Woman Indicted in Boyfriend’s Fatal Stabbing

July 1, 2021 – A Westwood-area woman has been indicted on a second-degree murder count stemming from the stabbing death of her 63-year-old boyfriend last year, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Defendant Tarlease Mitchell is being held on $125,000 bond.

On Nov. 10, 2020, police were called to a residence on Haas Avenue in southwest Memphis where they found Cornelius Goodlow face down on the living room floor with knife wounds to his chest and shoulder.

He was taken to a hospital where he died a short time later.

A witness said the victim had been with his girlfriend, Mitchell, all day. She was arrested four days later and said the stabbing occurred during an argument.

The case is being handled by Asst. Dist. Atty. Jeff Jones of the District Attorney’s Special Prosecution Unit in Criminal Court Division 8. The SPU seeks maximum sentencing for repeat felony offenders.