Breaking: Michelle O’Connell exhumed

Breaking: Michelle O’Connell exhumed

MICHELLE O'CONNELL
MICHELLE O’CONNELL

On yesterday at about 10:30 a.m., the backhoe at San Lorenzo Cemetery in St Augustine was not busy digging a new grave. Instead, it returned to a grave dug five years ago for the remains of 24-year-old Michelle O’Connell who died by gunshot inside the home of her boyfriend, St Johns County Sheriff’s deputy Jeremy Banks.

Sexual battery victims can no longer be shamed into silence

Sexual battery victims can no longer be shamed into silence

KATELYNN QUARRELS
KATELYNN QUARRELS
Katelynn Quarrels is made of some tough wood. She came to the office of Historic City News twice last year and interviewed with our editor, Michael Gold about one of the most tragic events to happen to her in her young life. She says she was raped twice – once by the boyfriend of her female roommate, then by the St Augustine Police Department and St Johns County State Attorney’s office.