Murder of Lonetta White

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On March 15, 1998, 73-year-old Lonetta Penman White (November 20, 1924 – March 15, 1998) was attacked and murdered by two intruders while a robbery took place inside her house in Lexington, Kentucky. The perpetrators, Johnathan Wayne Goforth (November 21, 1960 – June 14, 2025) and Virginia Susan Caudill (born September 10, 1960), the latter who was the ex-fiancée of White's son, stuffed the body of White inside the trunk of her car and set fire to the car, after abandoning the vehicle at a rural spot in Lexington. The couple were both charged with murder and robbery, and sentenced to death on March 24, 2000. Goforth died on death row on June 14, 2025, while Caudill, who exhausted her appeals in 2019, continues to await her execution. Caudill is also the only woman on Kentucky's death row. The two remain the only white death row inmates in Kentucky to be condemned for killing a black victim in the modern era.

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