More than a year after he was first charged, Gideon Goodeagle was bound over to face trial on charges that he raped a young woman after an evening of drinking.
On June 29, a preliminary hearing was held in Osage County District Court to determine if the state had sufficient evidence to proceed with the first-degree rape case against Goodeagle, 49, an Osage who lives in Hominy.
The only witness to testify at the hearing was the woman, who said that Goodeagle, another male and she had shopped and gone out to dinner in Skiatook on June 14, 2022, then returned to Hominy to drop off the other male, and then went to Cleveland to buy more tallboy beers. After that, she said, she and Goodeagle returned to Goodeagle’s house and fell asleep. At some point during the night, she said she awakened to find Goodeagle on top of her, having sex. She said she told him to stop but he didn’t. “I went back to sleep or blacked out,” she said.
When daylight broke, the woman said she had no underwear so she grabbed some men’s clothes from another bedroom in the house, called her boyfriend’s mother for a ride and bolted from the house. The boyfriend’s mother drove her to Hillcrest Hospital, where a sexual assault exam was performed and medical personnel called the Hominy Police Department to report that a crime had possibly occurred.
At the conclusion of the preliminary hearing, Goodeagle’s attorney, Rod Ramsey, challenged the case, saying that the woman “blacked out, and anything she says after that time would be suspect.”
Special District Judge Cindy Pickerell overruled Ramsey’s challenge and set Goodeagle’s arraignment for Sept. 14 at 1:30 p.m. before Judge Stuart Tate.
According to the arrest affidavit, Hominy police interviewed the woman at Hillcrest shortly after the hospital called and spoke with Goodeagle. At the time, the defendant promised to go to the police station within an hour. Instead, he left Oklahoma but was located and arrested in Springfield, Mo., five days later.
Goodeagle has been free on $75,000 bond since Aug. 31. The case has been scheduled for preliminary hearing three times previously but was delayed because the prosecution was awaiting DNA results from the state crime laboratory. No overt mention was made about those results at the June 29 hearing.
