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♪ i don't give a [ bleep ] what you're in here for. we're going to search, we're going to take. we will leave what i want you to have. >> a threat against an officer leads to a major shakedown. an alleged gang leader becomes a magnet for trouble. >> you're talking like we're equals. we're not. you do not run the institution.
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>> then, a high-speed chase ends with the discovery of a 21-year-old murder victim. now the jail must deal with her cold blooded killer. >> he's potentially one of the most dangerous inmates we've ever dealt with. >> you're going to miss me when i'm gone, aren't you? >> i'm going to miss you like a hemorrhoid. located across the hudson liver from new york city, bergen county, new jersey ranks among america's wealthiest communities. its largest city is hackensack. just outside downtown is its own crossroads of the world. but virtually no one comes to the county jail looking for good times. >> peanut butter and jelly. i ain't 10 years old. >> most of the men and women
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here have only been charged with crimes and awaiting resolution of their cases. >> to your cells. put it down. to your cells, let's go. >> having spent nearly two years in the jail's maximum security unit as his case moves through the court, david has picked up a new skill or two. >> when i was locked in the cell by myself, they let me have art activities. you got this for origami. i used to make ducks, flowers, birds, planes, like a butterfly, dinosaurs, frogs, everything. nower. i was kind of rushing it, but that's the basic idea. >> i've been doing this job over 22 years. i believe david is one of the most dangerous inmates we've dealt with here. he's very intelligent. can be very narcissistic and can be manipulative to the point where he can convince you of just about anything.
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>> staff realize that to deal with him is to deal with contradiction. the same hands that create delicate origami flowers also strangled his former girlfriend. >> you sit there and strangle somebody, it's personal. about as personal as you can get. i'm a very nice person. i am. but i guess everybody has a switch, some people act on it, some people don't. i just acted. it's a very thin line. >> now almost three years after the murder, goodell has reached an agreement with prosecutors. he plead guilty to first degree murder for a maximum of 45 years in state prison. the final sentence is still up to his judge and will be announced in an upcoming hearing. >> for 45, you would do 38,
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minus the three i have in already, that's 35. that would make me about 68 when i go home. >> at the time of the murder, goodell was living in a halfway house as part of his parole. he had just been released from prison where he was serving a two-year sentence for assaulting another girlfriend. according to her family, viviana was distancing herself from goodell. >> i knew i was going to kill her but i didn't know how. i told one of my roommates, watch the news, i'm going to be on it tomorrow. i'm going to kill this bitch. >> he escaped the halfway house by faking a seizure. he was taken to the hospital, then snuck away. he called viviana and convinced her to see him. they were in her car when he killed her. we warn you, his account of the crime is graphic and disturbing. >> i started kissing her. i put her arms like this, and i was like, do you love me? she was like yeah, i love you.
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right there, that's when i grabbed her, boom. and i started choking her. she was trying to shake and move. she's going like this and looking at me. so i kept choking her and choking her. i want my eyes to be the last thing she saw. at the end of the day, what she did was [ bleep ] up. so we're both a victim. she paid with her life, and i'm going to pay with mine. ♪ >> another maximum security inmate charged with a violent crime is randall. he and six co-defendants are awaiting trial on charges of aggravated assault and kidnapping. they have all pled not guilty. but he does acknowledge having fought the victim. >> i feel pretty guilty that i got six of my friends in jail looking at 30 years because i decided to beat up a nobody. ♪
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all gang members, and that we kidnapped a kid that we grew up with. he was 21. that we chased him from one county to another county. we beat him up in front of his girlfriend, kidnapped him, dragged him into another car, and threatened to kill him and his family. >> he said he was attacked because he left the gang which the assailants are all members, the united blood nation. >> he painted the picture to them like i run the bloods of bergen county. he painted such a good story that i was afraid of myself. >> are you not gang affiliated? >> allegedly, this is what the state claims. whether they want me to admit it or not, i will never say. but allegedly they say i am. >> he admitted to me that he was a member of the bloods. through internal investigations
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i was able to validate him as a member of the bloods. >> they claim that we're sex, money, murder. beautiful name. >> maldanado spent much of the last year in the same housing unit as one of his co-defendants. but now that the trial date approaches, he's been moved. >> the prosecutor asked us to move him away from his co-defendants. >> no disciplinary actions is, no problems, no fights, nothing. the prosecutor took it upon herself to call the jail and say, i don't want him over there with them. >> they felt that he was a ringleader, so they kept on requesting us to keep him away from everybody else. and that's when he became a little more problematic. >> i started throwing paper in the toilet, this whole floor was flooded. it was all out on the cat walk and everything. this officer looks past and he says, are you [ bleep ] serious?
