Tennis referee headed to LA to face murder case

Published August 24, 2012 5:04am ET



NEW YORK (AP) — A professional tennis referee accused of beating her 80-year-old husband to death with a coffee mug was headed toward Los Angeles on Thursday to face a murder charge after her New York arrest.

Lois Goodman said nothing and looked expressionless as Los Angeles Police Department detectives escorted her from a Manhattan court, still wearing her navy-blue uniform warm-up suit for the U.S. Open. She’d been arrested while in town to work as a line judge at the tournament.

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