21-Year-Old Guilty in Murder of Medford Mother

Two years after the body of 21-year-old Sarah Goode was found in a wooded area in Medford, a 21-year-old man has been found guilty of her murder.

A Suffolk County jury convicted Dante Taylor, of Mastic, of first and second degree murder, as well as first degree attempted rape on Thursday, Suffolk District Attorney Thomas Spota said.

The trial started May 11. During the trial, a forensic scientist from the Suffolk Crime Laboratory testified that semen and other material taken from Goode's body during an autopsy matched Taylor’s DNA.

Goode, a medical technician and a mother, was reported missing by her sister on June 8, 2014, two days after she had last been seen watching a movie with friends. Goode’s car was found on Fire Avenue in Medford and days later, a member of a search party looking for Goode found her body in a thickly wooded area on Camden Court in Medford. She had been stabbed 42 times, authorities said.

Justice John Collins scheduled sentencing for Taylor on July 29. Taylor faces a maximum of life imprisonment without parole for the first degree murder conviction.