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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Baseline Killer Sentenced Today (Mark Goudeau)

This post was written from inside the Baseline Killer's courtroom as the sentencing was happening, in real time.
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This sketch circulated for months before Mark Goudeau (r) was arrested in 2006




Mark Goudeau, convicted as the "Baseline Killer" who terrorized Phoenix in 2005-2006, has just been sentenced to: Georgia Thompson-Death, Tina Washington-Death, Romelia Vargas-Death, Mirna Palma Roman-Death, Chao Chou-Death, Liliana Sanchez-Death, Kristin Gibbons-Death, Sophia Nunez-Death, Carmen Miranda-Death.

Mark Goudeau has shown no reaction whatsoever.

It's a clean sweep. For every capital charge, Goudeau has received the death penalty. These death sentences were delivered by a 5 woman/7 man jury. He will face the judge again to be sentenced for a multitude of non-capital charges. The jury will not be there for that, they have been formally excused. A few have agreed to talk to the press but have directed they will not give their names and do not wish to be photographed.

ADD: All of them spoke to us. You will see no pictures on TV, due to their instructions, but I will write more about their fascinating discussion with me and a few other reporters soon. Please check back. 

A lot of press has gathered, the court having arranged for an overflow press room. I am in the real courtroom, directly behind Mark Goudeau by about 20 feet. Goudeau tried to waive his presence for this sentencing, but Judge Warren Granville wouldn't allow it. Goudeau wore a dust-brown suit, his hair still cut short as in the above photo at right.

Goudeau was already serving a sentence in excess of 400 years for the sexual assaults of two women who testified against him in an earlier trial.  An appeal of these death sentences is automatic, he couldn't get out of the years of appeals ahead of him he wanted to.  He did try to get out of being present for the jury's verdict today, but Judge Granville told him Arizona law is airtight, "you can waive many things, but you cannot waive being present for your sentencing."

The Baseline Killer is often confused with the Phoenix Serial Shooter. It's an easy mistake to make and even at the time, many citizens living through it felt the same confusion. But the two sets of crimes were very, very different.  The Baseline Killer targeted women, often two together, and made his crimes very personal. They often began when he approached the women and asked for the time or directions and soon escalated into a kidnapping, rape, and murder.  The victims saw his face, heard his voice, knew what he wanted. Some of them survived and gave a description to police, resulting in the above sketch which was released to the media and widely circulated. With the constant use of the fishing hat and through other details, police suspected the braids were a wig. In fact, when Mark Goudeau was arrested, his hair was short.

By contrast, the Serial Shooter shot anyone and anything, in stealth mode. People, men and women, died or were maimed without ever knowing why it had happened to them or who had done it.

For the Serial Shooter crimes, Dale Hausner, and others, were arrested on August 4, 2006.  Mark Goudeau and Dale Hausner have never met. The two series' of crimes were completely unrelated other than, in the later stages, a possible competition for headlines as each terrorized the city at an increasing pace.

The story was a highly unique one. And it was my privilege to tell as much as could fit in one book,  which is A SUDDEN SHOT. It's available at any bookseller. The special Sudden Shot community gathers at the FB page you can visit and join by clicking the FB badge to the right on this page.  For a small excerpt of the book, click here.  Many extra photos and and samples are on this blog as well. Check the cloud at left for appropriate tags.

Dale Hausner was arrested several weeks before the Baseline Killer


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Sunday, November 27, 2011

James Ray's New Look


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James Arthur Ray in the Arizona Prison System


James Arthur Ray is no longer in Yavapai County, the charming mountain hideaway where he was sentenced and taken into custody on November 18, 2011.  He now seems to be in urban Phoenix at what's known as the Alhambra Reception Center. This is a clearinghouse unit for the Arizona Department of Corrections. All adult males are taken here for approximately a week before getting their ultimate assignment. Ray will go through health and mental evaluations and his case will be reviewed. After they've had a look at him, he will be assigned to a permanent, or a two-year rather, location based on his offense and his security risk. 


