Goldie Thornsberry Part 2: Injustice

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🗓️ 14 October 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Last week, we shared the first installment of Goldie Thornsberry’s story. You learned that she disappeared from Fayetteville, Arkansas, in early 1996. Goldie was reported missing after her bank noticed strange activity on her checking account. When the investigation began, officers went to Goldie’s apartment and were greeted by one of her daughters, who said Goldie wasn’t home; she was traveling to visit family members. This story shifted with time about where exactly Goldie planned to go and whom she was traveling to visit. Investigators contacted relatives who said they hadn’t seen or heard from Goldie.

Goldie’s daughter and son-in-law were later charged with forgery after investigators determined they were using her checks. They became the main suspects in Goldie’s disappearance. Still, despite their best efforts, they couldn’t find Goldie or any hard evidence to prove what happened to her.

In 2010, there was a remarkable development in the case after one of Goldie’s former neighbors saw a news story about a Jane Doe who was found inside of a well in Little Rock in 2000 and thought it was Goldie. After a DNA comparison came back indicating it was, in fact, Goldie, they could finally move forward with the case. While there was a mountain of circumstantial evidence against Goldie's daughter and son-in-law, would it be enough for a conviction?

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0:00.0	Wayne, we finally had a funeral in a memorial for Nanny, I remember that day it was the first time I had seen Brittany's sisters since all this had happened and it was the first time I'd seen a lot of family.
0:28.0	I remember even though there was just this overwhelming sense of just sorrow and regret. I still had hope. I was like, okay, finally, I'm going to have my family back now.
0:40.5	This is going to fix something for a little bit. There was contact and I don't know if it was the outcome of the trial or how everybody felt after it. That fixing just never, it never came, at least not the way that I thought that it was going to happen.
0:58.8	I was in the courtroom and that's so sad that as the family member was a person that had been
1:05.2	harmed and killed and you could tell that he was going to get away with it and to hear her
1:10.4	talk it didn't make any sense.
1:18.0	Last week we shared the first installment of Goldie Thornsberry's story. He learned about how she disappeared from Fayetteville, Arkansas in early 1996.
1:23.0	Goldie was reported missing after her bank note of strange activity
1:26.2	on her checking account.
1:27.7	When the investigation began, officers went to Goldie's apartment
1:31.5	where they were greeted by one of her daughters who said Goldie wasn't home.
1:35.2	She was traveling to visit family members in other areas of the state.
1:39.4	Multiple relatives were contacted and they claimed that they hadn't seen or heard from Goldie.
1:44.6	Goldie's daughter and son-in-law were later charged with forgery after it was determined that
1:48.7	they were the ones using her checks.
1:51.0	They became the main suspects in Goldie's disappearance, but despite their best efforts,
1:55.6	investigators weren't able to find Goldie or any hard evidence to prove what happened to her.
2:00.4	In 2010, there was a remarkable development in the case. After one of Goldie's
2:05.6	former neighbors saw a news story about a Jane Doe who was found inside of a well in Little Rock in 2000.
2:11.6	He contacted police and after a DNA comparison came back
2:15.4	indicating that it was in fact Goldie they were finally able to move forward with the case and
2:20.6	while there was a mountain of circumstantial evidence against Rita and Raymond,
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