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i'm dead serious. i wear orange, they wear blue. as long as i'm wearing this color, i have no say so in this jail. >> so you can do what you want? >> i can move you, yes. you're talking like we're equals, we're not. you do not run the institution. you do not dictate where you go. >> it shows to me that there is no reason to uphold and respect the laws of the jail. >> when you come in the building, you want me to check off and say what room would you like? i'm serious. >> no. i'm just calling it like i said it. >> he told me [ bleep ] me, he does what he wants to do. >> coming up -- >> my advice is to return to your cell right now or we'll move you to another cell. >> you'll have to move me to another cell. >> he has another run-in with staff. and -- >> i lost the cops for 5 little bit. might you the whole time i was holding her hand. but rigormortis set in.
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♪ the bergen county jail in hackensack, new jersey, books about 7600 men and women every year. most will leave within a day or two. but those who cannot make bond will be assigned to a housing unit until their cases are resolved. >> let's go, gentlemen. >> the majority of stays here usually occur without incident. but not david goodell's. >> this is david's picture from the arrest the day after the murder. he had attempted suicide, at least made gestures of attempting suicide. prior to his arrest. >> after strangling his 21-year-old former girlfriend, viviana, he drove around hackensack with her corpse
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seated beside him. >> i put a hat on her, some glasses. i don't know why i was doing that, to make her look more alive, i don't know. >> he eventually pulled over and cut his wrists in an apparent suicide attempt. at some point he says he stumenned out of the car. >> next thing you know i woke up in a pool of blood with a cop saying hey buddy. i was like, oh, [ bleep ]. i got up and jumped in the car and tried to run the cop over. so he jumped out the way and i started pushing the police cruiser backwards. so he couldn't get in the car and chase me. so i started pushing the car. >> goodell then led police on a high speed chase. viviana's body was still in the passenger's seat. >> i was doing like 70 on main street. cars were jumping on the
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sidewalk. i went on the highway, i lost the cops for a little bit. mind you, the whole time i was holding her hand. but rigormortis set in. it was like hard and cold, you know what i'm saying? so i get cornered, i went down into a cul-de-sac. so i'm like, i'm going full speed away. so i rammed the car right through the roadblock, boom! >> mother [ bleep ]! >> don't you [ bleep ] move! >> get out of the car! get out of the car! >> as officers attempt to subdue him, they have no idea that the passenger is deceased. >> woke up in the hospital. i'm like this, prosecutor is over there, i'm all stitched up and i'm on tv. i'm like, what the [ bleep ] did i just do? >> he was treated at the hospital and returned to the prison from which he had been
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paroled. three months later, he was transferred to the bergen county jail to stand trial for first degree murder. during his first few weeks here, he was housed in the medical unit under suicide watch. >> after being here for about three weeks, he was able to convince the doctor he wasn't suicidal. that's when we placed him in population and high security. shortly after, maybe within an hour or so, he attempted to kill himself by utilizing a razor blade and cut his throat aopen. >> my lawyer said i was going to do life in prison. so i was speeding up the process. >> he possesses the skills where he can turn on a dime. he was saying he was perfectly fine. >> after his suicide attempt, he spent several months in the medical unit. his caretakers have vivid recollections of his time there. >> you heard everything, everything. his phone calls, he would read
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your lips, that's the scarceiest. so we would have to talk with our backs to him. >> david goodell has sis very manipulative, that's his style. >> medical staff recommended that goodell be housed in the maximum security general population unit. but this time they suggested he be assigned a cellmate. >> mr. gonzalez has been david goodell's cellmate for quite sometime without incident. the fact that he's remained with him for this long, i don't want to say is a babysitter or an extra pair of eyes. but when he came out of the suicide watch. >> i know the boundaries of what he can take. he's like my child. i've got to constantly watch
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him. >> i guess they hired a babysitter. he wouldn't let me do something stupid to myself. >> just dump the water in there and scrub. >> as far as him harming himself, i talked him out of it. i told him it doesn't only affect you, but it affects the people around you that love you, you understand? so for you to do that, you're just being selfish and not thinking of others. >> along with being a convicted murderer, goodell is also an admitted member of the jail's largest gang, the united blood nation. jail officials have identified rendell maldanado has is high ranking member of the gang. they recently transferred him to another housing unit at the request of prosecutors to separate him from his co-defendants as their trial approaches. >> they don't want us to communicate. it's not going to happen. we're too close to each other. >> one of the co-defendants maldanado was separated from is jesus enrique martin.
