KIMBERLY SMITH Part 3 of 5: Where is Goldie Robinson?

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1:21Good. On August 25th, 2010, Arthur Sheldon's remains were found outside of Kim Smith and David Enos' trailer at Twin Oaks Mobile Home Park. It had come to light that Arthur had been under Kim's care, just like Goldie Robinson, who was still a missing person. Detectives believed Goldie had been missing for one to two months, but they didn't have a definitive date because she was estranged from her son Fred at the time she went missing. There were so many unanswered questions. When and how did Arthur Sheldon die? Was Kim or someone she knew involved with his death? And where was Goldie Robinson?

2:07Kim Smith was being held at the Orange County Jail in Orlando for a parole violation. And on August 23rd, she spoke with her boyfriend David Enos on the phone. David was clearly distressed. What's the matter? Everybody's trying to know what Goldie is. Because they don't know where she is. They think somebody, she's missing. She is not missing. I mean, missing and slash murder, slash looking at all kinds of crazy. What, what, what? Yeah. David is hardly audible on the call, but he said, everyone is looking for Goldie, saying she's missing or murdered. Remember, Kim doesn't know what's going on with the investigation because she's in jail.

3:00And as David updates her on what he knows, he sounds tired, worried, and stressed. Babe, you need to get it together, babe. This is crazy. Honey, I love you. This is crazy.

3:17Kim Smith was a person of interest in the investigation into Goldie Robinson's disappearance, and now Arthur Sheldon's potential homicide. There were just too many suspicious things to ignore. When detectives searched Kim's trailer, they found financial records for both Goldie and Arthur. They also found a plastic Walmart bag filled with unopened mail addressed to Goldie Robinson. But of course, it wasn't just Kim living in that trailer. It was also David Enos. And David sounds freaked out about the whole thing on this call. More and more defeated with every breath. Like, he's just waiting for something big to happen.

4:01Something bad. Kim tries to reassure him that everything will be okay. But nobody's done anything to Goldie. Goldie is fine. I just talked to her on Tuesday. Before I came here.

4:17You need to get together and know that if they had anything, they would have already done something. I'm sure Adam's freaking out. Yep. But there's nothing to freak out about. There's nothing wrong with her. She's fine. She told me she's not coming back until December. her.

4:38Throughout this call, Kim remains calm, cool, and collected, almost like she has a live audience. Before the call ends, she gives David a pep talk. Ma 'am, you need to keep it together, okay? You didn't do anything wrong. We didn't do anything wrong. You need to keep it together, okay? I love you, honey. I'm not going to let anything happen to you. You didn't do anything wrong, and neither did we.

5:09From Cast Media, this is The Opportunist. This is Season 8, Episode 3. Kimberly Smith. Where is Goldie Robinson? I'm Hannah Smith.

5:30In the search for Goldie Robinson, the police had all but ruled out the theory that she was on her honeymoon in Tennessee with a millionaire. Detectives were fairly certain that the man in the wedding announcement was actually Russell Ryback, an elderly gentleman living in Kim Smith's trailer. It seemed pretty clear that Kim was the one who had created the wedding announcement using a photo of Goldie and a blurry photo of Russell just calling him Rusty. It was almost like it was blurred on purpose to make it difficult to tell 100 % if that was the person. But even in the documentation of the report, they suspected it was a fake photograph from the get-go.

6:11As soon as human remains were found outside of Kim Smith's trailer, detectives initiated a plan to search the entire surrounding property. Here's reporter Nicole Luca. After they announced that that was not Goldie's body, they immediately went back thinking, you know, well, if there was one body there, then maybe there's another body, you know, on that property or in that area. Just kind of went, you know, all hands on deck. They had investigators in and out. They had investigators outside. And then they brought in dogs to help. Investigators planned to use cadaver dogs to search the small wooded area next to Kim's trailer, but they decided to wait a week.

7:01Arthur Sheldon's remains had just been removed and they needed to let the smell dissipate so as not to confuse the cadaver dogs. During that week, detectives pressed forward with the investigation, knowing that the clock was ticking. Goldie Robinson could still be alive somewhere, waiting to be found. They believed that someone associated with Kim Smith knew something about Goldie. On August 30th, detectives went to speak with Kim's boyfriend, David Enos. And when was the last day you saw Goldie? Last day I saw Goldie was, I don't know the exact day, but it was the end of July. Out in front of her house in the night room.

