Wife calls accused serial killer a model husband

"I guess people would look at me as the naive wife, but we're very close and we spent all of our free time together," Wendy Carr said Wednesday in an interview with The Arizona Republic.

Goudeau, 42, is charged with 94 crimes, including nine murders, multiple rapes, robberies and kidnappings across the Phoenix area during a 13-month period. Prosecutors have not said whether they would seek the death penalty if Goudeau is convicted.

Goudeau was arrested Sept. 6 after Phoenix police said DNA linked him to a sexual assault in south Phoenix. He was indicted on 20 counts related to that assault and was expected to go to trial next week, but the case has been postponed.

Maricopa County Superior Court Judge James Keppel announced Wednesday that the case would be transferred to another judge.

Carr believes her husband is innocent.

"I think I would have seen something," Carr said. "I think his employer would have seen something."

When talking about Goudeau, Carr described a charming and thoughtful house husband who never missed a day's work and had the house clean for her by the time she came home each day.

"Mark is kind and thoughtful," she said. "He's the kind of guy who gives homeless people money when I tell him not to."

Carr met Goudeau nearly 20 years ago. They lived together for three years and planned to marry before Goudeau was arrested in 1989 for beating a woman and again in 1990 for robbing a supermarket at gunpoint.

Goudeau was sentenced to 15- and 21-year prison terms but was granted clemency in 2004 after 13 years as a model prisoner.

He and Carr married while Goudeau was in prison. She spoke on his behalf at his clemency hearing, saying that Goudeau had clearly changed his ways.

Carr said her husband came out of prison an older and wiser man.

"Mark and I have been together 20 years. I know Mark better than anybody. He doesn't have the propensity, the demeanor, the schedule to commit these crimes."