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John Daughtery Charged with Murder &Track Coach Harrison Goss Charged With Child Seduction
Two predators, two victims, and a system that failed them both. In the quiet city of Anderson, Indiana, Leslie Houston's life ended violently at the hands of her husband of seven years, John Daughtry. What began as a medical emergency call quickly revealed a horrifying pattern of abuse that had been occurring for years. Leslie's body told a story her voice no longer could – bruises in various stages of healing, evidence of strangulation, and a fatal brain hemorrhage that doctors immediately recognized as suspicious.
The tragedy becomes even more heartbreaking when we learn that just 16 days before her death, Leslie had left a desperate voicemail for her daughter, saying she was "done" with the abuse and ready to file for a protective order. Family members and friends had witnessed the violence firsthand – her father once intervened when he found Daughtry choking Leslie and slamming her head against the floor. Yet somehow, the system failed to protect her before it was too late.
Daughtry's criminal record reads like a textbook case of escalating violence and institutional failure. With multiple prison sentences for theft, forgery, and armed robbery, he had spent years behind bars before meeting Leslie. Had the court not dropped a habitual offender enhancement during his 2010 armed robbery case, he might have remained incarcerated until 2023 – and Leslie might still be alive today. Instead, he violated probation multiple times shortly after release with minimal consequences, free to begin a relationship that would eventually turn deadly.
In a disturbing parallel case, we explore how Harrison Goss, a 26-year-old assistant track coach at Ben Davis High School, allegedly used his position of authority to manipulate and sexually abuse a 16-year-old student. Through threats and intimidation, Goss allegedly convinced the teenager she would "get in trouble" if anyone discovered their text exchanges, coercing her into sexual activity against her will. When police confiscated his phone, they found the victim's picture as his screensaver – a chilling indicator of predatory fixation.
These stories force us to confront uncomfortable questions about how our communities protect the vulnerable. Why do we continue to give violent offenders second, third, and fourth chances? How many missed opportunities for intervention occur before someone dies or suffers irreparable trauma? Listen now to understand the warning signs and what we can all do to break these cycles of violence before they claim more victims.
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Welcome. There was a time when I could drag my fears away. Your trigger warning. Our podcast content is produced for adult listeners, 18 years of age and older. We discuss situations that may be offensive and triggering to some listeners. Sit back, relax and enjoy. Welcome back, everybody to 69 South Podcast. I'm your host, chop, and with me always is my beautiful co-host, julie.
Speaker 2:How are you doing today? I'm good, how are you?
Speaker 1:Lovely, except for this heat wave. I hope everybody's out there staying cool, because it's hot Hydrated. Af where we're at today. Today we're going to be digging into the murder of Leslie Houston, and I'm not sure where she was originally from, but when she had passed away she was around Anderson Indiana.
Speaker 2:Yes, she was. And last October of 2024, at approximately 9 pm, the Anderson Police Department got a 911 call to the Daughtery residence. Now, it was a call for medical assistance. So the Anderson Police, fire Department, the EMS they all arrived on scene and began performing CPR on the victim.
Speaker 1:Basically her boyfriend of seven years. They boyfriend of seven years, husband. Oh, they was married.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Of seven years. He had called 911 asking for the medical assistance, like you said, and he had said that he had got home from work and he had found Leslie, that she had fallen and broken her glass. He said he found her on the sleep on the floor and woke her up and she denied needing an ambulance.
Speaker 2:In the kitchen.
Speaker 1:In the kitchen. Wow that was weird. That is weird.
Speaker 2:Now in another conversation with an officer, Daughtery stated that the Anderson Police Department was just at their residence the evening prior for a welfare check on houston. So an internal records check, you know, corroborated that and the officer had responded at the request of houston's daughter. Now the officer got there and spoke with Mrs Houston who confirmed that she was okay, so the officer left the residence.
Speaker 1:Now the officer conducted an initial interview of Mr Daughtry. Daughtry had stated that he had came home from work and he found Houston sleeping on the floor covered with a sheet and her head on a pillow. Daughtry said that he later got her up, put her on the floor covered with a sheet and her head on a pillow. Daughtry said that he later got her up, put her on the couch and spoke with her. Later in the evening Daughtry said he heard what he thought was Houston vomiting on the couch. Daughtry stated that he went to the living room and found Houston and she had vomited on her arm. Daughtry stated he put her like on her side so she would be safe from her vomiting and called 911. He stated he attempted CPR while talking to dispatch. Daughtry denied any history of abuse between himself and Leslie.
