Posts tagged custody

‘What About His Trauma?’ Perpetrators of Murder/Suicide May Have Suffered, Too.

Over Memorial Day weekend in 2017, Willie Cory Godbolt, then 34, decided to have things out with his estranged wife, Sheena May Godbolt. She had moved out of the family’s mobile home with their young daughter and son because her husband was violent. Sheena and the two children were staying at her mother’s house in Bogue Chitto, a small community near Brookhaven.

Perspective, Story Behind The StoryKatherine MitchellMay 4, 2022abused women, domestic violence, murder/suicide, custody, trauma, familiicide, suicide by cop, childhood trauma, PTSD, Willie Cory Godbolt, Lincoln County Deputy William Durr

Paralyzed by Grief: After Pheonecia Ratliff’s Murder and Jamarquis Black’s Suicide

The night of May 14, 2020, in Canton, Jamarquis Black, 24, kidnapped his estranged girlfriend, Pheonecia Ratliff, 23. They had quarreled because he wanted custody of their baby daughter, Jordyn, barely 6 months old. Phoenicia had reported Jarmarquis’ stalking and threats to the police; he had been arrested, but bailed out of jail on May 11.

Perspective, Story Behind The StoryKatherine MitchellMarch 1, 2022abused women, battered women, crime victims, domestic violence, murder/suicide, Pheonecia Ratliff, Jamarquis Black, Jordyn, Suzanne Ratliff, custody, guardianship, Nesbit, Elizabeth Black Wooten, trauma