Sean Goe, 27, was sentenced to 29 years to life for murdering his girlfriend and dumping her body in an abandoned children’s park
Stark County Sheriff’s Office
Sean Goe and Raychel Sheridan
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Sean Goe, 27, was sentenced to 29 years to life in prison for killing his girlfriend, Raychel Sheridan, 24, with a hammer and dumping her body in an abandoned Mother Goose-themed park
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“Sir. Goe, you sold your soul to the devil,” Judge Frank Forchione said during Goe’s sentencing hearing, according to News 5 Cleveland, adding, “I have ordered you to receive the maximum sentence on each charge because you deserves maximum punishment
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Prosecutors said she was struck with the blunt end of a hammer that was recovered from the apartment Sheridan shared with Goe. The canton warehouse reported
An Ohio man convicted of killing his girlfriend with a hammer and dumping her body in an abandoned Mother Goose-themed park was sentenced to 29 years to life in prison.
On Friday, Nov. 8, Sean Goe, 27, of Plain Township, was found guilty of murder, assault, gross abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence in the killing of Raychel Sheridan, 24, court records show.
On Monday, Goe appeared at the Stark County Courthouse in Canton, where Stark County Common Pleas Court Judge Frank Forchione handed down the sentence, along with some harsh words about the crime.
“Sir. Go, you sold your soul to the devil,” Judge Forchione said, News 5 Cleveland reports. “I have ordered you to receive the maximum sentence on every count because you deserve the maximum sentence.”
Forchione added that it is “without a doubt the most brutal murder I have seen.”
Goe sat silently as the judge called him “morally bankrupt” without “an ounce of decency,” WKYC reported.
“To represent the lowest level for human life, you then wrapped the body in a sheet and dumped it in a park near Mother Goose Land,” Forchione said. This is the person you once claimed to be in love with. Instead, you threw her in the trash like a piece of trash.
Prosecutors said she was struck with the blunt end of a hammer that was recovered from the apartment Sheridan shared with Goe. The canton warehouse reports.
Sheridan suffered at least 10 blows to the head, Dennis E. Barr, chief of the criminal division of the Stark County Prosecutor’s Office, said in his closing remarks during the trial, according to The canton warehouse .
Prosecutors said she was struck with the blunt end of a hammer that was recovered from the apartment Sheridan shared with Goe. The canton warehouse reported.
Her injuries made her unrecognizable in the photo, Sgt. Bryan Johnson of the Stark County Sheriff’s Office said this according to The canton warehouse.
The crime came to light on July 3, when a Canton Parks Department employee found Sheridan’s body wrapped in plastic in a trash bin at Mother Goose Land on Schroyer Ave. SW, according to a news release from the Stark County Sheriff’s Office.
The day before, Sheridan’s mother called police to conduct a welfare check on her at the apartment she shared with Goe when she had not heard from her and reported her missing, according to the Sheriff’s Office press release .
When Stark County sheriff’s deputies arrived at the apartment, the door was open but no one was inside. However, what they saw inside looked suspicious, police said, according to 19 News.
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Officers then applied for a search warrant, but while they waited, they saw what they believed was Sheridan’s maroon Jeep Liberty driving down the street with Goe behind the wheel, the release said.
When officers stopped him, he ran into a nearby wooded area and was initially arrested the next morning on active warrants for burglary, grand theft of a firearm and domestic violence involving Sheridan.
“As a result of the search warrant executed at the apartment of Raychel Sheridan and Sean Goe, evidence indicative of foul play was recovered,” the release noted, adding: “Detectives determined that Sheridan was murdered inside the apartment. ”
In August, Goe was indicted on two counts of murder and single counts of assault, burglary, tampering with evidence, grand theft of a firearm or dangerous ammunition and aggravated abuse of a corpse, online court records show. He was held on $1 million bond and pleaded not guilty.
During the sentencing hearing, Sheridan’s mother, Lisa Sheridan, spoke, saying, “You killed our little girl!” WKYC reported.
Goe will be eligible for parole after 29 years in prison. PEOPLE reached out to his public defender for comment, but they did not immediately respond.