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the housing unit they occupy are divided by a glassed in recreation area. though they're not supposed to communicate, they sometimes get away with it, when either one is in the rec area. >> we know sign language and they don't know what we're talking about. it don't really matter. >> enrique has been known to violate other jail rules, as well. such as jamming the lock on his food court door so he can open it at will. >> that's how we get to see the tv. it's a lot of people that do it, so i ain't the only one. >> we have to get something to pry it out or get the lock smith to come back. >> put the pin all the way in. >> what is it? >> it was a piece of pen in there. >> see if you can get that out. >> you pushed it all the way inside. >> oh, i did that? >> you could have just taken it
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out and closed it right back up. i could have got it out but he pushed it in. >> officer burke will file a disciplinary report for tampering with the lock, which could result for segregation time. >> one thing you don't do, you just [ bleep ] with a pritzer in. >> coming up -- >> you need to move him out of the unit before something bad happens to him. >> officer burke receives a threat. and -- >> when david goodell came into this facility, his interaction with staff was volatile, dangerous. so i established a rapport. >> dealing with an inmate who seems to be capable of almost anything. and it was uncomfortable. [ male announcer ] just a few dabs is clinically proven to seal out more food particles. [ corrine ] super poligrip is part of my life now. cozy or cool? "meow" or "woof"? exactly the way you want it ... until boom,
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enjoy talking with him, that he's the big shot and look at me, i committed a heinous crime, which is not true. we don't look at him that way. but once mr. goodell attempted suicide, we had the lieutenant monitor him a lot closer. >> i came here to see how you're doing. >> he did that, he built a relationship with him, which has been very helpful as far as management of mr. goodell. >> the lieutenant is a 22-year veteran of the jail. >> you go for sentencing on the 12th, right? >> the 13th. >> when david goodell first came here, his reaction with staff was volatile, dangerous. so i established a rapport. >> you're going to miss me when i'm gone, aren't you? >> i'm going to miss you like a hemorrhoid. >> it does. mean i like him. i have to manage him while he's
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here. >> now during one of his regular check-ins, the lieutenant has noticed something inside one of his shoes. >> what? >> it's a quarter, it's a quarter. probably fell out of somebody's pocket. you're not going to like me. >> i bet you're not going to like me even more. >> that's a possibility. hey, steve, i got to tear the cell apart. ♪ >> having already found contraband, the lieutenant orders a full shakedown of the cell. soon, officers find more money. but in this case, they're sheets of photo copied bills. >> you show it to me and i am going to show it to you.
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>> all right. >> the faces on most of the bills have been replaced of images of goodell and his cellmate, christopher gonzalez. >> where did you get the money to make the copies? >> out of my discovery, because it's part of the evidence. so i made the copies. >> i think this one is my favorite. you admitted to me that you're the jack-ass that did this. where is the $200 bill? >> i was trying to find a picture of you. >> goodell continues to bide his time at the bergen county jail as he awaits sentencing after pleading guilty to murdering his 21-year-old former girlfriend. viviana's family thought the murder trial would be emotionally devastating. so prosecutors made a deal which he would receive no more than 45 years in prison in exchange for a guilty plea. >> who wins? i win because my family can come and see me, i can always talk to
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my family. i win. i'm still breathing. i'm going to go home some day. i win. >> goodell's case has gained him notoriety, and he's become well known with the inmates, including rendell maldanado. >> that's my boy. the funniest dude i've ever met in my life, i [ bleep ] you not. they have that saying no two people are alike. god definitely broke the mold when he created him. he's one of the weirdest people i've ever met. but that's my boy right there. >> the crime doesn't get to you? >> he's told me about the case. i talked to him about it. it's like oh, boy, i don't know. i wouldn't want you around my sisters. but at the end of the day, that's my boy. i look past all of that. if i was to sit here and judge half the people that are in here
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for their crimes, i wouldn't talk to nobody in here. >> the five co-defendants, maldanado has plenty of people to talk to. prosecutors have requested that they be housed separately as their trials approach on a litany of charges, including aggravated assault and kidnapping. but that hasn't stopped maldanado from trying to communicate. and now that's led to conflict. >> we've got a report of an officer assault. the inmate was sprayed. >> the inmate who was pepper sprayed is one of maldanado's co-defendants. jesus enrique martin. he says he witnessed him talking to maldanado through the rec yard window. >> i informed the officer to have him locked in. he gave the officer a hard time, refused to lock in. so the officer called us in, we
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had him removed. >> once he commits the infr infracti infraction, i need to take control of the situation immediately. it could potentially go very wrong at any given time. >> you were given an order to do something, you do it. my advice to you is to return to your cell right now or we're going to have to move you to another cell. >> you're going to have to move to too another cell. >> take him to a disciplinary cell. >> coming up -- >> what happened on that day? >> i let me rage, anger, emotions take over me. >> david goodell gets help in prepping for his sentencing.