7:48I don't know. I was the last day I saw her. David said he saw Goldie at the end of July, standing in the road outside her home in the middle of the night, which is odd. But he doesn't give more details. He just says he has no idea where she is or what happened to her. And then he adds that he didn't know anything about Arthur Sheldon either until the detectives told him they'd found a body in his backyard. But then the detectives say something to David that honestly shocked me. They said they had received information that David killed Goldie Robinson. The statements are of the effect that you beat Goldie over the head, you wrapped her up in a carpet, and you tossed her off a bridge.

8:40I mean, hey, you know what? It's a statement. We can't find it. I got to ask you. Okay. No, that's, I would never do anything like that.

8:55They said multiple people told them that David hit Goldie over the head, wrapped her in a carpet, and threw her body over a bridge. David strongly denies this. And then the detectives asked Kim if Kim told him to kill Goldie. They said Kim can be very convincing. I can understand the type of person that Kim is. And if you don't, you know, they're demanding. And then there's also, you just end up leaving somebody. But you don't sit there and you don't hurt somebody, especially somebody that's old and lives across the street. The detectives tell David that Kim is one of the people who told them that David killed Goldie.

9:42I'm not sure if Kim actually ever said this. There's no recording of it. It's possible that she did. It's also possible that the detectives are bluffing, taking a stab in the dark, trying to get David to admit to something. But he doesn't. He just says he doesn't know anything. He also says that he and Kim are splitting up and that he's leaving her. He has threatened to leave her before, but he's always stayed. Kim and David started dating in 1998. David is 12 years younger than Kim. And by 2010, they'd been through a lot together. They had a daughter in 1999, but she was taken away from them and was being raised by Kim's mother.

10:27David mentions many times in the recordings of him talking to the police that this was something he thought about often. He wanted to try to get his daughter back. But David also rarely had a job, and Kim was financially supporting him. David had stayed with Kim even when she spent time in jail previously for identity theft and writing a series of bad checks. During this interview, David is actually in the hospital. You may have heard some machines beeping in the recordings. A few days before this, he'd been drinking heavily and then swallowed a whole bottle of Tylenol. He was alive, but he damaged his liver and kidneys.

11:09He tells the detectives that he's worried he's done permanent damage to his organs and that he's been thinking a lot about his life and his mistakes. It concerns me as an investigator when someone who doesn't have anything, at least what they're telling us, anything to do with anything, and they don't know what's going on, but yet they take a potentially lethal dose of medication and start drinking heavily at the onset of a missing person investigation. just thinking guilt by association my life is over whatever happened whatever if Kim did anything that was anywhere outside of the lines then that means my life is over too now because of her actions people are like asking me questions I don't know answers to people are like accusing me of killing people, hurting people, all this other stuff that I've never done a day in my life.

12:17And I figured I would start drinking and I guess it's what hell it's really like, so. Things do not look good for David at this time. And over the course of the interview, it becomes clear that David is trying to distance himself from Kim. Detectives ask him if he's spoken to Kim lately and he says yes, he has. but then he says that Kim has been lying to him. When he asked her where Goldie was, she fed him the same story she fed everyone else, that Goldie was on her honeymoon. And David makes it very clear that he doesn't believe this. He says to the detectives, quote, she never got married. He's referring to Goldie.

13:03At multiple times during this interview, David sounds like he's so close to turning on Kim or confessing some information about where Goldie is. But he never does. His stance remains the same. He knows that Goldie didn't get married, that this was a lie that Kim told. But he doesn't know what actually happened to Goldie or where she is. Detectives remind him that the trailer he was living in was chock full of Goldie's financial records. And David is very cooperative. He says, search the house again, take my computer, do whatever you need to do. Whatever you need to do, go ahead and do. I mean, ultimately, I love the same thing that you guys do, which is to know what the hell happened to Goldie.

13:48David told detectives that a while back, Kim asked him to build a shed behind their trailer for extra storage. And the shed hadn't gone up yet, but he had built a wooden platform for it. Detectives asked him if they could look underneath that platform, and David said they could. Do you expect we're going to find anything on that wood platform? I sure as hell hope not. I don't think so. The implication is clear. They are going to start digging around Kim and David's trailer. They are looking for Goldie.