Speaker 2:So, Houston, Leslie was transported to St Vincent Hospital. Leslie was transported to St Vincent Hospital and when she got there they did a CT scan and located a massive intracranial injury. A neurosurgical team in Indianapolis reviewed the findings of her CT scans and x-rays and all that stuff and concluded that her injuries were not survivable.
Speaker 1:So she was hurt pretty bad.
Speaker 2:Really bad. It was also noted that Houston had numerous bruises and other injuries, in different stages of healing, on her feet. On her feet on her arms, legs, neck, breast, which were consistent with intentional infliction of injury rather than an accidental cause.
Speaker 1:We see this a lot. When we're investigating stuff like this where there's been abuse to a victim, it seems like a lot of the times we see where they they find out that the victim has injuries in different stages of healing, like the abuse has been going on for a long time. They get, they get abused and then they're healing up for a little bit and they get abused again. So that's how they can kind of tell so why he?
Speaker 2:you know that if she's a victim of domestic violence, and it's him perpetrating it that he's going to know. She's got those bruises all over her body.
Speaker 1:Absolutely.
Speaker 2:So why lie about it? Because the extent and nature of the findings were consistent with domestic abuse and possibly strangulation. Houston also had acute alcohol intoxication as a result, and doctors expressed concern that Houston's injuries were the result of foul play.
Speaker 1:Acute alcohol intoxication means a little bit of intoxication, just like an acute triangle. I always made the difference of acute triangle and an obtuse triangle. The acute one was a cute little one, so it's always a little and obtuse is big. That makes sense to everybody. What a way to remember. I have a weird way of thinking about shit, but it works out for me. So at this point, with the injuries and various stages and they could tell that it was some foul play, maybe some abuse somewhere, they start interviewing people at the police department. Houston's daughter had played the detective a voicemail that she received from her mother 16 days before her hospitalization. In the voicemail, houston tells her daughter that she is done and that she has a head injury and is unable to take a shower. Houston tells her daughter that Daughtry has been hitting her and will continue to hit her. She states that she is ready to leave him and do the paperwork for a protective order. I bet her daughter was happy like thank God, because this has obviously been going on for a long time.
Speaker 2:Oh, you know she was, and I'm sure she was scared at the same time. Now, on October 12th 2024, medical staff at the hospital advised that Houston had a brain bleed, believed to be caused by blunt force trauma. But here's the problem there were no visible signs of injury to her head. So did this happen previously? And you know she's just been injured for a while and maybe the outside bruises have healed up in her head?
Speaker 1:So that probably stalled the investigation if there wasn't an obvious sign of trauma on her scalp? Is what they're saying.
Speaker 2:That's what I thought.
Speaker 1:So on 10-13-2024, the police obtained a search warrant for the residents of Anderson to collect Houston and Daughtry's cell phones, along with searching the residents for additional evidence of domestic violence, and to take photographs of Daughtry's persons. Means they probably made his ass stripped down. Take pictures of his whole body to see if there was any defense wounds on him.
Speaker 2:Or any other marks and scars and things of that nature. So Daughtry was located in his vehicle near 19th Street and Brown Street in Anderson. In his vehicle near 19th Street and Brown Street in Anderson the police advised Daughtry that there was a search warrant for the residence and collected his cell phone. The police proceeded to the residence and collected Houston's cell phone from the kitchen. The residence was then photographed and swabs of bloodstains were collected. Photographs were also taken of Daughtry's person. Now Daughtry had a small burn on his hand, a small scratch on his left and right shoulder and a small bruise in the small of his back. Now the officer conducted another interview with Daughtry. Now he was not in custody at this time, but what he was provided his Miranda warnings and he agreed openly to speak with them they was.
Speaker 1:They was getting ready to get his ass, though Daughtry he, like Julie, said he was not arrested at this time but they did write his rights. And Daughtry stated that him and Houston had been together for seven years but they were married for five years. Daughtry stated on 10, 11, 24, when he returned home from work he just found Houston sleeping. This is the same thing he said in his initial interview. Daughtry stated that he later felt her head for any kind of injury or bleeding and did not see or feel anything. He said he returned to his room and watched a couple of movies. When he heard choking sounds around 8 pm, went to the living room and saw Houston had vomited on herself. Daughtry stated that he placed her on her side and called 911.
