Joshua J. Goyette allegedly confessed to breaking into a Saxonburg, Pennsylvania retirement home and beating 86-year-old Gertrude "Trudy" Johanson in the early morning of June 25, 2005.  The crime, which shocked the small community north of Pittsburgh, was not the only one which occurred recently at area retirement homes.  Goyette is also suspected in a May incident where another apartment at the Commons of Saxonburg was broken into through a first floor window and the 90-year-old woman inside was groped while she slept.
Goyette, 25, has addresses listed in court documents in New Bedford, Massachusetts; and in Saxonburg, Pennsylvania, his mother's home.
The alleged confession was given last Thursday, June 30, 2005, in New Bedford, Massachusetts, to Pennsylvania state police investigators.  Goyette is currently being held in the Butler County prison in lieu of $300,000 cash bond.  He faces charges of attempted homicide, aggravated assault, burglary and criminal mischief.

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Pennsylvania man admits to June 25 beating of elderly woman