October 17, 2019 • 48 mins
Episode 27 - Maranda Goldman
**I accidentally said Episode 28, but its episode 27.**
A Pine Bluff cold case that many feel could have been solved by now. A beautiful 23 year old goes missing when her new “friends” think she is a snitch.
Details surrounding her death are allegedly what happened according to individuals who were involved or spoke with someone involved.
Maranda Goldman Facebook Page:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1652817838336154/
Sources:
Family members
Friends
Recordings
https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/white-hall-jefferson-county-910/
https://www.projectcoldcase.org/cold-case-homicide-stats/
https://www.fox16.com/news/unsolved-homicide-investigation-family-believes-police-cut-corners/
https://www.pbcommercial.com/news/20180806/pb8217s-unsolved-murders-hot-topic-at-monday8217s-council-meeting
https://www.jeffcoso.org/narcotics
justice.gov/archive/ndic/pubs6/6184/overview.htm
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/state_profile-arkansas.pdf
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/pine-bluff-on-patrol-in-the-most-dangerous-little-town-in-america-8498769.html
News Clips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlKuplMxmJM&t=7s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbF1-g7rOek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1yXtUKjdko&t=165s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6FPeracx-s
That Dead Body Show
https://www.spreaker.com/show/that-dead-body-show-true-crime-podcast
The Perfect Package
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-perfect-package-podcast/id1479342160
Active Shooter the Podcast
https://www.spreaker.com/show/active-shooter-the-podcast_1
Strictly Homicide is Researched, Written, Hosted and edited by Nicki T
**I accidentally said Episode 28, but its episode 27.**
A Pine Bluff cold case that many feel could have been solved by now. A beautiful 23 year old goes missing when her new “friends” think she is a snitch.
Details surrounding her death are allegedly what happened according to individuals who were involved or spoke with someone involved.
Maranda Goldman Facebook Page:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1652817838336154/
Sources:
Family members
Friends
Recordings
https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/white-hall-jefferson-county-910/
https://www.projectcoldcase.org/cold-case-homicide-stats/
https://www.fox16.com/news/unsolved-homicide-investigation-family-believes-police-cut-corners/
https://www.pbcommercial.com/news/20180806/pb8217s-unsolved-murders-hot-topic-at-monday8217s-council-meeting
https://www.jeffcoso.org/narcotics
justice.gov/archive/ndic/pubs6/6184/overview.htm
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/state_profile-arkansas.pdf
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/pine-bluff-on-patrol-in-the-most-dangerous-little-town-in-america-8498769.html
News Clips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlKuplMxmJM&t=7s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbF1-g7rOek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1yXtUKjdko&t=165s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6FPeracx-s
That Dead Body Show
https://www.spreaker.com/show/that-dead-body-show-true-crime-podcast
The Perfect Package
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-perfect-package-podcast/id1479342160
Active Shooter the Podcast
https://www.spreaker.com/show/active-shooter-the-podcast_1
Strictly Homicide is Researched, Written, Hosted and edited by Nicki T
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One piece of smart technology could helpsolve a murder mystery in Arkansas. Two
Pine Bluff teens are in jail tonightfacing murder charges. Police say they are
in custody in connection to the shootingdepth of two seventeen year olds. It's
a bizarre story in Russellville, Arkansas. Today, a man who reportedly quit
his job over low pay went ona shooting spree with two handguns. Tributes
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are pouring in for Anne Presley,the Little Rock TV anchorwoman died over the
weekend. A suspect in a deadlyfable shooting on New Year's Day in court
this morning. A Little Rock motheris pleading for help. Tonight, she
is asking anyone thanks for listening thisStrictly Homicide and Arkansas True crime podcast covering
lesser known cases out of the naturalState. I'd like to start off by
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Please stay tuned until the end ofthe show to hear a few promos
from some of my favorite shows.Warning, Strictly Homicide covers cases that include
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sexual assault, violence, and homicide. Episodes may contain explicit language and are
not suitable for young ears. Listenerdiscretion is advised. Thank you for downloading
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episode twenty eight of Strictly Homicide podcasts. I've been very lucky to have many
of the friends and family of MirandaGoldman share their memories with me. I
loved hearing the memories of how wonderfulof a person this young woman was,
how many lives she touched, andhow much she cared. But at the
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same time, I had to seehow hurt this family is. I have
no idea what it's like to havesuch a special person taken from me.
Imagine that not only was this persontaken from you, but the killers got
away with it. Law enforcement turnedto their noses to the family members,
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laying out everything from what happened toMiranda to those who did it. Often,
victims that fall within a specific demographicare pushed aside forgetting that those individuals
are humans too. Before I getinto this episode, I want to express
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how thankful I am for the friendsand family of Miranda. Without them,
this episode would not be possible.I've spent hours and hours looking into the
case with what very little information thereis, and I've spent a lot of
time getting to know these people.A lot of them also took a lot
of time out of their personal livesto help me, and I just want
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them to know how thankful I am. Every minute that I put into this
case has been completely worth it.I haven't even begun to understand just how
special Miranda was. Originally, Iwas told about this case by charity Albright
Small Charity was the case that Icovered in episode eight, a case that's
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always going to be special to me. Then I was contacted by Johnny Marie
and I was drawn to the caseimmediately as soon as I started looking into
it. After a post in theMiranda Goldman Facebook group, the responses I
was receiving from people who knew herwas overwhelming. I'll share links in the
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show notes and on social media.Not one person has had a negative thing
to say about her. I owean extra thank you to Aunt kat I
hope it's okay that I called youthat. Thank you so much for talking
to me about this case and tellingme about your niece. I also want
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to thank Sandy. I know it'sreally hard to talk about this and I
can't even begin to imagine, butthank you for all the information you gave
me. I also want to saythank you to her cousins and childhood friends
Peather, Taylor, Casey, andThomas. Especially you, Taylor. You've
taken a lot of time out toget information for me and I really couldn't
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do this without your information. Ialso want to give a really big shout
out to another Arkansas centered podcast,Murders, Missing and the Misconduct, a
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true crime podcast from the Natural State. Their format is a little bit different
than mine because there's two hosts andthey have the greatest chemistry, but they're
hilarious. They also cover lesser knowncases out of Arkansas, just like I
do. I got to meet oneof the hosts yesterday, Mel and she
is so sweet and very funny.I'm very glad I got to meet her,
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and eventually we're going to team upand tackle a case together. Make
sure it also stay tuned at theinto the show to listen to the promos
from a couple of my favorite shows. Two of them are new shows.
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The location of the crime is technicallyunknown. We know factually that she was
taken from a location in Pine Bluffand that her body was found in a
location in Pine Bluff, but thecrime did not occur where her body was
found. Her remains were later dumpedthere. The victim grew up in Whitehall,
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Arkansas, which is located in JeffersonCounty, with the population of five
thousand, five hundred and twenty six. During the nineteenth century, settlers were
drawn to the area because of thepristine drinking water that flowed freely above the
in ground pools. They called thearea Grinshaw or grinshaw Halls Springs. A
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preacher with the last name of Hallfound the springs and built a church,
which later led to the name Whitehall. In nineteen thirteen, an act passed
increasing taxes for construction of Arkansas's firstconcrete paved road. Dollarway Road was a
twenty two point two mile long roadthat connected Pine Bluff city limits to Little
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Rock. Now it's known as ArkansasHighway three sixty five and it goes right
through Whitehall. The Bellingrath House wasbuilt between nineteen thirty four to nineteen thirty
five, which is listed on theNational Register of Historic Properties. It's hidden
away in a wooded area behind aman made pond that is shaped like the
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United States of America. I questionedthat I don't know why I did,
but I did so. I wenton Google Earth and yes, it is
shaped like the United States of America. During World War Two, on December
fourth, nineteen forty one, theUS Army Chemical Warfare Division began construction of
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the Pine Bluff Arsenal. This causeda rapid growth of Whitehall. Pine Bluff
Arsenal is one in nine Army facilitiesthat stored chemical weapons. At least seven
different biological agents were produced there beforeNixon banned biological weapons between the years of
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nineteen seventy one. In nineteen seventythree, all of the biological agents were
destroyed. About seven miles southeast ofWhitehall is Pine Bluff, which is one
of the most dangerous cities in theUS. The murder rate is fifty one
point one per one hundred thousand people, while the national murder rate is only
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five point three per one hundred thousandpeople. In two thousand and seventeen,
the crime rate in Pine Bluff wasthree times higher than the US average.