Speaker 1:Daughtry attributed the bruising and injuries on Houston's body to her drinking and falling when she is drunk. Daughtry denied there was any history of domestic violence between them. So there's a little bit of difference in there in that interview. In the initial interview he didn't say anything about going and watching a couple of movies. A couple of movies is at the least four hours.
Speaker 2:Right, and then he outright denied a history of domestic abuse between them.
Speaker 1:As we're going to find out, that was some bullshit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, now Houston was taken off life support and pronounced dead. On the same date Daughtery signed a search waiver for his cell phone, like we just said, and he openly, you know, was willing and gave the passcode like oh, here you go, I have nothing to hide, putting on that kind of front. Houston and Daughtery's cell phones were both submitted and they were taken for forensic analysis.
Speaker 1:So on 10-21-24, they performed an autopsy of Houston at St Vincent's Hospital in Anderson by Dr Sean Swatkowski Damn, I'm glad I said that right. Houston was found to have scattered contusions and abrasions on her chest, upper and lower extremities and both feet. She also had an elevated level of ethanol. The doctor concluded the cause of death was intercranial hemorrhage and the manner of death was undetermined.
Speaker 2:So brain bleeding.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and at this point I think they're saying she got scratches on her feet, on her head, the toe. So at this point they didn't really know if maybe she had got drunk. And when they say she had acute, that means there was just a little bit of alcohol in her system. But they said that she had a highly elevated level of ethanol, which is basically the byproduct of alcohol after your body starts processing the alcohol. So it shows that she probably did drink a little bit.
Speaker 2:So it shows that she probably did drink a little bit. Now the police wanted to go around and conduct other interviews to try to get more information about, you know, what was really going on in the home. So they got a hold of Houston's father and he stated that he observed an instance of Daughtery battering Houston roughly about a year and a half prior to this last incident, while staying with Daughtry and Houston. He heard them arguing and he heard Houston gagging. He left his room and he saw Daughtry on top of Houston, choking her and hitting her head on the floor. So her father stated that he was able to get him off of her and stop the attack. He also mentions that he is very controlling of Houston and will listen to her phone calls and if she doesn't do what he wants, he also takes her cell phone away.
Speaker 1:Well, I don't know about you fathers out there, know about you fathers out there. I guess this Daughtry guy at the time being he is roughly about 48, 49, 50-ish. So we tried to do a little bit of digging but we couldn't find an exact age of Miss Houston. But you assume that they're at least around the same age, so her father is at least probably 20 or 30 years. It's a lot of speculation, folks.
Speaker 2:So Pavlina is mid-60s, early 70s something like that.
Speaker 1:But I'm telling you what, man, if I walked in and seen a dude on top of my daughter, I wouldn't care If I was 90, boy, I'd be grabbing something and fucking that dude up. Yeah, that would be hard for me to deal with. I have excellent son-in-laws, thank God. They also conducted an interview of Houston's uncle on 21025. He had stated that he had lived with Daughtry in Houston for about a year, near the end of 2022 and into 2023. He stated that he heard them arguing and Daughtry either punched or slapped Houston and pushed her to the floor. He said he observed some redness to the right side of her face and her glasses were knocked off.
Speaker 1:Approximately six months prior to Houston and Daughtry moving to the address, he saw Houston's arms bruised like someone had gripped them tightly and a bruise on Houston's neck. A few months prior to that, he saw some reddish bruising on Houston's face and her glasses were broken. He said that Daughtry is very controlling, he listens to her phone calls and they don't have many friends. He also stated that he took Daughtry to a motel one night and stayed with him so he could cool off. So everybody is seeing this shit typical domestic violence type thing, man, it's a lot of times people don't want to get in between a man and a woman because you know, I'll be honest, I did it one time a long time ago. I had a good friend that used to smack the shit out of his old lady all the time and it would aggravate me, you know what I mean. And I stood up one time and the wife ended up getting pissed off at me. So I was like nevermind, I'll never get into that shit again.
Speaker 2:But I guarantee you, he didn't do it no more again.
Speaker 1:Not around me. He didn't.
Speaker 2:Now the police also conducted an interview with another witness and he said that over the past three years he has seen injuries on Houston off and on when they lived on jackson street. He recalled seeing houston with a black eye and bruises on her arms like someone had been grabbing them. He has also seen some bruising on her neck. On another occasion, about one to two months prior to her death, at her residence. He saw saw Houston with a black eye and blue bruising. The witness said they got into an altercation with Daughtry about these injuries to Houston and then her daughter provided information that Daughtry and Houston had been in a relationship since February of 2019. And that Houston is and has been a victim of domestic violence for the majority of their relationship.