The Alhambra unit is on the grounds of the Arizona State Hospital, which is located on major thoroughfares in town. If you've ever driven out of Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport in ground transportation, there is a good chance you've gone right by it.  The hospital is not for appendectomies and high fevers. It is a place to which people are committed by a judge and they cannot leave. Often, if they had not been deemed too disturbed to care for themselves, they would have been sentenced to an outright prison for criminal acts. There is even a courtroom right on the grounds, which saves everybody the hassle and risk of transporting very disturbed individuals to the regular court complex a couple miles away.  As a reporter, I've been on the grounds visiting, I cannot remember why, sex offenders. I may have forgotten the story but I have not forgotten the place. I don't believe Mr. Ray will enjoy it there. 


Ray was wearing a white dress shirt, dark jacket and dress slacks last time I saw him. He's wearing prison orange now. That's his new inmate photo above. 


One more little word, in discussions here and there, I have often seen references to Ray possibly ending up in a "Sheriff Joe" jail. This is not likely and that is why you see him in orange, not the famous black and white stripes of Maricopa County Jail. Joe Arpaio only administers county jails for Maricopa County. Ray's case took place in Yavapai County and from there is transferred into the State system. Ray really has no connection to the Maricopa County system at this point and is not likely to end up in one of "Joe's" jails.


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Saturday, November 26, 2011

From My Kitchen to Yours

One of my favorite parts of Thanksgiving is making the cranberry sauce. I love to watch the cranberries go pop!  And then turn a rich glossy jeweltone as they simmer on the stove. I feel like I'm stirring a great cache of rubies.


Cranberries turning into sauce on Camille's stove

With each new pop!, I smile bigger and bigger. If I turn away from the stove for a moment and miss a berry explosion, I have to turn around quick and see which one it was.

Tart scent fills the air as the juicy steam wafts up.  It's like a little symphony of colors, tastes and sounds. Mmmm.....  

Happy Thanksgiving weekend, everyone!



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Sunday, November 20, 2011

This is the Book About Dale Hausner

Detective Smith being interviewed by Wicked Attraction
Wicked Attraction's "Shoot to Thrill" episode is based on my book, A SUDDEN SHOT.

Here are a couple of snapshots from when the TV crew was in Phoenix filming it.


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Serial killer survivor Paul Patrick, Author Camille Kimball, Wicked Attraction crew Darin and Rusty


From the book:

     The blood dripping down was his own, to his astonishment, and now that he saw it, he felt the searing pain. Now he knew the shot had landed on his own body. He had no idea where the shot had come from but he could now see and feel in the dark where it had landed, a confusingly wide swath of his own body--his arm, his back, his torso. He ran through the signage and the shrubs and the cactus, leaving blood the entire way, and staggered in the lobby of the Hotel Radisson...


A Sudden Shot


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Sweat Lodge, James Ray Discussion on KTAR Tonight

ADD: Blogger is chopping off words. Although they appear properly in 'edit' mode, some have disappeared behind the pic of Ray with Larry King. It is supposed to say "By the time of the sweat lodge deaths, Ray was a bona fide celebrity in his industry and well known outside it." Ray was NOT outside the sweat lodge at the time of the deaths--that's why he's in prison now. But blogger is doing some weird formatting conjuring and it appears I cannot fix it. 

Camille, Jay and a big microphone in the KTAR studios
Anxious to share your feelings or ask some questions about the jail sentence just handed down for motivational speaker, James Arthur Ray?  KTAR's Jay Lawrence has invited me into the studio tonight and we welcome your calls. That's Sunday night, November 20, 2011. Jay's show usually starts at 7 pm sharp, but this afternoon KTAR is carrying the Giants vs. Cardinals football game. No one, not even if you have a Secret, can predict exactly when an NFL game will end, so it's impossible to say exactly when Jay's show will start tonight, it might be as late as 7:30 or beyond.

marshWhenever we do start, we will devote the first hour to the horrible story of 3 people who died in a Sedona sweat lodge in 2009 and the man who was held criminally responsible for those deaths, James Ray.

