There was a car there, stranded. Vince tells his wife that hes gonna go check on him. I heard two, three popping sounds. He was layin there with what appeared to be several gunshot wounds to the head. Her husband, a father of five, dead. I want my mommy. And i want my kids. No one could understand it. The type of person that he was, i dont think he ever had an enemy. Or did he . He said, we are now in debt to bad people. We knew that there was another person that needed to be looked at. A winding investigation, leading deep into the dark. This sounds like a love triangle. I believe it was. Its horrific. Brutal. I was like, why . Are you kidding me . hello and welcome to dateline. Growing up, goslyn didnt seem like he was fit for the military. But he was thriving. Then one night, the father of five was gunned down on a lonely road not far from his base. Did his decision to help someone in need cost him his life or was he targeted . Here is Andrea Canning with evil was waiting. Reporter hopkinsville, kentucky, corn fields, picket fences, and patriotism. Just to the south is Fort Campbell, home to more than 13,000 Army Soldiers and their families. After facing danger all over the world, soldiers return to a collective sigh of relief. After all, bad things arent supposed to happen here. But when one young sergeant returned from a tour in afghanistan, he had no idea the enemy would be much closer to home. My husband got out to see if some guy needed help. Multiple gunshots to his face and head, 911 call. He had only been back from fighting in the war for such a short period of time, it was tragic. My heart sunk. Reporter Sergeant Vincent goslyn jr. , a 28 year old father of five had served in the army for seven years as a quartermaster and mechanic. Did vince ever express to you what it meant to him to serve his country . He absolutely loved it. Reporter tim hamilton is vinces cousin, but as he explains it, they were much more than that. Were you kind of like a big brother to vince . Yeah. With him, it was i dont know how we had a bond he had an outgoing personality. He had this crazy, little grin. You always knew when he was doing something mischievous. Reporter and tim recalls the mischief he and vince got into growing up in a small Michigan Town called cadillac. Wed go play in the creeks, go fishing. We actually built a raft out of old barrels that we threw in the water and tied sticks to it and never floated, but sounds like huckleberry finn. Yeah. Reporter but vinces childhood story wasnt always so idyllic. Vinces mom left at eight months old. So he was raised with his dad. I think his dad was married six times. And so that was a little tough on him. Reporter Janet Mattison considered herself vinces surrogate mom. She says growing up, he spent a lot of time at her house. Her son was vinces best friend. He was just like one of the other boys. He was he was always there. We they did everything together. It seems like you two had quite a connection . We did. You and vince, what was that all about . Um, i think a lot of it was i never judged him. Vince was you know, he was the purist tattoo kid, the the the droopy pants, the spiked hair, the, you know and i just treated him just like me and you. Reporter and then one day he came to her with some life changing news. Was he scared, finding out he was gonna be a dad . He probably was scared. But he was afraid that i would be mad at him. And i wasnt mad at him. Reporter vince had two sons from two relationships by the time he was 18. But janet says he only ever saw them as blessings. How was vince as a dad . He was awesome. He changed that diaper. Hed clean up that puke. You know, he he didnt care. His kids were his world. Reporter then, someone else entered his world, a hometown girl named jessie hull. Vince loved jessie unconditional. And you could see it. He was happy. He loved her. Reporter and janet says he started to settle down, moved in with jessies family, and quickly bonded with her dad, a vietnam vet. He was the one who suggested the military might be a good way for vince to get on the straight and narrow. So vince joined the army in 2005. He was 21 years old. This is a boy whos gone from baggy pants and spiky hair, to now hes gonna have the military cut and the uniform . Uhhuh. I mean, thats thats, like, a 180 that is. For vince. That is a 180. Its what he needed. You must have been really proud of him for making that step . I was always proud of him. Im still proud of him. Reporter with vinces career heading in the right direction, he took another big step and popped the question. Jessie said yes. There was a connection between them two that they loved each other to death, you know, they would argue and i think they actually just argued just so they could make up. Well some people say thats the best part. It is. Reporter after the wedding, kids soon followed for the happy couple, two girls and a boy. As a sergeant in the army vince spent a lot of time overseas, so it was up to jessie to handle the home front and take care of the kids on her own. Its not easy havin a husband whos away. It takes someone special to be able to endure that and get through that. Reporter tim says somehow jessie and vince made it work. When wed see him and jessie and them as a family, they looked like a great family. Reporter by 2012, vince and jessie had been married for six years. Despite some bumps, tim thought life was good for vince and his family. But