the end of the attack, an 18-year-old neighbor, Locke McCormick, heard the sounds of a commotion and went outside to look. He allegedly shouted to his mother that "Mr. Stanford is hitting Mrs. Ponsell." After the perpetrator left, the McCormicks went next door and saw Lindsley lying in a pool of blood on her porch and called the police. Stanford was indicted, pled innocent and was brought to trial; after two hours of jury deliberation, he was acquitted. Critics accused the police of botching the investigation and tainting evidence. In media In 1998 Bloody Sunset in St. Augustine, a work of fiction intermixed with facts from the case, was locally published by Jim Mast and Nancy Powell, friends of Lindsley. In 2000, the cable channel A&E aired an hour-long documentary on the case in its City Confidential series titled St. Augustine: The Socialite and the Politician. In April 2019 the case was covered on the popular online true crime show BuzzFeed Unsolved. Second attack On November 3, 1974, Lindsley's friend and neighbor Frances Bemis went out for her evening walk and never returned. Her body was found the next day in a vacant lot on the corner of Bridge and Marine streets with her skull crushed. Having been a professional newspaper writer, amongst other professions, she may have been gathering material for a book on Lindsley's murder; she had alluded to having certain information. Her murder, like Lindsley's, was never solved. See also List of unsolved murders References External links 1917 births 1974 deaths 1974 murders in the United States 20th-century American dancers 20th-century American women Activists from Ohio American female dancers American murder victims American political activists American political women American socialites American women television personalities Burials in Florida Dancers from Florida Deaths by blade weapons Female models from Ohio Female murder victims People from St. Augustine, Florida People from Toledo, Ohio People murdered in Florida Unsolved murders in the United States American expatriates in Cuba Television personalities from Florida