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Ray shot to prominence by his appearance in the "New Age" philosophy film, The Secret, and appearances on Oprah and Larry King and with his book, Harmonic Wealth.  By the time of the sweat lodge deaths, Ray was a bona fide celebrity in his industry and well-known a bona fide celebrity in his industry and well-known outside it. But a small town detective and prosecutor brought down his empire. He left the Yavapai County courthouse in the historic Prescott town square in handcuffs and he is now taking his meals on a metal tray with a tin cup. Well, it's probably a fiberglass tray and plastic cup, but it's hard not to fall into frontier lingo when speaking about Prescott

KTAR is 92.3 on the FM dial. It streams live on the internet if you are outside Arizona, and many people interested in this story are. Jay will let you know when it's time to call in.

Later in the evening, Jay and I will take on the other stories of this action packed week. See Jay's KTAR page or his FB page for what's on his mind. Hey, I'm just the passenger, he's driving the thing, let's see where he takes me!  

Hope to hear from you tonight!

GO TO THE KTAR HOME PAGE. TO THE LEFT OF THE RED KTAR LOGO AT TOP CENTER IS A LITTLE BLUE ARROW, JUST 1/4 INCH AWAY. CLICK THAT, A SEPARATE WINDOW OPENS AND VOILA YOU WILL BE STREAMING. CLICK ON 92.3 FM NOT 620 AM.  (it doesn't seem to form a separate link or I would have put it here. it probably does but i'm not techsavvy enough to figure it out)

P.S. Watch me and the rest of the people from the Dale Hausner serial killer case on TV tomorrow morning (Monday). The show is called Wicked Attraction and airs on the Investigation Discovery Channel. 


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Friday, November 18, 2011

James Arthur Ray was Sentenced Today--Come Inside

Author Camille Kimball the day of James Ray sentencing, where she tweeted. 

After an emotionally exhausting morning of tears, a pounding fist and careful legal explanations, sweat lodge guru James Arthur Ray was sentenced to 3 2-year prison sentences, one each for the deaths of Kirby Brown, James Shore, and Liz Neuman.  However, the sentences will be served concurrently. This means instead of a total of 6 years, it will be 2 years behind bars for Ray. Additionally, there are complicated formulas involving time served etc. which will further reduce the actual prison time.

Self-help guru James Ray after his sentencing over sweat lodge deaths
James Ray during a break just before receiving a prison sentence

After Ray is released from prison, he will then serve a separate period of probation. He is also charged a $20k fine by Judge Darrow. On Thursday (yesterday), defense and prosecution attorneys worked out a $57k restitution assessment. Judge Darrow confirmed that amount, which is in addition to the $20k fine.

After weeping profusely to the court and to the victim's families a few minutes before, Ray did not seem to have a pronounced reaction to the news that he would be taken into a Yavapai County jail. He had his back to the gallery, though. We could not see his face.

Ray was immediately led out of the courtroom by the bailiff. He went out the back door this time and for the first time since this trial began, was all alone, with no attorney at his side. Behind the closed door, Ray was handed over to 2 deputies.  Sometime later, as a few of us, including Proseutor Sheila Polk, were still in the upstairs lobby, Ray was led out by Case Detective Ross Diskin and another armed deputy. Ray had his hands in front of him, and a suit coat thrown over them. Presumably, this jacket was to hide his handcuffs.

The courtroom is a beautiful and historic one,  befitting Prescott's wild west heritage, but the acoustics in the room were very difficult. In the above picture, you can see me in my seat, first row of the gallery slightly oriented to the right behind the defense table. The bailiff placed us closer to the wall because he had kindly provided us an electrical strip so we could all plug in our computers. But even as close as we were, often words were lost, as voices drifted up to the high ceilings and speakers faced away from the gallery.

