"He was just excited for the future"

The Daily Crime

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True Crime

4.3 • 627 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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In the spring of 2018, Jody Loring's future was full of promise. He was 18 years old, a new father whose world revolved around his 3-month-old son. But everything changed on May 4th, 2018. THV11 Reporter Ashley Godwin has been looking back at Loring's unsolved case. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up.
0:01.1	Four days ago, he had graduated high school.
0:03.9	They were sitting in the living room talking about, you know, he wanted to be a zoologist,
0:08.4	and he was just excited for the future.
0:12.1	For Vault Studios, I'm Reed Redmond.
0:14.5	You're listening to The Daily Crime. These are Mother's Day pictures that he kind of forced me to.
0:32.5	We're going to take pictures, and I'm glad I did because that was actually part of the last month that we had.
0:38.8	Lekeah Smith's house is filled with pictures of her family.
0:43.3	Jody Loring had a future full of promise.
0:46.4	He was just 18 years old, a new father whose world revolved around his three-month-old son.
0:52.5	But that future was taken away on May 4th, 2018.
0:57.0	It was four years ago. An 18-year-old Conway boy was shot and killed getting into his car.
1:03.0	His killer still on the loose, and his mother is still fighting to get justice for her son.
1:09.0	But now there are new leads that could potentially lead to an end in this case.
1:19.4	Ashley Godwin is joining us from local news station THV-11 in Little Rock, Arkansas.
1:24.6	Ashley, last time you joined the show was to talk about the unsolved case of
1:28.2	Ebby Stepik. Today we're looking at another unsolved case you've been covering from Conway, Arkansas,
1:34.1	about a half hour north of Little Rock. The victim in this case was just 18 years old when he was
1:39.4	killed. What else can you tell us about Jody Loring? Right. I want to start with who Jody Loring was because talking to his mom, he sounded amazing.
1:50.2	She just couldn't stop smiling when talking about him.
1:53.4	He was the light of her life.
1:56.2	He was creative.
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