KINGMAN – Bizarre Biblical babbling permeated a Thursday hearing for the man who killed his wife as they were traveling through Kingman on July 12. Anthony Goodin, 59, told Judge Camacho there’s no point taking his case to trial.
I’m not really going to be able to argue why she was put to death. She was put to death,” Goodin said. “So there ain’t no sense in going ahead and trying to make an argument of it.”
Goodin pleaded guilty to first degree murder for using a machete to hack his wife to death in the Kingman Walmart parking lot. He told the Court it was God’s command.
“I mean I slew her, okay? I did it for a reason. It wasn’t because I wanted to do it. It was because it was said to me,” Goodin said. “God tells us. Deuteronomy 33:11…I did what I believe was obeying God, hearing and obeying my Father, my savior and my redeemer. That’s all I did.”
Goodin said his wife was put to death for a 16-year history of “being rebellious and disobedient.”
Goodin told police after the murder that he and his wife argued because Lynda Goodin, 53, was upset that he gave to a stranger $20 of the only $52 they had left to complete their journey from Junction City, Alabama to Yreka, California.
Judge Camacho accepted the plea agreement and entered it as record. It requires him to impose a 25-year to natural life prison term at a Nov. 14 sentencing hearing.
Dave Hawkins