Ray courtroom, just moments before John Ray had been sitting in front chair to right, brother James in middle chair past rail. 
To my immediate left was the Ray family--Gordon Ray, Joyce Ray and John Ray--the defendant's father, mother and brother, respectively. They all cried as James Ray addressed the court, asked victims for forgiveness, asked the judge for probation, and apologized directly to his own family.  As the Rays waited for Judge Darrow to pronounce sentence, John Ray held Joyce's left hand while she placed her right on her husband's knee, where he kept his own touching hers. Although James Ray looked around as he mad his brief walk across it, none of the Ray family was present in the second floor lobby to see him led out, deputies' hands on him, with his cuffed hands discreetly covered by his jacket.

I put up these photos because the pool cameras were restricted to the back of the room and I know many would like to get a better feel for the setup. Not being a pool photog, my camera couldn't be used until the courtroom had cleared. 


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James Ray Sentence is....

Sentence for James Ray is 2 years for Kirby, 2 for Liz, 2 for James.  CONCURRENT 

ADD: I'm sorry for the craziness of this post. Twitter (still learning all things twit) locked me out the exact moment James Ray was to be sentenced. So I came here and started taking notes as Judge Darrow spoke. But I wanted to post the sentence IMMEDIATELY. You never knew which moment he would pronounce the magic numbers so I just kept at it. I'm leaving up these disjointed notes below, because I think you'd rather have me spend the time putting up a real post. That's coming very soon. Please check back later today. Also, check out the other JAR posts on this site, a lot of explaining about "mitigation" etc. is here. I know it might be done differently in your state and some of this lengthy procedure is confusing.  Thanks for stopping by.




The evidence showed Mr. Ray as misguided as he was believed that he was helping people, says Judge Darrow.

The participants knew the difference between therapists and motivational speakers.

Evidence shows extreme negligence by Ray. When you have suffering and extreme heat, it was not compeltel in my mind simple how they died.

How did smart people ignore common sense?  Doctors, dentists...

What happened on oct had never happened befroe. what had occureed a number of



State has
Mr. Ray did intend to help people, he did.


Tuesday, November 15, 2011

James Arthur Ray--The Last Days

Add: This is an extremely popular post (thanks Google!) but there are many more JAR posts, including more current ones, especially the day he was sentenced. Please click on the tags to call up more! (like this open letter to "civil theorists." )  




ADD: Actual sentencing is Friday morning 9 (AZ does not observe Daylight Savings Time). There will be cameras. If you follow on twitter, please understand the trial moves fast and tweets are tiny. The format I use is Name: commentcomment   If you see the colon, that is the person who made the comment, not me.  If I am saying something myself, such as summarizing or describing a witness, I try to make it clear it is my own words. I never editorialize but some twittles seem to think I am the one who makes certain strong statements that may seem annoying or offensive about guilt, innocence, responsibility, etc. Please check for the colon, those statements are from the attorneys or from Witness On Stand (wos).  If I summarize or string 2 tweets together, it is still for attribution to the speaker in the original colon of the series.  

A lot of twittles make comments or questions as I go. I can't always get to them or even see them. But I appreciate the discussion! Keep it coming!  


There's no camera in the courtroom today. But I'm there. Sitting a few feet from the defendant, who will find out his fate in just a few days.

I'm live tweeting testimony and all the courtroom action. 

Follow the action at @CamilleKimball

So far, for days, prosecution has put on case claiming "Mr. Ray showed a pattern of increasing negligence" when it came to safety. The pattern, according to prosecution, played out over the last several years.

Defense team is beginning its case that, to the contrary, Mr. Ray has a pattern of helping people, also over a period of years.

By the way, it's unusual that prosecutors would be able to put on more aggravation witnesses at this time. Polk fought for the right to try again at an aggravation case and it was granted.

