Background: The Baxter Heights, Mo. neighborhood where Jeffrey Goedde’s father was found stabbed to death (Google Maps). Inset: Jeffrey Goedde (St. Louis County Justice Center).
A Missouri man was arrested and charged with first-degree murder after he turned himself in to police and told them he accidentally killed his father after stabbing him around 50 times.
Jeffrey Goedde, 41, remains in custody after he drove to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday night and allegedly told police, “I made a mistake. I committed a crime, and I want to turn myself in.”
According to the criminal complaint, he described his alleged actions, saying that his father, Edward Goedde, Jr., 75, was “unconscious in the kitchen” of the house where they both lived and “bleeding from his face and back,” also adding that he “may have used a kitchen knife and other weapons” as well as his own hands, but wasn’t able to remember.