Predator Realizes He_s Going To Prison For Life

The moment a predator realizes his freedom is gone is a chilling collapse of arrogance and denial. Mark Gooch, a U.S. Air Force airman, drove over 400 miles to abduct Sasha Krause, a 27-year-old Mennonite Sunday school teacher, from her church in Farmington, New Mexico. Her body was found a month later in an Arizona forest clearing, hands bound and a fatal gunshot wound to her head [citation:2][citation:3]. Cell phone data, surveillance footage, and financial records tied him to the crime. Convicted of kidnapping and first-degree murder, he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole [citation:2]. The moment the verdict was read, his life was over forever.