Samuel Gooch News Today

Mark Gooch faces life in prison on the murder charge. He also was found guilty of kidnapping Sasha Krause in January 2020 from the Farmington Mennonite Church where she was gathering material for Sunday school.

A prosecutor argued that cellphone data, receipts, financial records, repeated lies and a cover-up scheme point to Mark Gooch, a U.S. Air Force airman stationed in metropolitan Phoenix, as Sasha Krause's killer.

Testimony from Sev Dishman, a cellphone expert and retired Army sergeant major, took up much of the day Friday.

Mark Gooch faces life in prison if convicted of first-degree murder and other charges in the death of Sasha Krause, who worked at a publishing ministry in the Mennonite community,

Sasha Krause, who worked at a publishing ministry in the Mennonite community, was found more than a month later with a gunshot wound to the head in a forest clearing outside Flagstaff, Arizona.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Jurors hearing the case against U.S. Air Force airman Mark Gooch heard lengthy testimony Friday from a cellphone data expert who mapped the route that Gooch allegedly drove the day a Mennonite woman was kidnapped from northwestern New Mexico.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- Jurors hearing the case against U.S. Air Force airman Mark Gooch heard lengthy testimony Friday from a cellphone data expert who mapped t...

The brother of a U.S. Air Force airman on trial in the death of a Mennonite woman testified Wednesday that the defendant asked him to remotely scrub information from his cellphone shortly before he was arrested and later charged with kidnapping and murder.

This page is dedicated for updates on the hearings and trial of Mark Gooch. October 29, 2020 – Mark Gooch has plead not guilty to the murder of Sasha Krause. Currently, Mark is being held at the Coconino County Jail in Flagstaff. There is a $2M cash only bond. A Judge based it on animosity he held for the Mennonite community he grew up in. Authorities used cell phone records to pair Mark’s cell phone to Sasha’s. The bullet taken form Sasha’s skull was determined to have been fired ...