There were other suspects in the Baseline Killer Case that were never investigated. One suspect, that we will call "TWS", was from California. Our county attorney Andrew Thomas knows about this, Chief Jack Ass Harris knows about this, and some in the Phoenix Police Homicide Division - Joe Knott, Mike Polombo, Pat Kotecki, Benny Pina and Alex Femenia - know about this, too.
What is the reason they were never investigated? Primarily laziness, coupled with the grand-standing, back-slapping and atta-boys that were already on the news with Phil Gordon, Jack Harris and Andrew Thomas. It’s all about Politics. The Phoenix PD took so much heat on these murders and rapes that finding anyone of color would do! Why upset the apple cart and actually conduct further investigations when they had their guy, Mark Goudeau? It was said in Homicide, “Do you know if we let this out, you give a nig*** like Mark Goudeau an alibi?”
Apparently, these two other suspects came from Patrol. It was the Gang Unit who handled many homicides in Patrol that had their own investigation and figured these two new suspects were worthy of an investigation. TWS had allegedly committed similar crimes in California. The report is undeniable. From the comments this suspect made to his family when he saw Mark Goudeau getting arrested on TV, to the bragging and his prior background should have warranted some level of research, but nothing was done. When this savvy Patrol Officer was engaged and discussing TWS with other Police departments in California, abruptly they told him that they were ordered not to speak with him anymore by their higher-ups.
You see, Patrol Officers can’t be smarter than Homicide, let alone submit their own materials. Homicide is far too arrogant for that! This very smart Patrol Officer figured these two suspects had better timelines and better opportunities to commit the Baseline crimes. They were never investigated because Andrew Thomas, Phil Gordon and Jack Ass Harris had their guy – Mark Goudeau. Assistant Chief Kevin Robinson, Alex Femenia, Benny Pina, Pat Kotecki and Mike Polombo were intimately involved in this cover up and the non-inclusion of this information. Several pages were written by this Patrol Officer, but the report was paired down by Alex Femenia to a footnote and was never presented to the Grand Jury. It was purposefully and maliciously minimized so that the Grand Jury would promptly issue the Indictments on Mark Goudeau, and Andrew Thomas could begin his well publicized, assault.
This thorough Patrol Officer has a full three-ring binder of maps, grids and detailed information that give some very conclusive evidence, but Alex Femenia hid it. This violates the fundamental principles of being a detective, but Alex Femenia has no problem with it and sleeps well at night!
Almost a year ago today, at the 100 Club Banquet, Jack Ballentine marched Alex Femenia, Benny Pina, Pat Kotecki and Mike Polombo up on the stage to receive their awards for finding and arresting Mark Goudeau as the Baseline Killer. Many, many officers were sickened and disgusted by this, knowing that these officers had very little to do with any of the grunt work involved, but more so that all suspects were not investigated thoroughly. Asst. Chief Kevin Robinson who was the Investigations Division Commander loved all the interviews and grandstanding and took all the accolades for “finding” Mark Goudeau. You all should know that Kevin Robinson is vying for the next chief of police position once Jack Ass Harris leaves. Having Mark Goudeau and the Baseline Killer under his belt would be very helpful in this endeavour.
If you don’t think the rot and corruption is rampant among the 4th Floor –well it is systemic and now includes the County Attorney’s office! It is an Epic Failure for the Police and the Courts. Mark Goudeau sits in jail with only 3 out of 13 genetic markers matching and Andrew Thomas, who has never prosecuted a Felony Case in his career, is running for reelection as our County Attorney.
Many have cautioned us about telling this story and this sad miscarriage of justice and absolute abuse of discretion by our County Attorney Andrew Thomas, the Maricopa County Criminal Courts and the Phoenix Police Department - but it is an Election Year! They all want Andrew Thomas reelected because having a good relationship between the PPD and the County Prosecutor’s Office is paramount. Even as Republicans ourselves, we think any relationship with Andrew Thomas is a relationship no one needs to have.
Marc Spencer and PLEA: While we at BPC love the work you do and the help you provide to the foot soldiers of the PPD; defending them on the witch hunt of NOIs from the FOJs, we think you are making a grave mistake supporting the reelection of Andrew Thomas. Andrew Thomas lacks such a moral compass; we question how he finds his car at night when leaving his office. If any of you vote for Andrew Thomas, you are making a mistake! If you are die-hard Republicans like us, write in your own name for Christ sakes, but don’t vote for this AssClown, Andrew Thomas. Andrew Thomas will undoubtedly claim his “absolute immunity”(again) to avoid any Prosecution charges knowing this information, but it shouldn’t stop us from running him out of town. You think it’s only BPC that feels this way about Andrew Thomas?
Rick Romley our former (Republican) Maricopa County Attorney won’t even support Andrew Thomas' bid for reelection.
At this very moment Andrew Thomas is holding this “Patrol Investigation” on TWS, and is able to give Mark Goudeau a new trial, but he is doing absolutely nothing. Andrew Thomas is a man who will stop at nothing to make himself look perfect, even going to great lengths to edit his own Wikipedia pages to remove any negative comments.
It is an election year and since no one is supposed to know about this secret investigation, who cares? Right?
Yeah…that's what we said. It’s secret. Even the way it was published and constructed.
This entire “Patrol Investigation” on TWS from San Bernardino, CA is published in MicroSoft Word. It was never input into any police department PACE system, purposefully, by design. It was ordered to the reporting Patrol Officer to produce it in Word, so that no records request could be done and it could never be found. Of course Jack Ass Harris, Andrew Thomas and most definitely Phil Gordon know very well about it. It is shocking, disturbing and will give you goose bumps when you read it, knowing that TWS was not investigated for the Baseline Murders. And for all you skeptics out there who say to us, “Aw c'mon BPC, the murders stopped after Goudeau was arrested” We will tell you that after TWS saw Mark Goudeau getting arrested on TV, he was rumored to have high-tailed it back to California.
We at BPC have heard and known about this for a few months and it has taken a lot of work to publish it. We wanted to see the Investigation first hand before we published anything. It sickens us and keeps us awake at night. We guess you could say unlike Jack, Andy and those homicide officers, we have a conscience. We hope that this will be the final nail in the coffin of Jack Ass Harris, all the Friends of Jack and Andrew Thomas. We hope the media, City Council, Sheriff Joe and/or the DOJ will run with this and finally do something to stop the corruption and bring some pride back to the Phoenix and PPD.
The final page of this Patrol Officer's report says it all:
"The totallity (sic) of all these factors shows a clear picture of violence against the Citizens of Phoenix and actions consistent with the behavior of some of the cases attributed to the Baseline Killer”
...and none of it was ever investigated, and it was kept from the Grand Jury.
Jack Ass Harris, Andrew Thomas, Kevin Robinson, Alex Femenia, Benny Pina, Pat Kotecki, Mike Polombo and Joe Knott should be Indicted and brought up on criminal charges.
