Rachel Shannon

Throughout his entire childhood, he was abused and neglected by his family, and all of this led him into using cocaine, which had even more of a negative impact on his behaviors and his mental health.

Basically, they wanted to make it clear that Brian wasn't some psychopath, deranged, calculated, cold criminal.

He was abused, unintelligent, and just needed money, and things just went too far.

They were basically just trying to argue this so that the jury wouldn't sentence him to death.

Instead, they asked for life in prison.

They said that if Brian was a smart and calculated killer, he wouldn't have worn his GPS monitor.

Not only that, but he charged the GPS to make sure it wouldn't die.

That is about the stupidest thing that you can do if you're going to murder someone.

But the prosecution said that none of that mattered.

Brian was still a murderer.

What he did to Reagan was horrific and he deserved the worst possible punishment for this.

At the end of the trial, which lasted just over a week, the jury was sent off for deliberations.

They deliberated for about five and a half hours before they came back with their verdict.

They found that Brian Goolsbee was guilty on all counts, including kidnapping, rape, and murder.

for this he was actually spared the death penalty instead he was handed a life sentence without the possibility of parole all right the verdict forms appear to be in order go publish and read the verdicts

No.

No, you do.

At his sentencing hearing, the judge emphasized that he is happy that Brian will die in jail, saying that Reagan did nothing wrong to deserve what Brian did to her.

He said, quote,

something in that neighborhood felt that your upbringing were mitigating.