James Mullins

News
November 10, 2011
Take a Chilling Look Inside the Baseline Killer Case
Blogs
June 30, 2011
Baseline Killer Trial Takes Turn With "False-Confession" Witness and Weeping Cop
James Mullins, the Kentucky career criminal who falsely confessed in 2005 to shooting a young Tempe woman to death--a murder that police have pinned on accused `Baseline Killer' Mark Goudeau -- testified yesterday at Goudeau's trial. Mark Goudeau is looking at the death penalty if convicted. ... More >>
Blogs
June 15, 2011
Baseline Killer UPDATE: Bullet Casings in Tempe Murder of Georgia Thompson Same as in Other Serial Killings
For the record, real-life criminal trials are not at all like what appears on Law and Order. Mark Goudeau, the accused Baseline Killer-and more. Things hardly get resolved in a tidy manner, just in time for a pithy comment by the protagonist, usually the dogged prosecutor. The trial of a ... More >>
Blogs
June 10, 2010
Tempe PD's Dan Masters: One Hell of a Good Cop
A few years ago, we wrote a wild yarn entitled "I Dunnit," about a Kentucky knucklehead named James Mullins who confessed to a murder he didn't commit--the first known homicide victim of the infamous Baseline Killer. While reporting the piece (that's the cover illustration from the st ... More >>
News
January 18, 2007
Sheriff Gangbanger
This sardonic sapsucker scratches out the truth on Sheriff Joe's gang-friendly gulags, an ICE spokesman's DUI stint, and the Arizona Repugnant's reportorial fumbles
News
October 5, 2006
Letters From the Issue of Thursday, October 5, 2006
News
September 21, 2006
I Dunnit
Here's how a Kentucky inmate conned Tempe cops and the County Attorney's Office into believing he'd killed a stripper, who really was a victim of the Baseline Killer
News
July 27, 2006
Fear Factor
Two serial murderers loom among us. Inside the case of the Baseline Killer's first Phoenix victim