25. Weekly Roundup | March 31, 2026 | Sheridan Gorman · Cheryl Henry & Andy Atkinson · Samantha Goolsby · Gilgo Beach

In Chicago, 18-year-old Loyola University freshman Sheridan Gorman walked to a lakefront beach at midnight with friends to see the city skyline. She whispered that someone was behind the lighthouse. There was one shot. Every segment this week was about politics. This show is about Sheridan. In Houston, a 36-year cold case broke open — the 1990 Lovers Lane murders. Cheryl Henry was 22. Andy Atkinson was 21. They went on a date night and never came home. Their mothers and Andy's father did not live to see this week. In Cookeville, Tennessee, 34-year-old Samantha Goolsby didn't come home Tuesday night. She was found in the woods the next afternoon. Most of the country never heard her name. We said it. And Rex Heuermann — charged with seven Gilgo Beach murders — is expected to plead guilty April 8th.

Before we talk about how they died, we talk about how they lived.

Sources: 

Block Club Chicago — Sheridan Gorman: https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/03/27/loyola-murder-suspect-ordered-detained-by-judge-who-calls-crime-horrible/

Chicago Sun-Times — Sheridan Gorman: https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/03/24/heres-what-to-know-killing-sheridan-gorman

WTTW Chicago — Sheridan Gorman: https://news.wttw.com/2026/03/27/man-charged-fatal-shooting-loyola-freshman-sheridan-gorman-be-detained-pending-trial

NBC Chicago — Sheridan Gorman: https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/suspect-in-killing-of-loyola-university-chicago-student-was-hiding-behind-lighthouse-prosecutors/3912716/

Click2Houston — Lovers Lane DNA: https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2026/03/26/the-crucial-tip-and-dna-link-that-led-to-a-capital-murder-arrest-for-1990-texas-lovers-lane-cold-case/

KHOU Houston — Floyd Parrott arrest: https://www.khou.com/article/news/crime/lovers-lane-killings-cold-case-arrest-houston-texas/285-fd2b5b56-b8ce-4dcc-845e-85cafc8a09a3

CBS News — Lovers Lane timeline: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lovers-lane-cold-case-murders-houston-suspect-arrested/

ABC13 Houston — Henry and Atkinson families: https://abc13.com/post/lovers-lane-murders-arrest-made-1990-west-houston-killing-cheryl-henry-andy-atkinson-authorities-say/18779096/

FOX 17 Nashville — Samantha Goolsby: https://fox17.com/news/local/missing-woman-found-dead-suspect-charged-with-murder-in-putnam-county

NBC News — Rex Heuermann: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/suspect-gilgo-beach-serial-killings-rex-heuermann-expected-guilty-p

