During the second day of testimony in New London Superior Court in the probable cause hearing for her adopted brother, Sergio Correa, Ruth Correa walked Assistant State’s Attorney Stephen Carney through the hours before and after midnight on Dec. 20, 2017 that ended with Matthew, Kenneth and Janet Lindquist mutilated and dead and their family home at 70 Kenwood Estates destroyed by fire.
Ruth Correa, who acknowledged her testimony was given in exchange for a 40-year sentence agreement on three counts of murder, said she and her brother traveled to Griswold as part of a scheme to steal guns from Kenneth Lindquist, a plan she said was worked out without her knowledge between her brother and 21-year-year-old Matthew Lindquist as part of a drug deal.
Ruth Correa said she and her brother pulled up to a wooded area near the Lindquist home and met with Matthew Lindquist, who she described as fidgety and nervous. She said the younger Lindquist jumped from the vehicle with Sergio Correa on his heels.
″(Sergio) hit him with a machete in the back of the head,” she said.
The pair followed the injured man into the woods where Ruth Correa was handed a double-edged sword by her brother who she said “made me stab him.” The two, each armed with a knife, continued to stab Matthew Lindquist at least 20 times as the young man pleaded with alleged killers.
“I could smell it, the metallic smell of blood,” she said. “We left him there covered with sticks. And we walked to the house.”
As courtroom guests sobbed and Eric Lindquist, the brother and son of the victims, was comforted by a court victim’s advocate, Ruth Correa in excruciating detail recalled entering the home and the subsequent hours of terror inflicted on Janet and Kenneth Lindquist as the Correa siblings, armed with a golf club and bat, looted the home, a crime she said her brother planned to pass off as a robbery by black men.
She said Kenneth Lindquist and her brother struggled on the first floor of the ranch-style home before Sergio Correa struck the homeowner with the bat several times until he was still.
“It sounded like a bat hitting wood,” she said.
Sister: Triple murder suspect hit victim with machete