Prosecutors began a new "he (the attacker) knew about chapter Wednesday in the my kid," she said. And he had trial of Mark Goudeau, the looked at her driver's defendant in the "Baseline license and knew where she Killer" case. And as another lived. rape victim took the witness She talked on the stand about stand, the pattern of the the shame she felt, and how attacks became even clearer. one of the police officers Goudeau, 46, is on trial in who responded to the call had Maricopa County Superior told her that she didn't act Court, charged with 74 felony like she had just been raped. counts related to a series of She had been so emotional rapes, robberies and murders just minutes before that her in Phoenix in 2005 and 2006. brother had asked her to calm On Wednesday, the trial down in order to better tell shifted to the events of Nov. her story to police. 3, 2005, when a man wearing a As the investigation fisherman's hat and a progressed, the victim asked dreadlocks wig robbed a investigators to leave her lingerie and erotic-toy shop alone because, she said, "I near 32nd Street and Indian couldn't live my normal life. School Road and then abducted I couldn't be a parent when I a woman in her car in a was scared." parking lot across the street, Her emotion on the stand made her drive to a secluded clearly affected some of the location and sexually other victims in the assaulted her. courtroom, who left the trial The rape victim, now 27, momentarily to compose fought back tears during her themselves. testimony, refusing to look During a break in testimony, in Goudeau's direction as she the witness told an observer sat in the witness box and he that she hadn't wanted to sat at the defendant's table. testify. On that evening in 2005, she "I'm only doing this for the told the jury, she was people who didn't survive," putting old clothes in she said. charity-donation boxes behind Goudeau is charged with the a supermarket when the murders of eight women and assailant approached her and one man. Prosecutors theorize demanded that he take her for that the women who were a ride. killed had resisted the At first she said no, but he attacker's sexual demands. replied, "No, you're going to The man who was killed was give me a ride," and when she accompanying one of the looked down, she realized he female murder victims. was pointing a gun at her. Goudeau has already been As in testimony from several convicted and sentenced to different victims during the 438 years in prison for a trial, which began June 6, similar attack on two sisters the assailant said he had in south Phoenix in September just committed a robbery and 2005. He had attempted to that he had become separated cover his DNA with the from an accomplice. He told victims' spit in that case. her not to look at his face But forensic technicians were and then made her disrobe able to pull Goudeau's DNA when they reached a dark spot profile from the mix of in a nearby neighborhood. genetic material on one of Then, she testified, he the women by using a newer forced her to kiss him and technique that tracks the Y perform sex acts. chromosomal component - the When he was done, he made her male genes - of DNA. spit into her own hands and Similar analysis reportedly rub them over her body in an extracted Goudeau's DNA in attempt to cover his own DNA. the November 2005 case as After the attack, the woman well. called her brother, who The trial continues today but insisted on calling 911. She then will go on hiatus for did not want him to because two weeks.
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