[PEOPLE] Connie Goodwin has waited seven years to properly lay her son to rest after the 32-year-old man was murdered in 2015. After she rented a sump pump to drain a Missouri pond with her husband and grandson, thus uncovering the last of his remains, she can finally do just that. Edward Goodwin went missing from Poplar Bluff, Mo., in the summer of 2015, leaving behind his son Gage, 15 at the time, and loving parents Connie and Ed Goodwin. For two years, Connie searched high and low for her son, holding rallies and putting up billboards urging authorities to find him. In 2017, the Butler County Sheriff's Department found partial remains of Edward in a small lake in Poplar Bluff after they drained most of the water during an investigation. The Sheriff's Department found 40 percent of Edward's remains — which was enough to use as evidence against the two men suspected of killing him — but Connie felt she didn't have closure until she found the rest of her son.
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