Murder In St Augustine

Author : Elizabeth Randall
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-24
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781625857149

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Murder in St. Augustine by Elizabeth Randall Pdf

The true story of the long-unsolved killing of a celebrity in northern Florida: “A page-turner.” —First Coast Living The murder of Athalia Ponsell Lindsley, a former model and television hostess who was once engaged to Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., is still notorious more than four decades after it occurred. The only eyewitness said a man attacked Lindsley with a machete in broad daylight on the front steps of her mansion. Gossip swirled that neighbor Frances Bemis knew who killed Lindsley and would notify authorities—and then Bemis was later murdered on her nightly walk. Police arrested only one suspect for Lindsley’s murder, which remains unsolved to this day. Here, Elizabeth Randall replaces the rumors with research, and draws from over one thousand pages of depositions, records, official county documentation, and interviews to reveal the story behind this shocking crime. Includes photos

Author : Nancy Powell,Jim Mast
Publisher : High-Pitched Hum Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1998-06
Category : Murder
ISBN : 097879950X

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Bloody Sunset in St. Augustine by Nancy Powell,Jim Mast Pdf

This book is a true story of a ghastly murder in the nation's oldest city in January of 1974. The victim was a former New York City model who in earlier years had moved in the highest social circles, which included the Kennedy family of Massachusetts. The murder investigation and subsequent trial involved many people from the highest echelons of St. Augustine and St. Johns County.

Author : Elizabeth Randall
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467118811

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Murder in St. Augustine: The Mysterious Death of Athalia Ponsell Lindsley by Elizabeth Randall Pdf

The murder of Athalia Ponsell Lindsley is notorious more than four decades after it occurred. The only eyewitness said a man attacked Lindsley with a machete in broad daylight on the front steps of her white mansion. Gossip swirled that neighbor Frances Bemis knew who killed Lindsley and would notify authorities. Bemis was later murdered on her nightly walk. Police arrested only one suspect for Lindsley's murder, which remains unsolved to this day. Author Elizabeth Randall puts the rumors to rest through research culled from over one thousand pages of depositions, records, official county documentation and interviews.

Author : McCay Vernon,Marie Vernon
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780786037780

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Deadly Lust: by McCay Vernon,Marie Vernon Pdf

Sex Slayings Throughout its long and colorful history, St. Augustine, Florida has been home to pirates and villains, marauders and despots. But it wasn't until the late 1980s that the city's red-light district, known locally as Crack Head Corner, became the hunting ground for a serial killer whose brutality knew no bounds. A Killer's Taunts On November 29, 1988, Anita Stevens, 27, climbed into a stranger's vehicle, thinking to turn a quick trick to fund her drug habit. She was the first to die. Over the next six years, six more prostitutes would fall victim to the same phantom killer, slain by gun, blunt objects, a strangler's noose--and the murderer's bare hands. His signature was the obscene poses in which he arranged his half-nude victims. Final Justice Frustrated by false confessions, investigators sifted through a myriad of suspects until a Christmas Eve, 1996 murder in Asheville, North Carolina led them to the real killer: William Darrell Lindsey. Twice-married, a father of five, Lindsey had drifted across the South for years. Wherever he went, rape and murder followed. He admitted to seven sex slayings, but experts believe that the death toll was somewhere between twelve and twenty. Here is the chilling true story of a fiend whose sadistic lust was the most depraved addiction of all. Includes 16 Pages Of Shocking Photos McCay Vernon, Ph.D., is a psychologist whose career has been concentrated in the fields of deafness and forensics. He is the author of seven books, over 300 articles, and award-winning documentary films and television productions in those fields. Although his path never crossed that of William Darrell Lindsey, Dr. Vernon attended the same high school, delivered the local paper to Lindsey's family, and shared many acquaintances with the killer. Marie Vernon is a freelance journalist whose columns, feature articles, and book reviews have appeared in such major newspapers at the Baltimore Sun, Cleveland Plain Dealer, and Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The Vernons live near St. Augustine, Florida.

Author : Beth Rogero Bowen
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0738525332

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St. Augustine In The Gilded Age by Beth Rogero Bowen Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Randall
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625847027

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Haunted St. Augustine and St. John's County by Elizabeth Randall Pdf

St. Johns County and St. Augustine are some of the earliest settled areas in the United States, and both are home to fascinating history. The area's story is filled with tales from Native Americans, early European settlers and modern-day Floridians. In some places, the habitants of those historical moments have remained. From the Castillo de San Marcos to the Huguenot Cemetery and the authentic old drugstore, the city and the county are filled with fascinating and terrifying stories of lingering spirits. Join photojournalist couple Elizabeth and Bob Randall as they recount the stories of the things that haunt one of America's oldest regions.

Author : Ann Colby
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439669013

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Wicked St. Augustine by Ann Colby Pdf

When Pedro Menéndez de Avilés founded St. Augustine in 1565, his New World survival kit included gambling, liquor and ladies for hire. For the next four hundred years, these three industries were vital in keeping the city financially afloat. With the cooperation of law enforcement and politicians, St. Augustine's madams, bootleggers and high-rollers created a veritable Riviera where tourists, especially the wealthy, could indulge in almost every vice and still bring the family along for a wholesome vacation picking oranges and gawking at alligators. Join historian Ann Colby's tour of spots not on the standard tourist map to discover hidden-in-plain-sight bordellos, speakeasies, casinos and the occasional opium den.

Author : Carlton Smith
Publisher : St. Martin's True Crime
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-26
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 0312948018

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Poisoned Love by Carlton Smith Pdf

Kathy Augustine was a controversial two-term Nevada State Controller. In 2003, her husband Chuck died of an apparent stroke. Only a month later, she married Chaz Higgs, an ER nurse who, it was later revealed, had attended to her late husband just before his death. Three years later, fifty-year-old Kathy died after a heart attack—the result, her family and friends believed, of a stressful political campaign. But when an autopsy of Kathy’s body revealed no signs of heart disease, investigators dug deeper into Kathy’s case…only to find the presence of a powerful, paralyzing emergency-room drug in Kathy’s system. A jury would later charge Nurse Chaz with murder in the first degree. But could Kathy’s first husband also have been the victim of Chaz’s treachery? And just how much did Kathy know? This is the shocking true story of a family torn apart by lies, medical crime, and POISONED LOVE.

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-15T22:59:00Z
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9798822510838

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Summary of Elizabeth Randall's Murder in St. Augustine by Everest Media, Pdf

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 On January 23, 1974, it was a Wednesday under the astrological sign of Aquarius. Richard Nixon was president, and he enhanced oil production in the United States by giving tax breaks to American oil companies. The national headlines were full of news about Watergate, the energy crisis, and space exploration. #2 On January 23, 1974, in St. Augustine, Florida, the barometric pressure was 30. 18, with a relative humidity of 70 percent. It was foggy that morning and cool, but by 6:00 p. m. , the temperature was a perfect seventy-two degrees. The sun wouldn’t set until 6:55 p. since Florida skipped daylight savings time that year. #3 James Lindsley, Athalia’s husband, arrived at his house on Lew Street a few minutes before 6 p. m. He and Athalia had trouble selling her house on Marine Street. They had planned to sell it in the spring. #4 On January 23, 1974, residents of St. Augustine, Florida, were shocked to find a woman’s body lying in the street. She had been badly butchered. Her head was almost cut off.

Author : Nancy Haddock
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101206997

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La Vida Vampire by Nancy Haddock Pdf

First in a delightfully irreverent new series-and second to none when it comes to beautiful 227-year-old career women. Being dead isn't all it's cracked up to be. Take it from Francesca Marinelli, trapped underground for over 200 years and rediscovered during the renovation of a Victorian mansion in historic St. Augustine. A tourist attraction herself, she's well suited for a job as an Old Ghost Town Tour guide. Francesca's due for a new lease on afterlife-and with enough sunblock, she can finally live it. Unfortunately, everything she learned about men is a little dated. And when people in her tour group turn up dead, naturally the police suspect her. After all, she is a vampire. Which is why a crazed vampire-hunting vigilante squad is out to get her as well. Between the dead bodies, the stalkers, and a seriously non-existent love life, she's starting to wish she was dead. Or at least buried, where she was safe.

Author : Elizabeth Randall
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781439668740

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An Ocklawaha River Odyssey by Elizabeth Randall Pdf

Photojournalists Bob and Liz Randall spent two years exploring Florida's ancient and enchanting Ocklawaha River. Their journey provides an inside look at the rich recreational resources of the river, its wildlife and the people, past and present, who contributed to its history and welfare. Along the way, they met artists, environmentalists, captains, law enforcement officials, conservationists, filmmakers, historians and local descendants whose lives are inextricably intertwined with the prehistoric river. From its subterranean and aquatic past to the Seminole Indian Wars, the steamboat era and political struggles, many voices are integral to the river's survival and to one of the longest environmental conflicts in Florida history.

