Elderly gay couple murdered in home

[ccharles000]

http://www.365gay.com/news/elderly-couple-murdered-in-home/

(Indianapolis, Indiana) Indianapolis police say they have few clues in the slayings of an elderly gay couple found in their home earlier this week.

Police have not divulged how Milton Lindgren, 70, and Eric Hendricks, 73, were murdered, or how long their bodies had been inside the house. A police spokesperson would say only that the men died by “violent means.”

Officers were sent to the home after friends notified police that the men had not been seen for some time.

Investigators say they have not determined a motive for the slayings, but friends say they believe the men were killed because they were gay.

One friend, Patrick Beard, told WRTV that the men had been targeted by vandals, with their phone and cable lines cut twice in the past few months, and that homophobic graffiti was found on their front door.

“I firmly believe it was definitely a hate crime. Milt was 70 and his partner was 73 and to go into someone’s home and do something like that, it’s just too coincidental,” Beard told WRTV.

[terrya]

1. I HATE this. Goddammit.

:cry:

When they find the motherfuckers who killed these guys, I want life imprionment without parole for these motherfuckers. Let them suffer. Painfully.

[Kajsa]

9. I hate this too, Terrya!

:hug:

[Parche]

63. I Want The DP

This is horrible, when is the human race going to be civil to one another......
:grr: :grr:

:hi: :hug:

[Contrary1]

2. So sad.

My best friend's daughter lives a block from where this happened. She is a single mom and terrified.

[Cerridwen]

3. I can't think of anything to say that won't sound like

an incoherent rage-filled explosion.

:nuke:

[Lex]

4. Same here.

:mad:

[Kajsa]

8. I'm with you there,Cerridwen!

but I'm going to try-

Attacking men in their 70's- a hate crime!

Life imprisonment with no chance for parole for the
MoFos who did this!

:grr:


Gee, it makes it sooo much easier to deal with all these fucking
homophobic Fundies running around town with their fucking
"Yes on 8' stickers!

I have the ONLY 'No on 8' sticker I've seen in my city!

I want to puke, I want to move, no I don't-
these asshats need some "libruls" around here--

sorry---

[Cerridwen]

13. .

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[Kajsa]

40. You expressed my feeling, exactly!

:pals:

[Mollis]

46. I can't even FIND a no on 8 sticker

I want one for my car but the only way I found one was on ebay. The Democratic Headquarters didn't have any!...and I have not seen one house with a no on 8 sign. I have only seen a car with large paper taped to the side of it saying, "Don't Hate. No on 8."
Other than that, a bunch of idiots with yes on 8 stickers and signs.

[Kajsa]

48. I hear you, Mollis!

I got mine at the Democratic Club in Laguna Beach.

That is the only place I've been able to find them.

I made a homemade sign for the other side of my car
that was similar to the one you saw.

No on 8 ( BIG circle with 8 and a slash through it)
Stop the Hate!

I'm glad you found one.

:hi:

[Kajsa]

64. Mollis! Check it out!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=141&topic_id=31918&mesg_id=31918

AND-- Welcome to DU!!

:)

[Duncan Grant]

17. Me, too.

:nuke:

[lonestarnot]

31. Fucking freaks need a 4 x 7 box for the rest of their lives!

Let them smear their own shit on the walls and live in it.

[Terran]

5. That's my nightmare come true

We're a quiet couple of 23 years, a bit reclusive, getting on in years. Never had a problem in this small town but sometimes I wonder if some nut isn't going to someday see our obvious couple-hood (interracial at that) and decide to end it for us.

These poor men, how horrible.

[plaintiff]

15. Similar here...we're together since 1981 and now live in a rural area.

Been here for 15 years and so far not a single instance of anything ugly...our neighbors appear to think we're great; they call us for practically any needs...from fixing their satellite dishes to garage door openers and lawn mowers, give them a ride when their car's on the blink...feed their pets when they're away...but we wonder in the back of our minds if there's some screwball wingnut in the area waiting for the chance to do some evil. One thing is everybody knows we have guns and know how to use them.

[Bluebear]

20. And mine.

[ColbertWatcher]

6. This is sickening. n/t

[goodgd_yall]

7. Terrifying

This hate must stop!

[myrna minx]

10. DAMN IT!

:cry: This is so awful.

[Hekate]

11. Oh gods. How horrible. What a cowardly, cowardly act against two elderly men...

... who were harming no one.

I pray that justice is swift. :cry:

Hekate

[FreeState]

12. Beyond horrifying. n/t

[roguevalley]

14. This makes me sick. Horrifying.

[renate]

16. oh no... how horrible

I don't understand homophobia under any circumstances, although I know it generally comes from the perpetrators' own self-hatred, but who on earth could have felt threatened by two men in their 70s?

:cry: I'm so sad that this happened to two people who did nothing more than love each other.

[IndyOp]

18. May they be at peace. May the killer(s) be found. (n/t)

[malaise]

19. This is too sad

:cry: Find the animal and throw away the key.

[4 t 4]

21. Oh I Pray to all god's to make this stop! Peace Please! n/t

[terrya]

22. This won't bring that elderly couple back. But a plea to President Obama and the next Congress.

Please pass and enact the Matthew Shepard Act. Please.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

23. Your topic line made my heart lurch

I know a couple around the same age but they don't live in Indiana.
This crap has got to stop
:cry:

[sarcasmo]

24. Sad, I hope they catch the bastards.

[foxfeet]

25. I wish them peace

and I wish their murderers upon themselves.

