The Truth About Richard Gooddine / Source Records

Original accounts.
In their own words.

Original interviews, testimony, and witness accounts concerning the Sykes Park encounter, earlier July allegations, and the events that followed.

August 20, 2018 · East Point Police Department · First hospital interview

First recorded hospital interview

The recording includes the complainant and her sister Kayla Bell. Duration: approximately 33 minutes and 15 seconds.

“It was about 30 minutes.”

The complainant's response to “How long did all this take, do you think?” · EPPD transcript p. 27 · recording ~20:27. The question concerned the reported incident, not necessarily the entire encounter.

Times reported in the August 20 GBI interview

12:30 AMInitial contact

1:06 AMPark departure

2:50 AMHome arrival

Compare the statements

The complainant — time, route, and alleged acts

August 20, 2018 · GBI interviewThe recorded account places departure from Sykes Park at about 1:06 a.m. and arrival home at about 2:50 a.m.

February 28, 2022 · Trial testimonyWhen asked about the whole encounter, she answered: “LIKE TWO, THREE HOURS.”

Her original GBI statement described a police stop at a traffic light before entering Sykes Park. The same-day route reconstruction instead described the group already in the park when the officer approached.

In the route reconstruction, she described Gooddine shining a flashlight on an already-damaged vehicle without exiting the patrol vehicle. Her trial testimony described his talking to a man outside and returning to the patrol vehicle.

GBI interview summary, Exhibit 10; GBI route reconstruction, Exhibit 16; 2022 Trial Vol. 4 pp. 609–610 and testimony concerning the vehicle.

Kayla Bell — participation in the interviews

August 20, 2018 · GBIWhen an agent asked how the complainant first knew Gooddine, Kayla answered and provided the earlier July history.

2022 trial · Kayla and GBI agentKayla acknowledged initiating the later discussion of the July incident. Agent Roulain acknowledged that Kayla filled in information when the complainant did not recall details.

Kayla testified that she heard a July allegation but did not report it at that time.

GBI Exhibit 10 p. 1 onward; Trial Vol. 5 pp. 676, 706; Vol. 7 pp. 1126–1127.

The mother — when she learned about July

2018 · EPPD interviewThe mother's original police interview described the complainant as having reported inappropriate touching during the earlier July encounter.

2022 · Sworn testimonyThe mother testified she was not told of a July sexual-assault allegation during that original medical episode and first learned of the allegation after the August 20 events.

She also testified that Kayla told her what happened on August 20, while the complainant was not speaking much. Her trial testimony described conflict and disagreements with her daughter during the July medical period.

Heather Everson EPPD interview ~00:18–00:42; Trial Vol. 5 pp. 719, 730–733.

Rashard Alonzo — bathroom, lights, and search

August 20, 2018 · GBIDescribed India as the person who needed the bathroom, headlights being on, and Gooddine searching him.

2022 · TrialDescribed the complainant as needing the bathroom, gave a different account of the vehicle lights, and answered that he was not searched.

At trial, he also emphasized Waffle House and Marcus's birthday after the original interview described waiting for a call about a recording studio.

Rashard GBI Aug. 20 interview; 2022 Vol. 5 pp. 745–746, 763–766, 782.

Marcus Bennett — BB gun and park encounter

August 20, 2018 · GBIDescribed shooting BB guns earlier and placing the BB gun on the vehicle floor.

2022 · TrialDescribed the BB gun being in a bookbag on the back seat and denied firing it “that night.”

The accounts refer to the gun's location and use at different points. The available statements do not establish that Marcus damaged another vehicle.

Marcus GBI interview p. 1, approximately 1:19; Trial Vol. 5 pp. 802, 824, 830.

India Foster — her account compared with the others

August 20, 2018 · EPPD and GBIIndia said she needed to use a restroom; the group stopped at Sykes Park, and the officer arrived after they had stopped. She described being searched.

2022 · Other witness testimonyRashard gave a different account of who needed the restroom. The complainant testified that Gooddine did not search the other three people.

These are differences between witnesses, not a confirmed change in India's own testimony.

India EPPD interview beginning ~00:36; India GBI interview p. 1; Trial Vol. 4 around p. 604 and cross-examination; Vol. 5 pp. 745–746.