BOONE COUNTY

Boone family: Keep murderer behind bars

Sarah Brookbank
sbrookbank@communitypress.com
  • Reynolds stabbed Terri Lindsley 57 times in her ktichen where she'd been making Christmas ornaments.
Douglas Allen Reynolds will be eligible for parole on Oct. 22. Reynolds killed Terri Rose Lindsley and her family is asking for help to keep him behind bars.

On Oct. 30, 1991, Terri Rose Lindsley was murdered in the kitchen of her family’s Boone County home while her 16-month-old daughter slept down the hall.

Now, the family is asking for help to keep her murderer, Douglas Allen Reynolds, in prison.

The court was unable to prove aggravating circumstances in Lindsley’s murder, so the family accepted a guilty plea and the prosecutor’s recommendation of life in prison with parole eligibility after 25 years.

Reynolds will be eligible for parole from the Luther Luckett Correctional Complex on Oct. 22, 2016.

At the time of the murder, Reynolds was hired to deliver bottled water to the Lindsleys. He entered the home and stabbed Terri Lindsley in the back while she sat at her kitchen table making Christmas ornaments. Lindsley fought for her life as Reynolds stabbed her 57 times and nearly decapitated her.

“Douglas Reynolds has taken away so much more than a woman; he took my mother,” Terri Lindsley’s daughter, Meghan Lindsley said, “A mother can never be replaced. I never got to know a mother’s love ... My life not having her has left me needing and wanting help, but never to find answers.”

The family asks citizens of the Tristate area call or write the Kentucky Parole Board to demand that Reynolds remain locked up for the remainder of his natural life.

The timeline of the Douglas Allen Reynolds case

Terri Lindsley’s husband, John Lindsley, was away at work when his wife was murdered. He said his wife, who worked as a nurse, always cared about the well-being of others.

“(Terri) touched many lives, and her passing has left an unfillable void,” John Lindsley said. “We seek the public’s help to make sure that Douglas Allen Reynolds stays where he belongs so that no other family has to endure what we’ve been through should he be released and decide to kill again in some other young mother’s kitchen.”

A hearing is scheduled for Monday, Aug. 8, before the Kentucky Parole Board. The family of Terri Lindsley asks people to contact the Parole Board before the hearing.

“Douglas Allen Reynolds is an unpredictable, violent, brutal, mentally ill person,” John Lindsley said. “Please help us in any way possible to see to it that this murderer stays in prison.”

The Kentucky Parole Board can be reached at: Kentucky Parole Board, P.O. Box 2400, Frankfort, KY 40604-2400.Tel: 502-564-3620. Fax: 502-564-8995 or Toll Free: 800-221-5991.

Or send an email directly to the Parole Board at: pbvictimservices@ky.gov. Please include, Douglas Reynolds – Inmate #112817, on all correspondence.