Speaker 1:So she'd been going through this shit probably the whole time they was together, except for the little honeymoon stage this shit, probably the whole time they was together except for the little honeymoon stage. The one of the witnesses also provided records of history of violence, including text messages between daughtry and houston. Additionally, the detective was informed by the witness that in january of 2024 houston had been admitted to saint Vincent's for injuries she sustained from daughtery.
Speaker 1:So he's been doing this for a minute, yeah so she was just in the hospital at the beginning of last year for this and we looked into that and we couldn't find where he was arrested for that.
Speaker 2:So she was keeping all this a secret. And yeah, that's why I initially went to go search for his to look in his packet, because I was like, well, if he's, there's all this domestic violence, surely he's caught a case for it. And there wasn't a case for domestic violence, but there was a big case.
Speaker 1:There's all kinds of cases, a bunch of shit. This dude been in the pen more times than the hog out back and more times than the hog out back. But they requested a warrant for John Daughtry white male. 122, 1977, for the crime of murder for the injuries inflicted on or before October 15th 2024, which resulted in the death of Leslie Houston. It took him like five, six months from the time that she was in the hospital and passed away till the time that they arrested him. I'm glad they stayed on it, man, because anderson's a busy ass city. From what I've heard, and I.
Speaker 2:We had an employee that worked there.
Speaker 1:Shout out to kyle what's up call and our new patreon member kyle I guess anderson is pretty bad from what Mr Kyle has told me, like there's a lot of gang violence, a lot of drug dealing, a lot of just you know your big city shit. So a lot of times domestic batteries and stuff like that it kind of falls to the wayside, especially if you know months fall in between where they're investigating the death until the time that they actually get some solid evidence, because you know, in a town like that cases just keep coming up and keep coming up so shit gets pushed to the back sometimes. So you know, kudos to these detectives for staying on this dude's ass amen and getting it done within a year, because it's not easy so back in december or I mean mean September of 2010, daughtry gets arrested in Hamilton County, indiana, for some pretty heavy shit.
Speaker 1:He's charged with two Class B felonies armed robbery or robbery where someone gets hurt, and criminal confinement with a deadly weapon. This is a dude who's either brandishing a weapon or roughing somebody's ass up during a robbery, or maybe both Court records mentioned restitution to Duke Energy, so it might have been a hit on one of their properties. Bottom line. This was a serious violent crime. I wondered what the Duke Energy thing was, because they're usually big corporations and people call them and pay their bill with.
Speaker 2:You know their debit A car Right. Well, this was back in 2010. But armed robbery and holding someone against their will, that's intense shit, I mean.
Speaker 1:They were intensified to Class B felonies, which that's you know that's just right below murder, class A. And per usual, with a dude like this, daughtry cannot afford a lawyer, so he gets a public defender, dan Hinckley. The state tries to slap an habitual offender enhancement, which means he's got prior felonies on his record a big red flag. But instead of going to trial, he cuts a deal In November 2010,. He pleads guilty to the robbery charge. Down the sentence 14 years total, with 12 years to serve in the Indiana Department of Correction and two years suspended to probation. He gets credit for 120 days already spent in jail and this sentence has to run consecutive to two other cases. So it's a long road ahead.
Speaker 2:And consecutive meaning one right after the other.
Speaker 1:Yes, just like that, Not at the same time yep.
Speaker 2:So with good time credits and the 120 days he'd already served, he is out by early 2018. So about eight years total. That's that's a almost a decade for an armed robbery by someone with prior felonies. You'd expect the system to keep him locked up longer.
Speaker 1:I wonder if the habitual thing, if they didn't find all they needed to keep that charge on, or if that was another plea bargain deal where they didn't want to take the whole deal to trial for whatever he did to Duke Energy. So it was just like one of those things. I will drop this, plead guilty to this. You know we could give you X amount of years but plead guilty to this and blah, blah, blah. The same old story. So by late 2018, just months after getting out he's in hot water for violating his probation conditions. He admits to it, the court sends him back to prison for just 94 days. Then in early 2019, he violates again and all he gets is a nine month extension on his probation. So no added jail time there.
