Unsolved Murder Mayor Harry Higel from pistol whipping on Siesta Key Jan 7th 1921 Basis for a Movie
UPDATED Jan 7th, 2023: Most historians in the Sarasota area got the timeline and information about the murder of former mayor Harry Higel all wrong and went ahead and published the wrong day Jan 6th and the wrong location where he was actually found in articles and even in books. The day he was murdered there was a special edition published by the Tampa Daily Times with the date, Friday Jan 7th 1921, and the time he was found, 8:30 am, and the location where he was found at the turn in the road from Siesta Dr onto Higel Ave. Anybody who lives in the Sarasota area knows this curve with the big yellow signs telling you to slow down to 20 mph, well that is where Harry Higel was murdered. His house at the far north end of Higel Ave was only a couple hundred yards form the murder scene, I know this for a fact as I walked it! According to a Tampa Times news article of Jan 11, 1921, a chart with information on the murder of Harry Higel was published on Page 1. The Tampa Times reported that...