True Crime Stories

This is one of the most confusing cases that I have ever tried to research. In fact, I attempted to do it one other time but became overwhelmed and frustrated at all of the issues at hand. A social worker involved in the case was quoted as saying that this was one of the most dysfunctional family situations that she had ever dealt with. While I agree that the dysfunction was a huge issue in my research as it led from one strange fact to another, it was only part of the issues I had in keeping things straight. Around 1996 Angelina Young and Joshua Gouker had a son. He was also named Joshua but did not carry his fathers surname. He maintained his mother's maiden name. So father and son were both name Joshua but they had different last names. For purposes of this blog I will use the phrases “Big Josh” and “Little Josh” to try and lessen the confusion, if that is at all possible. About a year or so after Little Josh was born there was another boy born in the Lo...

I have several cases put together that I have already researched. I can research in the middle of doing other things but when it comes time to put it all together I need a quiet room and that is not always possible. The other issue with having several researched is that while they may have grabbed my interest when I researched them, when it came time to compose them they seemed less interesting or required more research and depending on how I am feeling, or the time available that sometimes does not happen. This is a case though that not only caught my interest in many ways and I have the time to put it together. I did not know going into this story that it would lead into another, even more interesting case. This case also reminded me why my husband has said on many occasions I could not be a defense attorney. I could defend a guilty person if it was on the merits of the law and the way an investigation was conducted, if in fact it was found to be against the right...