Real Estate Executive Found Dead Inside Lindsey Office Building

Amelia Eldridge, senior vice president and executive broker with Lindsey & Associates, was found dead Wednesday night inside the firm’s Fayetteville headquarters of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Eldridge, 62, was found by members of a cleaning crew inside a women’s restroom on the first floor.

John David Lindsey, principal broker of the firm, said he was called to the scene at 1200 E. Joyce Blvd. around 10:20 p.m. and gave the Fayetteville Police Department authority to search the premises and investigate without having to obtain a search warrant.

When asked if Eldridge’s death was the result of a suicide by gunshot, Lindsey said, “We think that’s the case.”

Eldridge had been with Lindsey for 31 years, and to John David Lindsey, was considered a “giant” in Northwest Arkansas real estate.

“It’s a tremendous loss for Lindsey and Associates,” he said. “She was not a good person, but a great person.”

The Fayetteville police received a call for a welfare check at the Lindsey office building at 9:40 p.m. Wednesday. Both the police and fire departments responded to the scene, according to public records. The police were told by a person who identified herself as the manager of a cleaning crew that crew members had discovered a body in the first-floor women’s bathroom.

The manager of the cleaning crew told police her employees were frightened by what they’d seen and had fled to the building’s fifth floor.

Mauro Campos, a battalion chief with the Fayetteville Fire Department, said his department is no longer involved with the case but that police are still investigating.

The Northwest Arkansas Board of Realtors issued a statement Thursday through its e-blast, NABORhood News.

“It is with a heavy heart that we share with you the passing of Amelia Eldridge last night,” the statement read. “Please keep her family in your thoughts and prayers.”

Funeral arrangements are still pending, according to the statement.