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Murder in St. Augustine
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Miami's Criminal Past
Miami's Criminal Past
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Central Florida's Most Notorious Gangsters
Central Florida's Most Notorious Gangsters
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Murder in St. Augustine

9781467118811

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More than four decades after it occurred, the murder of Athalia Ponsell Lindsley remains notorious… and unsolved.


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. Author Elizabeth Randall puts the rumors to rest through research culled from over one thousand pages of depositions, records, official county documentation and interviews.

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Miami's Criminal Past

9781596293885

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From Scarface to Miami Vice, Hollywood has created indelible images of Miami's criminal underworld. Yet beyond the lurid depictions exists a fascinating history of dramatic true-life crimes--tales of vigilante justice, family tragedies, politically motivated homicides and rampageous cross-country killers. And of course, the inevitable stories of celebrities behaving badly--as when Jim Morrison allegedly exposed himself during a 1969 Doors concert--along with accounts of celebrity murders, such as the shocking 1997 slaying of fashion designer Gianni Versace.
Edgy and compulsively readable, Miami's Criminal Past presents the dark acts that have marred Florida's most alluring metropolis.
Miami's Criminal Past

Central Florida's Most Notorious Gangsters

9781596294141

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Blazing gun battles, bank heists and high-speed escapes: this is the story of Alva Hunt and Hugh Gant--central Florida's own Dillinger and Capone.

Alva Hunt and Hugh Gant began their infamous "careers" fencing automobile parts as the Florida land boom became a bust. After doing hard time in state jails, they emerged as bank robbers and embarked on a crime spree across the Deep South. In the end they were captured and served time in Leavenworth, Alcatraz and other penitentiaries. Their reign was one of terror for Florida and many Southern states. Their story reflects an intriguing period in Florida's own history--the Depression era and the desperate days when Southern gangsters were armed, notorious and deadly.

Central Florida's Most Notorious Gangsters