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If you ask me Mark Goudeau is being framed in this case. The cops need a patsy to frame this murder on and Mark Goudeau is a Black man who was at the wrong place at the wrong time and Mark Goudeau is that patsy!
Phoenix rapist facing trial in slayings Jury to be selected in 'Baseline Killer' case by Michael Kiefer - Apr. 19, 2011 12:00 AM The Arizona Republic It has been 4 1/2 years since Mark Goudeau was arrested on suspicion of being the "Baseline Killer," who terrorized Phoenix from August 2005 to September 2006. Goudeau, 46, is serving sentences totaling more than 400 years for the 2005 sexual assault on two sisters in south Phoenix. Today, prosecutors and defense attorneys will begin choosing a jury in Maricopa County Superior Court for the bulk of the Baseline Killer crimes. Goudeau is accused of 74 more felony charges: nine counts of first-degree murder for which he faces the death penalty; one count of attempted first-degree murder; 11 counts of kidnapping; one count of attempted kidnapping; 12 counts of armed robbery; three counts of attempted armed robbery; 14 counts of sexual assault; six counts of attempted sexual assault; five counts of sexual abuse; 10 counts of aggravated assault; and one count each of burglary and child molestation. Jury selection will likely take a month to complete. Opening statements and testimony are scheduled to begin in Judge Warren Granville's courtroom on June 6. The trial is expected to last months. The Baseline Killer struck suddenly and brutally, frequently snatching his victims off busy city street corners, even in broad daylight, and then disappearing as quickly as he had come. He raped a woman and her daughter in front of each other in south Phoenix. He left another woman dead in her bathtub for her son to find on the west side, kidnapped two people in a car at 24th Street and Indian School Road and left their bodies just blocks from where he had taken them. He left his last victim's body in her car just a few hundred feet from the carwash where he snatched her, even though police were scouring the neighborhood looking for him. What made the attacks more frightening was a second set of serial killings during the same period. Though the killings were unrelated, it was as if the Baseline Killer and the so-called Serial Shooters were competing in some evil death match. The Serial Shooters crisscrossed metropolitan Phoenix, from Mesa to Tolleson, shooting from car windows, killing eight people, wounding 17 more and shooting 10 animals. The Baseline Killer operated just north and south of Baseline Road, from Tempe to Laveen, and in a square-mile area near Goudeau's house in central Phoenix. Over the course of 13 attacks, eight women and one man were shot to death, 11 women and girls were sexually assaulted, and 22 people were robbed at gunpoint. The Serial Shooters were arrested in August 2006. Dale Hausner received six death sentences; his brother, Jeff, was sentenced to 25 years for two stabbings; and Samuel Dieteman pleaded guilty to two murders and was sentenced to life in prison. Goudeau, an ex-convict and construction worker, was arrested in September 2006, and initially charged only with the 2005 rapes as police and prosecutors put together their murder case against him, based largely on DNA and ballistics. Goudeau was convicted of the rapes in September 2007. Since then, attorneys and prosecutors have been hammering out details, discussing what is admissible as evidence, eliminating other suspects, dealing with conspiracy theories posed by police officers, sparring over whether to try all of the charges at once or split them into multiple trials. Now, 4 1/2 years later, they're about to pick the jury that will decide whether Goudeau and the Baseline Killer are the same person.
