A judge in Ohio threw the book at a 27-year-old man who savagely killed 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.
Stark County Common Pleas Court Judge Frank Forchione ordered Sean Goe to serve the maximum sentence of 29 years to life in a state correctional facility for the slaying of Raychel Sheridan.
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A jury in Stark County last week found Goe guilty on charges of murder, felonious assault, gross abuse of a corpse, and tampering with evidence, court records reviewed by Law&Crime show. He was also convicted on charges of burglary and grand theft when the property is a firearm or dangerous ordinance.
The sentencing hearing
Prior to announcing the sentence, Forchione launched into a diatribe against Goe, who beat Sheridan to death with a hammer and then dumped her body in a trash bin at Mother Goose Land park in Canton, Ohio. Forchione reiterated the sentiment of Dennis E. Barr, the head of the criminal division for the Stark County Prosecutor’s Office, who told jurors in his closing argument that he had tried 78 different murder cases, and had a “hard time thinking of anything that was this brutal and savage.”