MANCHESTER, Mo. (TCN) — A 41-year-old man was taken into custody after he called police and said he killed his father in his home.
According to Jeffrey Goedde’s criminal complaint, on Wednesday, Dec. 18, Goedde contacted the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office and said his father was unconscious and bleeding in the kitchen. Goedde allegedly claimed he “committed a crime and I wanted to turn myself in.” Goedde told law enforcement he “used weapons and hands to strike his father,” including kitchen knives. He reportedly said he might have used other weapons “but cannot remember.”
The sheriff’s office called the Manchester Police Department and asked them to conduct a welfare check at the father’s house. Officers went to the residence and knocked on the door, but no one answered. They went to the back and entered via a basement window. When police officers got inside, they reportedly “noticed a strong presence of bleach in the house.” Police found the victim in the kitchen with multiple stab wounds and other trauma to his body.
A Manchester Police Department detective went to the sheriff’s office to interview Goedde. He reportedly said he knew he could not leave the station “because he accidentally killed someone.”
Investigators obtained a warrant to search the home, and they reportedly found a kitchen knife in a trash can near the victim’s body. The autopsy showed the father had 50 stab wounds to his body, broken bones, and blunt force trauma injuries to his head, face, and back. He had also been strangled.
Goedde was arrested and booked into the St. Louis County Jail on charges of first-degree murder and armed criminal action.