Transcript

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Hello, everyone, and welcome to a brand new episode of I Fear You Babe. My name is Dino Malvone, and I'm your host. So I want to say something before we start. Sheridan Gorman, the story that we're going to lead with today, has been completely buried under politics this week. Every single news segment, every pundit, every press release has been about immigration policy and sanctuary cities, and which administration is responsible. And that conversation is real. It exists for a reason, but Sheridan Gorman has barely been in it. Who was she? What was she studying? The fact that she was 18 years old and on her first real adventure away from home. And she walked to a beach with her friends on a Wednesday night to take pictures of the Chicago skyline. And none of that has made it on the TV at all. And that's what the show is for. We also have a 36-year-old cold case that broke open this week in Houston. It's two people, a couple actually, on a date night in 1990 that were found murdered in a remote area and not solved until right now. Cheryl Henry and Andy Atkinson, their families waited 36 years and an arrest was actually made on Wednesday. We also have Samantha Goolsby, who is a 34-year-old woman from Cooksville, Tennessee, who didn't come home Tuesday night. Her family reported her missing Wednesday morning. She was actually found dead in the woods later that afternoon. Most of the country hasn't even heard her name yet, which is why we're going to say it today. Plus, we got a quick but significant update on the Gilgo Beach situation. And of course, before we talk about how they died, we talk about how they lived. I'm Dino Malvone, and this is I Fear You Babe. Let's go. So, like I said, the first case that we're checking out today is the case of Sheridan Gorman from Chicago, Illinois. She was 18 years old and a Loyola University Chicago freshman from Yorktown Heights, New York. She was killed Wednesday, March 19th, 19, I'm sorry, 2026 at approximately 106 in the morning. And I'll tell you why we know exactly what time that took place. The location of that was the Toby Prince Beach in Loyola Park, Rogers Park, less than about a mile away from campus. The person charged is a guy named Jose Medina, who's 25. First degree murder, attempted murder, aggravated discharge of a firearm. And he was arrested Friday night, March 21st, one block from where everything took place. The status is it's a detained pending trial. This was all ordered by the Cook County judge. And the next court date is going to be April 8th, 2026. So who Sheridan was? Well, Sheridan Gorman grew up in Yorktown, New York, which is a suburb of Westchester County, about an hour north of New York City. She graduated high school and came to Chicago to study business at Loyola University. And Loyola sits right at the lakefront in Rogers Park on the north side of the city, where Lake Michigan just sits there at the end of every street, like a reminder of how big the world is. But she was a freshman and she'd been on campus for one semester. She was 18 years old and she was just figuring out who she was going to be. Now, she was involved in Crew, which is the campus Christian organization. She showed up to things. She made people feel like they mattered. A faculty member who worked with her in Bible study put it pretty simply quote, she was always the first person who would hug me at a group, and she was always the last person to end quote. And that's the kind of detail you can't manufacture. I mean, she was the first one in and the last one out every time. So her parents wrote a statement after her death. And I'm going to read part of it because it's the most complete picture of who she was that exists right now. And they wrote, quote, she was full of life, full of kindness, and full of a love that she gave freely to everyone around her. She made people feel seen. She made people feel valued, whether it was her friends, her family, or someone she had just met. Sheridan had a way of leaving people better than when she found them. And she was 18. She'd just been away from home for less around a semester. You know, she was like just at the beginning. So Rogers Park is the northmost neighborhood in Chicago. It's pretty diverse, it's dense, walkable, and really close to Loyola campus. It's the kind of neighborhood where you feel like a real city person the moment you move there, right? Right on the lake. The red line at the end of the block, restaurants from everywhere, the community that has been welcoming students there for decades. Toby Prince Beach is part of Loyola. God, I can't read today. Loyola Park, a few blocks north of campus. It's a small beach right on Lake Michigan. And on a clear night, you can see the city skyline reflected across the water from the south. And it's really beautiful. It's the kind of place you go when you want to feel like Chicago is your home, you know? And that's where Sheridan and her friends went on the night of March 18th, just after midnight. There were six of them out of the dorm walking to the lake just to take pictures and to see the city. So, okay, this is what happened. The group got to the beach sometime around one, and they kind of split up a little, you know, the way you do when you're walking around a place, just kind of exploring. So Sheridan and a few friends walked ahead toward a lighthouse pier that was at the end of the road. Or at the end of the beach, rather. And there was already a man standing there. And he'd been there before they arrived. He was wearing all black, including, guess what? A ski mask. Um, he also had a gun and he was hiding behind the lighthouse. Sheridan reached the lighthouse first. She was kind of startled, as you can imagine. And she turned right around and walked quickly back toward the friend group. And she whispered to them, There was somebody behind the lighthouse. Then he came out. So the group obviously ran. He fired once a single shot at 1.06 a.m. And it's captured on audio by a nearby private security camera. Sheridan, unfortunately, was hit in the back. Her friends found her on the ground and they