Just Heard It On the News That.....

......a former neighbor of mine murdered her husband.

When I was living in Calabasas, CA. we had a neighbor that was an Open Tennis judge. At that time, late 80's, she had one of those huge satellites on the side of her house. The HOA made her take it down...which I thought was ridiculous....but she wound up taking it down.

Apparently, back in April, she stabbed her husband with a broken coffee cup multiple times, then went out to play tennis and have her nails done. When she got back to the house, she called the police to tell them she found her husband dead in bed and that he must have fallen down the stairs. I guess the police bought the story at first since they just arrested her in NYC at the Open and extradited her back to Los Angeles.

If you Google Lois Goodman, it will tell the whole story in an LA Times article.

Ironically, our next door neighbor was Melodie Woodman, whose husband and brother in law had their parents killed on Yom Kippur in what was called the "Ninja" murders as the killers, witnesses said, wore "ninja" type clothing. They wound up making a made for TV movie about the murders.

Some neighborhood!!! Couldn't have been more than 20 houses in the upscale gated cul de sac.
I'll give her a bonus point for originality. Using a broken coffee cup as a murder weapon is a 1st !

Now I'll take away that bonus point for her weak excuse to the police. Usually, when you have a fatal fall down the stairs, you end up dead AT THE FOOT OF THE STAIRS, not dead in bed !

Andy and Barney wouldn't have bought that story
She'll probably only get a manslaughter gig, because a broken coffee cup murder weapon makes premeditation pretty unlikely. Which come to think of it, means that a broken coffee cup would make an ideal murder weapon for a premeditated murder.

And there's always the caffeine defense.
I'm hearing stories that the reason the cup was broken is because she grabbed a cup (unbroken), swung, and shattered it on his head.

he probably did something to deserve it
Man my life is so BORING compared to yours. Sex, drugs, booze, boobs, gambling and now murder. Still BORING is GOOD!
Saw this story unfold on the news last week.... interesting.
Her family and lawyer is claiming that she is innocent because of all her physical problems. I have a feeling that after she attacked him, that he had a heart attack.
Were all your neighbors Jewish?
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