Murder meme: Momo-lookalike teen hatched plot with online love for mass murder

I came across this bizarre turn of events through a podcast posted on Canadian website Night Time under an episode named: The Story of Lindsay Souvannarath. It was mostly unheard of in the UK as a case, so I was pleased to crack this one out into the mainstream.

With her doe-eyed gaze, 23-year-old virgin Lindsay looked the picture of innocence-but when she started chatting to James, 19, online things took a sinister turn

By Jess Lester

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One of Lindsays blog posts alluded to the shooting, saying Valentines Day, Its going down.

Lindsay says she felt like the spirit of Eric Harris (pictured) was calling her to commit mass murder

Lindsays artwork, which she shared on her blog Cockswastika began to reflect her beliefs in Nazism

In between Lindsays sexts to her boyfriend, the pair discussed their plans to kill at least 13 people

Lindsay reveals that James had vowed to kill his parents so that when Lindsay arrived, the pair could have sex

As time went on, Lindsay began to agree with more and more of the Nazi ideology she read online

She began to agree with twisted Nazi views as she spent time online with National Socialists

With a plan in place, the pair were ready to commit murder together

Inspired by Columbine shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold (above), Lindsay posted artwork of the pair on her blog

An anonymous Crime Stoppers tip had warned the police about a Lindsay S who was planning a shooting in Halifax

Similar to the Momo meme, Lindsays meme encouraged death through mass shootings

Standing in the mirror, Lindsay showed off the outfit she planned to wear for a mass shooting

Lindsay plead guilty to conspiracy to mass murder and is currently serving a life sentence that she is trying to contest

Her boyfriend James Gamble had already shot himself by the time Lindsay was taken into custody

Lindsay caught the eye of 19-year-old James Gamble, who often fantasised about carrying out mass shootings

Lindsays meme not only encouraged suicide, like Momo, she also glorified mass murder

WITH her doe-eyed gaze, 23-year-old virgin Lindsay looked the picture of innocence – but when she started chatting to James, 19, online things took a sinister turn.

Instead of flirting and meeting up to go for pizza like ordinary teenagers, they began sexting and planning a mass murder – and a night of passion afterwards where they would both lose their virginity.

Between them, they came up with a plot to kill 13 ‘fat basic b**ches’ in a shooting inside a food court on Valentine’s Day 2014, in between sharing dirty messages about their dark sexual fantasies.

“We began as just friends – but one day the topic of shootings came up and he was keen to do one, that was when I felt attracted to him,” Lindsay says, speaking from prison for the first time in a tell-all series, The Story of Lindsay Souvannarath, by true crime pod-casters Night Time.

Planning a massacre in bondage underwear

Self-confessed loner Lindsay says she fell madly in love with the mysterious teen, whom she had never met before, when he shared a meme she’d made of the 1999 Columbine school massacre – which saw 12 students and one teacher die when two gunmen opened fire in the library.

The brutal killers both then turned their guns on themselves – and the image in Lindsay’s meme showed them dead on the floor, under the terrifying caption: “I can’t live without my friends.”

While the meme known as Momo has caused outrage for encouraging users to take their own lives, Lindsay’s artwork went one step further – suggesting others should commit their own mass shootings.

Within hours her image had caught the eye of fellow Neo-Nazi James Gamble, a 19-year-old Canadian who had secret plans to carry out his own copycat shooting attack and the pair began chatting on Facebook.

Their conversation – about sex, murder and rape – kick-started a chain of events that saw them plan a mass murder of “basic bitches” and a double-suicide.

James told her he loved her, and Lindsay – who says she was previously groomed at 16 by a Neo Nazi – said she felt the same.

As their relationship progressed from friends to lovers, they delved deeper into planning a real murder, which would copy the actions of their Columbine heroes, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold.

“We felt like it was destiny that we had met,” she continues. “We thought we were supposed to die together, and at times I felt I was the spirit of Eric Harris and that killing was what I was meant to do.”

Lindsay would send sultry pictures of her in leather underwear, choker collars and skull-printed masks and dirty messages about sex in between messages about their attack.

She adds: “It was just about scaring people at first, but it became more than that. We agreed on a mass shooting – and we started discussing a place to target.