called 911 and she was rushed to the hospital and pronounced dead. One of her friends who had been there that night told the Chicago Sun-Times it didn't seem like it was intentionally targeted toward any of us. It seemed like he was there for a reason and we were just at the wrong place at the wrong time. I'm guessing because there was not another shot after that. It was just one. So it was one shot. Five friends made it safely by running into the grass. Sheridan had walked ahead of the group. So as far as the investigation goes, Chicago police, they worked pretty fast. Surveillance cameras in the neighborhood caught a man leaving an apartment building on North Sheridan Road, a block and a half away from the beach before the shooting and returning right after it. He was dressed in all black. He was moving with a distinctive, like deliberate limp. And that limp became the key. Building residents recognized the walk. The building's engineer identified him. The man's own mother, shown the footage, confirmed it was her own son. And U.S. Customs and Border Protection used facial recognition on the video. All of it pointed to the same apartment. So police executed a search warrant. In the apartment, they found black clothing matching what the shooter wore, a 40 caliber handgun wrapped in a ski mask near the bed, and a leg brace with the names, uh the man's name on it. They also found a shell casing from the beach that matched the gun. Jose Medina, who's 25 years old, was arrested Friday night, one block from where Sheridan died, and he was charged with first-degree murder, attempted murder, and aggravated discharge of a firearm. So the hearing, well, Medina appeared virtually at his detention hearing. He was being treated for tuberculosis at a county medical facility. His public defender disclosed details that are part of the full picture, and I want to name them carefully. So Medina had been shot in the head during a robbery in Columbia before coming to the United States. That injury left him permanently disabled. So he had to learn how to walk again and talk again. He can't read or write. The limp that helped identify him on camera is a permanent consequence of that injury. His mother followed him to Chicago and was living in the same apartment. His public defender made an unusual request. She asked the judge to keep him in Cook County custody rather than transfer him to federal immigration authorities, saying she feared for his safety if deported. The judge ordered him detained regardless. The judge actually called what happened horrible. He said that Medina was a person that hides themselves in order to randomly commit horrible defenses and then decides to go back home. He's charged with first degree murder. He has not yet entered a plea, and the case is in its very early stages. And so the part that nobody's covering, and I said this at the top, and I want to come back to it because it matters to what the show is, I think. In this week, every conversation about Sheridan Gorman has been about immigration policy, about who let Jose Medina into the country and who failed to remove him after a shoplifting arrest in 2023. The White House commented, the government commented, DHS issued a press release, senators gave their floor speeches, cable news had panels. And honestly, in every single one of those bits that I watched, Sheridan got about 30 seconds in at most in that coverage. Like her name, her school, her age, and then everyone moved on to the political argument. Her family said publicly that they don't want her death to be used as a political talking point. And they said that like very directly, and the political conversation kept going anyway. What I know is this an online fundraiser for a memorial scholarship in her name raised like nearly $200,000 in the first few days. Her family said that Jose Medina's arrest was the first step toward justice. Not justice, just the first step. They understood exactly how much road was left ahead. So Sheridan Gordon, 18 years old, business school, crew, the first to hug, the last to leave, a beach on a Wednesday night, one shot at 106 in the morning, and April 8th is the next court date. And we will be back with more information about this case as well. Okay, this next story is Cheryl Henry and Andy Atkinson from Houston, Texas. The murder took place August 23rd in 1990. 36 years ago. The arrest was made this week. The victims in this crime were Cheryl and Henry, who was 22 at the time, and Garland, or otherwise known as Andy. Atkinson, who was 21 at the time. They were killed August 23rd in 19, 1990, sorry, in a remote area near Enclave Parkway in West Houston. Charged this week was Floyd William Parrott, who's 64 years old. The charges were capital murder. He was arrested Wednesday in Lincoln, Nebraska. So here's how it broke. A tip in late 2025, plus some DNA matching through CODIS, led to a 1996 sexual assault case. The status is that Parrott is fighting extradition. He is expected in Harris County within next the next six weeks. And also a note, the DA says there may be more victims and there is an active investigation go ongoing. So the night before. So on the evening of August 22nd, 1990, Cheryl Henry and her sister went out for the evening and they met up with Cheryl's boyfriend Andy Atkinson at Bayou Mama's Nightclub on West Timer Road in Houston. The three of them spent the evening together, and at some point Cheryl's sister left, and Cheryl and Andy stayed. They'd been dating for a few weeks. They were 22 and 21 years old. Andy's cousin Tim Goodwin, who was close enough to Andy that they considered each other brothers, said later that the two of them were young and in love and full of plans. The kind of couple that you look at and figure that they're just gonna be, they're gonna be totally fine. The thing is, they never came home that night. So August 23rd, 1990, the area near Enclave Parkway and Eldridge Parkway in West Houston is largely well at the time in 1990 was largely underdeveloped. It's kind of remote, wooded, the kind of place that existed as far as the rest of the city was concerned. It was barely even acknowledged, right? So people