Cheryl Denise Niecey Lucas, a 32-year-old African American woman, was murdered in mid-June 1995 in St. Augustine, Florida. Her body was found on Palmer Street with fatal blunt force injuries caused by a metal nail bar. She was one of several women in the area who had been killed during a string of violent attacks targeting sex workers.

The investigation eventually resulted in the arrest of William Darrell Bill Lindsey in April 1997 in Asheville, North Carolina. Lindsey confessed to multiple killings during interrogation and in May 1999 pleaded guilty to four counts of second-degree murder, including Lucas’s murder; he was sentenced to 30 years in prison. Lindsey died of cancer in 2001 while serving his sentence. Lucas was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in St. Augustine.

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