Current Events > Cuckoo parents embrace son's killer: 'we lost a son but have gained a daughter'

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https://nypost.com/2019/10/23/woman-strangled-new-boyfriend-to-know-what-it-felt-like/

A woman sentenced to 60 years behind bars for strangling her new boyfriend in a Walmart parking lot in Montana said she wanted to know what it felt like after he had asked her to kill him because of his crippling depression, according to a report.

Lindsay Haugen, 32, and Robert Mast, 25, were traveling from Olympia, Washington, to North Dakota in 2015 when they stopped in Billings, Montana, where she got behind him in their car and choked him as she held his mouth and nose shut.

She told investigators that she killed him because he asked me to as he struggled to battle his depression but added that she wanted to know what it felt like to kill someone with my bare hands, according to the UKs Mirror.

My last fiance broke my hand, then he got behind me, just like I did to Robby, and choked me, she said. I woke up on the floor and it was like I was underwater and I just wanted to do that back but he wanted it to happen.

Police also learned that Mast had been talking about his ex-girlfriend to Hauger before his murder, something she admitted she was jealous about.

In 2016, Haugen pleaded guilty to the crime, which is featured in a new episode of the Netflix series I Am A Killer to be shown on the UKs Crime+Investigation on Tuesday.

I remember, one morning he woke up and just said, Have you ever been disappointed that you woke up and youre still alive? said Haugen, now 36. I just remember how upset he looked.

She claims she is heartbroken over her boyfriends death.

He was only 25 and he had his whole life ahead of him but I made a choice and I took his life. Nothing I can do can undo that, said Haugen, who ran away from home when she was 15, was addicted to heroin by age 16 and was pregnant by 17.

She later left her baby boy with her mother and joined the National Guard, where she met an abusive man who would regularly beat her, rape her and even tried to kill her.

In 2015, she met Mast at a house party.

He had just come out of rehab but I didnt see that, I just saw a beautiful face among a pile of beer cans, she said.

He held my hand and said, I wish I could be happy with you but Im not and its not you, she said. He kept telling me he wanted to see what the next life was like. I took it personally, that I wasnt enough for him to live for.

He said he just wanted to die, she added.

Masts mother and stepfather have forgiven the killer and regularly visit her in prison, saying they lost a son but have gained a daughter.

The only way I can show how sorry I am is to live the best life I can, Haugen said. If I can do something good with my life, then his life will mean something.

Sounds like the whole family has issues.
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I saw that.
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What was post 2
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This is why I'm never marrying. And I'm sticking to that story.
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Poor dude. Girlfriend seems like she needs help, too. Crazy people.

Manocheese posted...

Haugen, who ran away from home when she was 15, was addicted to heroin by age 16 and was pregnant by 17.

the american dream

That entire story is wild.

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I think the parents are crazy. How could not hate someone for murdering your son like that? Just reading what the woman said, she is basically pure evil and disturbed on a level that is almost beyond belief.

darkmaian23 posted...

I think the parents are crazy. How could not hate someone for murdering your son like that?

It's certainly not a common occurrence and I'm not sure it's something I'd be able to do (but I hope I could). It's probably better for the parents in the long run if they genuinely don't spend the rest of their lives consumed by hate.
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Sad story all around.
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Th3HonestTruth Bump10/26/2019 7:47:34 AM
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Maybe they always wanted a daughter
(edited 10/26/2019 7:47:44 AM

Its weird how dude posted this for no reason 2 days after the last post in this topic

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Crepes posted...

darkmaian23 posted...

I think the parents are crazy. How could not hate someone for murdering your son like that?

It's certainly not a common occurrence and I'm not sure it's something I'd be able to do (but I hope I could). It's probably better for the parents in the long run if they genuinely don't spend the rest of their lives consumed by hate.

This.
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Manocheese posted...

https://nypost.com/2019/10/23/woman-strangled-new-boyfriend-to-know-what-it-felt-like/

He had just come out of rehab but I didnt see that, I just saw a beautiful face among a pile of beer cans, she said.

That sounds like something you'd read in an amateur piece of romantic fiction.
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darkmaian23 posted...

I think the parents are crazy. How could not hate someone for murdering your son like that? Just reading what the woman said, she is basically pure evil and disturbed on a level that is almost beyond belief.

I can see them rationalizing it by believing he was going to kill himself one way or another. He just used a crazy bitch to do it instead of a gun.

They just kind of ignore that unlike a gun, a human being could have maybe called someone to help the situation or at any point said no. Or a multitude of other options that are less monstrous.

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Crepes posted...

darkmaian23 posted...

I think the parents are crazy. How could not hate someone for murdering your son like that?

It's certainly not a common occurrence and I'm not sure it's something I'd be able to do (but I hope I could). It's probably better for the parents in the long run if they genuinely don't spend the rest of their lives consumed by hate.

They dont need to be consumed by hate. It just seems crazy to forgive someone for murdering your child and start treating them like a member of the family.
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IShall_Run_Amok posted...

This is why I'm never marrying. And I'm sticking to that story.

Yeah that's why
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One of the cardinal rules when it comes to a murder suspect's testimony is to immediately question a claim (by the suspect) that it was an assisted suicide.

The victim can't really give their side of the events...
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Ilishe posted...

Sad story all around.

This.

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