"It was a senseless, horrible thing that happened. They don't carry much money," said the owner of Cincinnati's Towne Taxi regarding the murder of driver John Arcady. On September 27, 1999, the 49-year-old's body was found slumped over the wheel of his idling cab at 4802 Winneste Avenue in the Cincinnati suburb of Winton Terrace. Killed instantly by a single gunshot wound to the back of the head, Arcady still had a toothpick in the corner of his mouth and a foot on the brake. Arcady, a former touring drummer with the groups the Platters, Los Bravos, and the Hager Twins, often drove double shifts to support himself while drumming for the Queen City-based Mary Ann Kindel Band.
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| Denise Lipscomb |
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| Lemar Goss |
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| Andrea Goss |
Police, acting on eyewitness accounts, searched for three blacks seen fleeing the scene. A few days later, brother and sister Lemar Goss, 19, Andrea Goss, 18, and their relative Denise Lipscomb, 26, were arrested and charged with aggravated murder during the commission of a robbery. Another suspect, Sion Graham, 21, was later arrested and charged with complicity in supplying the gun to Lipscomb, and in driving the getaway car. On the night of the murder, Arcady picked up the trio and drove them to a spot near Lipscomb's apartment where the woman shot him in the head during a robbery attempt. In exchange for their testimony against Lipscomb, the Goss siblings pleaded guilty to reduced charges of robbery and involuntary manslaughter, and were sentenced to terms of 23 years each. In October 2000, Lipscomb was found guilty of aggravated murder, but avoided the death penalty when a jury recommended life in prison without the possibility of parole for at least 43 years. Lipscomb will be 69 years old before her first parole hearing. Sion Graham, Lipscomb's boyfriend, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and to using a gun to commit aggravated robbery, and received a 23 year prison sentence. Lemar Goss (Inmate No. A401712) is currently incarcerated at the Belmont Correctional Institution in St. Clairsville, Ohio while his sister, Andrea (Inmate No. W045814), and Denise Lipscomb (Inmate No. W048598) are both serving their sentences at the Dayton Correctional Institution.
How it is that Lipscomb was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for at least 43 years to life in prison without the possibility of parole for at least 46 years?
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DeleteI know how y'all feel about the murder of John Arcady. And I believe you. Anybody that's gonna kill another human being and think that they can get away with it has got to be a coward. Unless you killed in self-defense, then murder is exactly what it is. Some people who kill end up having remorse for having killed while others simply do not regret it. Where's your common sense? Where's your remorse? What made you do it? Do you not like people? Is that it? Because when you kill somebody, to me that's exactly what that entails. And I don't condone violence of any sort. Yes it's one thing to go to war and fight for your country and kill in order to defend it. But it's another for you to come home from said war and take your anger out on a normal everyday citizen. So remember this. The next time you wanna blow somebody away with a .357 Magnum or stab somebody in the heart, think of the three people who killed John Arcady. Because of you do that, then just like them, you're not ever going home again. You could get life without parole or even the death penalty. And when that happens, only God can forgive you. Because I'm pretty sure others won't. What a tragedy. RIP John.
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