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A prominent professional tennis referee who was preparing to officiate at the U.S. Open in New York was arrested on Tuesday on a felony murder warrant accusing her of bludgeoning her elderly husband to death with a coffee mug.

Lois Ann Goodman, 70, was taken into custody on a warrant filed a week ago by the Los Angeles County district attorney's office charging her with the April 17 slaying of her husband, Alan Goodman, who was 80 years old, prosecutors said.

The district attorney's office said Goodman would remain in custody in New York while awaiting extradition to Los Angeles, where she faces a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted. Prosecutors said they would ask for bail to be set at $1 million.

She is accused of killing her husband by beating him to death with a coffee cup at the couple's home in the Woodland Hills section of Los Angeles.

According to Los Angeles police Lieutenant Dave Storaker, Goodman had called authorities to report that she found her husband dead in their home, with no sign of forced entry, and surmised he had fallen down some stairs after suffering a heart attack.

But details of her account immediately aroused suspicions, and police subsequently conducted several searches of the home for evidence, which included a broken coffee cup that roughly matched the multiple contusions on the victim's head.

Storaker said the coroner ruled the death a homicide on August 2. The case was presented to the district attorney and charges were filed. Since Goodman had left town by then for the U.S. Open, Los Angeles police coordinated with homicide detectives in New York City to help make the arrest.

Storaker declined to discuss a suspected motive but said investigators were looking into "whether there were problems in their marriage."

Goodman is well known in tennis circles and was preparing to serve as a referee at the U.S. Open Tennis Championships tournament, a district attorney's office spokeswoman, Jane Robison, said. In tennis, on-court referees are known as officials, serving either as the chair umpires or line judges.

Goodman served mainly as a line judge, and had worked at the annual U.S. Open for at least the past 10 years, said Tim Curry, a spokesman for the U.S. Tennis Association, which owns the tournament.

Like all on-court officials, she worked as an independent contractor of the association, he said, adding she was arrested at her hotel before Tuesday's start of qualifying rounds. He said tournament officials were not aware she had been under suspicion in a murder investigation.

The main draw of the tournament, played at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Centre in Flushing, New York, opens on Monday with the men's and women's first-round matches.

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Wed Jun 19 21:43:13 SAST 2013 ::

Aug 22, 2012

ntebo

Was a 80yr old man Cheating ?
hhmmmmm, I Blame Hugh Hefner
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Aug 22, 2012

KatakataEmaotoAditshepe

LOL, Hey! lefu leholo ke ditsheho.With a coffe mug eish!
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Aug 22, 2012

eKapa-

we are use to Savanna bottle here in Mzansi

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Aug 22, 2012

2nevvy4u

she killed him for insurance money,she is gonna spend it with her new boyfriend Raymond
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Aug 22, 2012

eisleben

I did that once, but I was neither 70 nor 80. You will be amazed what a huge solid kaolin mug can do to a human skull. Like that other day I tenderised a whole Olympic-sized runner with a baseball bat. I had to knock him down with a car first because he ran a wee faster than me. After he fell to the ground with a broken shin the two baseball bats I keep in my car did the remainder of the tenderising excursion. There, a human tender steak marinated in a concoction from Mbizane in the Eastern Cape that might as well make you invincible. Don’t look back.
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Aug 22, 2012

TKay

wonder why it took her so long to k!ll him
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Aug 22, 2012

Tsikiyo

hehehe ... a robbery with mixed emotions ... damn ! ! !
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Aug 22, 2012

Blackthought

Hatred and bitterness amongst partners....inevitable!
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Aug 22, 2012

Sugaar

I just wish one of zoomas wives can do the same.
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