Elderly Couple
Slain in Indianapolis

An elderly couple was found dead in their Indianapolis home on Monday, the result of a possible hate crime. Friends say that Milton Lindgren, 70, and Eric Hendricks, 73, had been targeted in recent months for being gay, with antigay statements left on their front door and their phone and cable lines cut, local station WRTV reports.

"I'm not a genius, but if someone's being harassed like that and 'faggot' gets stamped on their door on a piece of paper, it's not that hard to connect the dots two months later that these two people are brutally killed in their home," Lee Beard, a friend of the couple, told the station. He added that Hendricks had been confined to a wheelchair.

Police investigators told WRTV the men died by "violent means" but were unsure whether bias was a motivation. (The Advocate)