“James wanted to do it in a hospital – shooting and stabbing people as they lay in their beds, but I didn’t think there was much point to that.”

‘He was going to kill his parents so there was room for me to move in’

They finally agreed to carry out the attack in the food court of a Halifax shopping mall using the two guns stashed at James’ family home, killing at least 13 people – the same number as the Columbine attackers.

They both wanted to target the victims that fit their Neo Nazi beliefs, such as those with genetic defects.

Lindsay says: “James said he was going to kill his own parents so I would be allowed to stay at his house, as we had planned to lose our virginity to each other that night.

“He really wanted to kill middle-aged Christian women, especially those with families. I wanted anyone who looked genetically bad, or any basic bitches so I could shout ‘you look fat’ as they bled to death.

“And after we had killed at least 13 people and had sex, we wanted to kill ourselves. We were going to shoot on the count of three, just like the perpetrators of Columbine.”

‘A very memorable Valentine’s Day’

Landing at Halifax airport on February 14th 2015, everything had gone to plan for Lindsay so far – travelling almost 2,000 miles on multiple trains and planes undetected.

But while she hoped to breeze through customs and into the arms of James – who she’d never met in real life – having no money and no return ticket meant she was forced to talk to border control – the last conversation she would have as a free woman.

“I’m here to spend a very memorable Valentine’s Day with my boyfriend,” Lindsay told customs officials, as they questioned her.

But little did she know that just hours before, as she slept on her flight, an anonymous tipster had called Crime Stoppers and warned them of a ‘Lindsay S’ who had murderous intentions in Canada.

And while Lindsay knew she had not said a word about the plan, the same could not be said for James, who had told multiple friends about his plot, and even asked for help from others.

Online the pair had left a trail of breadcrumbs that hinted at their actions, something that the authorities were beginning to uncover as she sat in customs – ‘Valentine’s Day, it’s going down’, said one post.

Lindsay had even started writing a suicide note before she left, a draft left open on her computer at home – ‘Perhaps you have already heard the news of a mass shooting in Halifax’, it began, confirming her plan.

Detained and taken to be interviewed by police, it was then that Lindsay found out her co-conspirator boyfriend had shot himself hours earlier when the police surrounded his home.

Lindsay pleaded guilty to the charges of conspiracy to commit murder, illegal possession of weapons and making threats and was sentenced to life in prison without parole for 10 years.

Raping the corpses of suicide victims

Lindsay’s obsession with modern day Nazis, white supremacy, homophobia, Antisemitism and Adolf Hitler started when she was groomed by an older man online.

Daughter of a Laotian father and eastern European mother, Lindsay didn’t wasn’t a stereotypical white extremist.

She claims that after spending months listening to the older man preach hatred against those with disabilities and of different races, a young and impressionable Lindsay – who had no friends at school and admitted being a self-confessed ‘loner’ – was sucked in by his teachings.

It was then that she starting preaching hate against other races or religions on her own blog. “I had a white mother, two white older siblings and I lived in a majority white neighbourhood,” she tells pod-casters Nighttime Episodes.

“I always identified with the white side of my family, that wasn’t new. Egged on by her new online pals, Lindsay quickly became part of infamous extreme-right group Iron March – and she’s thought to have dated the site’s founder Alexander Slavros, a prolific neo-Nazi from Russia.

As the groups Lindsay associated with grew darker and more evil, so did her art and poetry.

She started sharing her work about death, rape and extremism on an online blog named Cockswastika.

In one disturbing post, titled ‘Come Resurrection’, she tells a story where a man falls in love with the corpse of a suicide victim who he then decides to bring home and rape.

She continues in ‘Der Untergang’, a poetic suicide note: “I would not consider myself evil for committing murder, as murder makes no difference. Everyone dies.”

Lindsay is currently appealing her sentence and looking for leniency in light of the grooming she had at the hands of the online Nazis as a teen.

But left without a co-conspirator to face justice alongside her, authorities are still struggling to separate her facts from fiction.

“I fight no man’s war except my own,” Lindsay concludes in her final blog post, Der Untergang. “And I will die in battle, not as a soldier but as a murderer.”