Supreme court
rejects appeal
in murder case
"Tattoo Vince"
will serve life
without parole
By David Hedges, Publisher
The Times Record and Roane County Reporter
The state Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of a Roane man serving life in prison for murder.
Alex Vincent Golosow, a.k.a. "Tattoo Vince" was sentenced to life without parole for the murder of a man he called his best friend, Jud Reid. The 50-year Golosow, who was tried and sentenced in 2003, is currently incarcerated at the Mt. Olive Correctional Complex.
Throughout the trial Roane prosecutor Mark Sergent and Scott Reynolds of the W.Va. Prosecuting Attorney's Institute portrayed Golosow as a cold-blooded killer who shot his best friend behind his house while Reid's family stood in the front yard.
Golosow, who earned his nickname because of the tattoos covering his body, had moved from New Jersey to the Tariff home several years earlier.
Court-appointed defense attorneys Drew Patton and Leah Boggs argued that Reid, a 52-year-old Looneyville man, was a despondent Vietnam veteran who suffered from depression and family problems before committing suicide.
Reid's body was found dumped off a rural road in Clay County. His death came from a gunshot to the head fired by an assailant, according to an autopsy that found methamphetamine, marijuana, amphetamines and Prozac in the man's bloodstream.
Defense attorney Jack Hickok of the state public defender's office, who prepared the appeal, continued with the suicide theory. He said those who helped Golosow dispose of the body and then testified against him, specifically Richard Cummings, were afraid police would discover their methamphetamine operation.
"Like a board of directors of an enterprise in serious straits, Cummings and Co. fired Vince," Hickok wrote in his appeal ...
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