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shoot at the bergen county jail in hackensack, new jersey, david goodell was considered a dangerous and manipulative inmate. the only time he seemed to show any regret over killing his 21-year-old former girlfriend, vivianna tulli is when he was meeting with the case manager to prepare for his sentencing hearing in which he was facing anywhere from 30 to 45 years in prison. >> you know, i'm sorry for what i did. >> but even then, he admitted, it was all for show. >> so that's what i'm going to tell them. because my plea is open from 30 to 45. so if there's any type of way i can weasel my way out of a year or two, it's worth it. and if it doesn't work out, i tried. >> then we met someone else with an entirely different opinion of david goodell. judy, who asked that we not use her last name, is the mother of a woman goodell used to date and a frequent visitor. >> i have sort of become his advocate/surrogate mother and i'm here to visit him.
pretty compelling stories on the inside. and david goodell was no exception. >> she was in her car. that was 23 days before the homicide. >> david goodell kept pictures in his cell of the woman he admitted to tormenting and strangling to death. his former girlfriend, vivianna tulle. >> why? because sometimes i get a messed up thought, i like to remember her in a happier sense, you know. yeah win miss her, but, you know, what happened happened. and that's what it is. >> goodell never expressed remorse in any of our interviews with him, but another inmate, louis pizzi was broken up over the murder. he was supposed to have seen vivianna the night she was killed. >> the only thing i have left of vivianna was this prayer card. i went to the wake and it was pretty upsetting to me. i didn't -- i couldn't even go
and they had a real relationship. not everyone would have a prayer card inside their cell. you're allowed so few things, to think this is one of the items you're carrying with you, it must have been meant a lot to you. >> pizzi says he never met goodell and they were housed in different units, but he did once see goodell in the jail from a distance. >> the way vivianna described him to me, he was a big tough guy. he didn't seem like a tough guy to me. in my eyes, i didn't see him hurting nothing, not even a fly. he was like a mouse to an elephant. david's a coward. he's a piece of [ bleep ], you know? he was wrong for what he did. >> but not everyone would agree with pizzi's description of goodell. coming up, david goodell gets a visit from the mother of a former girlfriend. but first -- >> he swung on me and we just got to fighting and picked up a
dangerous and manipulative inmate. the only time he seemed to show any regret over killing his 21-year-old former girlfriend, vivianna tulli is when he was meeting with the case manager to prepare for his sentencing hearing in which he was facing anywhere from 30 to 45 years in prison. >> you know, i'm sorry for what i did. >> but even then, he admitted, it was all for show. >> so that's what i'm going to tell them. because my plea is open from 30 to 45. so if there's any type of way i can weasel my way out of a year or two, it's perfect. and if it doesn't work out, i tried. >> then we met someone else with an entirely different opinion of david goodell. judy, who asked that we not use her last name, is the mother of a woman goodell used to date and a frequent visitor. >> i have sort of become his advocate/surrogate mother and i'm here to visit him. >> what did you do to yourself? >> what do you mean? >> you have no hair!
in hackensack, new jersey, david goodell was considered a dangerous and manipulative inmate. the only time he seemed to show any regret over killing his 21-year-old former girlfriend, vivianna tulli is when he was meeting with the case manager to prepare for his sentencing hearing in which he was facing anywhere from 30 to 45 years in prison. >> you know, i'm sorry for what i did. >> but even then, he admitted, it was all for show. >> so that's what i'm going to tell them. because my plea is open from 30 to 45. so if there's any type of way i can weasel my way out of a year or two, it's perfect. and if it doesn't work out, i tried. >> then we met someone else with an entirely different opinion of david goodell. judy, who asked that we not use her last name, is the mother of a woman goodell used to date and a frequent visitor. >> i have sort of become his advocate/surrogate mother and i'm here to visit him.