Serial Killer Bruce Lindahl:Illinois

    


  Bruce Lindahl died after accidentally killing himself by stabbing himself in the leg in 1981. He was kneeling on top of a male victim, Charles Robert “Chuck” Huber Jr, and was repeatedly stabbing him. 


   Charles Robert Huber Jr. was fighting for his life and in the struggle; caused Bruce Lindahl stabbed his own thigh. He cut his own femoral artery and bled to death so rapidly that he was found still on the victim later. Both Lindahl and Huber had bled to death. Often the death of Lindahl is seen as accidental but I think Charles Huber fought hard here. I think he was trying to save his own life but he may have ended up saving so many other lives. Bruce Lindahl was not going to stop abducting, raping and murdering innocent people in Illinois. 


   Bruce Lindahl was born January 29th, 1953 in St. Charles, Illinois. That’s in the western suburbs of Chicago. He graduated from Downers Grove North High School and later worked as an electrician. 

   Lindahl had a long criminal history within his relatively short life. He moved a few times within Illinois in order to avoid detection. There were opportunities to stop him along the way but somehow he kept getting the benefit of the doubt. 

   In one incident, of an unknown date, Lindahl was pulled over by police. In his car was an unconscious woman bleeding from the head. Bruce Lindahl told officers that he was trying to take her to the hospital. But he was driving in the opposite direction. An ambulance was called to the scene by the police and the woman was treated at the hospital. A rape kit showed that she had been sexually assaulted. The woman said she hadn’t remembered anything after Bruce Lindahl had given her a sip of something at a party. No charges were ever filed. 

   In another incident he pointed a shotgun at police when they came to question him about an extortion scheme. He avoided charges in that incident as well. 


   In 1976, he abducted Pamela Mauer as she was making a quick trip from a friend’s house in Lisle to a McDonald’s restaurant for a soda. Her friend immediately became worried. After looking around for a short while, the friend called Maurer’s parents. Pamela’s mother reported her missing around 11:45 p.m. on Monday January 12th, 1976. 



   Pamela was found the next morning when a motorist spotted her handbag on College Road about 2 miles North of Hobson Road in Lisle, Illinois. Pamela had been raped and strangled. 


   Pamela’s case was cold until 2022 when his DNA matched the DNA recovered from Pamela. 


   In 2024 DNA has also linked him to the 1979 murder of Kathy Halle who was found in the Fox River. 

Kathy Halle 


   Lindahl is suspected in at least ten other murders and numerous rapes.


   Were his crimes limited to Illinois? Did he travel for work at any time? Is he responsible for other murders of young men as well as women? 


    There are still many questions to be answered. 



   



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