Edwin Lindgard was a doctor who murdered and embezzled his elderly patients.
History[]
As a child, Lindgard watched his mother die of cancer and was fascinated by the power that he had over her as a caretaker. He became a doctor as an adult and specialized in caring for elderly patients, particularly ones with long-term substance abuse problems. Eventually, Lindgard started killing them with pethidine to achieve the godlike power he had over his mother and disguised their deaths as overdoses, before stealing from their estates. He was also addicted to the pethidine that he uses to kill his victims.
Lindgard murders a patient and her heroin-addicted daughter and makes the latter death look like the daughter overdosed and drove into traffic. He then has the patient's body cremated to destroy evidence and steals one of her rings. Detectives Goren and Eames are immediately suspicious of the speed with which the body was cremated and start looking into Lindgard's life. When they discover that Lindgard has been embezzling from his deceased patients, they confront him with the evidence against him at a medical board gala, riling him up until he confesses in a moment of panic. He is then arrested and executed. (CI: "D.A.W.")
Known Victims[]
- 1978-2003:
- 238 unnamed patients (all poisoned by pethidine)
- Mrs. Pearce (first name unrevealed; poisoned by pethidine)
- 1999:
- Alfonso Delgado (poisoned by pethidine)
- Mark Peltzer (poisoned by pethidine)
- Loren Levy (poisoned by pethidine)
- 2000:
- Audry Davis (poisoned by pethidine)
- Ruth Perret (poisoned by pethidine)
- Jownna Giddon (poisoned by pethidine)
- Lisa Nillson (poisoned by pethidine)
- Danielle Webb (poisoned by pethidine)
- Sarah Fredricks (poisoned by pethidine)
- 2003: Danielle Pearce (drugged with morphine, kicked out of a car, and ran over three separate times by him, Gary Lafond, and an unidentified driver)