{"id":1344146,"date":"2021-03-30T19:23:06","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T23:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1344146"},"modified":"2021-03-30T19:23:07","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T23:23:07","slug":"racing-legend-mickey-thompson-wife-brutally-murdered-driveway-2-complete-strangers-never-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/racing-legend-mickey-thompson-wife-brutally-murdered-driveway-2-complete-strangers-never-identified\/","title":{"rendered":"Racing Legend Mickey Thompson and His Wife Were Brutally Murdered in Their Driveway by 2 Complete Strangers Who Were Never Identified"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On March 16, 1988, auto racing<\/a> legend Mickey Thompson<\/a> and his wife, Trudy, left their house early in the morning like they did every day. Only this time, there were two hooded assailants armed with guns waiting for them outside. Mickey and Trudy were brutally murdered<\/a> that day, and the last faces they saw were of two complete strangers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As it turned out, those strangers were actually hired by a former business partner of Mickey's \u2014 Michael Goodwin. Goodwin was later found and convicted of the murders years later, but the two actual killers escaped and were never identified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mickey Thompson made a dangerous enemy during his racing career<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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ICYMI: appeals court upholds Michael Goodwin convictions Monday in 2007 murders of auto racing legend Mickey Thompson and wife Trudy.<\/p>— Louis Brewster (@LouBrewsterSpts) January 27, 2015<\/a><\/blockquote>