Click on the James Ray tag in the cloud to learn more about the case and Arizona laws relating to it.


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Friday, November 11, 2011

Veterans Everywhere I Go

(This post is a reprint from Veteran's Day 2010.  I still feel the same.)

Veteran’s Day caught me by surprise. I have grown accustomed to holidays that stick to Monday like gorilla glue. Or, in this case, perhaps, guerilla glue.
Cliff Jewell--The Air Force sent him to Southeast Asia


But Veteran’s Day was born out of World War One, where armistice officially began on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. That’s the moment the foxholes went quiet and the doughboys could breathe air free of smoke and burning potash. The nation came to revere the actual date more than the chance for a three day weekend of hammocks, hot dogs, and beer. So it’s a Thursday that has me suddenly and haphazardly thinking about the veterans I have known.

Saul Guerrero-a true Army  hero



The first one that jumps to my mind is a young man, just 21 when his actions set him off as a character who took my breath away. Saul Guerrero is pictured here in his uniform. He served in Iraq--saw a lot of things, learned a lot of things. Back home, on a blistering night in June, 2006, his soldier training and valiant heart saved a life no more than an ounce or two of curdling blood away from ending on an Arizona sidewalk. He ran out into the darkness, toward danger, to save a stranger in unknown circumstances involving hostile gunfire.

One of my favorite writers is gentleman tennis legend, Arthur Ashe. He died some time ago, when Saul was just a child, but I know it was for the type of man Saul would become that Ashe once wrote, “True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.” – Arthur Ashe

So undramatic was Saul’s urge to serve that he never even knew he’d been featured in a book until well after A Sudden Shot had been published. Although we’d all been looking for him (soldiers have a way of disappearing into unknown corners of the globe), he stumbled upon us by accident.

As I pondered the photo of Saul in his uniform at that happy moment when I got to see him together with the man he’d saved, I remembered that Paul, the one in the wheelchair, is also a veteran. It was his own U.S. Army training that helped him recognize that he was, in fact, dying on that sidewalk and when Saul appeared at his side, it was the recognition of his crisp and strong command of the situation that gave Paul the relief that he was in good hands, the hands of a soldier whose training Paul knew well.

Paul, who will never wear a uniform again, more often in a hospital gown than any other outfit, is quite a soldier himself, inspiring thousands with his spirited will to live and triumph over the greatest battle ever.

I remembered some of my favorite moments with Paul and a vision of a juror who continues to visit 

Veteran and juror tending to veteran and survivor
him popped up in my mental viewing screen, shyly at first and later effervescently showering him with hugs and his treasured lipstick marks and even the conspiratorially conveyed gift or two. She’s also a veteran. She recently ended a 25 year career in the U. S. Army where she learned to look after some of the nation’s most prestigious and highly valued assets. Look at that picture--she's still doing so.

That led me to smack myself on the forehead: One of the most impressive personalities I discovered in delving into the wretched year of the Serial Shooter is, yes, a veteran. Phoenix Homicide Detective Cliff Jewell worked unflinchingly in scruffy corridors, bloody alleys, and sooty sheds seeing patterns where no one else did. He started his law enforcement career in the U.S. Air Force. The instincts honed there helped stop the killing here.

I hadn't finished considering Cliff Jewell's dramatic adventures in Southeast Asia when my thoughts veered forward to spring 2011 when my next work will be published. For that story, I interviewed a young man, William Coss, who outwitted a rampaging murderer and handed police an airtight case instead of what they otherwise would have found, an inscrutable and probably unsolvable double murder. Coss told me it was his U.S. Army training that kicked in, keeping him one step ahead of his pursuer, surviving to lead the emergency responders safely in till the bullets stopped.

That’s when I gave up trying to make a list of all the veterans who personally affected me this year. It’s clear there are too many, they are everywhere, past, present and future. Veterans not only serve us on foreign shores but they bring back skills and fortitude that benefit our home communities daily right here inside the comfy borders of the U.S. of A.

