His neighbors and siblings say his arrest was a mistake. They say he would not have committed sexual assault or any of the attacks from the Baseline Killer file, 23 in all, including rapes, robberies and eight murders.

Goudeau, who was arrested Wednesday, his 42nd birthday, has been charged with two counts each of aggravated assault, sexual abuse, sexual assault and kidnapping stemming from a September 2005 attack on two sisters as they were walking home from a park near Baseline Road and 31st Avenue in Phoenix.

But even if evidence from the sexual assaults points to Goudeau, the evidence from the other crimes attributed to the Baseline Killer case does not.

"People are assuming that whoever committed this crime is the same person who committed all of these murders," said Goudeau's attorney, Corwin Townsend.

"So if people are getting the false impression that they've solved the crime, it seems to me the jury's still out on that. It seems to me the person is possibly still out there. And more likely is still out there."

Court records paint Goudeau as a younger child in a family plagued by drug and alcohol abuse, a family in which at least six of 13 children are felons and at least four have done prison time. One remains in prison, and another had his probation revoked last month.

According to court records, they divorced. An older brother said Alberta died in 1976, when Goudeau was 12, and the 13 children - seven boys and six girls - watched over each other. Goudeau was the second-youngest.

He and younger brother Marvin excelled at sports. Both played football for Corona del Sol High School in Tempe. Marvin went on to play college ball, but Mark never graduated from high school because he failed to complete all the credits needed.

Older brother Oscar told The Republic that their upbringing was uneventful, at times idyllic. There was no violence in the house growing up, he said, although he admitted that their father was a strict disciplinarian.

Trouble began for Mark Goudeau in 1982, when he was 18. He and one of his brothers were accused of raping a young woman. The brothers were never charged because the victim did not want to go forward with the prosecution.

In August 1989, again according to court records, Goudeau was charged with kidnapping, sexual assault and aggravated assault in the beating of a woman with a shotgun and the chasing of two witnesses at the scene at 28th Street and Osborn Road.

The woman said Goudeau raped her and tried to force cocaine up her nose, that he beat her first with a barbell and the shotgun, threw her in the bathtub, then beat her again in the parking lot.

Goudeau said she had willingly performed oral sex on him and that they were about to take a bath when two people knocked at the door: a man who beat her up and another who held a gun on Goudeau.

In August 1990, before he had been sentenced, he pulled a gun on a cashier at a Fry's supermarket at 30th Street and Thomas Road and robbed her of about $850, then forced employees to follow him out of the store. He told a probation officer that he needed money for his crack cocaine addiction.

"Mark's transformation from a young, sad boy to a mature, remorseful, ambitious and introspective man has been inspiring," one wrote. "Although Mark could have fallen in to the abyss of bitterness and anger, he has chosen to see the positive side of life and the many possibilities it offers."

A company executive, Gary Burleson, said, "We are cooperating with authorities in any way requested. We will let the justice system take care of what it needs to do."

After Goudeau got out of prison, he moved into the house that his wife, Wendy Carr, bought in 1995. It's on Pinchot Street, just a long block north of Thomas Road, where the Baseline Killer committed many of his crimes.

Those don't sound like descriptions of a man who would shove a gun into the side of a pregnant young woman and rape her as she pleads for her life and the life of her unborn baby.

They don't make him sound like a man who would threaten to kill the woman and her younger sister, then drag them into the bushes and assault them repeatedly.

Mark Goudeau. related Mark Goudeau is born into a family of 13 children in south Phoenix. He later attends Corona del Sol High School in Tempe, where he plays on the football team.

Convicted of armed robbery and kidnapping for robbing a Phoenix supermarket. Sentenced to 15 years in prison for the assaults and 21 years for the robbery.

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