A 27-year-old Ohio man may spend the rest of his life in prison after brutally killing his 24-year-old girlfriend, beating her head in with a hammer, wrapping her body in plastic, and dumping her in a trash can at a local park named after an iconic fictional voice behind countless children’s stories.
Law&Crime looked at court records and found that Sean Goe was found guilty of killing Raychel Sheridan and tampering with evidence. He was also charged with felonious assault, gross abuse of a corpse, and murder.
Goe was also found guilty of burglary and grand theft when the property is a gun or other dangerous weapon.
Goinge’s mother fell to the ground and screamed, “Oh my God!” as soon as the verdict was read. Never!” A video from the courtroom posted by WEWS in Cleveland, Ohio, shows that Goe himself did not react much.
A news release from the Stark County Sheriff’s Office says that around 12:32 p.m. on Tuesday, July 2, 2024, deputies were called to a home in the 4100 block of Orchard Dale Drive NW in Plain Township about Sheridan, a woman who had been reported missing.
She was quickly put into a national list of people who are missing.
The release says that while deputies were at the scene, they saw a maroon Jeep Liberty traveling on Guilford Ave NW in Plain Township.
The license plate belonged to Raychel. “Deputies stopped the car and talked to the driver, Plain Township resident Sean Goe, 26. Goe then ran away on foot.”
Early in the morning on July 3, officers from the Canton Police Department found Goe at a homeless shelter. He was wanted for burglary, grand theft of a firearm, and domestic violence with a victim. He was being held on a $1 million bond.
Police said that when the search warrant was carried out at Raychel Sheridan and Sean Goe’s apartment, evidence of foul play was found.
“Detectives have found proof that Sheridan was killed in the apartment.” Sometime around 9:24 a.m. on July 3, 2024, Canton sanitation workers found what they thought was Raychel Sheridan’s body in a park in the Southwest part of the city.
The body was found at Mother Goose Land, an old theme park in the 400 block of Schroyer Avenue SW that had been closed since the 1980s. It had opened in 1956. About 10 years ago, the area was fixed up and turned back into a public park.
A worker for the Canton Parks Department was taking out the trash when they found Sheridan’s body wrapped in plastic inside a trash can. They called 911, according to WOIO, a CBS affiliate in Shaker Heights, Ohio.
The Canton Repository reports that prosecutors told the jury that Sheridan was hit in the head at least 10 times with the blunt end of a hammer.
The report says that Sheridan was beaten so badly that her body could not be identified when compared to a headshot of the victim. It was said that the hammer was found in the apartment that Goe and Sheridan shared.
DNA from Goe and Sheridan was also found in a bucket and gloves that were found in the apartment.
“Only the person who killed Raychel would have a reason to throw her body away like trash in that dumpster in Mother Goose Land,” Criminal Division Chief Prosecutor Dennis Barr is said to have said during closed arguments.
“That person is sitting here right now and their name is Sean Goe.”
Reports say that Goe’s lawyer said the investigators thought Goe was guilty right away and used the investigation “to prove the assumption, to prove the conclusion, not the other way around.”
Goe is currently set to be sentenced on November 18, 2024. He could get as long as life in prison for this crime.