After he found us and I got to witness his reunion with Paul, I was very excited to ask Saul Guerrero to join me at a book signing event at a national chain book store. I was exuberant at the thought of him signing his first autographs. I encouraged him to wear his wonderful uniform with all the decorations, red, yellow, blue, white, on the jacket.

Camille Kimball listening to Saul Guerrero, pic of Paul Patrick showing scar on screen.
As we were setting up the chairs and projector that night in the store, a browser in the stacks of books started tossing comments at Saul. At first, busy as I was, I couldn’t hear the comments properly. I saw Saul smiling so I was happy--perhaps he was getting his first much-deserved admirer from amongst the book reading crowd. But in moments I saw the store manager approach and intervene.

Soon she was shouting at the customer and ordering him out of the store. Saul was still smiling, while the store manager was incensed and I was both astonished and aghast. Far from fan accolades, the customer had actually been heckling my guy in uniform, a true action hero if ever there was one. The customer was anti-military or anti-war or anti-Obama or anti-Bush and took the opportunity to fling his sarcasm and smug opinions at a man in uniform who happened to cross his path.

“You don’t even know what he’s here for,” screamed the manager in Saul’s defense, “just get out!”

But there was Saul, still smiling happily and making friendly gestures to his heckler. The heckler stormed off into the dark desert night. I don’t know if it was the manager’s raised fist or if it was Saul’s cheerful grace that shamed him out into the shadows.

For Saul turned to me and merrily continued sharing his philosophy, “I love it,” he said, “This is what I fought for. This is America. We all get to have our opinions. We all get to speak up whenever we want. I LOVE it!”

I peered at him carefully. Was he being extraordinarily affable in order to get through an awkward situation where he was a guest?

No. His eyes were twinkling. Saul meant it. These were the authentic outpourings of his own heart, his own American opinion, his own soldier’s soul.

We did our presentation, went through the slides and I loved hearing Saul’s commentary on the events of June 8, 2006, when he cradled a dying man’s head and brought him back to life. It was time to pack up, tuck the crime scene tape away, fold the chairs. Another book browser stepped into view from behind a book rack. He walked a little past us but kept throwing glances back at Saul. Just as I was shaking Saul’s hand good-bye--I’m telling you, I did not make this up--and he was visibly leaving, the book buyer approached.

I quickly told the man of Saul’s role in the true story of A Sudden Shot: The Phoenix Serial Shooter. The shopper took the book in his hands, hefted it, then clapped Saul on his decorated soldier shoulder.

Saul and a European admirer of U.S. soldiers 
“I buy this book, “ he said in a soft European accent, perhaps from the Low Countries, perhaps from a larger neighbor, “not for the story but for you. I buy this book to honor you.”

Beaming like a doting mother--or a proud patriot--I handed Saul a pen and watched him sign his name in the title page.

The experience I’ve had in watching veterans at work in their community through their service to the Serial Shooter investigation, the trial, or even the dangerous emergencies on their doorstep make Arthur Ashe’s words resonate deeply. They bear repeating.

“True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.” – Arthur Ashe


Thank you, veterans, from a grateful citizen.


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Thursday, November 10, 2011

Twitter flipout/#JamesRay hearing now

Hey folks, twitter appears to be on overload. Won't send my tweets.

Court is back in session. Do/Diskin tangling over whether JAR fled scene "quickly" and why, and under what circumstances.

4:30 pm AZ time   TWITTER STOPPING ME AGAIN!  SORRY!

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Prescott Quickie--James Arthur Ray

Hi from the courthouse steps in historic downtown Prescott!
The James Arthur Ray trial has moved from Camp Verde to this building, which is the most famous spot in town. Contrast to Camp Verde's wilderness courthouse. All different, including the space for the lawyers!



Wearing sunglasses that make me look like a giant insect from The Creature that Ate Philadelphia!


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James Ray Pre-Sentence Hearing on Now

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