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09-16-06
Carbondale detective to
appear on 'Most Wanted' segment about assault suspect
ST.
LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
09/15/2006
Carbondale police Detective Mark Goddard will be featured Saturday on a segment
of "America's Most Wanted" involving a man wanted for assaulting women
while impersonating a member of a rock band called Puddle of Mudd.
The show airs at 8 p.m. on Fox affiliate KTVI (Channel 2) with interviews with
Goddard and onetime Puddle of Mudd lead guitarist Paul Phillips. The TV show
says the man that police in Carbondale and in at least one other city are
looking for claimed to be Phillips, who recently left the rock band.
According to Carbondale police, about 1:45 a.m. June 7, a white man in his 30s -
5 feet 9 inches tall, weighing 160 pounds with brown hair and possibly a goatee
- approached a female employee of a business asking to use a telephone. After
using the phone, the man was escorted outside to wait for a ride.
As the female employee approached a vehicle in the parking lot, the man came up
behind her, placed his hand over her mouth and held something to her throat,
telling her not to make any noise.
Another
employee of the business, who was watching, began to yell and the man pushed the
victim to the ground and fled the area, police said. The victim stated the
assailant had said he was a member of Puddle of Mudd.
Police learned that the man has frequented bars in the Carbondale area making
the claim that he is a member of the rock band.
The impersonator is also wanted in an investigation for a similar assault in the
Illinois town of Ullin.
Goddard, who is assigned to the Carbondale case, will have his fame for a day.
"I taped a segment but I have not seen it yet," said Goddard. "I
don't know what's on the floor of the cutting room."
dhollinshed@post-dispatch.com 618-624-2659