This is the fifth episode in our latest season covering unsolved homicides across the United States,

and the first in a two-part series.

The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are solely the interviewee zone.

All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

This series discusses crime scenes, violence, and homicide.

Listener discretion is advised.

Music violence and homicide. Listener discretion is advised. This is the fall line. It was around 10 p.m. on September 7, 23, when emergency services arrived

at a home on Bremall Street in southwest Philadelphia.

According to Fox 29, they'd come in response to a wellness check call.

The family of 80-year-old Rose Goodman hadn't been able to reach her that day.

Her three adult children had worried about their mother since their father, Donald Butch Goodman,

passed away in 2021. But they knew how strong

their family's ties were to the community. Their parents had lived on the same block for 50 years,

and had served through the church, the schools, and local and national organizations for decades.

There was a network of people ready to help Rose Goodman right along with her adult

children, Devin, Allen, and Donna. And though they didn't want her living alone, and were working

with their mother to transition things so that she would eventually move in with one of them,

they knew that she felt at home in the place where she'd been so happy with their father. But they were worried.

They flew or drove to their old home often, bringing Rose's seven grandchildren to visit,

and attend to household maintenance and deal with all the paperwork that life brings.

Alan, her middle son, told us that they tried to transition their mother to as many electronic conveniences as possible,

like e-billing and banking, so that she wouldn't have to make as many trips around town.

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