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Chapter 1: What happened in the double murder case of Angelique and her mother?
Topic 911, what is the address of your emergency? I need an ambulance. I'm dying.
It starts on Friday night, the 4th of July weekend, in Norfolk, Virginia.
It's about 1.30 in the morning. I'm patrolling the East Ocean View area when I got the call from dispatch to respond to Fryden Street.
Guy, is anybody there with you? Is anybody there with you?
As I'm approaching the steps, I can see that the interior front door is open and I can also see that there's a light on inside the residence.
and he sees an older woman on the floor, on the rug, next to a phone that appears to have blood on it.
This woman has been stabbed multiple times, and her throat has been slit.
Her name was later determined to be Vanda Goina, and she was 74 years of age.
I immediately drew my weapon, walked in, Asked the elderly female, is there anybody else in the residence? She said, my daughter is in the bedroom. My main concern was, is the person that did this still in the residence? Took a couple of steps towards the bedroom, walking down the hall.
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Chapter 2: Who were Angelique and Vonda Goyena, and what was their relationship?
The person has to believe that they're going to die when they give you the statement. and then ultimately they have to die. For them to tell you their last thoughts is, this is who did it to me. That's very powerful.
Walter Lucas, she says. Walter Lucas.
Mailbox one, you have three old messages.
On my answering machine from 15 years ago, It's Angelique and mom singing happy birthday to me.
Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you.
I kept it. So a month later, they're not on our planet.
Happy birthday to you.
Somehow it's still intact.
And many more.
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Chapter 3: How did Angelique meet David Hoshaw and what was their relationship like?
My true love is out there still to be found.
I would love one day to get my poetry published. Or to get my story published.
You place a strong emphasis on family as well. You get an A in my book.
Angel's discovering so much more about David Hoshaw. He is an electrical designer, he's a scout master, he's seeming more and more to her like he could be the one. Within a matter of months, they fall in love, David proposes, and now he's moved in with her and Vonda.
I think my married name will be pretty, Angelique Elaine Hoshaw. I wonder if our children will have dark hair like me and blue eyes like David.
Angel was into the Renaissance and she was having a special dress made. It was red trim, you know, just kind of fairytale. It was very much Angel. I still have the dress that I purchased to wear as maid of honor.
Of course, neither of those dresses are ever worn. Two months before her wedding, Angel is killed. Who would kill Angel and her mother so brutally, and why? The police are about to get a chilling clue. A letter from the killer himself.
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Chapter 4: What was the initial police investigation and key evidence found at the crime scene?
But remember, they do have one clue. Vonda gave the police a dying declaration and said it was Walter Lucas. Walter Lucas. He doesn't live in the home, but they found his DNA. Is this their big break?
Walter is my ex-husband. We were married back in our 20s. And then, you know, we got divorced. But he stayed in touch with the family. Everybody loved him.
When the detectives told me that Vonda mentioned my name, I knew I wasn't there. And I knew that she had Alzheimer's. But he said my DNA was there. And I said, well, of course, I was there the week before visiting them.
The detectives find that on the night of the murder, Walter was more than 200 miles away. His alibi checks out, so they have to cross Walter Lucas off the list. If there is no break-in, the next question police ask is who could get into the house. Everyone who has a key, family, David the fiance, all have alibis too.
The family members confirm that David Hoshaw is a couple hours away on the Middle Peninsula in Virginia at a Boy Scout week-long camp.
David is with his 12-year-old son. Other parents see him there at 11 o'clock Friday night. Now, 6.30 Saturday morning, he's there for camp breakfast. And David drives back into Norfolk that afternoon.
Police track him down, and they tell him that they need him to come down to the station.
So we talked to them, gave the alibi, denied committing the murder, and because there's nothing that points to him, he's allowed to leave.
Days are passing and there's no arrest, no clues, no clear direction.
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Chapter 5: What clues did the dying declaration and killer’s letters provide?
Let's get Rick Maubin on this case. We'll work it together.
Detective Rick Maubin is a veteran homicide detective with 15 years under his belt.
I knew that this case was going to be difficult. But deep down, I felt that this was a solvable case. It may have taken time, but it was going to be a solvable case.
You don't just look at suspects in a murder case. You also look at the victims. By 2008, Detective Malabon and his partner are digging deeper into Angel's past, and they find the ties to Wicca.
Angelique's relationship with Wicca was more interest, and I think that kind of trickled down to mom as well.
You know, you can think of lunar rituals and secular worship. It is not black magic and Satanism.
Wiccan rituals often involve a special set of mystical tools, commonly including a wand, a pentacle, a chalice, and a large knife called an athene, used only for symbolic purposes.
Angel had become associated with a group that loosely operated out of a bookstore called the Mystic Moon. To the police, that opened a Pandora's box of, well, who did she meet there? January 2nd, 2008, there was a call to the Norfolk Police Department. There's a man that wants to talk about the Goyena case.
He considered himself a vampire.
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Chapter 6: Who was Detective Rick Malbin and what was his role in the case?
Who is he? Hoshaw has a job doing electrical work for a Virginia company with U.S. Navy contracts. Detectives learn he tells Angel he's been placed on a project in the Midwest. Most of the time, he'll be living up there and commuting back to Norfolk.
He was supposedly building a ship, but why are you building a ship in Wisconsin or Michigan? It didn't make sense. There were definitely red flags that David possibly was cheating or hiding something from Angel.
When the forensic investigators were going through the house, one of the things that was of interest was a computer.
We got the search warrant for the computer, and once we got it to Forensic, that's when we found out.
On June 24, 2007, David Hoshaw, as the administrator for the computer, changed the password to For Amanda.
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Chapter 7: What connection did Angelique have to Wicca and the Mystic Moon bookstore?
Amanda? If David's marrying Angel in two months, who is Amanda?
detectives start digging into everything David Hoshaw said he was doing before, during, and after the killings. Was he really in Boy Scout camp the night of the murders?
We knew he was roughly 80 miles away at 11 p.m. at night, and he was there at 6 in the morning. That is not physically impossible to drive to Norfolk two hours, commit a brutal homicide, and drive back, but it's unlikely behavior. When you're looking at individuals capable of committing a homicide, David Hoshaw does not jump off the pages.
But sometimes people that present that way are actually the most dangerous.
Turns out David Hoshaw was more dangerous than anyone imagined.
That's because there's a lot that Angel's Prince Charming hadn't told him.
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Chapter 8: Why did suspicion fall on David Hoshaw, Angelique’s fiancé?
Breathe out.
This is safe. We take you back to a core trauma. Breathe in. Breathe out. She is manipulating us. Breathe in. Breathe out. Why are you resisting? Is it too late to get a refund?
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David Hoshaw was Angel's fairy tale hero, but detectives are coming to believe he may actually have been a dark prince.
David Hoshaw became like a onion in the case. The more you peeled him back, the more strange information came out.
When Angelique Guyana meets her true love online, there's a lot he isn't telling her, like he's been married three times.
I am Naomi Hoshaw. I was David's first wife. We were 16 and we met at Busch Gardens when we worked there.
It's all the fun and splendor of old Europe, but a lot closer.
At first, neither one of us liked each other. You know, I looked at him like, oh, he's too preppy and his uniform's on too perfect, you know. I gave him a little bit of attention and he gave it back a million fold. I felt special. Of course, when he asked me to marry him, I definitely said yes.
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