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15:00Through conducting interviews, detectives learned something surprising about Goldie Robinson. They wondered if it could be a potential lead in finding Goldie. Prior to becoming close with Kim Smith, Goldie had a roommate, a friend of hers named Elaine. Elaine and Goldie had been close friends for 30 years. But as soon as Kim came into the picture, Goldie and Elaine began having disagreements. Goldie and her roommate lived together, I don't want to misquote this, but I want to say it was like 17 years they were roommates. Got along great until Kim Smith came into the picture. Then suddenly there were problems, they weren't getting along.

15:42Fred and Stacia both told me that Elaine was basically part of the family. They was the best of friends. when mom bought this trailer in a trailer park. And the back room, she built a back room onto the trailer. But actually, she built it for Elaine. Goldie and Elaine met in the mid-70s. They both worked at Denny's and became fast friends. And then in the mid-90s, Goldie built an addition onto her mobile home, specifically for Elaine to move into. Goldie's husband Lester was still alive at the time, and they all lived there together. Once Lester died in 1999, it was just Goldie and Elaine. I don't ever remember Elaine not being around.

16:39Elaine was just always part of the family. She was always there. And were you close with Elaine as well? I was extremely close with Elaine. And what did your dad think of Elaine? It was like she was another mother. To him, she would come out of her area and she would always come out and eat dinner with us. And, you know, she was just part of our unit. But then, in the summer of 2010, Elaine and Goldie had a falling out. Their disagreement was so severe that in June, Elaine moved out. This was around the same time that Stacia stopped hearing from her grandmother, Goldie. At that time, I guess Elaine had moved out.

17:21Were you or your father aware of that? No. I want to say the story went is that they, Goldie and Elaine, got in an argument. And she moved out. And then I want to say my dad tried to reach out to Elaine, and I don't think he ever got a response from her. So he just, you know, kind of let it go away. The cause of the fight between Elaine and Goldie, well, that's still sort of unclear. There are multiple accounts of Kim talking about this falling out, but her story changes depending on the day and who she's talking to. Kim told one of Goldie's friends from church that the problems between Elaine and Goldie started with a life insurance policy.

18:09Kim said the same thing to the police. She found out that Dwayne had a life insurance policy in her name. In her name? In Goldie's name? In Goldie's name. And she was living. But when detectives asked follow-up questions about this, Kim was vague. She answered every question with a story, usually riddled with tangents and non-sequiturs. And by the end of it, she still really didn't have an answer. For example, when detectives asked, why did Elaine move out of Goldie's trailer? This is what Kim said.

19:09It's all up and down, up and down, up and down that Elaine and her son, Joe, I think it's really and it's Fred Frederick, were having an affair. Kim told multiple people that Elaine was having an affair with Goldie's son, Fred. Fred refutes this claim, by the way. He says Elaine was more like a mother to him. But it is true that Elaine had a car that she loved. a Corvette. And according to Kim, the Corvette also played a part in their quarrel. Goldie would put tuna fish on top of the car so the cat could get on top of it. And Elaine was just older. Elaine actually doesn't look as old as she is, but Goldie would do little things like that to her.

19:59At this point, the detective is no closer to getting an answer. He gets impatient and redirects Kim back to the original question. Why did Elaine move out of Goldie's trailer. And then Kim begins talking about insurance again. She swore up and down that she did not give them permission to take out that life insurance policy. I never gave Elaine no permission to sign a life insurance policy for me, ever, ever, ever, ever. From what I can tell, Kim's story to the police about why Elaine moved out can be boiled down to this. Goldie was convinced that Elaine and her son Fred were having an affair and she was upset about this She was also convinced that they had secretly taken out a life insurance policy together on her And this made Goldie so mad that she kicked Elaine out of her trailer and then she changed the locks on the trailer and also, for some reason, she put tuna fish on top of Elaine's Corvette But then Kim says this.

21:04So anyway, make a long story short, she tells the kids to move in. What kids? Adam, firstborn, the kids, to her boys. She decides she wants to move into the new room, the back room. She'll give them that room and then the little kids can have the other one. So in the back room, the extension? Yeah, the extension. It cannot be ignored that Kim had a lot to gain from Elaine moving out of Goldie's trailer because Elaine had been living in that small addition in the back of Goldie's trailer. And once Elaine moved out, Goldie moved into that small addition. And what happened to the rest of the trailer?