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i'm milissa rehberger. the ntsb is sending a team to aid the investigation to what happened to a malaysian airline jet. crews found two oil slicks off of vietnam, but it's not clear if that's connected to the plane. there are 239 people on board that plane. at least three americans. and kentucky senator rand paul has won the conservative political action conference's preference poll for the second year in the row. now back to "lockup." inside the walls of the bergen county jail, an officer has just received a threat. >> last friday was my 16th year in corrections. i've never really been threatened.
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it was written on my name, p. burke, you need to move him out of the unit before something bad happens to him. >> the threat to officer burke was written on an inmate request form and left in the law library drop box. >> i look at it as someone this there may not like the fact that i run things tight, and wrote that to try and get me pulled out of there. >> staff already have a suspect in mind, jesus enrique marte. >> the way he speaks is similar to the way this letter is written. but that could have been a ploy by the inmate who wrote the letter. >> i swear to god i ain't wrote that. why would i threaten somebody for? i'm already in a lot of trouble
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with my case. >> you could say yes, that was me, or the whole unit gets shut down because we have to find exactly what's going on. >> it wasn't me. >> we're going to go into south three and do a shakedown. you're threatening one of our officers, it's our jail. we go in and we take the jail back. >> gentlemen, come to your windows. listen to me -- i don't give a [ bleep ] what you're in here for. i don't care who you are. i don't care if you like me, if you don't. this is the way it's going to go. we're going to search. we're going to take. we will leave what i want you to have. whether you like it or not. >> step on the wall. ♪ >> the officers search for not only clues to the threat, but any other contraband in the
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cells. >> plastic bags, obviously not allowed in the cell. >> a chance of them finding anything are slim to none. whoever had anything got rid of it. so this is just to [ bleep ] piss us off. >> when we do a shakedown, we know each if we come in here with 50 officers, yes, we know that we're going to hear toilets flush. but you know what? it's getting rid of stuff by their open hands. we want to get that stuff obviously. but you know what? as long as it's not in there when we leave, it's a win-win. >> the shakedown does not turn up any direct evidence pertaining to the threat. but it does produce plenty of writing cells and a new suspect. >> the es and the ms are very similar. if you look at the es, they all tail up. that's consistent throughout each writing. and the clarifying mark for me on both seats is the way they
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xed out the check box. single stroke except for the xbox, then it's multiple strokes. the best we can determine, christopher gonzalez is the person who wrote the note. >> christopher gonzalez has been david goodell's cellmate for the past year. he was assigned to be a sort of companion and confidant following goodell's suicide attempt. officer burke recently dismissed gonzalez from a volunteer position that allowed him extra time out of his cell. >> he was one of the unofficial food servers. i would go in at 7:00 a.m., do my head count and he would be in his cell and he would have a blanket up, so i couldn't see him to take count. and so i wouldn't let gonzalez out to serve because if he doesn't want to be seen, maybe he shouldn't serve chow today. >> though the jail won't press criminal charges for the threat, they have placed gonzalez on
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restriction and moved him to another housing unit. but gonzalez says he had nothing to do with the threat. >> [ bleep ]. my hand writing is totally different than that. i don't write like that. so i looked at it like, i'm not going to argue with it. that's the evidence they got. >> i don't cohabitate with other people too well. that was the only one person i did. that's my man. so it's best to keep me happy. i will drive people [ bleep ] crazy. >> for now, goodell might have bigger concerns than causing trouble. his sentencing is only days away. he's agreed to a plea deal up to 45 years in prison for strangling his 21-year-old former girlfriend. goodell hopes to convince the judge to give him less time. today he'll run some of his ideas by jan. >> my job is to meet with every
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defendant, whether they're found guilty at trial or accepted a plea. my goal with this client or any client is to provide the court with a full input from the defendant, so at sentencing time we're not just looking at what the offense was but a more rounded version or vision of what the defendant is. >> i did write a letter to the defendant i would like to read. >> this is your words to the family. what i want from you is anything about you. do you want the judge to know about you? what happened on that day? that's what i'm looking for. >> i let my rage, anger, emotions take over me. >> okay. >> and it wasn't like -- i accept responsibility for what i did. i know i shouldn't have done that. >> you think i'm going to reveal my hand? i'm going to act like -- you seen me, i looked remorseful and
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i felt bad. i told the lady i was [ bleep ] terrorized by the thoughts. that's what she wants to hear, that's what the judge wants to hear, that's what everybody wants to hear. >> i'm sorry for what i did. >> that's what i'm going to tell her. my plea is open from 30 to 45. so if there's any type of way i can weesele my way out of a year or two, it's perfect. >> coming up -- >> put your jump suit up. >> rendell maldanado is son the move again. and later, david goodell stands before the judge and his victim's family. on the day she arrived in london. someone set up a bogus hotspot, stole her identity and opened some credit cards in her name. but she's not worried. checking her credit report and score at experian.com allowed her to better address the issue...
