| In 1974, the innocence of the town where I grew up
was desecrated by unanswered cries for help from Athalia Ponsell Lindsley;
cut down and murdered on the front steps of her Marine Street home. |
| I was a young man then, pursuing a college degree
in Criminal Justice and working as a deputy sheriff for a a man about to
spend the next year of his life in the unsuccessful pursuit of the only
person to be prosecuted for this horrific crime. |
| This project is for Athalia. It is about her
murder, the people, the places, the statements, and the evidence used at
trial against Alan Stanford, who was acquitted. |
| This project plays an essential conservator’s role
for the preservation, cataloging and archiving of these legal artifacts
in order that they may be used as the basis for academic and scholarly
research and discussion in the future. |
| I am no longer the young man I was in this photograph,
but, in my own way, I feel the need to offer Athalia something now that
we couldn’t offer her then. |
Michael
Gold, Editor
Identity Clues Project |
