E130: SPREE KILLER – Willie Cory Godbolt

This week Beth and Wendy discuss the case of Willie Cory Godbolt, a black man who, in 2017, went on a house-to-house shooting spree in rural Mississippi, killing eight people.

This episode was researched & scripted by Wendy & Beth Williams and edited by Minnie Williams.

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Footnotes

Articles/Websites

Wikipedia. (03/25/2024). 2017 Mississippi shootings. Retrieved 04/19/2024 from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Mississippi_shootings

Jeltsen, Melissa. (10/07/2017). Portrait Of An American Mass Shooting. Huffpost. Retrieved 04/19/2024 from https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mass-shooting-domestic-violence-willie-cory-godbolt_n_5989f222e4b0449ed505d656

Cunningham, Ann Marie. (05/04/2022). ‘What About His Trauma?’ Perpetrators of Murder/Suicide May Have Suffered, Too. MCIR. Retrieved 04/19/2024 from https://www.mississippicir.org/perspective/what-about-his-trauma

FindLaw. (03/07/2024). Willie Cory Godbolt v. State Of Mississippi (2024). Retrieved 04/19/2024 from https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ms-supreme-court/115910331.html

The Daily Leader. (05/28/2017). Suspect in weekend shootings has long criminal history. Retrieved 04/20/2024 from https://www.dailyleader.com/2017/05/28/suspect-in-weekend-shootings-has-long-criminal-history/

Find a Grave. (n.d.). Chris L. Godbolt. Retrieved 04/20/2024 from https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113560207/chris-l.-godbolt

Chia, Jessica; Graham, Regina F. (05/28/2017). Victims of holiday massacre that left eight dead. The Daily Mail. Retrieved 04/20/2024 from https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4549852/Eight-people-killed-Mississippi-shooting.html

The Associated Press. (02/18/2020). Witness says man on trial told her, ‘I done shot the police’. Retrieved 04/20/2024 from https://apnews.com/general-news-3b4d3937991f283ec81f61b4992152d7

Aradillas, Elaine. (02/26/2020). Miss. Man Killed Mother of Estranged Wife, Deputy and 6 Others in 2017 Rampage. People. Retrieved 04/20/2024 from https://people.com/crime/miss-man-killed-mother-of-estranged-wife-deputy-and-6-others-in-2017-rampage/

Associated Press. (02/17/2020). Ex-wife of Godbolt describes 1st of 8 fatal shootings. Clarion Ledger. Retrieved 04/20/2024 from https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2020/02/17/ex-wife-man-accused-killing-eight-testifies/4784028002/

CBS/AP. (05/30/2017). Teen “played dead” while cousin took bullets during Miss. shooting rampage. Retrieved 04/23/2024 from https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mississippi-shooting-rampage-caleb-edwards-jordan-blackwell/

Associated Press. (02/27/2020). Godbolt, who killed 8 and blamed the devil for his actions, sentenced to death. The Clarion Ledger. Retrieved 04/23/2024 from https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/local/2020/02/27/godbolt-murder-trial-sentenced-to-death-8-slayings/4895570002/

History

Choctaw Nation. (01/01/2021). A New Chahta Homeland: A History by the Decade. Retrieved 04/21/2024 from https://www.choctawnation.com/biskinik/iti-fabvssa/a-new-chahta-homeland-a-history-by-the-decade/

Wikipedia. (07/07/2023). Bogue Chitto, Lincoln County, Mississippi. Retrieved 04/21/2024 from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogue_Chitto,_Lincoln_County,_Mississippi

Mississippi Encyclopedia. (04/14/2018). Lincoln County. Retrieved 04/21/2024 from https://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/lincoln-county/

ISJL. (n.d.). Brookhaven, Mississippi. Retrieved 04/21/2024 from https://www.isjl.org/mississippi-brookhaven-encyclopedia.html

David Cecelski. (07/29/2019). The Turpentine Trail. Retrieved 04/21/2024 from https://davidcecelski.com/2019/07/29/the-turpentine-trail/

Brooks, Jesse. (04/17/2018). Hwy. 51 Revisited: Brookhaven, Mississippi. Small Town Stories. Retrieved 04/21/2024 from https://ststories.com/2018/04/17/hwy-51-revisited-brookhaven-mississippi/

Henry, Daja E. (04/04/2024). Terror, Murder and Jim Crow Laws: Inside Mississippi’s Racial Voter Intimidation History. Retrieved 04/22/2024 from https://www.themarshallproject.org/2024/04/04/mississippi-voting-rights-history-discrimination

How Not to Get Murdered

RISE From Trauma Act: https://policy.futureswithoutviolence.org/resource_center/rise-from-trauma-act/

Music

“Abyss” by Alasen: ●https://soundcloud.com/alasen●https://twitter.com/icemantrap ●https://instagram.com/icemanbass/●https://soundcloud.com/therealfrozenguy●
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“LATINA” by Caslo https://freemusicarchive.org/music/caslo/
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“Million” by Yung Kartz https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Yung_Kartz
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“Master of The Streets” by Jonas Hipper https://freemusicarchive.org/music/jonas-hipper/
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“Furious Freak” by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3791-furious-freak
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