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in activity among members of the bloods gang since one of its alleged leaders, rendell maldanado, was transferred to the disciplinary segregation wing. now another member is being moved there for fighting. >> that blood gang member has been in this institution many times, and never an institutional problem. however, the idea of him possibly getting into a fight or assaulting another inmate in an effort to get into the disciplinary wing to be by inmate maldanado is a very distinct possibility. >> it's obvious. you have five people getting locked up from the same set of the gang, it wasn't him being a problem, it was everybody else causing problems to be with him. and all of his little pups, boys wanted to hang out with him. it's just not happening. >> just because they said it don't make it true. this county also said that i'm a god father. that don't make that true. >> there's an understanding in the gang philosophy, because they've been separated, that they want to be together for
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whatever reason. moving maldanado because he's the big name everybody keeps associating with, that putting him in a different unit would be best for the institution. >> the plan now is to further isolate maldanado by transferring him to a small wing of the jail that consists of only three cells. >> i don't owe you an explanation. put your jump suit on. when you move -- >> i'm not going to. >> you're going to a different unit. >> what is the reason i'm being moved? >> put your jump suit on. i'm expecting you to listen to -- >> i have been very respectful -- >> i'm being very respectful to you. >> what if i refuse?
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>> you're going to go one way or the other. >> i'm in lockup. >> okay. back up. >> since i'm in the gang unit, he assumes i'm making these calls here. did i take the call? yeah. but i made the recommendation to the boss, he made the call. >> >> i'm not looking to scare you. listen to me, if i wanted to scare you, i wouldn't do it like this. you go with these officers and i'll be out to talk to you. i'm a man of word and that's how i am. >> i'm doing it because you asked me, not because of o.b. i'll see y'all in a minute. i'll be back. one way or another. >> we left the unit, you heard the banging on the cells and
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everything. that's just because that's their need or want to be around him. >> this is the reason right here. that's the reason right here. >> i got nothing to do with that. >> yeah, you do. >> they're grown ass men. >> one of maldanado's co-defendants and another alleged members of the bloods is enrique marte. after being in segregation, he's been assigned to a new cell with david goodell. >> did you know each other on the streets? >> no. but we're from the same hood, but just different parts. >> goodell agreed to plead guilty to first degree murder in
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exchange for a maximum sentence of 45 years. but his final sentencing hearing only days away, he's written an apology, but admits he did so only in hopes of receiving a shorter sentence. now he questions whether it's each worth reading. >> so for me to expect anything less than that 45, my last words ain't going to be sitting there groveling in somebody's family and this and that. [ bleep ] that. i'm going to stand there and i'm just going to stand there. you ain't going to get nothing out of me. all right, whatever, it's time to go. i might just turn around and apologize to my own family, you know what i mean? >> viviana's family never expected an apology from goodell. they say it wouldn't change the fact that his actions have devastated them. >> so here is her final resting place. >> three years after viviana's death, her older sister, stella, visits her grave site regularly.
