THE MURDERS of Angel and Vonda Goyena went unsolved for years but thanks to some phone records and receipts, police were finally able to put their killer behind bars.
The Goyena case will now be the subject of a 20/20 episode, scheduled to premiere on February 17, 2023.
Who were Angel and Vonda Goyena?
Angelique “Angel” Goyena, 35, and Vonda Goyena, 74, were a mother and daughter who lived in Norfolk, Virginia.
Over the years, the Goyenas often stayed out of the spotlight, but Angel has since been remembered as a “selfless woman,” who was “dedicated to caring for her elderly parents,” according to The Virginian Pilot.
“She was humble; she was meek,” her older sister Yolanda Goyena said. “If you ever felt bad, you called her.”
Angel worked for the Gourmet Gang and also enjoyed writing poetry and painting pastoral scenes, according to her brother, Alexander Goyena.
What happened to Angel and Vonda Goyena?
In June 2007, Angel and Vonda were found fatally stabbed inside their Virginia home.
At the time, there were no signs of forced entry and everyone who had keys to the house had alibies, which left little evidence for investigators, who were struggling to find a suspect, according to ABC News.
As a result, their case went unsolved for more than three years, but thanks to some letters, a cell phone, and some receipts, police were able to close in on their killer.
During their investigation, it was revealed that Angel’s fiancé, David Wayne Hoshaw, was seeing another woman and after her death, he quickly relocated to Michigan to be with her and even skipped the funeral.
At first, he was ruled out as a suspect because he said he was at a Boy Scouts campout roughly 80 miles away with his 12-year-old son, but Virginia detective Rick Malbon didn’t it.
“David Hoshaw became like an onion in the case. The more you peeled him back, the more strange information came out,” Evans told 20/20.
“We looked at everything that David Hoshaw did, or a lot of things that he did before the homicide and after the homicide,” he added.
Authorities later looked into Hoshaw further and were able to use his cell phone records and credit card receipts to build a case against him, which later led to a grand jury indictment.
Where is David Wayne Hoshaw now?
After the grand jury indictment, Hoshaw was arrested and interrogated by Malbon.
During that time, he continued to deny the allegations, but when he was given time alone with his then-fianceé, Amanda, he confessed to her and said that he did it because he wanted to leave her, according to ABC News.
On October 5, 2010, he pleaded guilty to capital murder and first-degree murder charges and was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole, according to The Virginian Pilot.
“For the sake of my family, I am pleading guilty to this crime,” Hoshaw said during his sentencing.