In twenty thirteen, pine Bluff wasthe second most dangerous city in the US,
only behind Detroit. Recently, thecity was Arkansas's third most dangerous city,
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and Forbes named it the seventh mostdangerous city for women. The population
of Pine Bluff has decreased by almostfifteen thousand people since nineteen ninety. Pine
Bluff is not only dangerous for theresidents, but the police too. Is
this why so many murders go unsolved? David as Born, a journalist,
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patrolled with the local police department andwrote an article. The police chief at
the time, Jeff Hubank, toldhim that all of the usual dynamics are
at play. Poverty, a belowpart education system, and drugs. He
said, kids are graduating high schoolwho cannot write a proper sentence or fill
out a job application, so theycan't get a job. Most most of
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them turned to drugs. In twentytwelve, drugs accounted for almost all of
the murders. Ubanks said, thereality is the little old lady with the
kitten in her lap is perfectly safein this town. But if you're slinging
dope on the east Side, youare looking to pay with your life.
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The area of pine Bluff, Whitehall, Redfield, and other little cities around
there have a really bad problem withmeth heroin and prescription pills. The amount
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of unsolved murders are so high thatthe police department recently offered ten thousand dollars
reward for any information on any ofthe unsolved murders that's happened in the city.
They're really trying to encourage the residenceor anyone that knows anything to call
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in and let them know. There'sway too many unsolved murders there. Clia
Schindra Hall, and I might besaying that wrong, but I think she
actually went by. Clia was abeautiful eighteen year old high school senior,
an honor student, and chosen togive the commencement speech at her graduation.
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She was only two weeks away fromgraduating. She had been accepted into the
pre med program at Tennessee State Universityand was looking forward to attending. After
school, she would go to workpart time for doctor Larry Amos. On
May ninth, nineteen ninety four,around eight pm, she called her parents
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and said that she'd be working lateand she'll call her mom when she's ready
to be picked up. She nevercalled her mom back that night and doctor
Larry Amos, claimed that she gotinto a car with an unknown individual.
The police said the doctor was aperson of interest. They searched his property
but found nothing. The case hasnever been solved. On February eighteen,
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thirty year old Willie Baines was sittingin the passenger seat of his friend's car
when over thirty rounds were fired intothe car. The driver walked away with
no injuries, but Willie was hitonly once in the back of the head
and at close range. The policesay they questioned the driver, but they
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let him go. The police didn'tput much effort into investigating this murder because
Willie had a criminal pass at thetime of his murder, though he was
cleaning up his life for his kids. This case still remains unsolved. On
September twenty third, twenty fifteen,Keith Wilbert Junior was shot to death during
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a home invasion. His four roommateswere left unharmed. The case remains unsolved
as well. Wilbert's father was quotedsaying there are no witnesses, no arrests,
and this is unacceptable. Fifteen dayslater, on October eighth, twenty
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fifteen, this episode's victim twenty threeyear old Miranda Goldman goes missing from the
Goodwill parking lot in Pine Bluff.An anonymous caller would call it the location
of her body a month later.There are people out there with information,
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people who witnessed the murder, andpeople who helped, but yet nothing has
been done for those who witnessed itand have information. You have helped the
murderers get away with this, allowingthem to be free, free to hurt,
and free to kill again. Youare also responsible for the pain that
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those who loved Miranda deal with everysecond, every day. If you would
do what's right, they would beable to find closure. If anyone has
information on Miranda's murder or any unsolvedcrimes in the Pine Bluff area, please
contact the Detective Division at seven threezero two zero nine zero. Don't forget
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that you can remain anonymous. Drugshave a major role in this episode's case.
A beautiful young woman loved by nearlyevery single soul that has met her,
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was introduced into the wrong crowd,a crowd of people involved in the
Arian Brotherhood, illegal prescription drugs,meth heroin, drug dealing, raping females,
and murder. Miranda Goldman was bornJuly twenty ninth, nineteen ninety one,
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in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, toher mother's Sandy and dad's Scott.
Miranda was close to her father inearlier years. He coached her softball league
and she loved to go hunting andfishing with him. She was never a
girly girl and absolutely loved everything outdoors. When her parents divorced, it was
very hard on Miranda. Eventually,her dad would remarry and sadly fall into
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drug use. He stopped paying child'ssupport and visiting, which affected Miranda pretty
bad. Growing up in Whitehall,she grew very close to her mother's side
of the family. She would visither grandmother in the nursing home with her
mom and either help the ladies whowork there or entertain the nursing home residence
by giving them their very own concertin the dining room. Her Aunt Cat
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was very close to Miranda. Shesaid anytime that she would give Miranda something,
she would keep it, no matterwhat it was, She put it
in this little keepsake box. Anytimethat Miranda would visit her, she would
ask Aunt Cat what she can doto help her around the house, even
if it was cleaning gutters. Thisfamily was so close that Miranda's first cousin,
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Heather, referred to her as herbest friend. Many people called her
that she was the type of personthat everyone needs in their life, and
if you have someone like that,you know just how lucky you are.
She was your typical teenage girl.She loved her friends and hated school.
She was never a morning person,even requiring her friends to come wake her
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up for schools on some days.She had a really great sense of humor,
and it was rare to not seeher smiling or hear her laughing.
Entering her teenage years, she threwa redneck birthday party for her thirteenth birthday,
which included mud wrestling and lawnmower racing. The next time someone throws one
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of these, could you please sendme an invite? This sounds like a
ton of fun. Miranda loved havingfun. She loved writing four wheelers with
her cousin, and would often getin trouble for staying out too late.
Not because they were getting into trouble, but because they were having so much
fun that they lost track of time. Growing up, you would usually find
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Miranda outdoors with friends, enjoying life. The lake was one of their favorite
spots. She had some serious tubingskills and was always hand. She was
just a very happy person with ahuge heart and a thirst for life.
Something everyone has said about her isthat no matter what, if you needed
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her, she was only a callaway. She would literally give someone the
shirt off her back. Miranda andher younger sister were very close from the
beginning. The murder of Miranda hasbeen so hard on her that she to
this day still has a really hardtime talking about it. No one in
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this family has been able to getclosure. Can you imagine what that would
do to a person, day afterday after day. One of Ashton's childhood
friends told me that Miranda made ahuge impact on her life, and she
isn't sure that Miranda even knew that. She moved to Whitehall, next door
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to Miranda's family in two thousand andShe said that even though her and Ashton
were younger, Miranda was never meanto the girls, as annoying as they
were. Those were her words,not mine. She remembers the last time
that she saw Miranda, she wasworking at wingstop and Casey was crying over
relationship problems. Miranda said let's gofor a ride, drove her around and
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comforted her and telling her that shewas too good for all of that nonsense.