shortly after returning from afghanistan, vinces second tour there, tim got an unsettling call from him. The sound of his voice, it was, if something happens, i wanted you to know whats going on. But he wouldnt tell me anything. Reporter a few days later, on february 3rd, vince and jessie went out to dinner to celebrate his safe return at a place called ocharleys. They started driving home, back to the base, then turned off the main drag onto this dark and winding road, fidelio road. Where evil was waiting. I dont know where my husband is. Coming up a wifes harrowing tale i just stopped on the side of the road. My husband got out to see if some guy needed help. Soon after, another driver, makes an alarming discovery i stopped and i tried yellin at him to see if he was awake, alert, somethin. Whats this . Your colds gonna make you a zombie tomorrow. Wrong. Im taking a powerful nighttime cold medicine, so i can sleep great and wake up human. Dont eat me i taste terrible mucinex nightshift cold and flu. Fight your worst symptoms so you can sleep great and wake up human. And my lack of impulse control, is about to become your problem. Ahh no, come on. I saw you eating poop earlier. Hey my focus is on the road, and thats saving me cash with drivewise. Whos the dummy now . Whoof whoof so get allstate where good drivers save 40 for avoiding mayhem, like me. Sorry hes a baby reporter it was a moonless, february night in hopkinsville, kentucky, around 8 00 pm, when a frantic call came into 911. Yes, um, i just stopped on the side of the road. My husband got out to see if some guy needed help. Reporter Jessie Goslyn told the operator that her husband, Sergeant Vincent goslyn, had been shot when he tried to help a motorist stranded on the side of the road. Jessie was hysterical. Listen to me. Listen, listen, listen. I cant understand a word youre saying. Youre going to have to calm down and talk to me. Reporter as she tried to calm down, jessie told the operator after being shot, vince came back to their car but was unable to get in because a man was pulling him back. My husband tried getting in the vehicle. He couldnt get in the vehicle. He screamed for me to go. Reporter jessie says she drove away from the scene as her husband had instructed. I dont know where he is right now. Reporter minutes later, another 911 call came in. Theres a guy thats been killed. Hes dead. Down the road from my house. Reporter this is the man who made the call. Walter ferguson said he was getting ready to visit his cousin when he heard the gunshots. Livin around here, we hear a lot of gunshots. So i didnt think nothin of it. I got in my truck, started to come down the road, and as soon as i crest the hill, i saw the trucks lights came on and he hit just bolted off. Reporter so what did you do when you when you saw this truck . Well, i mean, i i went and turned around, and as i came back around, i made sure my high beams were on and i ended up seein his body. Reporter there on the side of the road walter spotted a man, lying face down in the dirt. So, i stopped and i tried yellin at him and talkin to him to see if he was awake, alert, somethin. And i started lookin for my phone and i didnt have it on me, so i had to end up zoomin back to the house to call 911. Reporter Christian County detective ed stokes raced to the scene. We were just notified that there had been a shooting on fidelio road and one male, possibly deceased. Reporter tell us what you see when you arrived here at the scene. The first thing i noticed was sergeant goslyns body layin here in the gravel, with a large amount of blood around the body. Reporter could you tell if he had been shot . We found what appeared to be gunshot wounds to the head, and the shell casings laying near the body inside the crime scene backed up the the thought that he was shot. Reporter you say he was shot in the head correct. Reporter and the face . Correct. Reporter was this personal . Its personal to me because that person that that shot him nine times wanted him dead. Reporter while detective stokes worked the crime scene, about a quarter of a mile down the road, deputies were talking to jessie. She was hysterical, crying, almost sometimes where you couldnt even understand what she was saying. Reporter theres jessie on her knees, collapsed on the side of the road. This was a wife who had clearly been through a traumatic situation . She had just watched her husband get shot multiple times, yes. Reporter detectives took jessie back to the station to get her statement. Her stomach, it seemed, couldnt take the horror shed just witnessed. Im gonna be sick. Let me get a garbage can for you or something. Reporter by now, Christian County commonwealths attorney, lynn pryor, had been notified. What did you think when you heard that a soldier from Fort Campbell has been gunned down . Hes barely been home from his tour of duty. It hurt. We take a great pride in having Fort Campbell as part of our community the fact that our soldiers protect us everyday. And we wanted to make sure that we got justice for him. Reporter was jessie able to describe the person who shot her husband . She initially described him as a black man. And i believe thats pretty basically all the description she was being able to give. Reporter jessie also described the killers car. What kinda car . An old one. One of them big ones. What color was it . I dont know, like a reddish brownish color. Reporter it wasnt much for police to go on, and to make it even more difficult, the eyewitness, walter ferguson, had seen something different. Reporter describe the truck that you saw speeding off. Um as he passed me, i could see that it was, like, a white truck. And i saw the fourbyfour on it, but that was about as much as i could see on it. Reporter so the witness had seen a white truck and jessie said she saw a reddish brown car. Investigators had a lot to sort out a murdered soldier, a distraught wife, an unknown motive, and a giant secret about to be discovered. 