By Nicole June
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (CLARKSVILLENOW) – A report coming later this week from Dateline NBC highlights the 2012 slaying of Fort Campbell soldier Sgt. Vincent Goslyn, Jr.
Goslyn was gunned down on the side of the road in Christian County, Ky. in Feb. 2012, not long after returning home from a deployment to Afghanistan.
At the time of the incident his wife, Jessie Goslyn, called 911 and reported that her husband had been shot when he got out of the car to help a stranded motorist on the side of the road. She told operators she drove away from the scene as her husband supposedly instructed her to.
It was later uncovered that Jessie Goslyn and her boyfriend, Jarred Tabor Long, had plotted Vincent’s murder and used the 911 call as a cover-up.
Investigators determined Goslyn lured her husband to a remote area by having Long pose as the stranded motorist. Vincent Goslyn’s body was discovered with multiple gunshot wounds on Feb. 3, 2012.
In May of 2018, Goslyn was sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison and Long was sentenced to 30 years. Long pleaded guilty to first-degree murder as part of a deal and Goslyn pleaded guilty to complicity to murder.
In a new special titled Evil Was Waiting, Dateline NBC’s Andrea Canning dives into the story, with interviews from Christian County detective Ed Stokes, as well as Commonwealth’s Attorney Lynn Pryor.
The special airs this Friday, September 14 at 10 p.m. ET/9 p.m. CT on NBC. Watch the trailer below:
