24-09-2022, 01:22 PM
Andrea Blanco
Sat, 24 September 2022 at 6:56 am
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After his murder, she knew she needed to bury him the way she’d brought him into this world: whole.
But it wasn’t so simple. Butler County Sheriff’s Office found just 40 per cent of 32-year-old Edward Goodwin’s remains in a pond in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, in 2017 — two years after he was killed and his body was wrapped with barbed wire and concrete blocks to ensure it would sink.
Forty per cent was not enough for Ms Goodwin, but it was enough to make a case against his killers. The sheriff’s office moved on with the investigation, promising Ms Goodwin, her husband Ed and Edward’s son Gage, who was 15 at the time, that they’d return to retrieve the rest of the body eventually
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The two men who took her son’s life were arrested, prosecuted and convicted, and yet, 60 per cent of Edward remained on the bottom of that partially drained pond.
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On 17 September, Ms Goodwin, her husband and her grandson went to the pond off County Road 572 with pump equipment they had rented the day before.
“We were there at 8am, hooked the pump up by 8.30am and by 10.30am we were seeing my son’s bones sticking up in the water. We kept pumping and then saw the cinder blocks and bobwire,” she said.
Ms Goodwin then called Butler County Coroner Jim Akers, who hurried to the scene and got into the mud to help Gage retrieve the bones. It only took five hours to find the rest, she said.
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On Friday, Ms Goodwin received the totality of Edward’s remains from the funeral home.
Although she’s not ready to bury her son just yet, Ms Goodwin said, she is relieved she can offer closure to her husband and grandson.
Better to read full report at: https://sg.news.yahoo.com/investigators-...16908.html
Sat, 24 September 2022 at 6:56 am
......
After his murder, she knew she needed to bury him the way she’d brought him into this world: whole.
But it wasn’t so simple. Butler County Sheriff’s Office found just 40 per cent of 32-year-old Edward Goodwin’s remains in a pond in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, in 2017 — two years after he was killed and his body was wrapped with barbed wire and concrete blocks to ensure it would sink.
Forty per cent was not enough for Ms Goodwin, but it was enough to make a case against his killers. The sheriff’s office moved on with the investigation, promising Ms Goodwin, her husband Ed and Edward’s son Gage, who was 15 at the time, that they’d return to retrieve the rest of the body eventually
......
The two men who took her son’s life were arrested, prosecuted and convicted, and yet, 60 per cent of Edward remained on the bottom of that partially drained pond.
......
On 17 September, Ms Goodwin, her husband and her grandson went to the pond off County Road 572 with pump equipment they had rented the day before.
“We were there at 8am, hooked the pump up by 8.30am and by 10.30am we were seeing my son’s bones sticking up in the water. We kept pumping and then saw the cinder blocks and bobwire,” she said.
Ms Goodwin then called Butler County Coroner Jim Akers, who hurried to the scene and got into the mud to help Gage retrieve the bones. It only took five hours to find the rest, she said.
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On Friday, Ms Goodwin received the totality of Edward’s remains from the funeral home.
Although she’s not ready to bury her son just yet, Ms Goodwin said, she is relieved she can offer closure to her husband and grandson.
Better to read full report at: https://sg.news.yahoo.com/investigators-...16908.html