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adding to the pain is the fact that the murder was committed on their mother's birthday. >> you know, we all have a birthday. that's our open special day, the one day we get to celebrate for ourselves. he even took that away from my mother. not only did he take her youngest daughter, he took the one day she had for herself. one of the first questions i thought that day is did he strangle her from behind or was he looking in her eyes? what was she thinking as he was taking the last bit of breath from her? >> neither stella or the rest of the family knew much about goodell's account of the murder, including the fact that he was facing viviana. at stella's request, our producer provided her information, but there are other questions no one can ever answer. >> i was just thinking about
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what were her time thoughts, like am i going to die? am i ever going to see mommy again? a lot of thoughts that i have haunt me because i can't get an answer. coming up -- >> you know why i'm here? do you care? i'm here to clarify stuff. >> and -- >> there is no good in this man. there is no remorse in this man. >> david goodell's day of reckoning. re those little pieces would get in between my dentures and my gum and it was uncomfortable. [ male announcer ] just a few dabs is clinically proven to seal out more food particles. [ corrine ] super poligrip is part of my life now.
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been having issues with me, i feel that it's time to put these issues to rest. so we're going to go into his housing unit and have a little chat with him and hopefully straighten out all the misconceptions he has. you know why i'm here? do you care? >> not really. >> i'm here to clarify stuff, all right? i'm coming to you man to man because i don't like misconceptions. i'm going to tell you the reason you're here and it's note because of you, it's because all your little boys, everybody seems like they want to gravitate towards you, all right? i'm not saying you're doing [ bleep ]. you're not doing nothing. there's a reason for it. >> i'm a very charismatic person. what can i say? >> if i don't have a rapport with an inmate, i don't get information. >> the other day you pissed me off. >> i mean, that's the main thing in a jail.
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as long as you show respect, you get respect back. >> we're clarified then. i would give you a hug but not. >> if you lie, they know. and if you're straightforward, they appreciate the honesty. >> i was dead set on, i'm going to raise hell but you know what? i hate to admit this, i'm not going to tell any of the officers this, but i like it over here. >> maldanado will remain in the jail until his charges of aggravated assault and kidnapping are resolved. but david goodell's stay here is nearing an end. today is his sentencing. >> i'm kind of grateful he's going to be leaving and will be in the custody of the state. he's been a challenge to the security staff, the medical staff, all during his tenure here. his ability to create and cause problems, it will not be missed, i will tell you that. >> all rise, come to order. >> you can all have a seat.
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>> in the courtroom are viviana's family members, including her mother and older sister, stella tooly. >> this is the matter of the state of new jersey versus david goodell. >> goodell has made a deal for no more than 45 years in prison. but his public defender will make the case for less time. >> judge, i'm sure there are a lot of people in this courtroom who consider mr. goodell to be the personification of evil, but i'm going to ask the court to consider the other side of mr. goodell. when i look at this report, i see a person who has never had a chance in life. both of his parents were addicts, he didn't have the support and love and nurturing that everyone needs growing up. i just ask that your honor consider these factors. at least give him some chance, some hope that would help him
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get through this. >> do you have anything you would like to say today? >> absolutely. i just hope this brings them closure and i'm sorry about what happened. >> okay. prosecutor? >> thank you, your honor. viviana tooly was young. she was beautiful. david goodell took her life because he could. because she simply dared to want a life apart from him. there is no good in this man. there is no remorse in this man. he strangled her. when he strangled her, he intended to kill her.
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family could take no more pain. not endure the agony of trial. they said we need this to end. in deference to the family, it ends today. there is no sentence but the sentence of 45 years, the maximum under the agreement. 45 years, no early release applies. thank you. >> you can rise. i know that you said you were remorseful for what you did, but as i read the presentence investigation report, you don't see vivian a as a person.
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that's really the tragedy of this. you saw her as something that belonged to you as property. and i don't accept, not even for a moment, that because of your hard life and because of the lack of love that you received that it gives you license to do this to women. i know that the state and the defense have agreed to a plea agreement. you don't deserve less. you have no conscience. you have no remorse. you have no soul. you pled here to murder, and i do agree that, in fact, it was premeditated. you understand that you have to do 85% of 45 years before you are released on parole. however, because of your prior record, you will do the 45 most
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likely. you will max out. he is remanded back to -- >> okay. >> goodell will now return to the bergen county jail until the details of his transfer to state prison are finalized. he claims to be looking forward to that day. >> my homey is going to be there, my family will come and see me. sit back, kick back, whatever. a little tv, cook your food, go out in the yard, blow it down, kick it with your homeys.
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