Speaker 2:Well, it's funny because the 94 days he had already spent 47 of those 94 days in like county jail, so he just had to go for the that short amount of time and then he wasn't even out a month before he violated probation again that's why they sent seemed to 94 days in prison because he'd done 47.
Speaker 1:So 47 times 2 would be 94. So they're like okay, time served on that one. Go on, get your ass back out.
Speaker 2:There, be good you would think, for someone with a record like this, like how does that even happen?
Speaker 1:you, you would think a violent, a habitual violent offender, um would have harsher consequences you would think that somebody that just got out doing eight to ten years in prison would be walking the fucking line or on the tight leash.
Speaker 1:Obviously the dude was institutionalized or he didn't learn very quick. So the court had him. They had a shot on him to keep a tighter leash on him or to lock him up a little longer, but they didn't. Maybe it was the plea deal, maybe the jails were full, maybe they thought he could still turn his life around. But when you look at his record it's hard to justify going easy on the dude. I mean, these jails in some of these Indiana counties are so full man, they have to pick and choose. You know who they're keeping and who they're not.
Speaker 2:They're like keeping the worst of the worst.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I would hate to have that job of being able to being the one to have to say well, we're full. So we let this dude, this dude and this dude out, because I think they may be rehabilitated or their crime this time wasn't near as bad as what it was, and then my luck could be the dude I let out that go fucking beat his old lady up and kill her.
Speaker 2:And then that's got to be way heavy on judges and prosecutors.
Speaker 1:Oh you know it does, it has to.
Speaker 2:Absolutely. Now you mentioned that habitual offender enhancement in the 2010 case. What's up with that and what else is on his record before the robbery?
Speaker 1:Well before the 2010 robbery, Daughtry had already done multiple time for multiple felonies. In 2001, he served about a year year and a half for theft. In 2002, he got two years for forgery. In 2006, he was hit with almost six years for another forgery charge. So by 2010, he's got three felony convictions under his belt. That's why the state pushed for the habitual offender charge enhancement. It's a tool to add extra years to the sentence for people who just won't stop breaking the law.
Speaker 2:So he had been to prison four times before.
Speaker 1:Yes, four times, literally in prison. Not just 30 days in the county jail, not just this, literally DOC number. That means you get a prison number. That means you get a prison number. That means you go to prison. It's you know, prison and county jail, there's a big difference in it.
Speaker 2:So three felonies before he even gets to that robbery. It's just a pattern, over and over and over again, a criminal pattern. So what would have happened if they didn't drop that enhancement in 2010? I mean, do you think he would still be there?
Speaker 1:Well, if the habitual offender enhancement had stuck, it could have tacked on six to 20 years to his robbery sentence. With his 12 years for the robbery plus, say, 10 extra years adding to his other sentences, he could have been looking at over 20 years total. Even with good behavior cutting that time down, he'd likely still be in prison today maybe not getting out until 2023 or four months of him getting arrested.
Speaker 2:He immediately took a plea deal for each of those.
Speaker 1:I mean, maybe if they kept him locked up until he was a little bit over, maybe he would have calmed down and lost that fiery whatever the fuck was wrong with his head?
Speaker 2:Yeah, but he kept getting out and going back in getting out Institutionalized Going back in, just like you said.
Speaker 1:I've known so many friends that are like that through the years, man, and it's a bad deal. It's almost like they get used to people telling them when to take a shit and when to eat and when to do this, and it's just like one of my buddies he would get out and then it's almost like Life on the run, like let's go ahead and commit a crime, get a warrant, that way I can be on the run, that way I don't have any responsibilities, I can just run around with a bunch of maybe other people that's got warrants and just stay fucking high all the time. That's what they say is fuck it.
Speaker 2:That's what he did.
Speaker 1:That's what my buddy did. This dude did too obviously.
Speaker 2:He was in there a long time too Time to. But you know, dropping that enhancement let him walk for years earlier than might have along with, you know, the plea deals that he also took some of those plea deals. If they would have stuck a little bit longer, like you said, and gave him longer time, then you got to think about how all these decisions have a ripple effect throughout other people's lives later on.
Speaker 1:It sure does. And if anybody's out there, man or woman, honestly going through domestic abuse, try to get some help. Don't stick around for that shit, because most of the time it just enhances and enhances, and enhances.
Speaker 2:And it usually doesn't wind up good, it gets worse.
