A man police believe is the Phoenix "Baseline Killer" responsible for a series of murders and sexual assaults in 2005 and 2006 has been found guilty of 19 charges in connection with the assault of two sisters. Mark Goudeau, 43, still faces trial on 74 other charges, including nine murders.
Testimony during the two-week trial revealed that Goudeau approached two sisters as they left a city park on Sept. 20, 2005. He told both women to strip, then raped one sister while pointing a gun at the other sister's pregnant stomach.
Goudeau's attorney Corwin Townsend plans to appeal the conviction. "I don't believe they (the jury) deliberated at all, not at all," he told reporters.
During the trial Townsend attacked the sisters' eye witness testimony. Neither was able to pick Goudeau out of a lineup and one sister picked another suspect as the assailant.
The jury foreman, however, said the DNA evidence in the case sealed Goudeau's fate. "It left little doubt in everyone's mind," Michael Voda said. "The DNA was really a lynchpin to the case. It was pretty much irrefutable."
Background:
The Baseline Killer
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