A US Open tennis ref is heading back to LA to face charges that she murdered her elderly husband with a coffee mug.
A Manhattan judge cleared Lois Ann “Lolo” Goodman, 70, for takeoff this morning, and she was scheduled to fly home with an LAPD detective today.
She’d waived extradition earlier this week, and is expected to be arraigned for the April murder of Alan Goodman in their Woodland Hills, Calif. home on Monday.
Goodman was arrested at a Manhattan hotel earlier this week, having come to town to work the preliminary rounds of the US Open.
At the time of her husband’s death, she told investigators that her hubby had fallen down the stairs.
“It didn’t look immediately like a homicide. It did look like a suspicious death,” a law-enforcement source said. Investigators spent the past four months working the case as a homicide, “thinking it would turn into one,” the source said.
The coroner’s office concluded it was a homicide earlier this month, paving the way for the arrest warrant. Alan “had sustained multiple blunt force trauma along with sharp force trauma” that investigators believe was caused by a coffee mug, the source said.
The source said that despite reports to the contrary, “there’s no indication she was having an affair.” But, the source added, they did have a strained marriage.
While Lois was active and liked to go out with friends, Alan, a diabetic and a colon cancer survivor, was a virtual shut-in and would constantly phone her when she was out, the source said.
After emergency responders arrived at her home in LA following the 911 call, she wasn’t particularly chatty about her late husband – but would talk cops ears off about refereeing John McEnroe and Andre Agassi.