21:47Well, Kim's son, Adam Smith, moved in with his family. But what about the life insurance policy? Is there any truth to that? According to Goldie's granddaughter, Stacia, there is, at least in part. But that is, that actually is true, is that my, that Elaine and my grandmother had life insurance policies on each other. They lived together for so long that that's just kind of how it was. If you pass away, you take care of my affairs. If I pass away, you take care of my affairs kind of thing. So that was, but it was never a, I don't know, again, that might have been a Kimberly story, but that just was not true.

22:39Shortly after Kim Smith came into Goldie Robinson's life, there was a rift between Goldie and her longtime best friend, Elaine. So much so that they became estranged. and this was around the same time that Goldie had a falling out with her son Fred and became estranged from him also. So I can't help but wonder, was it Kim's intention to isolate Goldie from her friends and family? And if so, to what end? We reached out to Goldie's former roommate, Elaine Gunness, for the podcast, but did not hear back. She did speak to the police on August 26, 2010, and there are notes from that conversation in the police report.

23:24Elaine Gunness stated that Kimberly Smith moved into the Twin Oaks Mobile Home Park and befriended Goldie Robinson. Kim started spending a lot of time at Goldie and Elaine's home. And shortly after that, Goldie noticed that some of her jewelry was missing. And when she asked Kim about it, Kim apparently told her that Elaine had stolen it. And then separately, Elaine also noticed some of her jewelry was missing, about$15 ,000 worth. Elaine stated that she told Kim about her missing jewelry, and Kim told her Goldie had taken the jewelry. Now, Elaine notes in her interview with police that she suspected from the start that Kim Smith was the one who actually took her jewelry and Goldie's jewelry.

24:16And this was some kind of effort to turn Elaine and Goldie against one another. But she said when she brought this theory up to Goldie, that Goldie got angry and offended Kim. Not long after that, Elaine said she was asked to move out. And so she did. And she never got her jewelry back. So what was going on with the life insurance? Well, when detectives looked into it, They found out that Goldie had cashed in two life insurance policies shortly before she went missing. It's noted that the funds were put into an account and detectives could see that money was being rapidly removed from that account.

24:58In just one month,$12 ,000 had been withdrawn. And when they got the ATM photos back from the bank, it was Kimberly Smith's face that they saw. Kim had gotten a hold of the money from Goldie Robinson's cashed-in life insurance policies.

25:47Nine days after Arthur Sheldon's remains were found at Twin Oaks, police brought cadaver dogs into the mobile home park. It was September 3rd, 2010. Goldie's son Fred and granddaughter Stacia were at the mobile home park that day. So was Elaine. My father and I had walked up the street to visit some folks. They brought the dogs in. And Elaine was standing right there at the road. Elaine called Stacia on the phone and said, I don't want to get your dad riled up, but something is going on down here and you need to come now. So I ran down there. I don't know, maybe 10 lots down. I ran down there.

26:34And by the time I got down there, they were kind of they were putting up the like the tarps. I thought, oh, shit, here we go. It looks like the police had found something, but Stacia couldn't tell exactly what had been found. The detective called me and said to Fred, he said, if you come over to the over to the trailer, he said, I just want you to know, he says, there's going to be a few cops here. Fred knew that it couldn't be good news. So I jumped in the truck and went over there. And there was cops everywhere. And when I got out of the car, I pulled up into that little community parking lot.

27:17And this big cop got out of the car. He said, are you Mr. Roberts? I said, yep. I heard dogs barking. He says, two dogs hit in a spot over in that overgrown area. I said, oh, you know, I don't like where this is going. They hit on a spot and they started digging. About four feet down, they had found another body. And they was taping off the place with the police tape. Another body had been found in Kim Smith and David Enos' yard. Here's Stacia again. And they couldn't tell if it was male or female that had been there for some time, that the body would have to go to the medical exam. I want to say it was a Friday afternoon or a Saturday afternoon.

28:11And it was definitely a holiday weekend because I remember I was pissed because the ME's office was closed on Monday because it was a holiday. So we couldn't get the results until Tuesday. This was the second body to be found and the second time that Fred and Stacia just had to wait and wonder. if it was Goldie. And then, on Tuesday morning, he got the call. And they told me that was Mom.