{"id":1334334,"date":"2022-02-23T20:24:26","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T01:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1334334"},"modified":"2022-02-23T20:24:40","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T01:24:40","slug":"houston-man-charged-for-allegedly-murdering-mutilating-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/houston-man-charged-for-allegedly-murdering-mutilating-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston: Man Charged for Allegedly Murdering, Mutilating Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhouston-man-charged-for-allegedly-murdering-mutilating-woman%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1334334&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">A man is being held on a $1.2 million bond for allegedly strangling a 19-year-old Houston woman, dismembering and hiding her body, and trying to burn his apartment down in a failed suicide attempt.<\/p>\n<p>Henry David Cossette, 28, was booked Monday in the Harris County Jail for allegedly murdering 19-year-old Sara Goodwin, who has been missing since February 6, KPRC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/news\/local\/2022\/02\/22\/man-charged-in-connection-to-murder-of-missing-18-year-old-sara-goodwin-court-documents-say\/\">reported<\/a>, citing court documents. \u201cCosette was also charged with arson and tampering with evidence \u2013 human corpse, according to court documents,\u201d the outlet writes. \u201cHis bond has been set at $1,200,000.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Goodwin was last seen on February 6 in the 8600 block of South Course Drive, the Houston Police Department (HPD) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstontx.gov\/police\/nr\/2022\/feb\/nr220222-3.htm\">said<\/a> in a press release. Goodwin\u2019s friend, Jessica Finn, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khou.com\/article\/news\/crime\/sara-goodwin-murder-suspect-arrested-houston\/285-667e8c46-39c8-49f7-954e-2fed48099425\">told<\/a> KHOU that the 19-year-old was a sex worker but noted she was a caring sister.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe has a 15-year-old brother that she will die for\u2026 that she basically raises,\u201d Finn said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19988402\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Henry-David-Cossette-via-Houston-Police-Department.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19988402\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Henry-David-Cossette-via-Houston-Police-Department.png\" alt=\"Henry David Cossette\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Henry David Cossette (Houston Police Department)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>On Saturday, Houston police and firefighters responded to an apartment fire that was \u201cintentionally\u201d set, the HPD\u2019s press release states. \u201cCossette was found inside the apartment and he admitted to killing a 19-year-old woman and leaving her body in the 1800 block of Fellows Road in south Houston,\u201d where police recovered remains, according to the release.<\/p>\n<p>Though the remains are pending official identification, police believe the woman to be Goodwin based on the information Cossette provided.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCossette has been accused of strangling the victim, dismembering her body, hiding the remains, and then trying to burn his apartment down while trying to kill himself,\u201d KRPC reported, citing court documents.<\/p>\n<p>Before a body was located, Goodwin\u2019s friends and family sought out the assistance of community \u201cactivist Quanell X, who held a press conference on Thursday, explaining how they believed Goodwin was taken against her will,\u201d according to KHOU.<\/p>\n<p>The same day, friends found Goodwin\u2019s cellphone in the Victoria Park Apartment Complex. The phone was located roughly three blocks from where she was last seen, according to KPRC.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the group was able to secure surveillance footage from a closeby car dealership, which showed Goodwin entering a vehicle believed to be a 2015-2017 Honda CRV, according to KHOU. Quanell X stated that sex workers had seen the car in the area and that they reported the driver had a gun.<\/p>\n<p>Police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/news\/local\/2022\/02\/17\/watch-live-family-friends-gather-in-search-for-missing-woman-who-was-pulled-into-random-vehicle-in-houston\/\">told<\/a> KPRC that surveillance video shows \u201cthe missing person willingly\u201d entered the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Cossette was scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday, the Harris County Sheriff\u2019s Office\u2019s online inmate records show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man is being held on a $1.2 million bond for allegedly strangling a 19-year-old Houston woman, dismembering and hiding her body, and trying to burn his apartment down in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1334334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1334334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1334334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1334334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1334334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}