Murder in St. Augustine: The Mysterious Death of Athalia Ponsell Lindsley (True Crime) by Elizabeth Randall

Author:Elizabeth Randall [Randall, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2016-10-23T16:00:00+00:00

The evidence found in the swamp by the city dump off Riberia Street. Courtesy of the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Department.

Machete entered as evidence—the murder weapon. Courtesy of the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Department.

Sometime after 11:00 a.m., Deputy Sheriff Robert Williams got a call from Lieutenant Eddie Lightsey directing him to the St. Augustine landfill located at the south end of Riberia Street. Deputy Williams found a black wingtip shoe in the marsh. The following day, Deputy Williams brought Dixon Stanford, the trustee from the county jail, and another inmate to search the marsh. They found the other shoe.

It would be interesting to speculate what Alan Stanford Jr. wore for shoes when he arrived back home around 7:00 p.m. on the night of the murder, January 23. If the bloodstained wingtip shoes in the marsh were really his, he would have arrived home in his stocking feet. Given the distraction of the murder investigation, it was unlikely that anyone noticed.

The evidence from the marsh was sealed up and sent to the FDLE lab in Tallahassee. When it came back, it was locked in an evidence room made of coquina rock at the back of Garrett’s office beyond the photo lab in the courthouse. Five days later, on Friday, February 22, 1974, Sheriff Garrett issued a warrant for Alan’s arrest. The charge was first-degree murder.

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