text: The suspects in the December slaying of a Griswold couple and their son had conspired with the son to exchange drugs for guns kept in a safe inside his parents’ home, court records unsealed Tuesday reveal. 
   
   The Hartford woman charged in the killings, Ruth Correa, told investigators that the incident turned violent when the son, Matthew Lindquist, panicked and backed out of the plan to make the deal look like a robbery, a 17-page arrest warrant affidavit shows. 
   
   In a text exchange, Matthew Lindquist wrote to one of the suspects, “If u pull up street from my house and give me a stack, I’ll show u right where safe is,�? the court records said. The texts came hours before authorities discovered the bodies of Kenneth and Janet Lindquist in their burned out Kenwood Estates home on Dec. 20. 
   
   In another text reviewed by state police detectives, Matthew Lindquist told the suspect that his father usually goes to bed after dinner, around 6 or 7 p.m., and they should wait until then before carrying out the plan. Ruth Correa told investigators the plan included tying up Matthew and blaming the theft of the guns on two black men. 
   
   Ruth Correa, 23, also told investigators that she had gone to the quiet Griswold neighborhood with her brother, Sergio Correa, and that he was responsible for much of the violence that night, the arrest warrant affidavit said. 
   
   In the days after Kenneth and Janet Lindquist were found, state police said their son Matthew was a person of interest. Friends and family told authorities he had problems with drugs that had recently resurfaced. 
   
   Matthew Lindquist’s remains were found in May by state police in woods not far from the home. 
   
   A witness said that Ruth Correa told him that she and her brother drugged the son and killed him before going to the house, killing the mother and father and setting the house on fire, the affidavit read. 
   
   The witness said he had seen Matthew at the same Hartford apartment complex where Ruth Correa lived at least once before the killings. When questioned, Ruth Correa admitted to stabbing Matthew Lindquist about 10 times. She said Sergio Correa also stabbed him and hit both parents with a bat before setting the home on fire, the affidavit said. 
   
   Sergio Correa told her that an unidentified man owed him money and that he was going to pretend to give the man drugs in exchange for guns, the affidavit said. 
   
   Sergio Correa, who is in prison on unrelated charges, has not been charged in connection with the killings. His lawyer, William Gerace, said Tuesday that he hasn’t seen the arrest affidavit and that Sergio Correa “maintains he had nothing to do with this.�? 
   
   On the day of the slayings, Ruth Correa told the investigators, a man who she did not know got into her brother’s car asking about the drugs, which she thought was heroin. 
   
   She said that Sergio Correa told the man that he was not going to get the drugs until Sergio Correa got what he wanted, the affidavit said. 
   
   The two men then talked about a fake robbery and that the basement door to the home was unlocked, she told investigators. 
   
   She said after they drove down the street and parked the car, the man got out and panicked, the affidavit said. 
   
   The affidavit reveals the brutal details of the killings as told to investigators by Ruth Correa: 
   
   When he ran off, Ruth Correa told investigators, her brother ran after him with a machete, hitting him in the back of the head. She told investigators Sergio Correa then threatened to tie Matthew Lindquist up with tape and zip ties, but he began to yell and “freak out,�? the affidavit said. 
   
   Ruth Correa said her brother then began to stab the man, the affidavit said. 
   
   At one point, her brother handed her the knife and guided it into the man, she told investigators. She said the stabbing happened about 50 feet from the road in some trees, the affidavit said. 
   
   Ruth and Sergio Correa then went into the house through the open basement and found the safe bolted to the floor, she told investigators. She said that they went upstairs and were confronted by the man’s father, who went after her brother, the affidavit said. 
   
   The two men fought over the keys to the safe, which he refused to hand over, Ruth Correa told investigators. She said her brother struck the man multiple times with a bat. 
   
   Ruth Correa said the man’s wife came out from another room, but Ruth Correa told police she guided her into a bedroom, according to the affidavit. 
   
   When the woman asked Ruth Correa why they were doing this, she responded it was because the woman’s son had set them up, the affidavit said. 
   
   While with the woman, Ruth Correa said, her brother had gotten the keys to the safe and brought a gun to the bedroom, which he pointed at the woman, the affidavit said. 
   
