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🔍 COLD CASE SPOTLIGHT

Two teenage boys. A rural Pennsylvania road.

No skid marks. No suspects. No justice.

Shawn Fosnaught and Scott Baur were found fatally injured on Cashdollar Road in 2002.

It’s been 23 years and still, no one has been held accountable.

The Sassy Gazette proudly presents:

🕯️ Dicking Around With Richie: A True Crime Feed

💔 Cashdollar Road’s Dark Secret: Who Killed Shawn & Scott?

📖 Read the full investigation →

https://thesassygazette.blogspot.com/2025/06/cashdollar-roads-dark-secret-who-killed.html

Connie Goodwin Biography                      Connie Goodwin Wiki

A Missouri mother was finally able to recover the remains of her murdered son after draining the pond where his body was dumped seven years ago.

Connie Goodwin, 57, and her family from Poplar Bluff, Missouri, took it upon themselves to drain the unnamed pond after local authorities failed to complete work begun in 2017. They were looking for Edward Goodwin, 32, who was murdered by childhood friends in 2015 after a drug deal went wrong. After waiting five years for authorities to recover all the remains of her murdered son from a muddy pond, Missouri mom Connie Goodwin took matters into her own hands. https://t.co/fV84bgGGmS — The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) September 23, 2022 In November 2017, the Butler County Sheriff's Department drained part of the pond and found partial remains of Connie's son, enough to convict Eldrid Smith and Rickey Hurt of his murder. But when the case was closed, the sheriffs hadn't finished draining the pond, allowing the Goodwins to sedate the remains of a family member. A struggle ensued over the next five years as the Goodwins were given various reasons why the work could not be completed. "There was always a reason. Either because of other crimes in progress or because of the weather," Connie said. “We have continued to press for them to drain the water. The family is not responsible for that. Connie told the Riverfront Times that her family emptied the pond themselves using rental cars after a five-year delay by local law enforcement. It was a significant feat, the pond is estimated to be about 90 feet by 140 feet with a depth of about four feet. The sheriff's department's most recent attempt to drain the pond was last fall, but they couldn't lower the water level enough to find the remains. This followed two other attempts that had lowered the water level significantly from its peak two years earlier, but not enough to find Edward. So Connie, along with her husband and grandson Gage, 22, who is Edward's son, rented a sump pump over the weekend and finished the job alone. They got to work at 8:30 a.m. to pump the water, and about two hours later they had shrunk the pond enough to see what appeared to be bones sticking out of the mud. Connie then called Butler County Coroner Jim Akers, who came to the scene and confirmed that the remains were those of Edward Goodwin. " emptied it where it was only a few feet from full drainage, but you have all the sediment, all the mud," Akers said of the first attempt to find the remains of the manure. "Edward in 2017. The recovered pelvis and femurs were enough to prosecute Smith and Hurt, who were convicted of murder and are now in prison.

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