A longtime U.S. pro umpire was arrested Tuesday in New York for allegedly bludgeoning her 82-year-old husband to death with a coffee mug a their home in Woodland Hills, California.
Lois Goodman, 70, was arrested at her New York hotel and charged with murder by the L.A. County district attorney's office. She was in New York to officiate at the U.S. Open.
According to the <em>Los Angles Times</em>, Goodman, who has officiated matches for nearly all the sport’s big names, initially told police her husband, Alan Frederick Goodman, fell down the stairs on April 17 at their home. But prosecutors and police say she mislead them.
“It was a homicide. He had multiple sharp-force injuries,” said Ed Winter, assistant chief of investigations for the coroner, told the <em>Times</em>.
Goodman was arrested while having breakfast Tuesday at the officials’ hotel in New York. She was scheduled to umpire U.S. Open qualifying matches.