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This is pretty unpleasant stuff - I'm not sure I've heard of anything remotely similar:
http://www.kotv.com/pages/viewpage.asp?id=55783
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/US/Southwest/12/29/woman.slain.ap/index.html
Charges filed in the death of an Okemah woman and her unborn child
New details out of Hughes County on the case of a woman killed, authorities believe, for her unborn baby. Murder charges were filed late Monday afternoon against a woman already in jail.
News on 6 reporter Emory Bryan says the victim lived and worked in Okemah.
Hughes County Sheriff's deputies say this case is about a bizarre as they come. Hughes County Sheriff's deputy Wayne Metcalf: "It's something that a lot of people around here are going to remember for a long time."
It started as a missing persons case out of Okemah. 21-year-old Carolyn Simpson [pictured], never came home from work the Monday before Christmas. She worked at the Creek Nation Bingo Hall.
A survellience camera there showed her leaving with one of the customers. Authorities believe Effie Goodson was the woman in the video. They believe she she befriended Simpson with the intention of taking her baby.
Sometime last Monday night, they believe Goodson drove the victim to a remote field about 20 miles south of Okemah. They say the victim had been shot once in the head, and her baby had been cut out of her stomach with a sharp object, possibly a razor blade.
"Miss Goodson came to the hospital with a deceased fetus she had given birth to, no reason to doubt that, she was treated as woman who had just given birth." But her story fell apart when medical personnel realized Goodson showed no signs of delivery.
She was being held as a material witness to a crime, when the missing person's report came in. Deputies say Goodsen told her husband and her friends she was pregnant. "The story is around the community that she was pregnant, and had a baby shower, and she was having a baby boy, that was what we found during our investigation that she told people that."
Mrs Simpson was 6 months pregnant. Officials presume her baby, a little girl, died soon after she was delivered.
Hughes County prosecutors charged Effie Goodson Monday afternoon with 2 counts of murder, one for the mother, another for the unborn child.
While charges have now been filed, the investigation continues. Tulsa Police are checking out some sort of ID and other papers of the dead woman, that were discovered Monday afternoon in west Tulsa.
They've alerted the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, which is handling the forensics in the case.
http://www.kotv.com/pages/viewpage.asp?id=55783
Suspect in pregnant woman's slaying jailed
Tuesday, December 30, 2003 Posted: 0218 GMT (10:18 AM HKT)
Effie Goodson was arrested for the slaying of Carolyn Simpson and Simpson's six-month-old fetus.
HOLDENVILLE, Oklahoma (AP) -- A woman who had convinced her husband she was pregnant -- and was even thrown a baby shower -- killed a pregnant acquaintance and cut the fetus from her womb, authorities said Monday.
Effie Goodson, 37, faces two first-degree murder charges and a kidnapping count in the slaying of Carolyn Simpson, 21, who was six months pregnant, and the fetus.
A hunter found Simpson's body in a field near Lamar, about 100 miles from Oklahoma City, on Friday. She had been shot in the head, authorities said.
Simpson was last seen on December 22, leaving a tribal casino in Okemah where she worked and Goodson was a patron, Sheriff Houston Yeager said. Investigators believe the two left the casino together.
The next day, Goodson brought a dead fetus that had reached six months gestation to a Holdenville hospital. Goodson claimed to be the mother, but investigators determined she could not have given birth, and she was taken into custody, authorities said.
Goodson had falsely told several people that she was pregnant, going back as far as 10 months, Yeager said. Her husband believed she was expecting, and a shower was thrown for her, he said.
"I think anybody would agree she wanted a baby," Yeager said. "She already had baby items. She was really set up for a baby."
However, investigators have not yet settled on a motive in the slaying, the sheriff said. "We've got a few more questions we haven't got answered yet," he said.
Goodson and Simpson had known each other for about a month after being introduced by family members, he said.
Oklahoma courts have ruled that murder charges can be filed in the killing of a fetus if the fetus was viable -- that is, if it could survive outside the womb. Under the state's abortion law, a fetus is presumed viable after the 24th week.
A prosecutor said Goodson was scheduled to appear in court Tuesday morning.
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/US/Southwest/12/29/woman.slain.ap/index.html