends also told police that he was completely obsessed with these perpetrators of the most violent of crimes.

Thankfully he didn't sign my guestbook, so I'm not going to get any of the blame this time :-)

Oh, and as for the intended victims, well they both suffered welts from the beatings but were not hospitalised. Maybe Stephen was just trying to be like Ian Warby.

ADDED 8/01/01:
I recieved an email sometime around X-mas and thought that I would put the interesting bits here for your pleasure -

I recently came across your article on Stephen Lindquist. I have known Steve for about 5 years. I used to live two doors down from him. I became his best friend. The things that you did not point out in your story about him was...

1. He was a vegetarian, and had been for about a year or so.

2. He was not going to kill himself after he took care of his ex-girlfriend and her brother. He had a list of people. I was on the list. We had our falling out.

3. Steve had a closet of weapons, whips, bondage gear, horror movies, but mostly weapons. He had a 9mm handgun, a few swords, some throwing stars. A huge selection of knives. I find it strange that he decided to use the blackjack and rope instead of the more conventional weapons he had lying around.

4. Steve's famous quote to the Sherrifs..... "I have been burning myself with hot paperclips to ready myself for Hell where I am going."

I have known Steve for quite some time. At one point I was his only friend. He was a very confused person. He was a closet homosexual, and very sexually frustrated. He was a loner and never left his house unless to go to work.
 

MY OPINION

Brilliant. There is nothing I love more than a good fuck up. I mean, how sad must this guy have been. Why wouldn’t you silence the woman first? Such a basic thing, and this guy was too stupid to do it. But I guess if he only killed two I may have ignored it. So we should count our blessings that he stuffed up and we got to hear the tale.