Popular umpire charged with husband's murder
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August 23, 2012, Thursday
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AS an umpire for decades with some of the biggest stars in tennis, Lois Goodman mixed it up with John McEnroe and Martina Navratilova, Roger Federer and the Williams sisters.
Already in New York City for next week's US Open where she was to serve as a line judge, the 70-year-old Goodman was met on Tuesday with a felony arrest warrant from her hometown of Los Angeles, where police and prosecutors say she beat her 80-year-old husband to death with a coffee mug in April.
Goodman has been a line judge at the US Open for many years and was scheduled to work at this year's tournament, which begins on Monday, and was about to begin working the tournament's qualifying matches on Tuesday, said tournament spokesman Tim Curry.
Goodman's husband, Alan, died on April 12 this year at the couple's condominium in the Woodland Hills neighborhood.
Lois Goodman told police it appeared to have been an accident and she had been out all day refereeing a tennis match, said Lt. David Storaker of the Los Angeles Police Department.
When Goodman found her husband unresponsive in bed, "she said she surmised he had fallen down the steps, had a heart attack and managed to get back upstairs to the bed," Storaker said. "It was a suspicious death from the beginning," he added.
Los Angeles County coroner's office said it noticed that he had multiple sharp force injuries on and around his head that were inconsistent with Lois Goodman's explanation.
In 1994 when Goodman had already been officiating for 15 years, she was profiled by the Los Angeles Times and described as an avid tennis fan who got the chance to be a referee.
"It's exciting," Goodman said at the time. "This is my favorite spot and I'm out there rubbing shoulders with the best players. There's no real way to describe it."
Goodman said the job was worth the paltry pay, the dirty looks from McEnroe and the verbal assaults from players like Andre Agassi.
Already in New York City for next week's US Open where she was to serve as a line judge, the 70-year-old Goodman was met on Tuesday with a felony arrest warrant from her hometown of Los Angeles, where police and prosecutors say she beat her 80-year-old husband to death with a coffee mug in April.
Goodman has been a line judge at the US Open for many years and was scheduled to work at this year's tournament, which begins on Monday, and was about to begin working the tournament's qualifying matches on Tuesday, said tournament spokesman Tim Curry.
Goodman's husband, Alan, died on April 12 this year at the couple's condominium in the Woodland Hills neighborhood.
Lois Goodman told police it appeared to have been an accident and she had been out all day refereeing a tennis match, said Lt. David Storaker of the Los Angeles Police Department.
When Goodman found her husband unresponsive in bed, "she said she surmised he had fallen down the steps, had a heart attack and managed to get back upstairs to the bed," Storaker said. "It was a suspicious death from the beginning," he added.
Los Angeles County coroner's office said it noticed that he had multiple sharp force injuries on and around his head that were inconsistent with Lois Goodman's explanation.
In 1994 when Goodman had already been officiating for 15 years, she was profiled by the Los Angeles Times and described as an avid tennis fan who got the chance to be a referee.
"It's exciting," Goodman said at the time. "This is my favorite spot and I'm out there rubbing shoulders with the best players. There's no real way to describe it."
Goodman said the job was worth the paltry pay, the dirty looks from McEnroe and the verbal assaults from players like Andre Agassi.
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