Longview Man Gets 20 Years for Killing Wife
Posted/updated on: January 11, 2013 at 5:09 pm
LONGVIEW – A former Longview 911 emergency supervisor pleaded guilty Thursday to fatally shooting his police officer wife and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. That’s according to KETK and the Longview News-Journal. Harry Chester Goodan, 42, must serve half the sentence before being eligible for parole under the plea agreement he reached with prosecutors. As part of the agreement, District Judge Alfonso Charles accepted the crime occurred in the heat of passion which placed 20 years at the top of the sentencing range. Goodan called Longview police on December 11, 2010, to the town home he and his wife, Jamie Ellyn Goodan, shared. Reports say Goodan met officers at the door and immediately told them he had killed his wife.
