PHOENIX — The man accused of being Phoenix's Baseline Killer was sentenced to 438 years in prison Friday for sexual assaults of two sisters, a penalty that had been expanded because of his history of violence.
Mark Goudeau still faces trial for numerous crimes, including nine murders that were blamed on the Baseline Killer, a serial predator who randomly attacked people between 2005 and 2006. Goudeau, 43, pleaded not guilty to the charges.
In Maricopa County Superior Court, Judge Andrew Klein scolded Goudeau for the "brutal" and "sociopathic" attack outside a park in September 2005 when he raped one sister while pointing a pistol at the other's pregnant belly.
Noting that Goudeau has five previous felony convictions, Klein handed him a sentence that would put him behind bars for the rest of his life.
"It is clear from the record that you cannot function in a civilized society," the judge said.
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Goudeau, a former construction worker, told the judge he was innocent.
"What happened to those two girls was indeed horrible," Goudeau said. "But I had nothing to do with it."
Defense lawyer Corwin Townsend said he would appeal.
Goudeau was convicted in September on 19 counts stemming from the 2005 attack on the sisters, including several sexual assault charges, kidnapping, sexual abuse and one drug charge.
During the two-month trial, both sisters identified Goudeau as their attacker. Also, a forensic expert testified that DNA evidence linked Goudeau to the rape.
Outside the courthouse, Goudeau's wife, Wendy Carr, told reporters she felt the judge has been biased for the prosecution, and she again blamed prosecutors and jurors for convicting Goudeau based on "junk science."
"This is just another freak show of a hearing where they convicted an innocent man," Carr said.
Prosecutors had said earlier that Goudeau faced a maximum of 285 years in prison. But Deputy County Attorney Suzanne Cohen proved a prior violent record in court Friday that made him eligible for the longer sentences.
All but one of his sentences will run consecutively, so that he actually faces more than 400 years in prison.
During the trial, the two sisters said Goudeau accosted them with a pistol. The sisters told the jury he forced them into the bushes near a road and told them to strip. They said he had sex with the younger sister while pointing the pistol at the older sister's pregnant belly.
Jurors spent just three hours deliberating before convicting Goudeau on all counts.
One of the victims told the judge Friday that she still wakes up crying at times.
"I will hope for him to never get out," she said through an interpreter during the sentencing hearing.
"He hurt me very much, as well as my sister. My daughter was in danger before she was even born."
The Associated Press has not identified the woman because she is the victim of sexual assault.
Goudeau still faces trial on 74 other criminal charges, including nine murder counts, from a crime spree police have attributed to the Baseline Killer. If he's convicted, County Attorney Andrew Thomas will pursue the death penalty, he said.
Goudeau is the first of three suspected serial killers to go on trial for a rash of random attacks that terrorized the Phoenix area for more than a year.
Dale Hausner, Samuel Dieteman and Goudeau were all arrested last year.
