Convicted murderer seeks forgiveness
May 11, 2011
KNOX — A man who murdered a rural Knox woman in 1987 is asking for forgiveness from the family, in a letter to the editor published in this week's Leader on Page A4.
Steven O'Bryant plead guilty on March 4, 1988, to stabbing Anna Lindstrand, 84, at her home south of Knox. He was 19 when sentenced.
He was sentenced to 40 years in prison in Starke Circuit Court.
O'Bryant told Indiana State Police investigators that he entered the isolated house and believed it was empty.
"I was thinking that I could go inside and get this house all (set up to) throw a party," he is quoted in The Leader.
But when he entered the house, Lindstrand saw him and attempted to call police, but O'Bryant had disconnected the phone.
The case was prosecuted by Kim Hall, now Circuit Court judge.
See this week's Leader for the rest of this story and to read O'Bryant's letter.
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Convicted murder seeks forgiveness
May 23, 2011 by Anonymous, 2 years 3 weeks ago
Comment: 13324
I am part of the Lindstrand family, and I think he was attempting to perform a robbery. The reason why is instead of running out the door when he was noticed, he acted in a way that is unforgivable. No matter what he says we had to live without our grandmother for many years. All this letter has done was bring up vary painful memories for the whole family. Seems funny how no letter of this kind was never wrote in the past. The question is in our minds is " Is this letter an attempt to gain a positive reaction from the parole board?". We as a family think that if he was going to throw a party, well he got a forty year party. With a crime that was that brutal the man should have got a life sentence at least, if not the death penalty. Since he lived right down the road from the house where the murder took place, and knowing that people did in fact occupy that residence, his whole story is like swiss cheese. This letter was wrote by a man who wants to lift his own pain or guilt or a way of getting out of jail either way this letter is uncalled for. The Linstrand family would like to say to the parole board keep this unstable man behind bars where he belongs.
My friend
May 24, 2011 by Anonymous, 2 years 3 weeks ago
Comment: 13330
My friend has a mom and her maiden last name was lindstand!
Human garbage!
August 23, 2012 by Anonymous, 42 weeks 5 days ago
Comment: 14293
This ugly piece of shit has a tattoo that has a perforated cutting line across his neck that says "Cut Here" I definetly think the families of mrs lindstrand and this poor little 7 year old gurl should take turns following the directions listed on his pathetic disgusting little throat. Why would you ever even consider releasing someone with the facial tatts this idiot has back into society. The parole board or whoever should take one look and decide that this person obviously has zero grasp on even average sociological norms. I hope that he gets raped time after time until he develops an anal prolapse (AKA an "Ass Tulip", look it up on google!)
This now makes THREE separate incidences where idiots released early committed utterly heinous crimes after being released into society. All the while, there are guys spending years and years in jail for growing pot and other inane crimes that have mandatory minimums that eat taxpayer money like a shark on chum. The "justice" system in America is such an utter catastrophic atrocious mess of a joke!! The only thing that our delusional country could do to make things worse is elect a president who hides money in offshore bank accounts to avoid taxes or in other words, the EXACT type of person who ran (or RUN i should say, none of these evil crooks were ever arrested) the banks and financial institutions that destroyed the worldwide economic system during George Bush's tenure of being a Halliburton puppet.
If Romney gets elected, I could definetly see the Mayans 2012 apocalypse coming to fruition.