A 60-year-old man classified as a sexually violent predator has been identified as the inmate killed at in Ordway last week.
Bryce L. Goodin was the victim of a homicide Feb. 10, according to Crowley County District Attorney Jim Bullock.
Agents from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation and the Colorado inspector general’s office are investigating the case, Bullock said. No arrests have been made.
Goodin’s wife, Mary, said Thursday her husband’s body has been cremated, but . She said she was told the investigation could take three months.
State Department of Corrections officials have not released details about how Goodin was killed or indicated whether any other inmate has been implicated.
“We have to wait to find out what happened,” Mary Goodin said.
Bryce Goodin was charged in 2001 with molesting a 3-year-old girl and a 7-year-old boy in Aurora and videotaping a 16-year-old youth performing sex acts with the intent of publishing the tapes on the Internet.
Goodin had committed the child sexual offenses between 1995 and 2000 before fleeing to Montana, according to court records. Charges were filed in Arapahoe County District Court on April 24, 2001. An interstate warrant was issued the next day.
SWAT officers in Butte, Mont., broke into his apartment two weeks later and arrested him.
Goodin was convicted of child sexual assault and sexual exploitation of a child in 2002. He served time and was released.
But Goodin was sent back to prison in 2009 for violations of community supervision, Mary Goodin said.
She said he received treatment in prison initially but had been waiting for seven years to get into the second part of the treatment program.
“It was very frustrating,” Mary Goodin said. “He was supposed to be in prison for two years.”
She said her husband had been a model prisoner. He was very careful about where he left his court papers because sex offenders are often targeted for violence in prison, Mary Goodin said. He didn’t talk about his charges and was kept in a cell by himself, she said.
“He did worry about that. He kept it under wraps,” Mary Goodin said.
Kirk Mitchell: 303-954-1206, kmitchell@denverpost.com or @kirkmitchell or denverpost.com/coldcases
