GREENSBORO, N.C., April 18 -- A truck driver suspected of killing a number of women and dumping their bodies along highways will face his first trial in North Carolina, sheriff's investigators said Tuesday. Detectives said Sean Patrick Goble has confessed to three murders in North Carolina and Tennessee, and several states want to talk to him about other slayings.
Goble, 28, of Asheboro, N.C., was arrested in Winston-Salem, N.C., Thursday and after confessing to the slaying of an unidentified woman near Greensboro, he was formally charged and transferred to the Guilford County Jail Monday night. 'We've got him charged with one count of murder, and we're going to try to keep him here,' said sheriff's Capt. Roy Forrest. Forrest said the victim was found Feb. 19 in Guilford County and there were some 'broad similarities' with the other murders. 'He's confessed to this one and he's given us enough detail to show that he knows facts about the body that we have not released,' Forrest said. He said Goble was also a suspect in murders of two women in the county in December and in 1991. Goble has also confessed to the murders of two women in Tennessee, authorities said. Rebecca Hanes, 36, a prostitute, was found in March near Interstate 81 in Kingsport, Tenn. She had been suffocated and her pocketbook was found in Goble's tractor-trailer cab. Goble also admitted strangling Brenda Sue Hagy, 45, of Bloomington, Ind., at a service station in eastern Tennessee and leaving her body along I-81 in Virginia. He was originally implicated by fingerprints found on a plastic bag near Hagy's body. 'We're getting a lot of inquiries from other states,' Forrest said. 'We're going to try to coordinate the interviews if he is willing to talk about those cases.'
