DNA Linked Baseline Killer to Victim

Before an arrest was made in the Phoenix Baseline Killer case, investigators had a list of 75 possible suspects and they had DNA profiles of 29 of them. When DNA collected in a Sept. 20, 2005 sexual assault matched one of those profiles, it belonged to Mark Goudeau, a jury was told last week.

Forensic specialist Lorraine Heath said her analysis of DNA found on one of two sisters who had been sexually assaulted led to the arrest of Goudeau two weeks after she made the match.

Heath told the jury that the chances of the DNA found on the left breasts of one of the victims belonging to someone other than Goudeau was one in 380 trillion.

Goudeau is on trial for sexual assault, kidnapping and other crimes related to the 2005 case. Goudeau, 42, faces 74 other criminal counts including nine murders. A trial for those crimes has not yet been scheduled.