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Documentary In The Works About The Life and Death of Detroit Urban Fiction Writer Donald Goines
Who killed Donald Goines?
Producers of a documentary on the life of the prisoner-turned urban fiction writer of novels about the violence, drugs and prostitution that he surrounded himself with in Detroit are hoping the answer hasn't been lost to time — or the streets.
It's been more than 50 years since Goines and his common-law wife, Shirley Sailor, were found shot to death on Oct. 21, 1974, in their flat in Highland Park, a small enclave of Detroit. Each had been shot five times. Their two young children were home at the time of the killings.
No arrests were made and rumors swelled. Some speculated the killings had something to do with 37-year-old Goines' heroin addiction. Others nodded to the theory that the fictional subjects of his novels appeared a bit too much like the real-life hustlers, pimps, drug dealers and stickup men who prowled the city's streets.
"There have been at least a half-dozen, quite possibly a dozen, elements of speculation as to how Mr. Goines and the mother of his children were murdered," said Bill Proctor, a private investigator hired to find the killer or killers. "But no one has come forward with enough information to charge the persons responsible."
Shaking "the trees"
Proctor said a $5,000 reward being offered by the producers of the documentary might help "shake the trees" and find "someone who might still be alive or have an understanding" of the facts of the case.
Goines wrote 16 books over a short span of several years. His raw, stark and undiluted writings are filled with the urban street life imagery of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
"Dopefiend," was published in 1971. Fifteen more including "Street Players," "Daddy Cool" and "Kenyatta's Last Hit,"... Read More