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