Lindy Benson

*"Do I look like I could hurt anyone? Besides other shoppers at a bonus sale?" - Lindy Benson*

**Lindy Benson** was a resident of Ashford Falls, New York and a secretary and assistant to Elizabeth Woods and formerly to Carter Hedison, the owner and chief stock-holder of Hedison Pharmaceuticals. Beautiful, effervescent and hardworking, she has long been described as indispensable to her employers.

Born in nearby Treasure City, Lindy has one younger sister, Triplett, neither of whom ever knew their father, who vanished when they were young. Their mother passed away in 1980, and they were taken in by their grandmother, who lived in the Wyckoff community of Ashford Falls. They attended Ashford Falls High School, where Lindy became friends with Carolyn Woods and was invited to Thornewood Hall several times growing up. After high school, she took college prep classes at Ashford Falls Christian Normal.

At the age of eighteen, Lindy took a job in the secretarial pool at Hedison Pharmaceuticals, where she was passed around from office to office working for several different individuals and often delivering and running papers to Carter Hedison at the Hedison Mansion. After her third encounter with him, he had her transferred permanently to his office where she worked with and assisted his main secretary, Julie Gregg. who saw her as a threat to her job, causing competition between the two. Eventually, Julie took over the day-to-day duties of the office while Lindy was left to carry out the extraneous details of the papers going through the office.

Through her job, Lindy became aware of privileged information of many of Carter's more illegal activities involving Dash Andrews and his secret behind-closed-doors deals, ending up signing an oath of loyalty to him, but it was unlikely she never became aware of any of his more nefarious schemes. Rachel Hedison frequently plied her to get aware of what her father was doing at all times, even releasing his schedule to her behind his back.

At some point, Lindy began dating local contractor named Wesley Coleman and was re-united with Carolyn at the New York Delicatessen. Carolyn recommended Lindy to replace her mother's assistant at the Woodlands Corporation, and Lindy soon transferred to the Woodlands, running the day-to-day duties of the office as well as taking papers to Thornewood Hall for Elizabeth Woods, Carolyn's mother, to sign.

In the Fall of 1995, shortly after the arrival of Barclay Woods, Lindy had delivered papers to Elizabeth and had stayed well into the night-time hours to reminisce with Carolyn. When she departed, she was attacked and pulled from her car near the Wyckoff Road and Haverstraw Road intersection, later getting found by Watson Pritchett who took her to Ashford Falls Community General Hospital. Although treated by Dr. Elizabeth Freeling, she died from extreme blood loss the following morning.

In order to identify her killer, Lindy was examined by specialist Dr. Samantha Oh, who compared the unknown assailant to someone with a fatal blood disease or a lunatic with a vampire-like lifestyle. She was buried at Hedgecombe Cemetery behind the First Evangelical Church of Ashford Falls. The Woods Family paid the expenses to help the Bensons; the funeral attended by much of the family, Wesley, Watson and Blake Hedison representing the Hedison Family.

Unfortunately, about a week later, Lindy's grave was found desecrated and her body stolen. Several people, including Dr. Freeling, Russell Coleman, Jack Bates, Helen Caldwell and Ted Shaw reported seeing her alive prowling the area town square to Ashford Falls High School. Sheriff David Carmichael investigated many of these claims over three months, but as of yet, the true area of Lindy Benson's grave has not been found.