Speaker 1:Absolutely that's about it on that case. But we're going to dive into a little shorter case we have because it's kind of breaking just right now and it's also the high school that I went to, so it was kind of hit home when we heard about this one. So this one is about a 26-year-old assistant track coach at Ben Davis High School in Indianapolis, indiana, harrison Goss. He is accused of child seduction and inappropriate behavior with a 16 year old student. Here we go with the teachers and the coaches again.
Speaker 2:What is going on?
Speaker 1:I don't know. I almost wonder or think in my head that since this Brittany Fortenberry shit had came out, it's like it's a lot more people are coming forward. I mean you would think this would stop everybody in their tracks and say, hey, maybe we better quit fucking diddling kids. But it just keeps coming out and coming out and coming out.
Speaker 2:It's like it's not stopping anything, but good for that, for it to keep coming out.
Speaker 1:Absolutely.
Speaker 2:Because you know what's done in the dark needs to come to life it sure does it.
Speaker 1:To keep coming out, absolutely. You know, what's done in the dark needs to come to life. Sure does, so let's jump into the events that took place. The affidavit filed on June 20th 2025 details a disturbing pattern of sexual misconduct, including nude photos fondling an alleged sexual encounter in his car. So, at the time of this recording, though, harrison Goss does have an active warrant. These are all just accusations, but he has not been arrested. As of this second, let's get into the probable cause affidavit. It's a little funky.
Speaker 2:On April 7th 2025, an officer was dispatched to Ben Davis High School for a child molestation accusation. The officer arrived on scene in full police uniform in his police car and he learned that a juvenile female and her mother were talking to the dean of Ben Davis about this incident that had occurred of Ben Davis, about this incident that had occurred. So what they told the dean is that one of the coaches, harrison Goss, had been sending text messages ranging from nude photos, inappropriate texts and other messages telling this student that he wanted to get a hotel room with her and that Mr Goss had given her a ride home from practice and on the drive, he had inappropriately fondled her breast in private area. Now the text messages and inappropriate behavior have been going on for a few months.
Speaker 1:So basically, the student and her mother went to Ben Davis, which, by the way, ben Davis was a pretty big, nice school man. When I went there back in well, I'm not going to give that away, but I mean there was five, 6,000 students. And since then on the news man, I've seen it, it's been added on to and it's freaking huge. I could only imagine how many students go there now.
Speaker 2:but I liked I've seen it, it's been added on to and it's freaking huge.
Speaker 1:I can only imagine how many students go there now. But I like Wayne Township schools.
Speaker 2:On April 8, 2025, the detective spoke with the dean of Ben Davis, who stated that a juvenile female had a sleepover with the victim and found messages between the victim and Mr Goss. She was looking at the victim's phone for a weather app during a recent bad weather storm and the victim was in the shower when a message came in from a number without contact information. Now the female read the message from the unknown contact and realized that it was sexual in nature.
Speaker 1:so do you think she was? Do you think she was really using her friend's phone to look at the weather app and not using her own phone? Or you think she was being nosy on her friend's phone while she was in the shower?
Speaker 2:I mean, you know how good you know what if she didn't have a phone? Because some parents don't let their kids have no phone. So what? What if she didn't have a phone? Or, yeah, she did, because she took a picture of it.
Speaker 1:Yes, she did, hell, you know she had a phone.
Speaker 2:But yeah. So she typed the phone number into her phone and a matching contact number popped up. And guess what it was? Coach Harrison Goss.
Speaker 1:Then it says yes, she took screenshots of the text messages before the victim returned to the room, so she was in a hurry. She then reported the messages to the dean, along with the screenshots she had took of them.
Speaker 2:Good for her.
Speaker 1:Good for her. Man Looking out for a friend for real.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she was the dean provided the detective with a copy of the witness's written statement and screenshots from her phone. The detective also verified Harrison Goss's personal information. He works at one of the schools in Wayne Townships and serves as an assistant track coach at Ben Davis High School.
Speaker 1:On April 10, 2025, the detective took a tape statement from the victim at the sex crimes office. During the interview, the victim told detective that she there's another new word, detective or whatever. I said that she had asked for Harrison Goss's phone number in case she needed it during track season. She is currently a track manager for the Ben Davis track team. In the beginning the victim and Mr Goss texted back and forth in a friendly manner, but the messages turned sexual over time. The victim says she feels Mr Goss thought that she was flirting with him because she used a lot of emojis when she text.
