Update Mickey and Trudy Thompson Murder Case

For Your Information 
                                                                                        October 1, 2004
       From:  Collene (Thompson) Campbell, Mickey's sister (949) 496-4647
Note:  This is just a heads up.  You may wish to contact the Los Angeles County District 
Attorney's Office Public Information Officer, Sandi Gibbins, (213) 974-3528.
Up Date:  After 16 1/2 years, Auto racing legend, Mickey Thompson and his wife, 
     Trudy's, murder case Preliminary Hearing is scheduled to begin, Oct. 4th.

PRELIMINARY HEARING FOR TRUDY
AND MICKEY THOMPSON MURDERS
TO BEGIN ON TRUDY'S BIRTHDAY
  
PASADENA, CA., Los Angeles County Superior Court--
	Next Monday, should have been, and would have been, a typically wonderful family birthday party for the Mickey Thompson family, if only,  evil killers had not stolen those happy times early in the morning of March 16, 1988.  Monday, Oct. 4th would have been Trudy Thompson's 58th birthday.  Sadly, auto racing legend Mickey Thompson and his wife Trudy were murdered as they were leaving their Bradbury, CA home about 6:00 a.m. on their way to work.
Mickey Thompson's sister, Collene Campbell, former Mayor of San Juan Capistrano said, "With the important Preliminary Hearing for Mickey and Trudy's murder beginning on her special day, we can't help but feel that both Trudy and Mickey will be looking down to help guide the path to long over-due justice for their murders." 
	Michael F. Goodwin (DOB 2-4-45), long suspected for the murders, was arrested for the double homicide, December 13, 2001, nearly fourteen years after the killings.   Many defense motions and a change of jurisdiction from Orange County to Los Angeles has slowed the trial process.
The Preliminary Hearing for the accused killer, Michael Goodwin, is scheduled to begin Monday, October 4 in the Pasadena Superior Court, before Judge Teri Schwartz (5th floor, Dept. E).

FYI:
	The Los Angeles District Attorney's Office is now prosecuting the case (instead of Orange County).   The L. A. County Case number is:  No. GA 05268301.   Goodwin is charged with:  Murder, special circumstances of lying in wait murder for hire and multiple homicides.  The L.A. District Attorney's Office will decide whether to seek the death penalty as the case gets closer to trial.  
Prosecuting the case will be Deputy District Attorney Patrick Dixon, Head of the Major Crimes Division and Deputy District Attorney Alan Jackson, also assigned to the Major Crimes Division.   Los Angeles County Sheriff's Homicide Investigator Mark Lillienfeld remains the Investigating Detective.  Detective Lillienfeld may be reached at (323) 890-5628.  The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Case File number is: # 088-04387-0511-011.
Representing Goodwin's defense is:  Deputy Public Defender Elena Saris and Deputy Public Defender Michael R. Enger. 
 Goodwin's former Federal Case #:  SACR 93-67-1, in which Goodwin and his former wife, Diane Sidel Goodwin, were both convicted of 13 counts of conspiracy and lying to financial institutions and sentenced to 2 1/2 years in Federal Prison, July 8, 1996.
Goodwin can be located on the Los Angeles County Jail website: http://app1.lasd.org/iic/ajis_search.cfm    
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