Woman featured in Netflix's 'I Am a Killer' walks back confession about strangling boyfriend at clemency hearing
A woman who strangled her boyfriend and was featured in Netflix’s “I Am a Killer” series for the 2015 crime walked back a chilling confession that was included on the show, as she asked a Montana parole board for clemency Wednesday.
A woman who strangled her boyfriend and was featured in Netflix’s “I Am a Killer” series for the 2015 crime walked back a chilling confession that was included on the show, as she asked a Montana parole board for clemency Wednesday.
Lindsay Haugen, 41, pleaded guilty to strangling her 25-year-old boyfriend, Robert Mast, while the two of them sat in a car in a Walmart parking lot in 2015. She has been serving a 60-year sentence for deliberate homicide since 2016.
On the second season of “I Am a Killer,” a true-crime series on Netflix that spotlights convicted murderers, Haugen said she killed Mast — whom she had known for less than a month — out of love after she said he insisted he wanted to die.
Robert Mast with his stepmother, Mindy Pendleton, and his nieces and nephews in 2014.Courtesy Mindy PendletonBut in an interview with police, which was recorded and included in the episode, she told a detective that she also “kinda just wanted to kill somebody with my bare hands, honestly,” the footage shows.
“I saw my opportunity, I guess,” Haugen told the detective, according to the video.
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