She said that she'll never forget hersmile, and when you see a
picture of this beautiful girl, youwill understand what she means. She had
a smile that was unforgettable. Describedby everyone nearly the same way. Her
smile was actually the first thing thatstuck out to me. She was an
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animal lover. Her aunt shared afew pictures on my Facebook page of her
and a deer. She bottle fedthat deer. She was such a caring
individual with a heart of gold.Miranda was tiny but had a huge personality.
She only stood about five feet talland hardly weighed a hund her pounds.
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She was a natural beauty, andeveryone also mentioned her thick, curly,
beautiful hair hair any female would envy. It was pretty rare to see
Miranda without her tan. She lovedlaying out in the sun. Her cousin
remembers them oiling down with afrochen beforelaying out forever. I'm not gonna lie.
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I did have to look up whatafro shechen was. It brought up
a whole line of stuff but I'massuming that it's like baby oil or tanning
oil. She always dressed nice andhad a thing for name brand jean and
named brand shoes. Anything else shedidn't really care about, but her jeans
and her shoes had to be namedbrand, you know, kind of like
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a typical teenager. She had ahuge range of musical favorites and loved blasting
music while she would get ready onthe weekends giving anyone home, her friends
or family a free concert, justlike she used to do with the nursing
home residence. These concerts would rangeanywhere from Lil Wayne to Dolly Parton.
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Her normal diet consisted of McDonald's chickensandwiches and ramen noodles. This must be
one of those random facts about someonethat everyone knows and will never forget,
because I was actually told this bymany people. Her mother, Sandy,
always brought her a Mick chicken sandwichand a pack of cigarettes no matter where
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she was. Another food favorite ofhers, and this is pretty unforgettable,
was a piece of bread and ketchup. Nothing else like a hot dog with
ketchup Jess minus the dog. That'show her cousin described it. I'm sure
that that had to do with herlove of dogs, right. Miranda really
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just didn't care what anyone thought abouther unless someone was messing with a loved
one. She was one of themost loyal friends someone could ask for and
would stand up for her friends nomatter what. And two whoever. I
know at this point you may thinkI'm trying hard to make her sound perfect,
but I'm not. I've never seenso many people have nothing but great
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things to say about someone about howcaring and loving and loyal she was.
She wasn't perfect, though, shedid have her flaws, just like every
single human being. Most guys wantedto date Miranda, and most girls wanted
to be her, but she neverlet that get to her head. No
matter how jealous and caddy female wereto her, she would just blow it
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off with a positive attitude. Becauseof this, she did have more guy
friends than girls, but the girlfriendsshe did have were relationships she held dear
to her heart. For always beingsuch a great friend to everyone, Miranda
would become involved with the worst kindof people, people who would use the
fact that she was such a caringand loving person against her to drag her
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through hell and back just so theycan benefit themselves in some sick, perverted
way. Before Miranda was introduced intoa group of people who would later be
involved in her death, she neverexperimented with heavy drugs. She was a
chill, mellow girl. She preferredweed over alcohol because we'd mellows you and
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makes you giggly. Alcohol and herdid not mix well. She wasn't really
a nice drunk. This might bethe only time people would see her get
a little hateful, so she justdecided to drink hardly at all and just
preferred the mellow high. Some ofher friends were getting into heavier drugs and
hanging around individuals involved with meth,prescription pills, criminal activity. In the
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Arian brotherhood. Miranda was introduced tooxycodone, an opiate type pain reliever,
and zanex a benzo diazepine, alsoknown as downers. With Miranda's addictive personality.
Not long after she started using,the addiction would grow. By twenty
fourteen, Miranda was spending so muchmoney on the pill addiction that she was
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having problems getting her fix. Mirandadidn't see many of her old friends anymore.
She spent her days at drug houseswith heavy drug dealers and users,
often doing whatever she could to gether high. Her addictions switched to much
heavier drugs that she would eventually beginshooting up. Many of her older friends,
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who hadn't seen her in a while, said that they knew she was
doing really bad, basically hitting rockbottom by twenty fifteen. In twenty seventeen,
nineteen point seven million Americans over theage of twelve struggled from a substance
abuse disorder. Eight point five ofthose Americans also suffered from a mental health
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disorder. Many people are just tryingto self medicate, not realizing that drugs
are only making the disorders worse.Drug abuse and addiction cost our society more
than seven hundred and forty billion dollarsannually. The statistics only get more heartbreaking
when you break it down by specificage groups. One in every twenty five
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teens from ages twelve to seventeen sufferfrom a substance abuse problem, and one
in every seven Americans between the agesof eighteen and twenty five suffer from substance
abuse, with heroin use doubling forthis group in the past decade. Attics
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start switching up to cheaper highs,not realizing how deadly it can be not
just the drug itself, but thelifestyle too. If you or someone that
you love is battling an addiction,please call the American Addiction Centers at one
eight to eight eight five, onefive, three three nine. Miranda's addiction
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got worse and the individuals that shesurrounded herself with were aiding to it.
Her mother attempted to send her torehab, which was the first step taken
to change her life. But iffighting the illness were that easy, the
problem wouldn't be as big as itis today. Miranda fell back into that
lifestyle. I'll be changing the namesof those that are known to be involved
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in Miranda's murder. There are aboutsix individuals their names and the information has
been reported to the Pine Bluff Policedetectives. They may or may not have
questioned some of them. No oneknows for sure, because the detectives have
just pushed this case aside. Iassume they do not think that her death
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is important because she lived a lessthan perfect lifestyle. But while Miranda was
taken from this earth too soon,those who got her involved in this lifestyle
are still roaming free, free tohurt more people. Please take a moment
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right now to hear a few wordsfrom today's sponsors. The names of those
allegedly involved in Miranda's death have beenchanged. Jason Hogan lives in a Field,
Arkansas, about fifteen miles north ofWhitehall. He's known by his middle
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name Micah, and he's also aknown meth dealer. He's been convicted of
possession with purpose to deliver a controlledsubstance meth, cocaine and heroin, possession
of drug paraphernilia, manufacturing a controlledsubstance, second degree battery, burglary,
aggravated assault, carrying a weapon,and the list goes on and on,
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but you get the idea. Anyonewho knows Mica, if you ask them
about him, the first thing theysay is that he's a monster and to
stay away from him. Women havesaid that they woke up in his home
handcuffed with an IV after being druggedand not knowing what happened. It's clear
that they're either being raped by himor he's holding some kind of local sex
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trafficking. Miranda witnessed some pretty bigdrug deals when she hung around these people.
So when one of the females decidedthat she didn't like Miranda anymore,
she thought telling others that she wasa snitch would be a good idea.
Amy Grover West met Miranda through thiscrowd. Amy had dated some of the
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guys involved in this group, includingone that had known Miranda for a really
long time. Amy's boyfriend spoke ofMiranda like his best friend and would do
almost anything for her. Amy didn'tlike that. While she was controlling and
jealous, she would take off sometimesfor days and weeks and Jason would not
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know where she was. Miranda wasn'taware that Amy felt this way about her.
They hung out sometimes. One day, Amy, Miranda, and another
female friend from the group, Aliceand Wheaton, were traveling in a car
together. The three of them werein possession of drugs and needles. Miranda
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had a needle on her and theother two had drugs. The three of
them were pulled over by police,so when they asked them if they were
in possession of anything, Miranda fessedup. They took all three of the
girls in and at the police department. The police tried to convince Miranda into
becoming their informant. She told themthat she wanted to think about it.
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After Miranda was released, she toldher mom what they asked her to do.