Speaker 1:Mr Goss told the victim that if she messed around with him he wouldn't tell anyone. Of course, they started talking a few times per week during track and sometimes during the day. Mr Goss would transport her home after practice and track meets approximately 15 times. The first time she didn't have a ride home. He offered her to take her home. She started asking him for a ride home. After that incident she told her mother that her coach was bringing her home. She was not specific about who the coach was at that time to her parents.
Speaker 2:Now Mr Goss started texting the victim and asking her to do sexual things with him. She told him that she wasn't going to do that, and he did ask her to send him nude photos, which she declined to do Good for her. And then, oh disgusting, Mr Goss did send nude photos of himself to her. Shame on him.
Speaker 1:One day after a track meet around March 17th or the 18th 2025,. The victim said she was in the passenger seat of Mr Goss's vehicle. She thought he was driving to get an oil change or something to do with his car. She was unsure where he was driving because he didn't take her home. She asked him where he was going. Mr Goss told her he was going to a nearby elementary school in Sideway Township, but she is unsure of the exact location. When she asked him why he was going there, he told her he was taking her to the school to do sexual stuff with her, and the victim does not remember exactly what she said to him or what she told him at the time. But she did tell him that she wasn't doing that type of shit because he is a grown-up.
Speaker 1:Mr Goss told her she could get in trouble for texting him back. So here we go with the threats. Well, you was already texting me so I could turn you in. That's intimidation, absolutely. You accepted these nude photos of me so they'll probably find them on your phone. You ain't said shit. You know we could both already get in trouble, so you know.
Speaker 2:Scaring her.
Speaker 1:The victim thought he would tell the school, so she did what he asked. She had sex with him inside his car in a parking lot near a lot of houses. She doesn't remember the name.
Speaker 2:However, he did say that he attended the same elementary school when he was younger, so he took her to his elementary school, from where he went to school like in the parking lot there and did that.
Speaker 1:Right, this is a 26-year-old man and a 16-year-old victim.
Speaker 2:The detective asked the victim to explain exactly how this happened, meaning she wanted her to go in detail a little bit more and walk her through every little thing.
Speaker 2:And the victim said at first they were in the front seat of his vehicle and Mr Goss told her again that she could get in trouble. Mr Goss told her again that she could get in trouble and she explains that she had started talking to Mr Goss initially through text messaging and that he thought that she was coming on to him flirting because when she texts she uses a lot of emojis and young girls do that a lot. Mr Goss told her that he would use that information to get her in trouble. She did not want to be in trouble and she doesn't quite remember exactly what she said to him after this, but she climbed in the back seat of his vehicle with him.
Speaker 2:She knew that he wanted to do sexual things with her and the victim tells Mr Goss that no, I do not want to do sexual things with her. And the victim tells mr goss that no, I do not want to do anything sexual with you. Mr goss then mentions again that she could get in trouble if anyone found out. So she complied with what he wanted and had intercourse with him. They were at the school for approximately one hour before getting dressed. He then drove her home and she continued to speak to him after this because he was her ride from track to him from.
Speaker 1:I guarantee you, when he does get caught, his story is going to be well. You know she was coming on to me and she didn't say anything?
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:This one's going to be 100% victim blame.
Speaker 2:It doesn't matter. You're a grown ass man. You do not need to think about a child like that.
Speaker 1:Absolutely.
Speaker 2:And a child being anyone under the age of 18.
Speaker 1:The detective asked the victim if any other incidents occurred with Mr Goss and she described him rubbing her leg and upper thigh while he drove her home. One time she remembered after dropping off her friend after track, Mr Goss was driving the victim home and he stopped at a stoplight. He kissed her on the lips. The victim stated that she did not want Mr Goss to kiss her. She had already told him previously that she did not want to have a sexual relationship with him. She believed this happened before she had sex with him in the vehicle.
Speaker 2:The victim told the detective that she didn't know how to cut things off with Mr Goss. She felt like if he knew he could get in trouble he would tell the school and she would be in trouble. When asked what trouble meant to her, she said trouble possibly meant being expelled, kicked out alternative school, in trouble with her parents and that even Mr Goss would go to jail.
Speaker 1:The victim had told the police that at this point she knew that her friend, the witness, had saw the messages on her phone and taken the screenshots of them the messages on her phone and taking the screenshots of them. But she had also said that they had had another sleepover at some other friends' house and that she had showed the other kids. So now you know, there's a lot of kids that know what's up. She said that she had called down to the school office. She did not tell the school administrator everything, but she did.
