VFW Leader Murdered Over Bingo Money

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April 2005:

VFW Leader Murdered Over Bingo Money
by Joe Gandelman

Warning: Bingo can be deadly. Like "under G" for "gone..."

ABC News:

A 79-year-old member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars was shot to death by the post's bookkeeper, who feared the organization would find out he was skimming money from the weekly bingo game, authorities said.

David Edward Goldstick, 57, was arraigned on murder charges Thursday and jailed without bail.

World War II veteran Hubert William Brady was killed Tuesday in his daughter's garage, which the post had used as an office since December, when its building burned down.


People are shocked in Charlevoix, Michigan. Who would have ever thought it?? The AP:


David Edward Goldstick, 57, was charged Thursday with open murder in the slaying.

Especially shaken were members of VFW Post 1153, who described Brady and Goldstick's friendship.

"It's baffled everybody," said Charles Butcher, the post commander, adding that he knew of no bad blood between the two. "It's mind-boggling what could have triggered such a violent outburst."

The slaying, discovered Tuesday, has prompted the Charlevoix County Sheriff's Department to reopen an investigation of a fire that destroyed the post headquarters in December. A state fire marshal ruled the cause an accidental electrical problem, but a detective said Goldstick made a cryptic reference to the fire when he confessed to killing Brady.

Petosky News-Review
March 2006:
On April 19, David Goldstick, 57, used a homemade silencing device and a .380 semi-automatic handgun to shoot and kill his longtime friend and fellow Charlevoix VFW member Bill Brady, 79. Goldstick confessed to the crime in three taped statements to police. Earlier this month a jury convicted Goldstick of first degree murder. He was recently sentenced to the mandatory life in prison without parole.