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Reporter finally, the detective came back and broke the news about vince. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Im really sorry for your loss. Reporter the tragic news of vinces murder spread fast throughout the base, and to family members. Janet, vinces surrogate mother got a call from jessies mom. And she just said, janet, theres been an accident. Vince has been shot. And i was devastated. I was like, what . What what do you mean, hes been shot . Reporter vinces cousin, tim, immediately left his home in virginia and traveled to kentucky still in disbelief. How can he survive two times in afghanistan, come home to be shot by some worthless thug that didnt even know him . You mustve felt so horrible for jessie and for the kids. Absolutely. Ii mustve called her at least 50 times, you know, trying to figure out whats going on and be there for her and the kids. Reporter by now, jessie had left the Christian CountySheriffs Department and headed home. Shes picked up by a friend, taken back to her house on Fort Campbell. Reporter the day after the murder, local police and agents from Fort Campbell were canvasing the goslyns neighborhood. This is now a mix of Army Investigators and local investigators . It is. Reporter they knocked on the door of kay and william ray, the couple who lived next door to the goslyns. What they had to say was so compelling, they asked them to immediately come in for an interview. You said you have some information about something that, uh, ms. Goslyn had told you. Pertaining to some trouble her husband was in . Somehow or another got involved with a drug dealer, at least 20,000 of meth. And got jumped and stole away from him. Well, being that happened, these guys were supposedly after him for the money. Reporter the rays explained to the investigators, jessie had told them about the drug dealers weeks before the murder. She seemed worried at all about what was going on . Shes been pins and needles ever since this has happened. Okay. Shes been scared, shes feared for her life and her childrens. Ok. Did they ever say who these people were . No. Or where these people were from . Or anything like that . No, never said a word about that right there. Reporter later that day, detective stokes says kay ray convinced jessie she should talk to military investigators, tell them what she told local police. It turned out to be a fateful decision. Jessie gets in with the the friend and they go to cid headquarters. Reporter with kay ray sitting next to her for support, jessie gave a detailed explanation about why she turned down that deserted road. She said as they were driving home, she was at the wheel, and she started to feel sick. Vince suggested they pull over. And he said, theres a road. Turn down it. I turn down the road. He told me to drive until there was a spot we could pull off. Reporter she said thats when they saw the vehicle with the hood up and vince got out to help. Not long after she heard gun shots. I heard, like, two, maybe three, like, like, popping sounds. And my husband had rounded the edge of the passenger side of the vehicle. He was trying to get in. And the guy was behind him and he kept pulling him back out. He was hitting him. All my husband kept saying was, go drive. Go, get out of here. Reporter she described a chaotic scene with a random motorist, but then investigators asked her about vinces involvement with those drug dealers, suggesting perhaps it wasnt so random after all. Jessie told them what she knew. He had told me that, he had bought a large quantity of methamphetamines. He said, we are now in debt. To people to bad people. About 20,000 . We had to check into his drug usage, if we could find anything out from friends, family if he was using or even dealing drugs. If this story checks out i mean thats pretty serious. If we could prove that, yes. Reporter while jessie did her best to give the investigators leads, Police Working the case in the field got a new lead of their own and it sent them in a very different direction. Coming up did vinces killer threaten jessie, too . She was getting Text Messages from this man she said . Thats what she indicated, yes. And that he would kill her and her children, if she didnt comply with what he was telling her to do. Im your 70lb st. Bernard puppy, and my lack of impulse control, is about to become your problem. Ahh no, come on. I saw you eating poop earlier. Hey my focus is on the road, and thats saving me cash with drivewise. Whos the dummy now . Whoof whoof so get allstate where good drivers save 40 for avoiding mayhem, like me. Sorry hes a baby instead of using aloe, or baby wipes, or powders, try the cooling, soothing relief or preparation h, because your derriere deserves expert care. Preparation h. Get comfortable with it. 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