The Brief
- It’s been 23 years since Jean Ault’s murder in St. Petersburg.
- Her case has never been solved.
- Family members and detectives continue to urge anyone with information about the murder to come forward.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Jean Ault, a 74-year-old retiree with a love for travel, gardening, and volunteering, was packing her van for a camping trip in March 2002 – but she never made it there.
Her body was found days later, on March 23, 2002, in the quiet waters of Coquina Key Park – just miles from her home in Lakewood Estates. She had been bound and beaten.
Twenty-three years later, her killer has never been caught.
For her family, friends, and the St. Petersburg detectives still working the case, the pain and the questions have never gone away.…