She said that she did not wantto work with the police and that
she was scared for her life.She told her mom and these people were
crazy and she's afraid that they mightkill her if she did. A few
weeks later, Miranda was staying ata friend's house, which was a known
drug house in the area. Miranda'smom noticed that the driveway was empty,
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which was rare, but she pulledin to drop off a Mick chicken sandwich
and pack of cigarettes. Miranda wasjust stepping outside of the house to walk
to her mom's car when a bunchof unmarked vehicles swarmed the place. A
cock came to the window of Sandy'scar and she explained that her daughter was
staying there and she was just bringingher lunch. The police ended up arresting
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the owner of the house and hisgirlfriend, the people they were looking for.
But during this time, Amy droveby and saw what was going down.
She began yelling snitch at Miranda.There was also multiple Facebook messages like
saying snitches get stitches. This wasenough for Miranda. She was now unfair
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of her own life. Knowing whattype of person Amy and these other people
are knowing the things that they do. She saw it with her own two
eyes. That was the moment thatshe decided to move back to her mom's
house and clean up her life.It wasn't going to be easy, it
never is, but she knew shehad to. She told her mom that
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she was in fear of her life, not because of the drugs, but
because of Amy. A few daysbefore October eighth, twenty fifteen, Jason,
Amy's ex boyfriend, received a callfrom Miranda. She was scared and
out of breath. Jason kept askingher where she was and what was going
on, but all she told himwas that she was at MICA's house and
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she had to run away from him. She said she was in the woods
hiding from him. He tried toget more information so he can pick her
up, but she never told himexactly where she was. A few days
later, on October eighth, twentyfifteen, which was only two weeks after
moving back into her mom's house,Miranda asked Sandy if she would take her
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to the good Will to pick upa few things. Sandy normally went everywhere
with her because they only had onecar, but she wasn't feeling well.
On this day, so Miranda wentalone. She went into the good Will,
grabbed a pair of jeans and abelt, and hold her mom and
told her that she saw they werehiring, so she wanted to go to
her friend's house after she checked outso she can clean up, return and
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fill out an application. Getting herlife back on track would be much easier
if she was able to get ajob. Miranda went to check out and
the clerk said that she was onthe phone and she heard her say,
Okay, I'll be right there.I'm about to check out, and then
I'm walking out the door. Mirandawas not on the phone with her mom
at this time. No one knowswho she was talking to, but it's
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pretty clear it was whoever took her. Miranda's mom waited for her to come
home. She started calling her throughoutthe night worried, but it was like
she turned her phone off. Thiswas not like Miranda. No matter what
she was doing, she always checkedin with her mom, knowing that her
mom always worried when she didn't return. The next day, Sandy and Ashton
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drove to the Goodwill only to findthat the car was still sitting in the
parking lot. First they told hermother. Because she is over eighteen and
known to be involved with drugs,she could have easily left on her own,
so they couldn't start a report forseventy two hours. There were no
signs of a struggle when Miranda Goldman'scar was found at the Goodwill in Pine
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Bluff, where she was due fora job interview that October afternoon. Miranda
had come face to face with herdemons and was on the street and narrow.
The job was just one way shewas working to turn her life around.
She had gotten with people in theirown group, and someone thought that
she was a snitch, and butfinally she came home, the same people
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that influenced her drug habit then consideredher a threat. Sandy Goldman says,
if she would have known just howscared her daughter Miranda was when she came
to and ultimately disappeared from this Goodwillthat day, she never would have let
her come alone. The search forMiranda continued until November, when an anonymous
caller supposedly from Malvern, Arkansas,called in a tip that Miranda's body was
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located in a wooded area three milesfrom the goodwill. The police went and
searched the area, where they locateda badly decomposed body in what the detectives
referred to as a dumping ground.The remains were sent to the crime lab
to identify the victim because the bodywas so badly decomposed. Remember Miranda's thick,
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curly hair. You would think thatthis would be pretty easy to identify
her with, but it was gone. She had some jewelry near her and
a cell phone. Her mother immediatelyrecognized it, and this was when Sandy
knew. Police tell me they believethat Miranda Goldman's body was found in these
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woods here, just north of thirtyeighth in Ohio. Family telling me they
are devastated by the news. Authoritiessay the twenty three year old has been
missing for more than a month.Police say she was last seen in a
local goodwill where she was dropping offan application. Since then, Goldman's family
has spent countless hours posting flyers,holding vigils, all in hope to see
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their relative again. Say they receiveda tip to look here and add the
body found this morning was badly decomposed. Police tell us there were no obvious
signs of foul play on the bodyfound, and right now they tell me
the body is being sent over tothe crime lab so it can be identified.
Family now just holding on to hopewhether they're good closure or while they'll
keep searching. Later, the crimelab did confirm that the body was Miranda,
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and the autopsy report stated that thebody was so badly decomposed that there
really isn't a for sure answer onthe cause of death, but they did
know it was a homicide. Youwould think that this would trigger a full
on investigation, but not much wasdone with this by law enforcement. Sandy
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made sure to tell them everything thatshe knew and how Miranda was scared for
her life because of what she hadseen and the harassment she was receiving from
Amy. The police told Sandy thatthey questioned the people but released them.
Others have reported the names and informationto the police, but they just sit
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on it. There are at leastsix people that were involved in her death.
That means six people who know whathappened and are selfish enough to not
report what they know to authorities.Six people who are horrible, fucking people
who think what happened to Miranda isokay. These people need to be taken
off the streets they don't deserve thefreedom that they have right now. I
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guess law enforcement didn't think that Mirandadeserved justice for some reason. When someone
who has had a criminal pass orinvolved with drugs, or a sex worker
is murdered, law worsement see thosedeaths as less important, But solving Miranda's
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murder and taking those involved off thestreet is important. This doesn't need to
happen to anyone else. People makedecisions they regret all the time, but
that does not mean that they deserveto be kidnapped, tortured, sexually assaulted,
raped and murdered then dumped Like trashMina was a fighter, you know,
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she wouldn't have went down easily.But with the way that she was
just laid out in that field withthe phone in her hand, and you
know, and somebody that didn't knowher. I just don't think that's the
way she'd been left. It wassomeone that she knew took her life.
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The supposed anonymous person who hold inthe location where Miranda's body was dumped was
able to point the police in thedirection of her body, exactly where her
body was. She knows more.People talk. It's human nature. Eventually,
people talk it said that it waseither Amy or Allison who called in
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the location. Most likely, I'dsay Allison, because not long after the
murder, she lost it and brokedown at a hotel room to Amy's ex
boyfriend Jason. She told him whathappened. She told him that she was
there and saw Brandon Garrett strangle Miranda. She said it was because it had
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all went too far. There aremany people who know the details, either
because they were involved or they've heardit from someone who was involved. It's
been five years since Miranda's life wasstolen from her from a bunch of fucking
losers. People who claim that theylove Miranda and thought of her as their
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best friend. They know what happened, and they aren't speaking up. Eventually,
the police are going to be ableto piece this together because it wasn't
difficult for others to do, andthose who were involved but refused to talk
to the police are going to besitting in prison too. The police are
already aware of who are involved.Why they haven't did anything about it is
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beyond me. But this case isgoing to fall into the right hands and
justice will be served. Detectives saidthat they received many leads and interviewed those
leads, but they went nowhere.I don't really understand why it hasn't went
anywhere in five years, espec,especially with all the information that is known.
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Maybe there's money involved or people inhigher position through the Arian brotherhood.
There's no telling. A mutual friendof the crowd, Kelson picked her up
in a white Lincoln or crowned VICtype car, lured her in with the
expectations that they would get her high. They used her addiction against her,
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kidnapping her and holding her hostage inone of the homes near McDonald's where they
hung around. She was tortured physicallyand mentally. She was sexually assaulted and
raped numerous times. After they realizedthat it had gone too far, Brandon
Garrett raped her again, then strangledher right in front of Allison and many
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others. The home was beginning tosmell, so they made Sam Lewis move
her body into the woods. Iget that these people aren't very bright.
