A Missouri man is facing murder charges after he allegedly stabbed his father around 50 times and then walked into a sheriff’s office to confess on Wednesday, claiming he “accidentally killed” his dad.
Jeffrey Goedde, 41, was arrested last week in the murder of Edward Goedde, 75, after he entered the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office and quickly spilled his alleged crime to authorities around 11:40 a.m.
“I made a mistake,” he said, according to a criminal complaint obtained by Law and Crime. “I committed a crime, and I want to turn myself in.”
He told investigators that his father was unconscious in the kitchen, and bleeding from the face and back after he used weapons and his own own hands to attack the older Goedde, according to the complaint.
Manchester City police, whose jurisdiction the crime was committed in, were called by the sheriff’s office and arrived at the father’s home for a welfare check. Cops got into the house through a basement window and found the victim dead and face down on the kitchen floor with multiple stab wounds.
After the discovery, detectives talked to the murder suspect, who allegedly said he “knows he was not free to leave because he accidentally killed someone,” according to the police docs.
He refused to say more and then requested a lawyer.
The following day, an autopsy revealed that Edward Goedde suffered about 50 stab wounds, as well as broken bones, strangulation and blunt force trauma, including to the head, authorities said.
A kitchen knife with a pointed tip was found in a trash can in the kitchen that law enforcement believes is the murder weapon.
Goedde is facing a first-degree murder charge and armed criminal action, Leader Publications reported. He is currently in custody without bond.
Jefferson County Sheriff Dave Marshak told the outlet Goedde went to the sheriff’s office and not Manchester police because he trusts the countywide agency.