called it Lover's Lane because couples would go and park there because it was quiet and it felt safe because like nothing else was there. And on the morning of August 23rd, a security guard doing a routine patrol spotted a white Honda civic parked in a cul-de-sac that had not moved for an extended period of time. So he approached it and found Cheryl Henry nearby, unresponsive. So he he called the police. Officers responded and searched the surrounding wooded area. They found Andy Atkinson tied to a tree. Both victims had severe injuries to their necks. Cheryl had been sexually assaulted. Andy's hands were tied behind his back with rope. Another rope ran from his bound wrists around the tree and around his neck. And apparently, by way of the information, he had not died quickly. Cheryl's purse and shoes were inside the car. Her blue dress, the one her family told police she was wearing the night before, was found nearby. The windows were rolled down. There were cigarette butts. Someone had been there for a while before they were found. So Cheryl's family filed a missing persons report when she didn't show up for work and couldn't be reached. They arrived at the scene before the police had finished processing it. So some of them saw what there, you know, what was there before anybody could stop them. Which is just so horrifying to think about. You know, because man. So 36 years. The Houston Police Office, sorry, the Houston Police Department investigated. They the FBI assisted at the time. Over the following decades, at least a hundred people were looked into as potential suspects. There were hundreds of leads that were worked. The case was covered in local Houston press repeatedly. You know, they've celebrated the anniversaries and cold case updates. There were interviews with detectives who had been carrying it on for years. So in 2028, 18, I'm sorry, 20, 2008, 18 years after the murders, investigators linked DNA from the crime scene to a separate rape case from 1996. And that was a breakthrough, but it was not enough. So Billy Belk was one of the detectives who worked on this case, and he worked on it for 17 years before he retired. And but he never stopped believing that it would break, right? So he like, you know, to him, quote, he said, This case, this case will clear. I know it's hard to have patience after 36 years, but we have the DNA. So Cheryl's father, Robert Henry, in an interview from 2025, this is like the year before the arrest, said, quote, I feel like somebody out there knows something. And if they would come forward, maybe they would know. End quote. And he passed away before the arrest was made. And so did Cheryl's mother and Andy's father. So here's how it broke. In late 2025, a Houston homicide detective received a tip naming Floyd William Parrott as a possible suspect. So the detective began investigating. Parrot had a history. In 1998, he was arrested for impersonating a police officer, which is never a good thing. I don't feel like that ever leads to a good ending. In December 1988, he was arrested for carrying a weapon, which was a blue steel revolver, which was later returned to him. In May of 1990, he was arrested again for impersonating a police officer. And he was out on bond from that case when Cheryl and Andy were murdered in August of 1990. He worked about a mile from the crime scene, and the area was undeveloped enough that he would have known that it was remote, you know? So here's what cracked it open. The DNA from the 1996 sexual assault case, in which Parrot was named suspect and admitted to sexual contact, had recently been added to CODIS, which is like the national DNA database that matches profiles across local, state, and federal labs. When it was added, CODIS flagged a match. And the male DNA profile from the 1996 case matched the DNA recovered from the sexual assault examination performed on Cheryl Henry during her autopsy in 1990. Same man, same DNA, 36 years apart. So on Wednesday, March 25th, which is about six days from today, six days ago, Houston police detectives and FBI agents arrested Floyd in Lincoln, Nebraska. He is 64 years old. And when investigators interviewed him, he said he had never met Cheryl Henry. So now he is fighting extradition in Texas. At the press conference on Friday, the Harris County District Attorney said something that deserves some airtime. And they believe there may be more victims. Parrot had a pattern of impersonating police. So he drove a vehicle that was outfitted with the reds and blues, like the police lights. They are asking anyone who was pulled over by someone fitting his description in the late 80s or 90s to come forward. A little bit about the families who were affected. So Shane Craig, Cheryl Henry's younger sister, was at the press conference on Friday. She cried and she'd been called little Cheryl growing up because she followed her sister everywhere. She said, quote, our sister was taken in a way that no one should experience. She was more than a victim and a headline. She was a daughter, a friend, a person who brought much love and light into our lives, end quote. She also said something about the investigators who never gave up on the case that I think deserves to be included in here too, which is she said she'd known some of these detectives for 30 years. She watched them retire and then, you know, watched their replacements keep working the case. And she said that the fact that her parents did not live to see this day is heartbreaking. And then she said, we know they're with them and rejoicing in their own ways. Andy's cousin, Tim Goodwin, said they always believed that they would find out who did it. He said three to six months when it happened, eventually months became years, years became decades, and then decades became this week. Cheryl Henry was 22 years old. Andy Atkinson was 21. And they went to a nightclub on a Wednesday night in August 1990 and never came home. 36 years later, someone is finally in handcuffs, and I'm gonna Follow this to extradition and then obviously through the trial as well. So stay tuned for updates as this as this progresses. The next case that we're gonna bring up is Samantha