But no longer than three months afterMiranda went missing, Amy, the one
who assumed Miranda was a snitch,was arrested for drug possession. What a
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fucking winner. Please take a momentto listen to our sponsors. For this
episode, Miranda's character touched so manysouls. She was so loving and caring
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that she trusted way too easy.People took advantage of that. They used
her and then harassed her to makethemselves feel better about their pathetic life.
Miranda did not deserve this. Hermurderers need to be locked away. If
you know anything that could help thepolice arrest these monsters, please contact Pine
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Bluff Investigation Division at eight seven zerofive four one five three zero zero.
There is a ten thousand dollars rewardfor any information that leads to any arrest.
Even if justice for Miranda isn't importantto you, maybe the money is
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whatever the case, I don't care. Please call in whatever information you have.
Maybe if the police start getting thesetips over and over again, they'll
actually investigate it. Not only thatone of the main people involved is a
known rapist, someone who drugs womenand rapes them. This is known in
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red filled and nothing is being done. His next victim could be someone you
love. Please call into the lawenforcement what you know. A beautiful soul
was taken from this planet, fromher family and from her friends, and
all they were left with was questions, it is time that they get answers.
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Please make sure to share this episode. It's very important to get this
story out and encourage people to talk. I will make sure to update everyone
if anything becomes available. Thank youfor downloading this episode of Strictly Homicide.
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The next episode will be another coldcase from the northern part of the state.
Cold cases are a little harder toresearch because all of the information isn't
available, so bear with me,but I promise I'll get it out as
soon as possible. Until then,check out the shows for the promos at
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the end of this episode for somereally awesome shows. I just want to
say thank you one more time toall of Miranda's family and friends for sharing
this information with me and allowing meto cover this case. Hey guys,
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episode twenty eight of Strictly Homicide podcasts. I've been very lucky to have many
of the friends and family of MirandaGoldman share their memories with me. I
loved hearing the memories of how wonderfulof a person this young woman was,
how many lives she touched, andhow much she cared. But at the
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same time, I had to seehow hurt this family is. I have
no idea what it's like to havesuch a special person taken from me.
Imagine that not only was this persontaken from you, but the killers got
away with it. Law enforcement turnedto their noses to the family members,
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laying out everything from what happened toMiranda to those who did it. Often,
victims that fall within a specific demographicare pushed aside forgetting that those individuals
are humans too. Before I getinto this episode, I want to express
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how thankful I am for the friendsand family of Miranda. Without them,
this episode would not be possible.I've spent hours and hours looking into the
case with what very little information thereis, and I've spent a lot of
time getting to know these people.A lot of them also took a lot
of time out of their personal livesto help me, and I just want
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them to know how thankful I am. Every minute that I put into this
case has been completely worth it.I haven't even begun to understand just how
special Miranda was. Originally, Iwas told about this case by charity Albright
Small Charity was the case that Icovered in episode eight, a case that's
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always going to be special to me. Then I was contacted by Johnny Marie
and I was drawn to the caseimmediately as soon as I started looking into
it. After a post in theMiranda Goldman Facebook group, the responses I
was receiving from people who knew herwas overwhelming. I'll share links in the
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show notes and on social media.Not one person has had a negative thing
to say about her. I owean extra thank you to Aunt kat I
hope it's okay that I called youthat. Thank you so much for talking
to me about this case and tellingme about your niece. I also want
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to thank Sandy. I know it'sreally hard to talk about this and I
can't even begin to imagine, butthank you for all the information you gave
me. I also want to saythank you to her cousins and childhood friends
Peather, Taylor, Casey, andThomas. Especially you, Taylor. You've
taken a lot of time out toget information for me and I really couldn't
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do this without your information. Ialso want to give a really big shout
out to another Arkansas centered podcast,Murders, Missing and the Misconduct, a
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true crime podcast from the Natural State. Their format is a little bit different
than mine because there's two hosts andthey have the greatest chemistry, but they're
hilarious. They also cover lesser knowncases out of Arkansas, just like I
do. I got to meet oneof the hosts yesterday, Mel and she
is so sweet and very funny.I'm very glad I got to meet her,
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and eventually we're going to team upand tackle a case together. Make
sure it also stay tuned at theinto the show to listen to the promos
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The location of the crime is technicallyunknown. We know factually that she was
taken from a location in Pine Bluffand that her body was found in a
location in Pine Bluff, but thecrime did not occur where her body was
found. Her remains were later dumpedthere. The victim grew up in Whitehall,
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Arkansas, which is located in JeffersonCounty, with the population of five
thousand, five hundred and twenty six. During the nineteenth century, settlers were
drawn to the area because of thepristine drinking water that flowed freely above the
in ground pools. They called thearea Grinshaw or grinshaw Halls Springs. A
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preacher with the last name of Hallfound the springs and built a church,
which later led to the name Whitehall. In nineteen thirteen, an act passed
increasing taxes for construction of Arkansas's firstconcrete paved road. Dollarway Road was a
twenty two point two mile long roadthat connected Pine Bluff city limits to Little
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Rock. Now it's known as ArkansasHighway three sixty five and it goes right
through Whitehall. The Bellingrath House wasbuilt between nineteen thirty four to nineteen thirty
five, which is listed on theNational Register of Historic Properties. It's hidden
away in a wooded area behind aman made pond that is shaped like the
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United States of America. I questionedthat I don't know why I did,
but I did so. I wenton Google Earth and yes, it is
shaped like the United States of America. During World War Two, on December
fourth, nineteen forty one, theUS Army Chemical Warfare Division began construction of
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the Pine Bluff Arsenal. This causeda rapid growth of Whitehall. Pine Bluff
Arsenal is one in nine Army facilitiesthat stored chemical weapons. At least seven
different biological agents were produced there beforeNixon banned biological weapons between the years of
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nineteen seventy one. In nineteen seventythree, all of the biological agents were
destroyed. About seven miles southeast ofWhitehall is Pine Bluff, which is one
of the most dangerous cities in theUS. The murder rate is fifty one
point one per one hundred thousand people, while the national murder rate is only
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five point three per one hundred thousandpeople. In two thousand and seventeen,
the crime rate in Pine Bluff wasthree times higher than the US average.
In twenty thirteen, pine Bluff wasthe second most dangerous city in the US,
only behind Detroit. Recently, thecity was Arkansas's third most dangerous city,
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and Forbes named it the seventh mostdangerous city for women. The population
of Pine Bluff has decreased by almostfifteen thousand people since nineteen ninety. Pine
Bluff is not only dangerous for theresidents, but the police too. Is
this why so many murders go unsolved? David as Born, a journalist,
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patrolled with the local police department andwrote an article. The police chief at
the time, Jeff Hubank, toldhim that all of the usual dynamics are
at play. Poverty, a belowpart education system, and drugs. He
said, kids are graduating high schoolwho cannot write a proper sentence or fill
out a job application, so theycan't get a job. Most most of
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them turned to drugs. In twentytwelve, drugs accounted for almost all of
the murders. Ubanks said, thereality is the little old lady with the
kitten in her lap is perfectly safein this town. But if you're slinging
dope on the east Side, youare looking to pay with your life.
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The area of pine Bluff, Whitehall, Redfield, and other little cities around
there have a really bad problem withmeth heroin and prescription pills. The amount
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of unsolved murders are so high thatthe police department recently offered ten thousand dollars
reward for any information on any ofthe unsolved murders that's happened in the city.
