LinkedIn OSINT Credibility and Identity Assessment: Bill Goodwin
Bill Goodwin
2026-06-18Bottom Line Up Front
The LinkedIn profile is a strong match to a real Bill Goodwin in Franklin, Tennessee, with a long oil-and-gas career, a University of Kansas education, and a modest but credible network of 679 connections. The most important red flag is a 2024 LinkedIn post stating that Bill Goodwin passed away on May 8, 2024, which creates a serious identity inconsistency that should be treated as high-risk until resolved.
Key Judgments
The profile is strongly attributable to the Bill Goodwin identity anchored in the profile data, but there is a major contradiction that may indicate account compromise, memorialization ambiguity, or stale content.
The account may be deceptive or mismanaged because a post from the same profile says Bill Goodwin passed away on May 8, 2024, while the profile still presents an active CEO identity.
The LinkedIn presence looks like a real-person professional profile rather than a bot or spam account, based on career history, education, and connection count.
Risk Assessment
Analytic confidence in this assessment is moderate.
Identity resolution
Resolved Primary Identity
Bill Goodwin
Strong identity match to a public LinkedIn profile for Bill Goodwin in Franklin, Tennessee, United States. The profile aligns on full name, city, country, job title, employer, and education. The main unresolved issue is a contradictory post on the same account saying Bill Goodwin passed away on May 8, 2024. That contradiction materially lowers confidence in the account’s current authenticity state, even though the underlying identity match is strong.
Resolved Identifiers
full name
Bill Goodwin
location
Franklin, Tennessee, United States
job title
CEO
organization
Monteagle Oil & Gas, LLC
school
The University of Kansas
other
683 LinkedIn followers; 679 connections
Online presence
The subject’s presence is dominated by one strong LinkedIn profile that appears genuinely professional. Search results surface many namesakes on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest, TikTok, and additional LinkedIn profiles, but none are well supported beyond name similarity. The only high-confidence presence is the anchor LinkedIn account.
LinkedIn • Public
Linkage Basis:
- Exact name match
- Matching location
- Matching employer
- Matching education
- Matching title
LinkedIn • Unknown
Linkage Basis:
- Name only
- No corroborating location or employer context
LinkedIn • Unknown
Linkage Basis:
- Name only
- Conflicting location
Facebook • Public
Linkage Basis:
- Exact name only
- No supporting biography or location
Facebook • Public
Linkage Basis:
- Exact name only
- No supporting biography or location
Account OSINT
Top Associated Accounts
The verified network is sparse but coherent: one main employer, one long-term prior company, one technical oilfield employer, and one university. That is consistent with a traditional executive profile and does not resemble a mass-created fake account. The network picture is limited, though, because no named peers or family connections were exposed in the curated data.
Monteagle Oil & Gas, LLC
employee_employerLinkedIn profile employment history
"Current or most recent employer tied to the profile identity."
W.D. Goodwin, Inc.
employee_employerLinkedIn profile employment history
"Long-term prior employer and likely core business affiliation."
Eagle Innovations, Inc. - Advanced Oilfield Technologies
employee_employerLinkedIn profile employment history
"Relevant prior employer in the oilfield technology sector."
The University of Kansas
schoolLinkedIn education history
"Verified education anchor that supports identity resolution."
Who is Bill Goodwin associated with?
Reveal the Linkedin accounts Bill Goodwin is connected to and interacts with most.
Reveal Associates »Account Timeline
The account appears professionally maintained or at least structurally complete, but the available activity evidence is too sparse to establish a posting rhythm. The single post is highly anomalous and should prompt a focused verification step.
Job Change
W.D. Goodwin, Inc. (1980 to October 2014) to Eagle Innovations, Inc. (June 2014 to December 2017) to Monteagle Oil & Gas, LLC (2016 to July 2018).
The career record suggests a long, continuous oil-and-gas professional path with some overlap in dates that may reflect transition periods or record imprecision.
Latest Post
2024-05-26 post stating Bill Goodwin passed away May 8, 2024.
This is the most important temporal anomaly in the evidence set and materially affects account integrity.
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Intelligence gathered
Strong Identifiers And Pivots
- The LinkedIn profile resolves to Bill Goodwin, located in Franklin, Tennessee, United States, with headline CEO at Monteagle Oil & Gas, LLC.
- Education is listed as The University of Kansas with Advertising and Business, which adds a useful background pivot.
Intelligence Gaps 2
- No email, phone, or external website is exposed in the curated record.
- No profile creation date is available in the evidence.
Weak Identifiers And Background Markers
- Past roles include President at W.D. Goodwin, Inc. from 1980 to October 2014 and Sales Representative at Eagle Innovations, Inc. from June 2014 to December 2017.
- Past work locations include Brentwood, TN and Nashville, TN, which reinforce the Tennessee business context.
