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William Darrell Lindsey
Arrested December 29, 1996 in Asheville, NC on suspicion of murder, Lindsey would eventually be connected to at least seven and maybe as many as twenty killings in four southern states. A native of St. Augustine, he stunned the community by confessing to the highly publicized murder of Anita McQuaig in 1988. Before the trial was over, St. Johns County would know that he had been stalking his victims in their midst for over a decade.
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| Lindsey grew up on this street | Lindsey's childhood home | Lindsey's last local address was | ||
| in north St. Augustine | along here in 1959 |
Lindsey was well acquainted with the dope dealers and prostitutes of Lincolnville and West Augustine, having developed a fondness for both recreational drugs and deviant sex over the years. Orphaned in infancy, Lindsey constantly received verbal abuse from his adoptive mother, creating a warped and violent psycho-sexual behavioural pattern that resulted in more than one failed marriage and an alter ego he called "Bad Bill". This sadistic personality most often emerged when confronted by women about his sexual inadequacies. Lindsey exhibited all the classic signs of a potential serial killer - animal torture, emotional detachment, substance abuse and unpredictable violent outbursts followed by apparently genuine remorse. Impotent unless enraged, his psychosis led him to commit six brutal murders in St. Augustine.
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| Crackhead Corner (the War Zone) | backside of Crackhead Corner | former PicnSave - prostitute hangout |
Lindsey selected three of his victims from "Crackhead Corner", at the intersection of Volusia and West King Streets. Connie Terrell and Lashawna Streeter were crack-addicted hookers who frequented the parking lot most nights looking for "dates". Donetha Haile was solicited as she walked along West King near the railroad tracks. Cheryl Lucas got in a car with Lindsey at the Pic n Save on the corner of Palmer Street and West King. On the east side of US 1, Lindsey found Anita McQuaig- desperate for a crack fix- at the corner of Riberia and King in Lincolnville. During an interrogation with the Saint Johns County Sheriff's Department, Lindsey indicated his first murder in St. Augustine was that of Lisa Foley, a regular at the Tradewinds Lounge on Charlotte Street. The bodies of two women he killed in the city have never been found. Once his arrest and trial became news, reports began to surface all over northeast Florida of encounters- close calls other women had experienced with Lindsey. Some were prostitutes, some were female convicts, some were just "party girls", caught up in the sordid drug culture of cocaine use. Violent and unpredictable, brutality and murder had become routine to Lindsey, yet ironically it was his mediocrity that made him invisible for so long.
