US/AZ/Phoenix - A US court has sentenced a suspected serial killer to 438 years in jail for sexual assaults of two sisters in 2005. Mark Goudeau attacked the women as they were walking from a park in the city of Phoenix, Arizona. One of the victims was six months pregnant at the time.
Goudeau, suspected of being the Baseline Killer, is also facing trial in connection with the murder of eight other women and a man in 2005-06.
US/Phoenix/AZ – Jury selection started today in a sexual assault trial in Phoenix for suspected serial killer Mark Goudeau (goo-DOH’).
The 42-year-old Goudeau is accused of attacking two sisters in a southwest Phoenix park in September 2005. Prosecutors say DNA evidence ties Goudeau to the case, but that claim will likely be under dispute throughout the trial. Read More
US/Mesa/AZ – Scottsdale-based forensics psychiatrist Steven Pitt recently teamed up with the Arizona Humane Society to help the group better understand the mind-set of animal abusers. A consultant for a number of law enforcement agencies in metro Phoenix and around the nation, Pitt looks to figure out why an individual abuses animals. Read More
US/Phoenix/AZ – Wendy Carr would love to get away from this city. Few would blame her if she did.Her husband, Mark Goudeau, is a convicted felon and recovering cocaine addict who once beat a woman with a barbell. He’s now accused of being Phoenix’s notorious Baseline Killer, a serial predator who terrorized the city by killing nine people and attacking 24 others in little over a year. Read More
US/Phoenix/AZ – The thought that Mark Goudeau, the accused “Baseline Killer,” was quite possibly not guilty for the crimes he has been accused of has crossed my mind so many times. Maybe he was instead arrested out of convenience for the police department. Read More
US/Phoenix/AZ – Phoenix Police are collecting more evidence in the Baseline Killer case.
Accused serial killer Mark Goudeau is set to go on trial next month. His attorney is puzzled by the need for more evidence this late in the game.
“When they’ve said all along that they have the “right guy in custody”, that person being my client Mr. Goudeau. So I find that very strange,” said Corwin Townsend, Goudeau’s attorney. Read More
US/Phoenix/AZ – A lawyer for accused serial killer Mark Goudeau has asked a judge to dismiss the sexual assault case that first tied him to the Baseline Killer investigation.
Corwin Townsend filed a motion to dismiss the case Friday in Maricopa County Superior Court after prosecutors failed to produce DNA swabs from the September 2005 sexual assaults. Read More
US/Phoenix/AZ – A Judge ordered prosecutors to turn over DNA evidence to the defense for independent testing in Baseline Killer case in which Marc Goudeau is facing 94 charges and the possible death penalty if convicted. The requested DNA samples tie Goudeau to two sexual assaults in 2005, investigators claim. Read More
US/Phoenix/AZ – A judge is ordering prosecutors to hand over D-N-A evidence that they say ties serial killer suspect Mark Goudeau (goo-DOWH) to a pair of sexual assaults in 2005.
The sexual assaults are part of the so-called Baseline Killer investigation.
Police said last year they think Goudeau was the serial killer who preyed on people in the Phoenix metropolitan area late at night. Read More
US/Phoenix/AZ – For the first time, we get a look inside the defense of accused serial killer Mark Goudeau.
At a discovery hearing this morning, Goudeau’s attorneys laid out part of their defense strategy.
The hearing focused on the attack of two sisters at a southwest Phoenix park. The sexual assault of the 23- and 21-year-old women happened in September 2005. Read More
