Cat Killer Sean Lynde MacKenzie moves to Cyber-Extortion, Cyber-Harassment

the name “Gregory Capolino” as a banking name, with Cambridge Savings Bank in Boston.

In the summer of 2011, Lynde was reportedly back to his morbid preoccupation with small pets.  According to Villacattery.com, a Web site for animal rescue activists, Lynde MacKenzie was stopped while trying to adopt more kittens and a “pregnant rabbit” from a pet shop in southern California.

He has also been sighted near the home of Scott and Diane Lynde, reportedly his brother’s family, at 68 Woodlawn Drive, Pelham. New Hampshire.

Psychologists note that the killing of pets is often the precursor to the killing of humans. In a seminal study of 354 cases of serial murderers (see Andrew Linzey, ed., The Link Between Animal Abuse and Human Violence[Sussex Academic Press, 2009]), the editor concludes that serial killers often “transfer the frustration they received from their mothers or other adults toward weaker animals. The abusive behavior continued until the men eventually turned their attention to humans…. If killing animals made them feel good, the next logical step for further gratification was humans.”  Anthropologist Margartet Meade agreed, stating that “”One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.”

One recent case of a cat killer turned human killer was that of the Canadian Luka Magnotta. The parallels with Sean Lynde MacKenzie are discomforting. Magnotta, a gay escort and actor in pornographic videos, also “changed” his identity. His real name was Eric Newman, and he used at least six other false names. Magnotta, too, was a cat torture and killer. He became notorious by posting videos of himself online in the act of torturing kittens to death. Magnotta also began impersonating other people. He was arrested in Canada for impersonating a woman and misusing her credit cards.

Despite calls from animal rights groups to arrest Magnotta, he remained free, until, in 2012, Magnotta murdered a Chinese exchange studentin Montreal, dismembering the body, and mailing pieces to schools and police stations. 

After the December 2012 elementary school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, the public is demanding that more attention be paid to the dangers to families and small children posed by violent and mentally disturbed people.

“Limerick Maine is a remote lakeside area. Children walking in the woods alone, or family pets left in the yard, could be vulnerable targets for a criminal mind with a taste for torturing and killing,” said Mary Johnson, a local mother.

“Sean MacKenzie is a sick, twisted man. I am so afraid for the children and pets of that community. Hasn’t anyone warned the schools or neighboring families in Maine that a killer like Lynde, or Sean MacKenzie as he now calls himself, is living among them ? Has he illegally bought guns under his new assumed name ? Has anyone or their pets “gone missing” in Maine ?” concluded John Bergstein of the PetNetwork.

According to the charges filed in New York Supreme Court, Lynde MacKenzie has now launched a new campaign of impersonation and death threats to extort funds from businessmen whose names he gathered while in New York.

“Lynde opened up Twitter and Facebook accounts in my name, made-up drawings posing me as a small animal, and posted death threats demanding money. I met the guy just once, at a company meeting when he was trying to bid for some work for one of our companies. He is obviously a coward and mentally ill. Most disturbing is his obsession with someone he only met once.” stated Paul Misir, a principal in the Morning Street Capitalventure fund.

Misir also noted that his firm’s investigation of Lynde revealed that he has held as many as three different drivers licenses, from two different states, in different names. “It’s too much of a coincidence that three different people named ‘Sean,’” all 6’1” tall, all with the same birthday of April 1, 1973, are all registered at the same address.”  It is a federal felony violation of the Real ID Actto hold multiple drivers licenses under different names.

“I am filing an FBI complaint because MacKenzie is obviously acting in a criminal manner, has a violent past, has multiple illegal identities, is not mentally stable, and doesn’t belong on the streets,” stated William Sanford an officer in Twenty-At LLC,  a New York-based social networking start-up business which is being targeted by Lynde.  “The public needs to be protected from dangerous crazy people like Sean Lynde MacKenzie.” concluded Sanford.

The FBI declined to comment regarding the federal investigation of Lynde MacKenzie.