Lindsey was born and raised in Auckland, New Zealand to a well off family. She has always been coddled by her family, and she has always had the best of everything handed over to her easily. Unbeknownst to her, her family is heavily involved in the laundering of money for the local MC in the area. She’s always known them as just friends of the family, and enjoys her afternoons of mani/pedis with the daughters of members.
Everything started to unravel when she was around 17, when her father was eventually caught and investigated by the police for money laundering. Her parents were detained and when released on bail, the MC decided to cut all ties and leave them to carry the burden of guilt. Her parents were eventually assassinated by the MC whilst in prison before they stood trial. As a minor, Lindsey was sent off to be cared by the state, and losing everything that she’s ever known, shook her to the core, and deeply impacted on how she viewed the world. Her most prized possession is the key and chain necklace that her mother had pressed into her hand as she was being dragged away by the cops.
On her 21st birthday, a mysterious letter was delivered to her with the instructions of using the key on her necklace on a secure lockbox of a small branch bank in the middle of nowhere. Curiosity got the best of her, and she decided to take a drive to the bank about 6 hours south of Auckland. In the box, she found her parents’ insurance policy against the MC if they were ever to be harmed. All records of every detail of the MC’s illicit activities recorded by her parents as their financial consultants. There was also an offshore bank account with money her parents have siphoned off from the MC as insurance if anything were to happen to them. Her parents had also had alias identities created by the best forgery masters money could buy.
Sitting back in disbelief, she realised that with all this information, she would be in terrible danger, and would need to leave the country as soon as possible. She rushes off to the local library to duplicate the documents and with an anonymous email, mails off the incriminating documents to the officers she knows that were investigating her parents at the time. She realised that with that done, she could no longer be in New Zealand, so she packs up her meagre belongings and moved to Los Santos.
Lindsey McKenna was no more, and so Lindsey Steel was born.
Lindsey moved to Los Santos with nothing but the clothes on her back.
She knows that she has the money her parents had hidden away in the offshore account as a security blanket if anything was to happen and she has to be on the run again, but for now, she is content with starting over and making a new life for herself in the new city.
She decided on Los Santos because her cuddle buddy, Sally Nailburry, offered a place for her to stay at when things get rough and she needed an escape.
She met Sally during a shopping excursion to Toronto when she was 16, where she somehow lost track of her group of friends and stumbled into Sally's uncle's dispensary. They hit it off immediately, and in the year before everything blew up in Lindsey's life, she made regular visits to Toronto to visit Sally. Nobody in her previous life knew of Sally, and she kept their relationship a secret from everybody in her life.
She has only been in Los Santos for a short time, but she has been enjoying her time in Los Santos, making new friends and forging a new life for herself. She is still constantly looking over her shoulder to see if her past will catch up with her, and with that in mind, she's careful about who she lets into her life and how much of her history she lets people know of herself.
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As much of a city girl Lindsey is, she loves the peace and quiet of nature.