They're really trying to encourage the residenceor anyone that knows anything to call
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in and let them know. There'sway too many unsolved murders there. Clia
Schindra Hall, and I might besaying that wrong, but I think she
actually went by. Clia was abeautiful eighteen year old high school senior,
an honor student, and chosen togive the commencement speech at her graduation.
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She was only two weeks away fromgraduating. She had been accepted into the
pre med program at Tennessee State Universityand was looking forward to attending. After
school, she would go to workpart time for doctor Larry Amos. On
May ninth, nineteen ninety four,around eight pm, she called her parents
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and said that she'd be working lateand she'll call her mom when she's ready
to be picked up. She nevercalled her mom back that night and doctor
Larry Amos, claimed that she gotinto a car with an unknown individual.
The police said the doctor was aperson of interest. They searched his property
but found nothing. The case hasnever been solved. On February eighteen,
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thirty year old Willie Baines was sittingin the passenger seat of his friend's car
when over thirty rounds were fired intothe car. The driver walked away with
no injuries, but Willie was hitonly once in the back of the head
and at close range. The policesay they questioned the driver, but they
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let him go. The police didn'tput much effort into investigating this murder because
Willie had a criminal pass at thetime of his murder, though he was
cleaning up his life for his kids. This case still remains unsolved. On
September twenty third, twenty fifteen,Keith Wilbert Junior was shot to death during
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a home invasion. His four roommateswere left unharmed. The case remains unsolved
as well. Wilbert's father was quotedsaying there are no witnesses, no arrests,
and this is unacceptable. Fifteen dayslater, on October eighth, twenty
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fifteen, this episode's victim twenty threeyear old Miranda Goldman goes missing from the
Goodwill parking lot in Pine Bluff.An anonymous caller would call it the location
of her body a month later.There are people out there with information,
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people who witnessed the murder, andpeople who helped, but yet nothing has
been done for those who witnessed itand have information. You have helped the
murderers get away with this, allowingthem to be free, free to hurt,
and free to kill again. Youare also responsible for the pain that
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those who loved Miranda deal with everysecond, every day. If you would
do what's right, they would beable to find closure. If anyone has
information on Miranda's murder or any unsolvedcrimes in the Pine Bluff area, please
contact the Detective Division at seven threezero two zero nine zero. Don't forget
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that you can remain anonymous. Drugshave a major role in this episode's case.
A beautiful young woman loved by nearlyevery single soul that has met her,
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was introduced into the wrong crowd,a crowd of people involved in the
Arian Brotherhood, illegal prescription drugs,meth heroin, drug dealing, raping females,
and murder. Miranda Goldman was bornJuly twenty ninth, nineteen ninety one,
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in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, toher mother's Sandy and dad's Scott.
Miranda was close to her father inearlier years. He coached her softball league
and she loved to go hunting andfishing with him. She was never a
girly girl and absolutely loved everything outdoors. When her parents divorced, it was
very hard on Miranda. Eventually,her dad would remarry and sadly fall into
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drug use. He stopped paying child'ssupport and visiting, which affected Miranda pretty
bad. Growing up in Whitehall,she grew very close to her mother's side
of the family. She would visither grandmother in the nursing home with her
mom and either help the ladies whowork there or entertain the nursing home residence
by giving them their very own concertin the dining room. Her Aunt Cat
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was very close to Miranda. Shesaid anytime that she would give Miranda something,
she would keep it, no matterwhat it was, She put it
in this little keepsake box. Anytimethat Miranda would visit her, she would
ask Aunt Cat what she can doto help her around the house, even
if it was cleaning gutters. Thisfamily was so close that Miranda's first cousin,
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Heather, referred to her as herbest friend. Many people called her
that she was the type of personthat everyone needs in their life, and
if you have someone like that,you know just how lucky you are.
She was your typical teenage girl.She loved her friends and hated school.
She was never a morning person,even requiring her friends to come wake her
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up for schools on some days.She had a really great sense of humor,
and it was rare to not seeher smiling or hear her laughing.
Entering her teenage years, she threwa redneck birthday party for her thirteenth birthday,
which included mud wrestling and lawnmower racing. The next time someone throws one
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of these, could you please sendme an invite? This sounds like a
ton of fun. Miranda loved havingfun. She loved writing four wheelers with
her cousin, and would often getin trouble for staying out too late.
Not because they were getting into trouble, but because they were having so much
fun that they lost track of time. Growing up, you would usually find
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Miranda outdoors with friends, enjoying life. The lake was one of their favorite
spots. She had some serious tubingskills and was always hand. She was
just a very happy person with ahuge heart and a thirst for life.
Something everyone has said about her isthat no matter what, if you needed
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her, she was only a callaway. She would literally give someone the
shirt off her back. Miranda andher younger sister were very close from the
beginning. The murder of Miranda hasbeen so hard on her that she to
this day still has a really hardtime talking about it. No one in
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this family has been able to getclosure. Can you imagine what that would
do to a person, day afterday after day. One of Ashton's childhood
friends told me that Miranda made ahuge impact on her life, and she
isn't sure that Miranda even knew that. She moved to Whitehall, next door
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to Miranda's family in two thousand andShe said that even though her and Ashton
were younger, Miranda was never meanto the girls, as annoying as they
were. Those were her words,not mine. She remembers the last time
that she saw Miranda, she wasworking at wingstop and Casey was crying over
relationship problems. Miranda said let's gofor a ride, drove her around and
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comforted her and telling her that shewas too good for all of that nonsense.
She said that she'll never forget hersmile, and when you see a
picture of this beautiful girl, youwill understand what she means. She had
a smile that was unforgettable. Describedby everyone nearly the same way. Her
smile was actually the first thing thatstuck out to me. She was an
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animal lover. Her aunt shared afew pictures on my Facebook page of her
and a deer. She bottle fedthat deer. She was such a caring
individual with a heart of gold.Miranda was tiny but had a huge personality.
She only stood about five feet talland hardly weighed a hund her pounds.
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She was a natural beauty, andeveryone also mentioned her thick, curly,
beautiful hair hair any female would envy. It was pretty rare to see
Miranda without her tan. She lovedlaying out in the sun. Her cousin
remembers them oiling down with afrochen beforelaying out forever. I'm not gonna lie.
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I did have to look up whatafro shechen was. It brought up
a whole line of stuff but I'massuming that it's like baby oil or tanning
oil. She always dressed nice andhad a thing for name brand jean and
named brand shoes. Anything else shedidn't really care about, but her jeans
and her shoes had to be namedbrand, you know, kind of like
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a typical teenager. She had ahuge range of musical favorites and loved blasting
music while she would get ready onthe weekends giving anyone home, her friends
or family a free concert, justlike she used to do with the nursing
home residence. These concerts would rangeanywhere from Lil Wayne to Dolly Parton.
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Her normal diet consisted of McDonald's chickensandwiches and ramen noodles. This must be
one of those random facts about someonethat everyone knows and will never forget,
because I was actually told this bymany people. Her mother, Sandy,
always brought her a Mick chicken sandwichand a pack of cigarettes no matter where
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she was. Another food favorite ofhers, and this is pretty unforgettable,
was a piece of bread and ketchup. Nothing else like a hot dog with
ketchup Jess minus the dog. That'show her cousin described it. I'm sure
that that had to do with herlove of dogs, right. Miranda really
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just didn't care what anyone thought abouther unless someone was messing with a loved
one. She was one of themost loyal friends someone could ask for and
would stand up for her friends nomatter what. And two whoever. I
know at this point you may thinkI'm trying hard to make her sound perfect,
but I'm not. I've never seenso many people have nothing but great
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things to say about someone about howcaring and loving and loyal she was.
