Beyond The Darklands | TV Highlights
Beyond The Darklands: Tracy Goodman
9:30pm Tuesday, February 9 on TV One
Tracy Goodman is one of the most complex criminals in New Zealand. Brought up with abuse and neglect, Goodman went on to treat others the same way. She abandoned all five of her children, and beat and abused her partners.
Tonight on Beyond The Darklands, Nigel Latta covers the first female murderer of the series. A serial burglar with drug issues, Goodman habitually robbed the elderly. One of them was Marton pensioner Mona Morriss. When the 83-year-old caught Goodman rifling through her house, Mona confronted her. Goodman reacted the way she knew how - beating, then stabbing Mona Morriss to death.
Latta says he thinks the episode will be one of the most controversial the series has seen. "It challenges everything we think about domestic violence, and about female perpetrated violence in particular."
Latta, who has spent 17 years working with child sex offenders, rapists, murderers, arsonists and violent offenders, goes behind the headlines to describe the kind of people these men and women were. He meets people who grew up with them, victims who have survived, and the families of those who have not. All have been permanently marked by their experiences, and their stories make for a gut-wrenching journey into the darklands.
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Where was the help for people like me and Tracey? Don't the authorities realise the damage that was done to us at home and in the so called girls homes. We were put there to be kept safe and the majority of us were abused by the staff. Tracey and I have the same problems, personality disfunction, perscription drug addiction and who owns up to what we were put through for so many years. Our abusers were never made to pay for the damage that was done to us and the government won't even give us an apology for it. We are still trying to take it to court and no it wasn't just in the girls homes it went on in the boys homes as well. I am socially inadequate to work. I have to take 8 pills a night just to get a few hours sleep, I have personality disorder and post traumatic stress disorder and I suffer from severe depression. So don't judge Tracey on what she has done if the government had the right things in place Tracey and I would have got the help when we were young and needed it most. I am going to go and see Tracey even though she won't remember me but just to let her know that there is someone who understands and can relate to how she has lived her life, apart from the murder our lives went down the same path only I didn't get caught. So don't judge her put the blame where it needs to go (the government).