[ bleep ]. my handwriting is totally different than that. i don t write like that. so i looked at it like, i m not going to argue with it. that s the evidence they got. i don t cohabitate with other people too well. that was the only one person i did. that s my man. so it s best to keep me happy. i will drive these [ bleep ] people crazy. for now, goodell might have bigger concerns than causing trouble. his sentencing is only days away. he s agreed to a plea deal up to 45 years in prison for strangling his 21-year-old former girlfriend, viviana tulli. goodell hopes to convince the judge to give him less time. today he ll run some of his ideas by jan phillips from the office of criminal case management, a division of the county court system. my job is to meet with every defendant, whether they re found guilty at trial or have accepted a plea.
i would give you a hug but not. if you lie, they know. and if you re straightforward, they appreciate the honesty. the thing is, i was dead set on i don t like [ bleep ] i m going to raise hell. but then i got here, i m talking to him. you know what? i hate to admit this, i m not going to tell any of the officers this, but i like it up here. it s actually okay up here. maldonado will remain in the jail until his charges of aggravated assault and kidnapping are resolved. but david goodell s stay here is nearing an end. today is his sentencing. i m kind of grateful he s going to be leaving and will be in the ctody of the stat he s been a challenge to the health staff, the medical staff, all during his tenure here. his ability to create and cause problems, it will not be missed, i will tell you that. all rise, come to order. good afternoon, you can all have a seat. in the courtroom are viviana s family members, including her mother and older sister, stella tulli.
the same hands that create delicate origami flowers also strangled his former girlfriend. 21-year-old viviana tulli. you sit there and strangle somebody, it s personal. about as personal as you can get. i m a very nice person. i am. but i guess everybody has a switch, some people act on it, some people don t. i just acted. it s a very thin line. very thin line. now almost three years after the murder, goodell has reached an agreement with prosecutors. he pled guilty to first-degree murder for a maximum of 45 years in state prison. the final sentence is still up to his judge and will be announced in an upcoming hearing. for 45% or 85% you would do 38, minus the three i have i already, that s 35. that would make me about 68 when i go home.
with his final sentencing hearing only days away, he has written an apology but admits he did so 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, you know what i m saying, my last words ain t going to be sitting there groveling to somebody s family and this and that. no. [ 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. just stand there and look. 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 expected an apology from goodell. they say it wouldn t change the fact that his actions have devastated them. so here is her final resting place. three years after viviana s death, her older sister, stella tulli, visits her grave site regularly. adding to the pain is the fact that the murder was committed on their mother s birthday.
at the time of the murder, goodell was living in a halfway house as part of his parole. he had just been released from prison where he was serving a two-year sentence for assaulting another girlfriend. according to her family, viviana was distancing herself from goodell. i knew i was going to kill her, but i didn t know how. before i left the halfway house, i told one of my roommates, i said watch the news, bro, i m going to be on it tomorrow, i m going to kill this bitch. goodell escaped the halfway house by faking a seizure. he was taken to a hospital but soon after snuck away. goodell called viviana and convinced her to come see him. they were in her car when goodell killed her. we warn you, his account of the crime is graphic and disturbing. i started kissing her. i put her arms like this, and i was like, do you love me? she was like yeah, i love you. right there, that s when i grabbed her, boom. and i started choking her. she was trying to shake and move.