   With her brother having the gun trained on the woman, Ruth Correa said she walked around the house collecting items, including a purple laptop from an office in the home, the affidavit said. 
   
   She then returned to the bedroom and told her brother it was time to go, but left again to grab more items. When she returned to the bedroom a second time, she said she saw her brother with a rope or string around the woman’s neck and his foot in her back. She told police that the woman appeared to be choking, according to the affidavit 
   
   After the woman stopped making noise, Ruth Correa said she and Sergio Correa started taking bags of items out to the car. 
   
   During their last trip back into the house, Ruth Correa said she saw her brother again using the rope or string to choke the woman because she was going for her phone, the affidavit said. Her brother grabbed a bat and hit the woman four or five times, Ruth Correa told investigators, the affidavit said. 
   
   On their way out, Ruth Correa said her brother told her to look for something flammable. She said Sergio handed her cans of strong smelling liquid, the affidavit said. 
   
   She told investigators she dumped a whole can in one spot and went outside. She said she returned briefly to see her brother on the first floor ignite an exercise ball, the affidavit said. 
   
   They loaded all the stolen property into a silver car outside the home and drove to her brother’s car. She got into her brother’s car and she drove off, following her brother out of the neighborhood, the affidavit said. 
   
   They drove for about 30 minutes until they found an abandonded building and parked, she told investigators. They put all the stolen property into Sergio Correa’s car before he drove off in the stolen car. Ruth Correa told investigators he returned about five minutes later, sat in the passenger seat and they left for Hartford. 
   
   Matthew Lindquist’s car was found ablaze in a parking lot of a Glastonbury apartment complex not long after. ||||| Newly-released court documents reveal new details on the brutal murder of a Griswold man and his parents. 
   
   The Hartford woman who was charged with the slayings of a Griswold husband and wife and their 21-year-old son told police that she committed the slayings with her brother and that the couple’s son was involved with the plan to rob the house, according to court documents. 
   
   Ruth Correa, 23, of Hartford, was charged with murder, murder with special circumstances, robbery, arson and home invasion in connection with the deaths of 56-year-old Kenneth Lindquist, his 61-year-old wife, Janet Lindquist, and their 21-year-old son, Matthew Lindquist on Dec. 20, 2017. 
   
   Correa’s brother, 26-year-old Sergio Correa, has not been charged in the case. His attorney told NBC Connecticut that he has been made aware an arrest warrant has been issued for his client for murder in the case in New London County. The attorney said his client maintains his innocence. 
   
   Court documents released Tuesday reveal new, graphic information about the case, what led police to arrest Correa and what she told them about what happened on that December night. 
   
   Text messages detailed in the court documents show that Matthew Lindquist promised to give one of the Correas guns in exchange for drugs and cash. 
   
   Lindquist wrote: “U give me the cash when I show u safe right?” 
   
   “Cause I know there’s at least 2 guns” 
   
   The response from the Correa phone: “Text me where to meet you” 
   
   Lindquist suggested Walmart, but someone wrote back: “Too many cameras I want to pay you and leave this car is registered to me” 
   
   Lindquist responded: “If u pull up street from my house and give me a stack I’ll show you right where the safe is” 
   
   According to her arrest warrant, Ruth Correa told police her brother said that Lindquist owed him money and that he was going to pretend to give him drugs and get guns. In another text message, Lindquist wrote to the Correa phone: “U got the 10 b of white fire?” 
   
   Ruth Correa told police that her brother had asked her to join him that night and told her that “this guy owed him money and he was going to pretend to give this guy drugs and he was going to get guns,” then he told her she was “going to pretend to pick a lock to the safe at the guy’s house,” according to the arrest warrant application. 
   
   When the brother and sister were in the car together, a guy Ruth Correa did not know got into the back of the vehicle and asked her brother if he had the drugs. Her brother responded that “he was not getting anything unless he got what he was promised,” Ruth Correa said. That was when the man, Matthew Lindquist, mentioned a fake robbery and told the brother and sister that the basement door was unlocked, Correa told police. 
   
   The two men also discussed tying Matthew up and making it look like a robbery but Matthew Lindquist got “panicky and fidgety” and ran, Ruth Correa said. Her brother then chased after him with a machete and hit him in the back of the head. 
   
