Lucas Goodrum was the primary suspect to be charged with the capital murder of Katie Autry in 2003 at the University, know where is he now
The authorities have stated that Lucas Goodrum, who is a native who hails from Scottsville, Kentucky, was not enrolled as a student at West Kentucky University which Katie had recently started as a freshman. Goodrum, with the other suspect, Stephen Soules, had enrolled at the same fraternity party as Katie the night before she was assaulted.
Who is Lucas Goodrum acquitted in the murder of Katie Autry, where is he now today in 2023 and his stepfather
Lucas Goodrum Arrest
Lucas Goodrum got arrested and was brought to Warren County Regional Jail, where he underwent the charge of Katieโs death. After that, Soules was arrested and then changed his story many times before implicating himself and Goodrum in the murder case of Katie Autry. While being in custody, during interrogation, Goodrum denied being connected to the murder of Katie. Before alleged involvement in the case of Katie Autryโs murder, there was a report against Goodrum from another girl.
The police officials received a complaint from a teenage girl alleging that Goodrum had hit twice on her face with a cell phone in his apartment, following this he had held her down in her car and then refused to let her go back. The authorities informed that the girl was a minor and would require the signature of her parents for issuing an arrest warrant. No warrant got issued thereafter. But Goodrum was arrested in the murder case of Katie Autry. Goodrum, was unaware of the situation so he thought that he was being arrested for assaulting a teenager who had registered the complaint earlier.
Where is Lucas Goodrum now?
In the trial of Goodrum in 2005, the prosecution majorly was dependent on the testimony of Goodrumโs former co-defendant named Stephen Soules. After being found guilty of charges of rape, murder, and also in the case of robbery in 2004, Soules extended his help in Goodrumโs trial through his testimony against Goodrum.
In early 2010, Goodrum appeared in an episode of the IDโs โOn the Case with Paula Zahnโ which was titled as โVoices in the Dark,โ which also featured Autryโs murder case. Goodrum was living in Aubrey, Texas, for a very long time and his present whereabouts are not publicly known.
After 22 months in jail, Lucas Goodrum was free in 2005. The 23-year-old Scottsville man was acquitted of six criminal charges. Acquitted Lucas Goodrum now faces new legal problems after the murder of Western Kentucky University student Kate Autry. Dugas was the stepfather of Lucas Goodrum, who has been living in Aubry, Texas, since he was acquitted in 2005 of the murder.