ECSO finds body

Press Release: Investigators with the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office have identified the body of a local woman found in a wooded area near the intersection of Twin Oaks Drive and Prieto Drive in unincorporated Pensacola.

The body of Catherine Angelica Lindsey, 22, was discovered at around 2:25 p.m. this afternoon in the wooded area behind the Twin Oaks Villas Apartments.

“Lindsey had been reported missing on February 18,” said Sheriff’s spokesman Deputy Chris Welborn. “Investigators were searching the area for evidence in that missing person case when they discovered her body in a shallow grave.”

Investigators have classified Lindsey’s death as a homicide.

“Even though we are in the very early stages of a homicide investigation,” said Welborn. “We have developed a person of interest, and he has been brought in for questioning.”
The Sheriff’s Office would not release any further details concerning the investigation.

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