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The murder of Athalia Ponsell Lindsley is notorious more than four decades after it occurred. The one eyewitness said a person attacked Lindsley with a machete in broad sunlight at the front steps of her white mansion. Gossip swirled that neighbor Frances Bemis knew who killed Lindsley and would notify authorities. Bemis was once later murdered on her nightly walk. Police arrested just one suspect for Lindsley’s murder, which continues to be unsolved to at the present time. Writer Elizabeth Randall puts the rumors to rest via research culled from over one thousand pages of depositions, records, official county documentation and interviews.