'Baseline Killer' trial starts today Goudeau faces murder, sexual-assault charges in spree of attacks in 2005-06 by Michael Kiefer - Jun. 5, 2011 08:42 PM The Arizona Republic The trial begins today for the man police and prosecutors believe to be the "Baseline Killer," who terrorized Phoenix for 13 months in 2005 and 2006, committing rapes and robberies and leaving nine dead - all but one of them women. Mark Goudeau, 46, is already serving a 438-year prison sentence for September 2005 sexual assaults against two sisters near 31st Avenue and Baseline Road in south Phoenix. The women, both in their 20s, were assaulted as they walked home from a park. One of them was six months pregnant, and she testified that Goudeau held his pistol between her legs and made her beg for her baby's life. Goudeau was convicted of those rapes in 2007. But he faces 74 more felony charges: nine counts of first-degree murder, for which he could face the death penalty; one count of attempted first-degree murder; 11 counts of kidnapping; one count of attempted kidnapping; 12 counts of armed robbery; three counts of attempted armed robbery; 14 counts of sexual assault; six counts of attempted sexual assault; five counts of sexual abuse; 10 counts of aggravated assault; and one count each of burglary and child molestation. According to police reports, court documents and testimony, the Baseline Killer, so named because the initial attacks seemed to take place near Baseline Road, would snatch women off busy street corners, even in broad daylight. He wore hats, wigs and masks, and it seemed that the women who were shot to death were those who resisted his sexual assaults. One survivor only lived because her assailant's gun misfired. Goudeau was arrested Sept. 6, 2006, after police got a DNA hit in the 2005 rapes. His trial will take place in the courtroom of Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Warren Granville. Deputy County Attorneys Suzanne Cohen and Patricia Stevens will try the case; attorneys Randall Craig and Rodrick Carter will defend Goudeau. And, after a trial expected to last the better part of a year, a jury will determine whether Goudeau committed the following crimes: - Aug. 6, 2005 - Three teens were approached at 48th Street and Baseline Road; two were sexually assaulted. - Sept. 9, 2005 - Georgia Thompson, 19, was shot to death outside a Tempe apartment complex where she lived. - Sept. 28, 2005 - A mother and her adolescent daughter were abducted in their car outside a Mexican restaurant on Central Avenue near Baseline, driven to a secluded area nearby and sexually assaulted. - Nov. 3, 2005 - A man robbed a lingerie and sex-toy boutique near 32nd Street and Indian School Road at gunpoint and then abducted a woman in her car from a parking lot across the street and sexually assaulted her. - Nov. 7, 2005 - Two fast-food restaurants were robbed and a woman outside a check-cashing store was robbed at 32nd Street and Thomas Road. - Dec. 12, 2005 - Tina Washington, 39, was taken from a bus stop at 40th Street and Southern Avenue, dragged behind some stores and shot to death. - Feb. 20, 2006 - Romelia Vargas, 38, and Mirna Palma Roman, 24, were shot and killed in a lunch wagon they ran at a construction site near 91st Avenue and Lower Buckeye Road. - March 14, 2006 - Chao "George" Chou, 23, offered a ride home to co-worker Liliana Sanchez Cabrera, 20, after her first shift at a restaurant at 24th Street and Indian School Road. They were abducted in the parking lot. Chou's body was found in an alley near 32nd Street and Indian School, and Sanchez Cabrera was found dead in the car a few blocks west of 24th. - April 4, 2006 - The body of Kristina Nicole Gibbons, 26, was found stuffed between a house and a storage unit on 24th Street, south of Thomas Road. Police believed she had been killed March 29. - April 10, 2006 - Sophia Nuņez, 37, was found shot to death in her bathtub by her 8-year-old son. Nuņez apparently knew Goudeau, and the DNA found on her body linked Goudeau to the bullets that killed all of the victims, authorities say. - May 1, 2006 - A woman was abducted at gunpoint at 32nd Street and Thomas Road and forced to drive to a secluded location, where she was forced to undress and was sexually assaulted. When she refused to cooperate, the assailant pulled the trigger, but his gun misfired, saving her life. She got out of the car and ran to a nearby house. - June 29, 2006 - Carmen Miranda, 37, was abducted from a car wash at 29th Street and Thomas Road, just blocks from where Goudeau lived. The abduction was captured on surveillance tape, showing a man in a Gilligan-style hat and a dreadlock wig shoving Miranda into her car and driving off. Though police arrived in minutes, Miranda was found dead in her car just a hundred yards away.
Check out some previous articles on the alleged Baseline Killer or Baseline Rapist. And here are some more articles on the alleged Baseline Rapist or Baseline Killer that were written after I created this web page. Here are a few articles on the Serial Shooter or Serial Shooters who are local Phoenix murderers who were opperating at the same time as the Baseline Killer. |