Found Deceased NY - Lindsey Woods, 25, Brighton, 26 Sept 2010

[webrocket]

Sad ending. RIP Lindsey and I pray the truth about your death be revealed.

as unusual as this case seems, I have to conclude it was probably a suicide. she had her cell phone with her and she did use it to call a friend. so if someone was endangering her, she could have called someone to say that.

she obviously said something that caused the friend alarm. still I can't imagine what would cause such a young woman to take her own life.

a final thought - unless LE opens up a criminal investigation, we are probably not going to hear much more in the press about this as they usually give space to the grieving families.

 

[hollye]

Some of the photos on her MySpace are disturbing. May she rest in peace. Prayers for her family and friends.

 

[MsFacetious]

Some of the photos on her MySpace are disturbing. May she rest in peace. Prayers for her family and friends.

The change you can see in Lindsay reminds me eerily of my cousin. She would go from average weight, make up and hair done, normal skin tone....to skinny, pale and no make up. I see a very similar look in Lindsay's pictures.

I never try to imagine what might make someone commit suicide. There are some that you simply never see a reason for. But from my own extensive experience and looking at her myspace...I would not be surprised if there was some sort of drug history here. Which can be very depressing if you feel like you cannot win.

Or if she was intoxicated at the time she may not have been thinking clearly.

There is also always the possibility that it was an accident somehow and she was too far out there to get back in time to get help. However, I do think that's unlikely.

 

[hollye]

The change you can see in Lindsay reminds me eerily of my cousin. She would go from average weight, make up and hair done, normal skin tone....to skinny, pale and no make up. I see a very similar look in Lindsay's pictures.

I never try to imagine what might make someone commit suicide. There are some that you simply never see a reason for. But from my own extensive experience and looking at her myspace...I would not be surprised if there was some sort of drug history here. Which can be very depressing if you feel like you cannot win.

Or if she was intoxicated at the time she may not have been thinking clearly.

There is also always the possibility that it was an accident somehow and she was too far out there to get back in time to get help. However, I do think that's unlikely.

I agree. I noted her drinking in a few of the photos and possibly smoking, though the photos were taken at a distance, so I am not positive. The photos with the guns scared me. Regardless of the reason for her death, how very sad that she is gone. She appeared to be a beautiful girl.

 

[MsFacetious]

I agree. I noted her drinking in a few of the photos and possibly smoking, though the photos were taken at a distance, so I am not positive. The photos with the guns scared me. Regardless of the reason for her death, how very sad that she is gone. She appeared to be a beautiful girl.

Well, she appeared to love nature and she appeared to also know how to handle a gun. Those aren't bad things. My 19 year old brother goes target shooting with my parents... you wouldn't catch ME out there but that's cool if they want to.

The ones with the guns scared ME because I wondered who was behind the camera! That took some guts!

The drinking pictures don't concern me...going up and having a beer in the mountains is a fairly typical teenage/early 20's activity from what I am told by those who experienced those ages in life.

I also think it was far more than drinking which caused the change in her appearance. Could have been health issues or eating disorders or drugs or any number of things. But any of them could definitely contribute to someone taking their own life.

 

[hollye]

Well, she appeared to love nature and she appeared to also know how to handle a gun. Those aren't bad things. My 19 year old brother goes target shooting with my parents... you wouldn't catch ME out there but that's cool if they want to.

The ones with the guns scared ME because I wondered who was behind the camera! That took some guts!

The drinking pictures don't concern me...going up and having a beer in the mountains is a fairly typical teenage/early 20's activity from what I am told by those who experienced those ages in life.

I also think it was far more than drinking which caused the change in her appearance. Could have been health issues or eating disorders or drugs or any number of things. But any of them could definitely contribute to someone taking their own life.

I agree. The gun photos scared me because, if you are trained to handle a gun, you are taught to never point it, loaded or unloaded, at anyone, unless you are in danger. To me, those photos seem reckless.

The drinking pictures didn't concern me either, as that is common behavior for that age group. I was just pointing them out as evidence that she does, or did at the time that the photos were taken, drink. And not even as an indication that she drank a lot, since it didn't appear that they brough much with them on their excursion.

