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VOL 19 No. 46
August 28, 2019
Officials lukewarm on new evidence BY CINDY LANE SUN STAFF WRITER | clane@amisun.com
JOE HENDRICKS | SUN
The new restaurant and bait shop buildings will be built on the T-end of the new City Pier. The new vertical beams shown here will serve as light poles for the pier.
Commission clarifies pier lease parameters Current tenant Mario Schoenfelder has until early September to decide if he wants to continue trying to negotiate a new long-term lease
There’s very little value moving new lease that would start in December 2020 if Mr. Schoenfelder’s not in
SUN CORRESPONDENT | jhendricks@amisun.com
INSIDE NEWS 3 POLITICAL CARTOON 6 ENTERTAINMENT 18 OUTDOORS 22-23 PET EVACUATION 25-26 REAL ESTATE 28-33 CLASSIFIEDS 37-39
SEE EVIDENCE, PAGE 35
forward with discussions on a
BY JOE HENDRICKS
ANNA MARIA – Mayor Dan Murphy and the City Commission have established which portions of the new Anna Maria City Pier will be leased to the current and/or future pier tenant. On Thursday, Aug. 22, the commission unanimously agreed the city will only lease the new restaurant and bait shop buildings to current pier tenant Mario Schoenfelder – or to a new tenant if a new long-term lease can’t be negotiated with Schoenfelder. The commission decided the pier’s T-end bath-
BRADENTON BEACH – Kelly Osborn’s claims that her daughter did not commit suicide and was murdered – possibly by her fiancé – are unlikely to be revisited, according to local officials. Osborn has released a report by her private investigative team, Pensacola-based Forensic Pieces, concluding that photos of Sheena Morris taken after her 2009 death in a hotel room indicate she was placed in a chair after she died, then hung in a shower from her dog’s leash in a staged suicide. Marks on her lower back match the pattern in a wicker chair visible in a photo of the hotel room taken after her death, according to investigator Jan Johnson, who said the marks were caused by lividity, a process in which blood pools in the body after the heart stops pumping at death. The 12th Judicial Circuit State Attorney’s Office forwarded the report to the Bradenton Beach Police Department (BBPD) and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) for review, Assistant State Attorney Art Brown said. “Any investigation that they do, we will review,” he said. “I didn’t see anything new,” said BBPD Det. Sgt. Len Diaz, who investigated the case in 2009, determining that Morris’ death was a suicide. “I agree with Dr. Vega,” the District 12 medical examiner, he said, adding that he does not plan to reinvestigate the case based on the photograph. “You can look at a picture like you look at a cloud and see a puppy,” he said. Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Russell Vega’s office is not reconsidering the case either, a spokeswoman said.
agreement with these two issues.” Dan Murphy, Anna Maria Mayor rooms and the T-end decking will be common area shared by the city and its tenant. A contracted property management company will maintain the new
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Marks on Sheena Morris’ lower back match the pattern in this wicker chair, visible in a photo of the hotel room taken after Morris’ death, one investigator says.
SEE LEASE, PAGE 13
BAKING IS a
THE CITY Pier will get $435,000 in
science; cooking is an art. Food & Wine. 24
tourist taxes for renovations. 3
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