A jury has found a black construction worker guilty of murdering nine people in the so-called Baseline Killer case that terrorized Phoenix during the summer of 2006

Mark Goudeau was accused of attacking his victims, eight of them women, as they carried out every day activities like leaving work or washing their cars in Phoenix, Arizona. Prosecutors had called the 47-year-old African-American a ravenous wolf driven by a hunger to rape women and kill those who didn't cooperate with his demands. Goudeau faced 72 counts, including the nine murders and various counts of kidnapping, sexual assault and robbery. He was found guilty of all but four counts, and the jury failed to reach a verdict on one charge. The verdicts in the four-month trial mean that he is now eligible for the death penalty. He was already serving a 438-year prison sentence in a sexual assault case connected to the Baseline Killer crimes for raping a woman while pointing a gun at her sister's stomach, but prosecutors pursued the nine murder charges in a separate trial to get him the death sentence. The killings started in August 2005 and ended with the murder of Carmen Miranda, in what police described as a blitz attack on June 29, 2006. The mother-of-two was hoovering her car and talking on her mobile phone at a car wash when she was kidnapped and shot in the head. Goudeau had also been imprisoned for 13 years after being convicted of beating a woman's head against a barbell. The Arizona Board of Executive Clemency paroled him eight years early in 2004. He has previously acknowledged being a recovering drug addict and once blamed his history of violence on a weakness for crack cocaine.