Maj Borgstrom

Borgstrom, Maj

Appeared in Taken in Death (late November/early December, 2060)

Personal Information

• Description: Tall, curvy blond
• Age: Mid-to-late 30s
• Hair: Blond
• Eyes: Ice blue
• Address: Magic Sweets, New York, NY
• Relationships: Tosha MacDermit (twin sister); unnamed father (she stabbed him to death); unnamed mother (deceased in childbirth); Ross MacDermit (brother-in-law); Gala (niece); Henry (nephew)

Homicide Information

• She murdered their father at age 12.
  • Stabbed him to death when she was being punished for burning Tosha’s doll
  • Her punishment had been a week where she wasn’t allowed to go outside and play with or talk to her friends
  • She was looking for Tosha to kill her but when she couldn’t find her she killed their father instead, stabbing him with a kitchen knife while he slept
  • After she stabbed her father in the heart and she cut his throat, she carved a pentagram on him and drank his blood
  • Tosha and the neighbor found Maj on the bed with their father, laughing with the knife

• Unnamed patient at the Borj Institute for the Criminally Insane
  • Stabbed
  • Not enough evidence to charge her

• Unnamed medical at the Institute
  • Non-accidental overdose
  • Not enough evidence to charge her

• Dr. Dolph Edquist
  • Died of an apparent cardiac arrest thirty minutes after a session with her
  • Since she had spent considerable time in the infirmary, and studied alternative medicine while confined, it was believed she poisoned him, making it look natural

• Dr. Filip Edquist
  • Multiple stab wounds - throat, right shoulder, chest
  • Small pentagram carved just above her heart, her signature
  • Open case being called a bungled burglary

• Unnamed pastry chef in Paris
  • Multiple stab wounds, liver and heart missing
  • Evidence of the organs sautéed in wine and eaten at the scene
  • Small pentagram carved just above her heart, her signature
  • Open case because police couldn’t find her

• Darcia Jordan
  • Multiple stab wounds - throat, right shoulder, chest
  • Small pentagram carved just above her heart, her signature

Interesting Facts

• Nearly identical to Tosha, but she had a birthmark shaped like a pentagram located between her left breast and shoulder.
• Blamed Tosha for the death of their mother, who died from complications during childbirth; thought she (Maj) should have been the only child - “The One” - Tosha was born second.
• According to Tosha and all evidence, she was very smart and full of hate.
• Tosha testified against her and she (Maj) was committed to the Borj Institute for the Criminally Insane in Stockholm, where she was incarcerated for “violent tendencies/criminal acts,” 25 years ago (~2035).
• She had been treated by Dr. Dolph Edquist, until she poisoned him, and then by his son, Dr. Filip Edquist, who deemed her ready and rehabilitated enough for a transfer to a halfway house about two years ago. (She later killed him.)
• The senior Edquist diagnosed her as paranoid delusional, believing her sister's very existence diminished her, threatened her, and she had strong sadistic tendencies.
• Her track record at the Institute included:
  • Several members of the staff reported her for violent behavior, lodged complaints.
  • She was caught twice in intimate situations, once with a guard, once with a medical. Both times she claimed coercion. It couldn't be disproved, and the staff involved were fired.
  • In the second instance, security was alerted when the medical began to scream, when he ran out of the infirmary, bleeding. According to reports she had been performing oral sex, and bit him - bit off the tip of his penis and consumed it. They found her, face smeared with blood, laughing. Later she claimed she'd been forced, had panicked, tried to defend herself. The institution terminated the medical, and negated her privileges, confining her to solitary for a week, increased her meds and her therapy. She engaged counsel and threatened to sue.
• A week before Filip's death, she walked out of the halfway house, leaving her tracker bracelet behind. Two days before his death, the recently divorced Edquist withdrew $350K and arranged a private shuttle to transport him and a companion to Argentina. His false identification (under the name “Artur Gruber”) was found, but all of the money and an additional $85,000 in jewelry and other easily portable valuables was missing.
• According to FBI Agent Slattery, Global bungled the investigation into his murder.
• Eve summed her up as “batshit crazy, but with the seriously dicey element of cannibalistic tendencies.”