[Selatius]

26. The fuckers who did this need to be put in prison if it is proven to be a hate crime.

Bigotry should be treated very harshly.

[rebel with a cause]

32. I think you need to rethink you title.

This killer/killers should be in prison whether it is a hate crime or not. No matter why they did it, they killed two elderly men. And although bigotry should be taken into consideration in such a case, the murder itself is the more important crime to be punished. JMHO

[David Zephyr]

27. Nothing has changed in this country. Nothing.

Not one goddamned thing.

[awoke_in_2003]

39. Yep...

bigotry just went underground, but it is still there

[MadMaddie]

28. This is the hate that has been agitated by the right

and there are people evil enough and simple minded enough to listen to it.

I blame Rove and * and their ilk for these crimes, I blame the divisiveness that has been pushed by the Repug agenda for the last 30 years.

[bertman]

29. That is just plain fucked up. What are the chances the Indianapolis Police will really try

to nail the perp(s) for this?

[BlooInBloo]

30. Damn. Damn. Damn.

[Initech]

33. God damn it, I hate reading about shit like this.

It's so disheartening.

[Withywindle]

34. I have no words for this.

:cry:

[Stand and Fight]

35. And then there are those who say there should be no "hate crime"...

And then there are those who say there should be no "hate crime" legislation. This seems to me every bit as disgusting and reason for such legislation as Brandon, Shephard, and the many other crimes against the GLBT community and other minorities.

[Solly Mack]

36. Oman. Damn hate-filled people.

I hope they catch the killer(s) and I hope the jury isn't stupid and hate-filled..so the guilty can rot away in prison.


Damn shame when you have to worry about getting a hate-filled jury.

[file83]

37. Jesus H. Christ - what's with people, man? First I read about a homeless man being

burned to death, now this. Depressing.

[donheld]

38. Makes me wanna hollar...

[Beacool]

41. How terrible!!!!

Whatever happened to live and let live??? I don't understand the kind of hatred that would make people want to cause such harm to two men just because of their sexual orientation.

It's just too sad and sickening........

May they rest in peace.

:scared:

[emlev]

42. They were not killed "because they were gay"

The article says, "friends say they believe the men were killed because they were gay."

I disagree.

They were killed because of someone's homophobia. Let's change the way we talk about hate crimes to reflect the true motivation. It's the killer's hatred, not the victims' identity.



This is horrendous.

[nichomachus]

43. Well, we can thank "religious leaders" for this

Their hateful rhetoric has given these thugs permission to do this.

[IndianaJones]

49. thats baloney. nt.

[nichomachus]

52. No. it's not -- every bigoted "religious leader" has blood on his hands n/t

[IndianaJones]

56. just about every one of us has a little of that same blood on our hands. nt

[nichomachus]

59. Not me n/t

[Duncan Grant]

60. Yes, religious leaders are both culpable and complicit, imho.

Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is a more or less strong tendency ordered toward an intrinsic moral evil; and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.

Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons (October 1986)
Pope Benedict XVI

There are absolutely no grounds for considering homosexual unions to be in any way similar or even remotely analogous to God’s plan for marriage and family. Marriage is holy, while homosexual acts go against the natural moral law.

Considerations Regarding Proposals to Give Legal Recognition to Unions Between Homosexual Persons (July 2003)
Pope Benedict XVI

AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.
Jerry Falwell

I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this happen.
Jerry Falwell

But I don't believe anyone begins a homosexual.
Jerry Falwell

I truly cannot imagine men with men, women with women, doing what they were not physically created to do, without abnormal stress and misbehavior.
Jerry Falwell

If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.
Jerry Falwell

I believe that all of us are born heterosexual, physically created with a plumbing that's heterosexual, and created with the instincts and desires that are basically, fundamentally, heterosexual.
Jerry Falwell

[wicket]

44. What a horrible story

:cry:

[a la izquierda]

45. sick, sick fuckers.

this stuff makes me ill. it makes me scared for my family (have a few gay relatives). luckily they live in relatively progressive places with lovely neighbors who keep their eyes out (one is an ex-cop).

those poor, poor men.

[JNelson6563]

47. I have no words.

:cry:

[NorthCarolina]

50. This is absolutely horrendous

and some still question the need to enact hate crimes legislation? This should be posted in every house of worship so all parishioners can read about the world of hate and intolerance they have helped to create.

[IndianaJones]

51. every house of worship? hmmm. nt.

[NorthCarolina]

61. Every one that systematically preaches hatred and intolerance you betcha n/t

[Deep13]

53. According to the Bible, the murderer did the right thing.

I point this out because there really is no other basis for hating gay people except for religious injunctions. On the other hand, if one really believes the Bible is an instruction book from god, then this double murder/burglary--a capital offense in this state--would be a logical result of that belief.

Of course, it may simply have been motivated by theft. The writer does not seem to know.

[LeftHander]

54. But McCain campaign worker was attacked.....!!!!

More important!!! just wait and see....no peep from MSM on this tragedy...I'll bet.

Horrible...the hate conservatives leave in their wake is truly ugly.

[DevonRex]

55. This is horrifying. They had better NOT just ignore all the stuff

that had happened to them before they were murdered. It's obviously a hate crime.

[TuxedoKat]

57. How tragic.

Poor men. RIP. I'm so sick of stories like this. I will donate to defeat Prop. 8 in their memory.

[xchrom]

58. recommend

[JackBeck]

62. Yet another example of why the LGBT community needs to be added to existing hate crimes laws.

Hopefully, our Democratic leaders will live up to their promises after the election.