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The Case of Belynda Goff
📻 Episode #488
🎙️ Hosted by Maggie Freleng
📅 Oct 28, 2024
About This Episode
On the morning of June 12, 1994, Belynda Goff woke up to find her husband Stephen bludgeoned to death in their Green Forest, AR, apartment. From the jump, investigators pegged Belynda’s reaction to the tragedy as suspicious. That initial hunch would set the course of the investigation and subsequent prosecution, leading law enforcement to ignore…
The Case
On the morning of June 12, 1994, Belynda Goff woke up to find her husband Stephen bludgeoned to death in their Green Forest, AR, apartment. From the jump, investigators pegged Belynda’s reaction to the tragedy as suspicious. That initial hunch would set the course of the investigation and subsequent prosecution, leading law enforcement to ignore far more plausible leads and key witnesses, and imprison Belynda for 23 years.
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00:05:15“Speaker 2: at that But I look back at them and I think, Speaker 2: how fun that was, How fun that was to just Speaker 2: live and be with family, and not a lot of Speaker 2: people get to know their great grandfather, you know, or grandmother.”
00:20:43“Speaker 2: to the police station, questioning and all those things, and Speaker 2: it just, you know, it became really clear, you know, Speaker 2: because they were just relentless, relentless, and I just confess, Speaker 2: you confess, And they weren't looking were facts and then Speaker 2: building a case. They were trying to find anything they”
00:36:44“Speaker 1: at her trial, the outcome may have been different. Speaker 5: Like there was clear evidence of the motive and third Speaker 5: party culpability that wasn't presented. Speaker 1: Jane and her team also did several rounds of DNA testing. Speaker 5: Unfortunately, a lot of the evidence that was, you know,”
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