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>> in the courtroom are viviana's family members, including her mother and her older sister, stella tooley. >> this is the matter of the state of new jersey versus david goodell. >> goodell has made a deal for no more than 45 years in prison. but his public defender will now make the case for less time. >> judge, i'm sure there are a lot of people in this courtroom who consider mr. goodell to be the personification of evil, but i'm going to ask the court to consider the other side of mr. goodell. because when i look at this presentence report, i see a person who's never really had a chance in ...

Including her mother and older sister, stella tooley. >> this is the matter of the state of new jersey versus david goodell. >> goodell has made a deal for no more than 45 years in prison. but his public defender will make the case for less time. >> judge, i'm sure there are a lot of people in this courtroom who consider mr. goodell to be the personification of evil, but i'm going to ask the court to consider the other side of mr. goodell. because when i look at this presentence report, i see a person who's never really had a chance in life. both of his parents were addicts, he didn't have the...

But his final sentencing hearing only days away, he's written an apology, but admits he did so only in hopes of receiving a shorter sentence. now he questions whether it's even worth reading. >> so for me to expect anything less than that 45, my last words ain't going to be sitting there groveling in somebody's family and this and that. [ bleep ] that. i'm going to stand there and i'm just going to stand there. you ain't going to get nothing out of me. all right, whatever, it's time to go. i might just turn around and apologize to my own family, you know what i mean? >> viviana's family never ...

Sister, stella tooley. >> this is the matter of the state of new jersey versus david goodell. >> goodell has made a deal for no more than 45 years in prison. but his public defender will make the case for less time. >> judge, i'm sure there are a lot of people in this courtroom who consider mr. goodell to be the personification of evil, but i'm going to ask the court to consider the other side of mr. goodell. because when i look at this presentence report, i see a person who's never really had a chance in life. both of his parents were addicts, he didn't have the support and love and nurturing...

That the murder was committed on their mother's birthday. >> you know, we all have a birthday. that's our own special day, the one day we get to celebrate for ourselves. he even took that away from my mother. not only did he take her youngest daughter, he took the one day she had for herself. one of the first questions i thought that night before bed is did he strangle her from behind or was he looking in her eyes? what was she thinking as he was taking the last bit of breath from her? >> neither stella or the rest of the family knew much about goodell's account of the murder, including the fa...