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Ump cool at death of hubby

A callous US Open umpire talked cops’ ears off about the tennis legends whose matches she had worked — virtually ignoring her husband lying dead when detectives arrived at her home, sources said yesterday.

“She was more interested in talking about [Andre] Agassi and [John] McEnroe” when cops responded to a call about the death on April 17, a Los Angeles Police Department source said.

Lois Ann “Lolo” Goodman, 70, was flown back to LA in police custody yesterday to face a murder rap for allegedly bludgeoning her 80-year-old husband, Alan, with a coffee mug and stabbing him with razor-sharp shards.

She spent the flight in handcuffs — curled up against the window — and appeared “really sad” and “old and defeated,” according to several passengers.

Cops grew suspicious of Goodman when she displayed little emotion as they grilled her about the death of the man to whom she had been married for nearly five decades and with whom she had raised three daughters, the source said.

Also yesterday, LA Police Lt. Dave Storaker said cops believe they know what led to the slaying, but he refused to spill the beans on their theory because they’re still hunting for witnesses.

But LAPD Detective Dave Peteque shot down a report that the veteran ump was involved in a love triangle before she killed her hubby, saying there were no signs of hanky panky.

“I heard the same rumors,” Peteque said, adding there was “no evidence of affairs.”

According to LAPD Detective Dave Peteque, Goodman first called an ambulance and said she believed her ailing husband had tumbled down the stairs of their Woodland Hills home. But EMTs thought the death looked suspicious and called cops. “It didn’t look immediately like a homicide. It did look like a suspicious death,” Peteque said.

But dogged cops treated the case as a homicide, executing seven search warrants at the family’s home in a gated community in Woodland Hills, Calif.

“During the four months, we worked it as a homicide, thinking it would turn into one. On Aug. 2 I ruled it a homicide, the LA coroner’s office concurred and also ruled it a homicide,” Peteque said.

“He didn’t fall down the stairs. He sustained multiple blunt-force trauma along with sharp-force trauma.”

“He was a diabetic and he had colon cancer and beat it,” but was a virtual shut-in while she had a wide circle of friends and liked to go out and party, Peteque said.Lois was arrested Tuesday at a Manhattan hotel on her way to work the qualifying rounds of the US Open at Flushing Meadows.

While there was no evidence of an affair, there were plenty of trouble signs in the marriage.

A Manhattan judge cleared Lois for extradition yesterday morning, and she boarded an American Airlines flight for LA at JFK late yesterday afternoon with Peteque as her escort.

She will be arraigned on a murder rap in an LA courtroom Monday, and faces life in the slammer if convicted.