"Straight Out of a Horror Movie": Gallery Owner Found Mutilated, Body Posed Like a Sculpture
Joyce Wishart, a 61-year-old gallery owner who had moved to Sarasota, Florida, after a divorce to fulfill her dream of opening an art gallery, was found brutally murdered and posed like a sculpture in her own Provenance Gallery on January 20, 2004. Her mutilated body was discovered by the condominium manager, with classical music playing, her body staged with a severed neck and missing genital area, and her hands gesturing toward a painting and an open magazine article titled "A Fine Madness." Detectives found blood fingerprints on artwork and evidence of cleanup, but the killer, described as a tall white man with sandy hair seen riding a bicycle in the area, was never identified.