She wasn't perfect, though, shedid have her flaws, just like every
single human being. Most guys wantedto date Miranda, and most girls wanted
to be her, but she neverlet that get to her head. No
matter how jealous and caddy female wereto her, she would just blow it
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off with a positive attitude. Becauseof this, she did have more guy
friends than girls, but the girlfriendsshe did have were relationships she held dear
to her heart. For always beingsuch a great friend to everyone, Miranda
would become involved with the worst kindof people, people who would use the
fact that she was such a caringand loving person against her to drag her
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through hell and back just so theycan benefit themselves in some sick, perverted
way. Before Miranda was introduced intoa group of people who would later be
involved in her death, she neverexperimented with heavy drugs. She was a
chill, mellow girl. She preferredweed over alcohol because we'd mellows you and
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makes you giggly. Alcohol and herdid not mix well. She wasn't really
a nice drunk. This might bethe only time people would see her get
a little hateful, so she justdecided to drink hardly at all and just
preferred the mellow high. Some ofher friends were getting into heavier drugs and
hanging around individuals involved with meth,prescription pills, criminal activity. In the
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Arian brotherhood. Miranda was introduced tooxycodone, an opiate type pain reliever,
and zanex a benzo diazepine, alsoknown as downers. With Miranda's addictive personality.
Not long after she started using,the addiction would grow. By twenty
fourteen, Miranda was spending so muchmoney on the pill addiction that she was
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having problems getting her fix. Mirandadidn't see many of her old friends anymore.
She spent her days at drug houseswith heavy drug dealers and users,
often doing whatever she could to gether high. Her addictions switched to much
heavier drugs that she would eventually beginshooting up. Many of her older friends,
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who hadn't seen her in a while, said that they knew she was
doing really bad, basically hitting rockbottom by twenty fifteen. In twenty seventeen,
nineteen point seven million Americans over theage of twelve struggled from a substance
abuse disorder. Eight point five ofthose Americans also suffered from a mental health
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disorder. Many people are just tryingto self medicate, not realizing that drugs
are only making the disorders worse.Drug abuse and addiction cost our society more
than seven hundred and forty billion dollarsannually. The statistics only get more heartbreaking
when you break it down by specificage groups. One in every twenty five
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teens from ages twelve to seventeen sufferfrom a substance abuse problem, and one
in every seven Americans between the agesof eighteen and twenty five suffer from substance
abuse, with heroin use doubling forthis group in the past decade. Attics
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start switching up to cheaper highs,not realizing how deadly it can be not
just the drug itself, but thelifestyle too. If you or someone that
you love is battling an addiction,please call the American Addiction Centers at one
eight to eight eight five, onefive, three three nine. Miranda's addiction
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got worse and the individuals that shesurrounded herself with were aiding to it.
Her mother attempted to send her torehab, which was the first step taken
to change her life. But iffighting the illness were that easy, the
problem wouldn't be as big as itis today. Miranda fell back into that
lifestyle. I'll be changing the namesof those that are known to be involved
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in Miranda's murder. There are aboutsix individuals their names and the information has
been reported to the Pine Bluff Policedetectives. They may or may not have
questioned some of them. No oneknows for sure, because the detectives have
just pushed this case aside. Iassume they do not think that her death
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is important because she lived a lessthan perfect lifestyle. But while Miranda was
taken from this earth too soon,those who got her involved in this lifestyle
are still roaming free, free tohurt more people. Please take a moment
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right now to hear a few wordsfrom today's sponsors. The names of those
allegedly involved in Miranda's death have beenchanged. Jason Hogan lives in a Field,
Arkansas, about fifteen miles north ofWhitehall. He's known by his middle
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name Micah, and he's also aknown meth dealer. He's been convicted of
possession with purpose to deliver a controlledsubstance meth, cocaine and heroin, possession
of drug paraphernilia, manufacturing a controlledsubstance, second degree battery, burglary,
aggravated assault, carrying a weapon,and the list goes on and on,
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but you get the idea. Anyonewho knows Mica, if you ask them
about him, the first thing theysay is that he's a monster and to
stay away from him. Women havesaid that they woke up in his home
handcuffed with an IV after being druggedand not knowing what happened. It's clear
that they're either being raped by himor he's holding some kind of local sex
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trafficking. Miranda witnessed some pretty bigdrug deals when she hung around these people.
So when one of the females decidedthat she didn't like Miranda anymore,
she thought telling others that she wasa snitch would be a good idea.
Amy Grover West met Miranda through thiscrowd. Amy had dated some of the
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guys involved in this group, includingone that had known Miranda for a really
long time. Amy's boyfriend spoke ofMiranda like his best friend and would do
almost anything for her. Amy didn'tlike that. While she was controlling and
jealous, she would take off sometimesfor days and weeks and Jason would not
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know where she was. Miranda wasn'taware that Amy felt this way about her.
They hung out sometimes. One day, Amy, Miranda, and another
female friend from the group, Aliceand Wheaton, were traveling in a car
together. The three of them werein possession of drugs and needles. Miranda
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had a needle on her and theother two had drugs. The three of
them were pulled over by police,so when they asked them if they were
in possession of anything, Miranda fessedup. They took all three of the
girls in and at the police department. The police tried to convince Miranda into
becoming their informant. She told themthat she wanted to think about it.
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After Miranda was released, she toldher mom what they asked her to do.
She said that she did not wantto work with the police and that
she was scared for her life.She told her mom and these people were
crazy and she's afraid that they mightkill her if she did. A few
weeks later, Miranda was staying ata friend's house, which was a known
drug house in the area. Miranda'smom noticed that the driveway was empty,
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which was rare, but she pulledin to drop off a Mick chicken sandwich
and pack of cigarettes. Miranda wasjust stepping outside of the house to walk
to her mom's car when a bunchof unmarked vehicles swarmed the place. A
cock came to the window of Sandy'scar and she explained that her daughter was
staying there and she was just bringingher lunch. The police ended up arresting
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the owner of the house and hisgirlfriend, the people they were looking for.
But during this time, Amy droveby and saw what was going down.
She began yelling snitch at Miranda.There was also multiple Facebook messages like
saying snitches get stitches. This wasenough for Miranda. She was now unfair
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of her own life. Knowing whattype of person Amy and these other people
are knowing the things that they do. She saw it with her own two
eyes. That was the moment thatshe decided to move back to her mom's
house and clean up her life.It wasn't going to be easy, it
never is, but she knew shehad to. She told her mom that
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she was in fear of her life, not because of the drugs, but
because of Amy. A few daysbefore October eighth, twenty fifteen, Jason,
Amy's ex boyfriend, received a callfrom Miranda. She was scared and
out of breath. Jason kept askingher where she was and what was going
on, but all she told himwas that she was at MICA's house and
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she had to run away from him. She said she was in the woods
hiding from him. He tried toget more information so he can pick her
up, but she never told himexactly where she was. A few days
later, on October eighth, twentyfifteen, which was only two weeks after
moving back into her mom's house,Miranda asked Sandy if she would take her
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to the good Will to pick upa few things. Sandy normally went everywhere
with her because they only had onecar, but she wasn't feeling well.