Author : Valerie Strong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1091293163

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Deadly Neighbors by Valerie Strong Pdf

The book is based on actual murders committed in St. Augustine Florida in 1974. The episodes have been fictionalized but the settings are real. The author is familiar with St. Augustine having spent much time there with her parents. The narrator slowly related the horror of the murders to the author; his depression and frustration, his desire to take justice into his own hands. Healed though the nature he was devoted to, the piney woods and the beach, the author was introduced to "old timey" St. Augustine and a now vanished way of life.This is a story of healing and the start a new life.

Author : John Michael Francis,Kathleen M. Kole,David Hurst Thomas
Publisher : North American Archaeology Fund, Amnh
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 193930220X

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Murder and Martyrdom in Spanish Florida by John Michael Francis,Kathleen M. Kole,David Hurst Thomas Pdf

In the late fall of 1597, Guale Indians murdered five Franciscan friars stationed in their territory and razed their missions to the ground. The 1597 Guale Uprising, or Juanillo's Revolt as it is often called, brought the missionization of Guale to an abrupt end and threatened Florida's new governor with the most significant crisis of his term. To date, interpretations of the uprising emphasize the primacy of a young Indian from Tolomato named Juanillo, the heir to Guale's paramount chieftaincy. According to most versions of the uprising story, Tolomato's resident friar publicly reprimanded Juanillo for practicing polygamy. In his anger, Juanillo gathered his forces and launched a series of violent assaults on all five of Guale territory's Franciscan missions, leaving all but one of the province's friars dead. Through a series of newly translated primary sources, many of which have never appeared in print, this volume presents the most comprehensive examination of the 1597 uprising and its aftermath. It seeks to move beyond the two central questions that have dominated the historiography of the uprising, namely who killed the five friars and why, neither of which can be answered with any certainty. Instead, this work aims to use the episode as the background for a detailed examination of Spanish Florida at the turn of the 17th century. Viewed collectively, these sources not only challenge current representations of the uprising, they also shed light on the complex nature of Spanish-Indian relations in early colonial Florida.

Author : M. Pabst Battin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780195135992

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The Ethics of Suicide by M. Pabst Battin Pdf

Is suicide wrong, profoundly morally wrong? Almost always wrong, but excusable in a few cases? Sometimes morally permissible? Imprudent, but not wrong? Is it sick, a matter of mental illness? Is it a private matter or a largely social one? Could it sometimes be right, or a "noble duty," or even a fundamental human right? Whether it is called "suicide" or not, what role may a person play in the end of his or her own life? This collection of primary sources--the principal texts of ethical interest from major writers in western and nonwestern cultures, from the principal religious traditions, and from oral cultures where observer reports of traditional practices are available, spanning Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Oceania, the Arctic, and North and South America--facilitates exploration of many controversial practical issues: physician-assisted suicide or aid-in-dying; suicide in social or political protest; self-sacrifice and martyrdom; suicides of honor or loyalty; religious and ritual practices that lead to death, including sati or widow-burning, hara-kiri, and sallekhana, or fasting unto death; and suicide bombings, kamikaze missions, jihad, and other tactical and military suicides. This collection has no interest in taking sides in controversies about the ethics of suicide; rather, rather, it serves to expand the character of these debates, by showing them to be multi-dimensional, a complex and vital part of human ethical thought.

Author : David Nolan
Publisher : Pineapple Press Inc
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : 9781561640690

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The Houses of St. Augustine by David Nolan Pdf

When the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, St. Augustine was already half a century old. Founded in 1565, the city has been continuously inhabited ever since, and its architectural styles tell stories of boom and bust, fad and tradition, war and peace, modernization and historic preservation. This affectionate portrait of our oldest city offers a comprehensive survey of the many architectural features that have expressed the needs and preferences of St. Augustine's inhabitants over more than four centuries of Spanish, British, and American government. From the coquina stone structures of colonial times, through Victorian gingerbread and Henry Flagler's Spanish revival, to the cookie-cutter subdivisions and condominiums of modern times, the houses of St. Augustine are introduced in this lovely and readable book like characters in a historical drama. Each chapter highlights a broad historical period and includes a lively discussion of the city's distinctive character during that era. Representative styles and forms of each period are illustrated with color photographs and original watercolors by Jean Ellen Fitzpatrick.