Nineteen-year-old Georgia Thompson was found shot once in the back of the head in the parking lot of her Tempe, Arizona, apartment complex in the late hours of a September evening in 2005. A recent transplant from Coeur dAlene, Idaho, she had moved to Arizona six to eight weeks earlier to pursue modeling and supported herself working at Hooters and a Scottsdale topless bar called Skins. On the night she was killed she had finished a shift at Skins, was dropped off at a local bar where she had left her car, and about forty-five minutes later her body was discovered.

Investigators followed several leads, including a false confession by James Mullins, who had never been to Arizona. Forensic analysis later linked the bullet casing at the scene to other crimes in the Phoenix area, connecting Thompson’s murder to the Baseline Killer. That ballistic match became part of the broader case against Mark Goudeau. A neighbor later testified she heard a woman telling someone to leave her alone followed by a loud bang the night of the killing, and use of Thompson’s phone was traced to the Phoenix neighborhood where Goudeau lived.