Intelligence Gaps 2
- No public family, hobby, or interest markers were available in the evidence.
- No language or certification data was provided.
Account Attribution And Identity Linkage
- The profile match assessment from person_social_search_v1 marks the LinkedIn account as a strong match with high confidence and a score of 98.
- The strongest linkage signals are exact name match, identical location, matching employer, matching title, and matching school.
Intelligence Gaps 2
- No reverse-image result was provided for the profile photo.
- No external corroboration from company pages or independent bios was included.
Online Presence And Platform Activity
- The curated search results show the subject name across LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest, and TikTok, but only one profile is strongly attributed.
- The anchor LinkedIn account has at least one post and visible engagement, suggesting active or at least recently used presence.
Intelligence Gaps 2
- No post history beyond the single provided post is available.
- No audience demographics or engagement quality metrics were provided.
Behavioral Markers And Preferences
- The profile emphasizes a long oil-and-gas career, especially executive and sales work in Tennessee.
- The only post provided is unusual and sensitive, because it states the subject passed away, which is not normal self-authorship behavior for an active CEO profile.
Intelligence Gaps 2
- No regular posting style, topics, or content themes can be established from one post.
- No likes-to-connections or engagement benchmark is available.
Temporal Markers And Activity Windows
- Career timeline shows W.D. Goodwin, Inc. from 1980 to October 2014, Eagle Innovations from June 2014 to December 2017, and Monteagle Oil & Gas from 2016 to July 2018 per the experience record.
- The post about Bill Goodwin passing away was published on 2024-05-26 and references a death date of 2024-05-08.
Intelligence Gaps 2
- No account creation date, last-seen date, or posting cadence is available.
- No clear activity window can be derived from a single post.
Best next moves
Confirm whether Bill Goodwin died on 2024-05-08
The profile itself contains a death claim, and that is the biggest unresolved issue in the record. You should verify it with an obituary or public notice before using the account as a trustworthy identity source.
Check whether linkedin.com/in/bill-goodwin-93444a7 is memorialized or admin-managed
If the profile is memorialized, the death post may be consistent. If it is not, the post becomes a stronger sign of compromise, error, or misuse.
Review alternative LinkedIn candidates from social search
Several other Bill Goodwin LinkedIn results exist, but they look like namesakes or mismatches. Reviewing them can help rule out mistaken attribution if the anchor profile turns out not to be the right person.
Monitor this Linkedin account for changes
Track handle changes, bio edits, profile removals, and new signals without re-checking this account manually.
Risks & recommendations
Identified Risks
3
⤷ 3 additional risks found in this analysis
Identified Risks
3⤷ 3 additional risks found in this analysis
Identity integrity
LikelyThe profile contains a direct contradiction: a living CEO profile and a post asserting the subject died on May 8, 2024.
Impersonation or account misuse
Roughly even chanceThe profile may be compromised, memorialized, or managed by someone other than the living subject.
Professional credibility
LikelyIf the death claim is false or the account is unmanaged, viewers may question the legitimacy of the profile and any outreach from it.
Recommendations
3
⤷ 3 recommended courses of action
Recommendations
3⤷ 3 recommended courses of action
Verify the death claim for Bill Goodwin
3 stepsConfirm whether the May 8, 2024 death statement is true before relying on the profile for any vetting or outreach decision.
Validate profile ownership and stewardship
3 stepsDetermine whether the account is controlled by the subject, a family member, a colleague, or an unknown third party.
Use the LinkedIn profile only as a cautious identity anchor
3 stepsTreat the profile as a strong but not final identity source until the death contradiction is resolved.
Data sources
Source Registry
4
Assessment is limited to the curated evidence supplied in the task. No unbounded external browsing was used.
Source Registry
4Assessment is limited to the curated evidence supplied in the task. No unbounded external browsing was used.
| Source ID / Type | Description | Grading (Src/Info) |
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eval_1
social profile
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LinkedIn profile record for bill-goodwin-93444a7 with structured identity, job history, location, education, and connection count.
Coverage: High for profile metadata and career history; limited for private fields and external linkage.
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SRC
A
INFO
1
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eval_2
post
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LinkedIn post from the same profile stating Bill Goodwin passed away on May 8, 2024.
Coverage: High for the posted content and engagement metadata; limited context for intent or verification.
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SRC
A
INFO
1
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eval_3
social search
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Name-based social search results across LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest, and TikTok.
Coverage: Broad but shallow; useful for pivots, but many results are namesakes or weak matches.
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SRC
B
INFO
2
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eval_4
person social search
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Cross-platform match assessment for Bill Goodwin, including one strong LinkedIn match and several weak Facebook and LinkedIn namesake candidates.
Coverage: Good for attribution confidence and false-positive filtering.
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SRC
A
INFO
1
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