Goldsby from Cookersville, Tennessee. And she was 34 years old and reported missing on March 25th, which again is six days ago. The family said she hadn't come home Tuesday night. Wednesday, March 25th, at approximately 4 16 p.m., which is five days ago, partially concealed in the woods on Fire Road, they found her body. The person charged with this is Laura Morgan, 57 degrees, 57 degrees, 57 years old. First degree murder, abuse of a corpse, and tampering with evidence are the three charges. The strange thing is that Morgan admitted to shooting Goldsby, according to the Puntham County Sheriff's Department. The bond was set at $820,000, and the next court appearance is supposed to be April 20th of 2026. Okay. So, okay, I want to say something directly to you before I tell you what happened. It's I don't have enough on Samantha Goldsby's life yet to do the full like justice today to her. The local coverage of this case has been kind of thin. And what I know about who she is is really limited. But and I think the honest thing to say that out loud rather than kind of fill the space with some generic shit. What I know is that she was 34 years old. She lived in Cookersville, Tennessee, which is like a mid-sized city, about an hour and a half east of Nashville in the upper Cumberland region. She had people who noticed when she didn't come home. And she also had a family that filed a missing report, missing persons report the morning that she didn't return. And obviously that means that this is someone whose absence was felt immediately. And I think that that matters too. What we know is that on the morning of Wednesday, March 25th, Samantha Goolsby's family called the Putnam County Sheriff's Office. She had not come home the night before and they were worried. That same afternoon, at approximately 4 16 p.m., a property owner on the Fi Road called authorities, and he found a partially concealed body on the wood line of his property. The deputies responded, then the body actually matched Samantha's description. Investigators began working the case and quickly determined that a domestic dispute had taken place on Tuesday morning, the morning before Samantha's family realized she was gone. That dispute, which was between Samantha and a 57-year-old woman named Laura Morgan, ended with Samantha being shot. The Putnam County Sheriff said it was plain, well, I mean, they said it plainly at the press conference, and they said out of a dem out of the domestic and whatever disagreement they had, Laura ended up shooting and killing Samantha Goldsby, and she confessed to that to my investigators. End quote. Morgan allegedly hid the body in the woods and then went home. Samantha's family spent the next 12 hours thinking she was maybe just missing. Morgan is charged with first degree murder, abuse of a corpse, and tampering with evidence. She's being held at on $820,000 bond. And the court date is scheduled for April 20th. So we'll keep an eye on that. Here's the thing about this case and any kind of case like this, and it's like it didn't make national news this week. It barely made like regional news outside of Tennessee. Like I kind of had to dig for this one. A 34-year-old woman was shot during a domestic dispute, and her body was thrown and hidden in the woods, and her family spent an entire day not knowing why she didn't come home. And I I don't know yet what Samantha loved. I don't know what she did for work or I don't know who her people were, what you know, what she was like when she was in the room. I the reporting hasn't existed yet. And I'm not going to invent it because I don't know. But what I do say is her name. And we say it clearly, and we say it on a show that people will hear and remember and commit that whenever more comes out about who Samantha Goldsby was, because it will, and this case move moves through the courts, we'll come back for her. Until then, Samantha Goldsby was 34 years old from Cookersville, Tennessee, and April 20th, we'll keep you posted. Here's the last thing I want to talk about is there's an update in the Rex Hewerman and the Gilgo Beach murders. So before we close, something significant happened this week that I can't let pass without naming it. And this dude, Rex Hewerman, the Long Island architect charged with murdering seven women over 17 years, is expected to plead guilty at his next court appearance on April 8th. Multiple sources confirmed this week that both the victims' families and his own family have been notified. The trial had been set for September, and that trial is not happening. I'm not going to do the full case here. But I will not mention the guilty plea in a case involving seven murdered women without saying their names. So here we go. Melissa Bartholomew, she was 24 years old living in the Bronx when she disappeared in July of 2009. She, after she was gone, a man used her phone to call and taunt her 15-year-old sister. More to come on that. Maureen Brainerd Barnes, she was 25 years old. She was the mother of two. And her daughter Nicolette was seven years old when her mom disappeared in 2007. Amberlynn Costello, she was 27 years old, struggled with addiction. She'd been trying to get clean. And her sister Kimberly said she was the kind of person who would give you her last dollar. Megan Waterman, she was 22 years old. She was from Scarsboro, Maine. She had a toddler that she adored and she was trying to get stable. Sandra Costilla, she was 28 years old. Her remains were found in Southampton in 1993. She waited for somebody to name her killer for 33 years. Valerie Mack, she was 24 years old. Her remains were found in pieces in two different locations, years apart. Jessica Taylor, she was 20 years old. Her remains were also found in multiple locations, years and miles apart. Seven women, seven names, April 8th, and we will cover when it happens and we will do it right. So we had those four cases this week. Seven women connected to the Gilgo Beach, seven names said out loud. Listen, come back Thursday. We go deep. Before we go into how they died, we always talk about how they lived. I'm Dino Malvone, and this was I Fear You Babe. Talk to you guys next week.