 

[Truthful Lies]

Wooo....some of the photos ARE disturbing...extremely. Did anyone else notice the glass pipe in the picture with the scary ceiling that says "Diablo and Cody" ? Looks like a crack den...but that definitely and absolutely looks like a glass bowl to me.

 

[hollye]

Wooo....some of the photos ARE disturbing...extremely. Did anyone else notice the glass pipe in the picture with the scary ceiling that says "Diablo and Cody" ? Looks like a crack den...but that definitely and absolutely looks like a glass bowl to me.

Yes, it disturbed me, but I wasn't real clear on what I was looking at, jsut that it looked like they were up to no good.

It looks like they are performing an autopsy to determine cause of death, so maybe she didn't die of a self inflicted gunshot wound, as I was thinking after reading that she had taken a 22 into the woods with her.

http://rochester.ynn.com/content/top_stories/518814/body-of-missing-woman-found/

 

[amysmom]

"Sunday Fun"! Gas masks & guns?

"whitefolkthecat" is her myspace url..This makes me think, along with those pix, it's possible she was involved with a 'group'..KWIM?

 

[yosande]

This article has been updated and says bbm:

"State Police have ended the search for the missing 25-year-old woman in Marion, Wayne County.

Officers say 25-year-old Lindsey Woods's body was found in the woods about 300 feet from the house she was staying at. Officers say there were no signs of foul play."

My question is WTH?????

Salem

ETA: When I first read the article about 2 minutes ago - it said that LE had ended the search and asked the media not to say anything else. The media comment was deleted by the time I went back to cut and paste the search comment.

I do think it odd that it took them as long as it did to find her when she was only 300 feet from the house. moo

 

[melissalowe]

I just created an account. You spelled her name wrong, it was Lindsay with an A. Might have found out sooner.. I had always worried about what happened to her. We were extremely close friends for a few years, lived together for a summer in 05 and when I moved out and went back to college we lost touch. She had changed, I didn't like her new friends and she was moving on to drugs that I also didn't like. In 07 and on and off like every other year I would try to find her online, we didn't have any mutual friends anymore and she was almost impossible to find, train hopping or couch surfing, and I couldn't get a hold of her dad, who she was estranged. The myspace and whec link do nothing and I would like to see any pictures or information anyone has, I know it has been a very long time. There is only this and one other webpage with her on it. I am crying my eyes out because I would try to find her like I said every year or so, hoping to find a working social profile, the previous were always inactive or even account of her being in jail. I always felt like I could have tried harder to help her, to get her better support. She was extremely intelligent and kind and I loved her but bad declining mental health, bad influences, drugs, and the wrong people got in the way of her getting out of the hole she dug for herself. I need pictures, whatever they are. I thought today might have been the day that she made a facebook or was in jail with some letter writing program I could do, that I would finally find her, I did not expect this. Please help I need closure.

 

[melissalowe]

I was very close friends with Lindsay but her new friends/bad habits broke us up and have been trying to find her online forever. Where are these photos everyone is responding to? I need closure. She needed me and I let those a holes take her from me and compound all her troubles, I need to know what happened. People are saying suicide but there is next to nothing on the news websites and I can't find her father online.

 

[Vail]

I'm so sorry for your loss :/ I was not on WS to follow Lindsay's case back in 2010, but have tried to dig up what I can for you - sadly MySpace changed their platform a few years ago so data on old profiles that weren't active didn't carry over. You can still see her profile picture (which is indeed troubling) here

https://myspace.com/whitefolkthecat/mixes/profilemix-89482/photo/5782066

You can view the original articles on this case using the internet archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/2010100...735943/Brighton-woman-missing-in-Wayne-County

https://web.archive.org/web/20100930063027/http://www.whec.com/news/stories/S1762643.shtml?

I was very close friends with Lindsay but her new friends/bad habits broke us up and have been trying to find her online forever. Where are these photos everyone is responding to? I need closure. She needed me and I let those a holes take her from me and compound all her troubles, I need to know what happened. People are saying suicide but there is next to nothing on the news websites and I can't find her father online.