Investigators in Los Angeles have found no DNA link between a US Open tennis referee charged with killing her husband and the coffee mug police say she used to bludgeon him to death, the woman’s attorney said yesterday.
Lois Goodman, 70, was arrested in August and accused of killing her husband, Alan Goodman, 80, at their Los Angeles home on April 17.
She was preparing to officiate at the tennis championship in Queens at the time of the bust.
“The DNA on the coffee cup came back solely to the husband and not to Ms. Goodman, which supports our theory that the husband was holding the cup and then he fell on the cup, and that accounts for the shattered pieces of the cup being embedded in the right side of his head,” attorney Robert Sheahen said.
Sandi Gibbons, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles DA’s Office, declined to comment.