The Guardian kallar honom a 20-year-old white kid with a Swedish name, Irish descent, a strict Catholic father and a Buddhist mother.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,611605,00.html En sökning i Google får fram att han närmast är från Fairfax, Kalifornien, men född i Washington 1981, son till advokaten Frank Lindh och hemsamariten (?) Marilyn Walker.
Walker's father, Frank Lindh, is a lawyer for Pacific Gas and Electric who lives in San Anselmo, and his mother, Marilyn Walker, is a home health care worker from Fairfax. They are divorced.
http://www0.mercurycenter.com/front/docs1/014812.htm Walker was born in Washington in February 1981, Newsweek said. He is the second of three children of a home health care worker and a lawyer, Frank Lindh. His mother said he spent the first 10 years of his life in the Washington suburbs of Maryland, moving to Northern California in 1991.
http://www.cbsnews.com/now/story/0,1597,319829-412,00.shtml Fadern skall vara av irländskt ursprung. In the summer of 1998, Lindh took John on a trip to Ireland to learn more about the country from which his grandparents had emigrated.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/666792.asp Om farföräldrarna immigrerade från Irland, varifrån kommer då det svenska namnet?