For more than a year, a predator known as the Baseline Killer has terrorized the Phoenix area with crimes ranging from murder to rape and robbery. Police continue to try to understand how and whether Goudeau is connected, Thomas said.

The case is one of two serial predator cases in Phoenix during the past year. Police have arrested two men in the other, dubbed the Serial Shooter investigation.

At a news conference, Thomas said Arizona's parole board was "naive and misguided" when it granted early release to Goudeau in 2004. Goudeau had eight more years to go on a prison sentence for unrelated assault charges.

"The victims of these brutal crimes deserve justice," he said. "I will do everything in my power to ensure that this defendant never again walks the streets a free man."

"This is a huge miscarriage of justice," Wendy Carr said. "And they have an innocent man in prison. This is all a mistake. He shouldn't be in prison for something he didn't do."

The Baseline Killer, so named because the earliest incidents occurred along Phoenix's Baseline Road, has been linked to 23 crimes in the metro area dating to August 2005, including eight killings, 11 sexual assaults of women and girls, and several robberies.

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