Home of South Carolina Judge and Former State Senator Burned to the Ground — 3 Hospitalized

Monday, 6 October 2025, 14:00 MJA Uncategorized 9

GP: South Carolina Judge Diane Goodstein and Former State Senator Arnold Goostein’s beachfront home in Edisto Island was burned to the ground on Saturday, sending three family members to the hospital. 

The four-bedroom, four-bathroom home is estimated to be worth $1,155,200.

Police are currently investigating the cause of the fire. According to FITS News, South Carolina Law Enforcement Division Chief Mark Keel suggested that they are looking into possible arson.

South Carolina Chief Justice John Kittridge said, “We do not know whether the fire was accidental or arson. MORE

9 Comments on Home of South Carolina Judge and Former State Senator Burned to the Ground — 3 Hospitalized

  5. Sooo….I haven’t dug deep enough to find out….is this judge a conservative-type lawful good guy, or is he a bought-and-paid-for Soros zero bail, free range criminal Libtard?

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  6. There’s a big difference between “was burned to the ground,” and, “burned to the ground.” The first implies causality. The second does not.

    “We do not know whether the fire was accidental or arson. Until that determination is made, Chief Keel has alerted local law enforcement to provide extra patrols and security.” -South Carolina Chief Justice John Kittridge

    Gateway Pundit writer, Jordan Conradson, needs to clean up his sloppy journalism.

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  8. …IDK, hard to tell without more information. If you live in an urban or suburban setting you are used to fire hydrants being nearby, but this property seems to have been isolated away from most such utilites as evinced by an automatic dispatch of water tenders and their mention of using hard suction to draw water from local open resivours.

    This changes tactics some. Most rural departments have larger tanks on their pumpers and, seemingly contrarily, use a LOT of water in the initial attack to try to blow the fire out quickly. If this doesnt work, now you have to fart around with setting up tanker shuttles and drawing lake water and such, which isnt as easy to do as it is to say. On a complex structure like a large house with many interior partitions, a straighforward blitzkreig attack like this may be problematic.

    We also dont know how much of a jump the fire had on them. It could have burned for some time away from the sleeping people before they noticed it in a structure that size, or got up in a utility chase to the roof and spread above them to other parts because large residentials may or may not have effective firestops there.

    But if arson was a factor, it will become obvious during the investigation. If there were multiple sets you can look at the burn patterns on the debris to determine that. If an accellerant was used, youd be surprised how it re-emerges in wooden surfaces after the burn, and trained animals that “hit” on the scent of flammables can be used. There are other things as well that arent approproiate for an open forum discussion that point pretty well to where, when, and how a fire was set that do survive the fire itself.

    And sometimes an arsonist simply gets talky.

    …so if it were set, I have little doubt that the truth will out at the hands of a reasonably diligent and competent investigator.

    If they want to know it.

    And if they intend to DO anything about it.

    …so if its arson, and they WANT to look, it can and will be discovered.

    But whether you can find a prosecutor to prosecute or a judge to convict in a posdibly political case is another question entirely…

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