Episode 217: Blue Eyed Monster

Not Today

True Crime, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.4 • 933 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In 1979, Sherry Hopsen met a charming parachute instructor named Bruce Lindahl and the two hit it off. After dating for a few months, Bruce became very interested in learning about Sherry's best friend Beth who had been recently murdered and found in the woods near the local university. Bruce had some less than desirable qualities, but Sherry didn't notice how alarming some of his habits actually were before she broke it off with him. It wouldn't be until many years later that Sherry found out her boyfriend at the time was not only a serial killer, but her best friends killer as well.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Steph, and this is not today.
0:20.1	Hello and welcome. Before we jump in, I wanted to let you know that there is a new bonus episode up over on our Patreon.
0:28.3	Alex and I are talking about Lexie Weinbaum, who at 16 years old was almost murdered by her best friends.
0:35.2	That story is so insane, and there is so much more to it than you would think.
0:39.5	So if you want to listen to that and vote on stories you want to hear, head over to patreon.com
0:43.8	slash not today podcast. Our story today also has some pretty shocking and unexpected turns
0:49.3	and can get very dark at times, trigger warning for rape. But with all that said,
0:54.1	why don't we get
0:54.7	talking about the serial killer Bruce Lindahl? Bruce Everett Lindahl was born on January 29,
1:02.0	1953 in St. Charles, Illinois, to Jerome and Arlene Lindahl. Bruce graduated from Downers Grove
1:09.4	North High School, attended college, and graduated in the mid-1970s with a degree in electromechanics.
1:16.4	Over the next few years, he worked as an electrician while studying additionally at the Mid Valley Vocational Center in Canville.
1:23.9	In his free time, Lindahl was fond of parachuting and racquetball.
1:28.2	He was charismatic, had a friendly smile, and piercing blue eyes.
1:32.8	He has been described as handsome, and he's not a terrible looking guy,
1:36.4	but one of the most famous pictures of him is him with this big, crazy smile.
1:40.6	And to me, he just looks creepy, but I think I know too much.
1:43.8	So, anyway, his friends and acquaintances spoke extremely positively of him,
1:48.3	despite the fact that he easily fell into states of irresistible impulses
1:52.0	and occasionally showed aggressive behavior toward others.
1:55.9	Sherry Hobson grew up in the 1970s in Downers Grove, Illinois,
1:59.9	which was a very idyllic place to live. It was very
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