   Then, as her brother started tying him up, Matthew Lindquist started to “yell and freak out” and her brother stabbed him until Matthew stopped moving, Ruth Correa told police. 
   
   She said she hesitated, but her brother grabbed her hand, guided her and she stabbed Matthew Lindquist in the chest around 10 times, Ruth Correa told police. 
   
   After the stabbing, Ruth Correa and her brother went into the house through the basement. 
   
   When they went upstairs, Kenneth Lindquist was awake and went after her brother, Ruth Correa told police. The family’s dog was also in the house and came after them, so Ruth Correa said she hit it with a golf club she had brought from her brother’s car because they had been warned about the dog. 
   
   Ruth Correa said her brother was the one to beat Kenneth Lindquist up, using a bat, and he was also trying to get the keys to the safe, but Kenneth Lindquist refused. 
   
   Janet Lindquist emerged from another room as the dog barked and her husband was yelling and Ruth Correa grabbed the woman by the hand, led her to a bedroom and told her she didn’t have to see what was happening,” Ruth Correa told police. 
   
   After Ruth Correa told the woman she did not want to hurt her and said she needed the keys to the safe, Janet Lindquist asked where her son was and Ruth Correa told her he was the reason this was happening and “her son had set her up,” according to the arrest warrant application. 
   
   After getting the keys to the safe, Ruth Correa’s brother showed up in the bedroom with a gun, pointed it at the mother and taunted her as Ruth Correa walked around the house, grabbing items, the arrest warrant application says. 
   
   When Ruth Correa went back into the bedroom, her brother had a rope around Janet Lindquist’s neck and a foot on her back, the arrest warrant application states. 
   
   As they were going bath through the basement, her brother told her to look for something flammable and they poured a liquid in several locations, then her brother set the fire, according to the arrest warrant application. 
   
   Connecticut state police began investigating when dispatchers received a 911 call at 5:12 a.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 20 about a fire at the home at 70 Kenwood Drive in Griswold and state police, the Griswold Fire Department and several fire companies responded. 
   
   The bodies of 56-year-old Kenneth Lindquist and his 61-year-old wife, Janet Lindquist, were later found inside their burned-out home, according to police. 
   
   The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner determined that Janet Lindquist died of “homicidal violence including blunt impact injuries to the head” and smoke inhalation with thermal injuries and Kenneth Lindquist died of homicidal violence, including skull fractures, cerebral contusions and additional injuries. His death was ruled a homicide. 
   
   A person who was walking his dog found Matthew Lindquist’s body on Saturday, May 5. An autopsy revealed several stab wounds and his death was ruled a homicide.
target: – For more than four months, 21-year-old Matthew Lindquist was considered a suspect in the murders of his parents, found inside their burned-out home in Griswold, Conn., on Dec. 20. All the time, he was lying dead 1,500 feet away, a third victim of what police describe as a fake robbery turned real. According to an arrest affidavit released Tuesday, Lindquist had offered his father's guns to a man in exchange for drugs, so long as the man staged the scene to look like a burglary. That's not what happened. Now charged in the case, 23-year-old Ruth Correa reportedly told police her brother, Sergio Correa, hit Lindquist in the head with a machete after Lindquist panicked, per the Washington Post. The siblings then stabbed Lindquist, leaving his body in the woods near his parents' home, which they entered through a basement door they knew to be unlocked, per the affidavit. When Kenneth and Janet Lindquist appeared, 26-year-old Sergio hit Kenneth, 56, with a baseball bat while Ruth told Janet that "her son had set her up," the affidavit states, per NBC Connecticut. The document says Sergio then choked Janet, 61, and hit her in the head with the bat before he and his sister set the house alight and took off with stolen goods and Matthew Lindquist's car, later found burned. After reportedly telling police that her brother might be planning to kill her, Ruth Correa was arrested on charges of murder, home invasion, arson, and robbery on May 12, a week after Matthew Lindquist's body was found. At the time, police said additional arrests were expected. Sergio Correa has yet to be charged, though. He's in police custody following a February arrest for probation violations and "maintains he had nothing to do with this," his lawyer tells the Hartford Courant.