Speaker 2:I guess she had reported all this to DCcs as well now, the detective asked the victim if there was anything else that had not been discussed during this interview that she would like her to know, and the victim said that the night the incident happened, in the back of the vehicle that mr goss was kissing her all over her areas and left marks on her. He later asked, you know, to get photos and have them sent. Mr Goss wanted the photos of the marks he left on her and he wanted the victim to send him pictures.
Speaker 1:You think that was just more ammo for him to say, look, you sent me these, now you can't say shit.
Speaker 2:And a sick perversion.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like wanted it for a trophy and maybe evidence or ammo to use against the poor child. She did add to the detective with her story. She wasn't sure if it was the day before or the day after the incident. Mr Goss had took her to school and Mr Goss had asked her to do another sexual act in the backseat of the car. Even though the victim didn't want to, she agreed to it, probably just to keep the dude happy Because she was scared.
Speaker 2:At this point he was threatening her.
Speaker 1:You know, I mean you could get in trouble. It's, it's horrible man, it's it's devastating to a young girl. I mean it has to be. I mean these, these little girls, they really don't know what they want. I mean, especially up in the city I freaking job where they're supposed to be helping and coaching and teaching these children to take advantage of a young child like that, and that's exactly what he did.
Speaker 1:Now the probable cause. It goes on a little bit more. There was a little bit more um of the sexual allegations and there was a lot of flirting back and forth between him, a lot of kind of sexting between the two of them. But again, you know what I mean. I don't want anybody to victim blame because that's exactly what he's going to do.
Speaker 2:That is exactly what he's going to do.
Speaker 1:You know that they say that the human mind isn't fully developed until you're 25. Yeah, Mine probably wasn't, until I was like 30.
Speaker 2:I think you're closer to 40.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you're probably about right really, both detectives drove to the address listed on mr goss's um bmv registration. Upon arrival, they made contact with him. They explained the allegations against him and asked if he wanted to make a statement. Mr goss declined to make a statement without his lawyer present, so they provided a copy of a search warrant stating that he is to provide electronics regarding the investigation, which include his cell phone. Mr Goss complied with the search warrant and provided his unlocked cell phone with his passcode. The detective observed a screensaver on his phone that appeared to be that of the victim.
Speaker 1:So he had a picture of the victim on a screensaver.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:See, these are all just allegations. At this point, people, we do want to say that, but they did get the digital forensic, or they sent his phone, the phone and the victim's phone for digital forensics unit. And they began reviewing the information received. Then they put a warrant out for the dude right.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So I bet all this stuff that the victim had said. I mean, I'm just saying they found.
Speaker 2:You know, even if you delete stuff on your phone, I'm sure Cellbrite can pull it out.
Speaker 1:We've been investigating this shit. They can pull whatever the fuck they want to out of anything.
Speaker 2:They sure can.
Speaker 1:So keep that in mind, fuckheads.
Speaker 2:Leave these little kids alone.
Speaker 1:You know, I was thinking when we were going through this. I was thinking there's no fucking way that, with all these young girls knowing about the situation, that he didn't have a heads up, maybe about that somebody was getting told. But after going through it now maybe it all went so fast he didn't have a chance, because sure to God, if he'd had a clue he wouldn't have handed the fucking cops his phone with a screensaver, with the victim's fucking picture on it.
Speaker 2:I bet he had no idea that it was coming.
Speaker 1:So he probably didn't get a chance to delete shit off of his phone.
Speaker 2:Well, good, Good, that means they'll catch him with more things. I mean, and then it's not only going to be what they catch on his phone with information to do with this victim, his phone with information to do with this victim. What about you know there's potential of child pornography or other underage girls that he's talking to? I mean, you never know these predators that go after these young girls. They know exactly what they're doing. They know that they are overage and they're pedophiles.
Speaker 1:Like we've said before, it's like dope with these people. They do it over and over and over again.
Speaker 2:And it gets them high.
Speaker 1:Something. It does something to them. If this dude was a track coach and had a bunch of young athletic girls on his team, I'm sure he was probably flirting or doing whatever, know, doing whatever to a bunch of them.
Speaker 2:He was doing whatever he wanted.
Speaker 1:Obviously. Unfortunately, this poor child is a victim now and she's got to live with this shit the rest of her life. So I hope that he gets caught and I hope the child gets the help she needs to move on with her life.
Speaker 2:And the faster the better, because I'm sure it can't. It's got to be stressful on the victim knowing that there's a man on the run.
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