On this day, so Miranda wentalone. She went into the good Will,
grabbed a pair of jeans and abelt, and hold her mom and
told her that she saw they werehiring, so she wanted to go to
her friend's house after she checked outso she can clean up, return and
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fill out an application. Getting herlife back on track would be much easier
if she was able to get ajob. Miranda went to check out and
the clerk said that she was onthe phone and she heard her say,
Okay, I'll be right there.I'm about to check out, and then
I'm walking out the door. Mirandawas not on the phone with her mom
at this time. No one knowswho she was talking to, but it's
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pretty clear it was whoever took her. Miranda's mom waited for her to come
home. She started calling her throughoutthe night worried, but it was like
she turned her phone off. Thiswas not like Miranda. No matter what
she was doing, she always checkedin with her mom, knowing that her
mom always worried when she didn't return. The next day, Sandy and Ashton
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drove to the Goodwill only to findthat the car was still sitting in the
parking lot. First they told hermother. Because she is over eighteen and
known to be involved with drugs,she could have easily left on her own,
so they couldn't start a report forseventy two hours. There were no
signs of a struggle when Miranda Goldman'scar was found at the Goodwill in Pine
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Bluff, where she was due fora job interview that October afternoon. Miranda
had come face to face with herdemons and was on the street and narrow.
The job was just one way shewas working to turn her life around.
She had gotten with people in theirown group, and someone thought that
she was a snitch, and butfinally she came home, the same people
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that influenced her drug habit then consideredher a threat. Sandy Goldman says,
if she would have known just howscared her daughter Miranda was when she came
to and ultimately disappeared from this Goodwillthat day, she never would have let
her come alone. The search forMiranda continued until November, when an anonymous
caller supposedly from Malvern, Arkansas,called in a tip that Miranda's body was
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located in a wooded area three milesfrom the goodwill. The police went and
searched the area, where they locateda badly decomposed body in what the detectives
referred to as a dumping ground.The remains were sent to the crime lab
to identify the victim because the bodywas so badly decomposed. Remember Miranda's thick,
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curly hair. You would think thatthis would be pretty easy to identify
her with, but it was gone. She had some jewelry near her and
a cell phone. Her mother immediatelyrecognized it, and this was when Sandy
knew. Police tell me they believethat Miranda Goldman's body was found in these
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woods here, just north of thirtyeighth in Ohio. Family telling me they
are devastated by the news. Authoritiessay the twenty three year old has been
missing for more than a month.Police say she was last seen in a
local goodwill where she was dropping offan application. Since then, Goldman's family
has spent countless hours posting flyers,holding vigils, all in hope to see
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their relative again. Say they receiveda tip to look here and add the
body found this morning was badly decomposed. Police tell us there were no obvious
signs of foul play on the bodyfound, and right now they tell me
the body is being sent over tothe crime lab so it can be identified.
Family now just holding on to hopewhether they're good closure or while they'll
keep searching. Later, the crimelab did confirm that the body was Miranda,
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and the autopsy report stated that thebody was so badly decomposed that there
really isn't a for sure answer onthe cause of death, but they did
know it was a homicide. Youwould think that this would trigger a full
on investigation, but not much wasdone with this by law enforcement. Sandy
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made sure to tell them everything thatshe knew and how Miranda was scared for
her life because of what she hadseen and the harassment she was receiving from
Amy. The police told Sandy thatthey questioned the people but released them.
Others have reported the names and informationto the police, but they just sit
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on it. There are at leastsix people that were involved in her death.
That means six people who know whathappened and are selfish enough to not
report what they know to authorities.Six people who are horrible, fucking people
who think what happened to Miranda isokay. These people need to be taken
off the streets they don't deserve thefreedom that they have right now. I
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guess law enforcement didn't think that Mirandadeserved justice for some reason. When someone
who has had a criminal pass orinvolved with drugs, or a sex worker
is murdered, law worsement see thosedeaths as less important, But solving Miranda's
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murder and taking those involved off thestreet is important. This doesn't need to
happen to anyone else. People makedecisions they regret all the time, but
that does not mean that they deserveto be kidnapped, tortured, sexually assaulted,
raped and murdered then dumped Like trashMina was a fighter, you know,
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she wouldn't have went down easily.But with the way that she was
just laid out in that field withthe phone in her hand, and you
know, and somebody that didn't knowher. I just don't think that's the
way she'd been left. It wassomeone that she knew took her life.
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The supposed anonymous person who hold inthe location where Miranda's body was dumped was
able to point the police in thedirection of her body, exactly where her
body was. She knows more.People talk. It's human nature. Eventually,
people talk it said that it waseither Amy or Allison who called in
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the location. Most likely, I'dsay Allison, because not long after the
murder, she lost it and brokedown at a hotel room to Amy's ex
boyfriend Jason. She told him whathappened. She told him that she was
there and saw Brandon Garrett strangle Miranda. She said it was because it had
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all went too far. There aremany people who know the details, either
because they were involved or they've heardit from someone who was involved. It's
been five years since Miranda's life wasstolen from her from a bunch of fucking
losers. People who claim that theylove Miranda and thought of her as their
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best friend. They know what happened, and they aren't speaking up. Eventually,
the police are going to be ableto piece this together because it wasn't
difficult for others to do, andthose who were involved but refused to talk
to the police are going to besitting in prison too. The police are
already aware of who are involved.Why they haven't did anything about it is
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beyond me. But this case isgoing to fall into the right hands and
justice will be served. Detectives saidthat they received many leads and interviewed those
leads, but they went nowhere.I don't really understand why it hasn't went
anywhere in five years, espec,especially with all the information that is known.
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Maybe there's money involved or people inhigher position through the Arian brotherhood.
There's no telling. A mutual friendof the crowd, Kelson picked her up
in a white Lincoln or crowned VICtype car, lured her in with the
expectations that they would get her high. They used her addiction against her,
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kidnapping her and holding her hostage inone of the homes near McDonald's where they
hung around. She was tortured physicallyand mentally. She was sexually assaulted and
raped numerous times. After they realizedthat it had gone too far, Brandon
Garrett raped her again, then strangledher right in front of Allison and many
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others. The home was beginning tosmell, so they made Sam Lewis move
her body into the woods. Iget that these people aren't very bright.
But no longer than three months afterMiranda went missing, Amy, the one
who assumed Miranda was a snitch,was arrested for drug possession. What a
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fucking winner. Please take a momentto listen to our sponsors. For this
episode, Miranda's character touched so manysouls. She was so loving and caring
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that she trusted way too easy.People took advantage of that. They used
her and then harassed her to makethemselves feel better about their pathetic life.
Miranda did not deserve this. Hermurderers need to be locked away. If
you know anything that could help thepolice arrest these monsters, please contact Pine
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Bluff Investigation Division at eight seven zerofive four one five three zero zero.
There is a ten thousand dollars rewardfor any information that leads to any arrest.
Even if justice for Miranda isn't importantto you, maybe the money is
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whatever the case, I don't care. Please call in whatever information you have.
Maybe if the police start getting thesetips over and over again, they'll
actually investigate it. Not only thatone of the main people involved is a
known rapist, someone who drugs womenand rapes them. This is known in
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red filled and nothing is being done. His next victim could be someone you
love. Please call into the lawenforcement what you know. A beautiful soul
was taken from this planet, fromher family and from her friends, and
all they were left with was questions, it is time that they get answers.
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Please make sure to share this episode. It's very important to get this
story out and encourage people to talk. I will make sure to update everyone
if anything becomes available. Thank youfor downloading this episode of Strictly Homicide.
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The next episode will be another coldcase from the northern part of the state.
Cold cases are a little harder toresearch because all of the information isn't
available, so bear with me,but I promise I'll get it out as
soon as possible. Until then,check out the shows for the promos at
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the end of this episode for somereally awesome shows. I just want to
say thank you one more time toall of Miranda's family and friends for sharing
this information with me and allowing meto cover this case. Hey guys,
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I'm Brandy and my husband Douglas andI host that Dead Body Show. We
talk about dead bodies, murder,the victims and those that just play the
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