PHOENIX - A judge is ordering prosecutors to hand over DNA evidence that they say ties serial killer suspect Mark Goudeau to a pair of sexual assaults in 2005.
The sexual assaults are part of the so-called Baseline Killer investigation.
Police said last year they think Goudeau was the serial killer who preyed on people in the Phoenix metropolitan area late at night.
He has been charged with numerous crimes including nine counts of first-degree murder and 15 counts of sexual assault.
Defense lawyer Corwin Townsend has questioned the validity of the biological evidence that police say ties Goudeau to the crimes.
Townsend wants to do his own tests and has asked for the raw biological samples that investigators gathered after the alleged sexual assaults of two women in September 2005.
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In court yesterday, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Andrew Klein agreed. He told prosecutors to hand over whatever samples remain.
Another hearing in the Baseline Killer case has been scheduled for June eighth.
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