The tiny caravan made its way northward along Interstate 90,headlights cutting into the dusk of the damp, overcast Friday evening. Through the Texas Gulf Coast communities of Subline, Rock Island, and Eagle Lake, the hearse and two accompanying police cars were never separated, linked together by some invisible tether. The passengers inside the vehicles, offleers of the Alvin Police Department and a funeral home attendant, rode in silence, as if in a show of respect for the cargo being transported, their faces reflections of the grimness of the task.
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AN INNOCENT CHILD SLAIN
One day, two-year-old Renee Goode was playing happily with her sisters and cousin, as the four of them enjoyed an impromptu "slumber party" at the home of her father, Shane Goode. The next day she was dead.
A DEVIOUS MAN WHO ALMOST GOT AWAY WITH MURDER
The Iocalmedical examiner could not determine the cause of little Renee's death. But her mother Annette and grandmother Sharon were convinced she'd been murdered-and that they knew the identity of Renee's killer: her handsome father, Shane Goode, a manipulative, emotionally abusive man who displayed virtually no interest in Renee-until he took out a $50,000 insurance policy on her life.
THREE WOMEN FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE
With the help of a courageous female police investigator and a determined Assistant D.A., Sharon launched a case against Shane, and had Renee's tiny coffin exhumed from its final resting place. And her small corpse revealed what her grandmother had suspected all along: cold, calculating Shane Goode had murdered his own daughter, to cash in on her death.