The first major event to happen in his life occurred at age 6, when his father raped a 10-year-old girl during a home invasion in Rockford.

As for Sean, he, his mother and sister continued to live in Rockford where he attended Auburn High School.

His marriage later fell apart and Sean moved to North Carolina in 1988, and began working as a truck driver in 1991.

The next day she voyaged to Tennessee where, at a service station, she was abducted by Goble, who proceeded to rape and strangle her to death, breaking her neck in the process.

An investigation was set up by police, who received numerous tips, the most promising being from a trucker who said he saw a semi parked along the same access road hours before Hagy's body was found.

When submitted into a database, investigators got a hit when it matched to a print taken from Goble in September 1994 after an arrest for multiple misdemeanors.

[14] From there he was arrested in Winston-Salem, North Carolina outside the Rocky Road Express, the trucking company he was then working for.

[2] Goble was ruled out in Cobb's murder due to DNA testing, and in 2022 a different man was arrested for her death.

[13] Goble pleaded guilty to killing Hagy and Hanes in Tennessee, for which he was imposed two life sentences.

He was later extradited to North Carolina and pled guilty to the murder of Mansur, receiving an additional 14 years to his two life sentences.

[1] Goble is currently serving his sentence at Northeast Correctional Complex in Doe Valley, Tennessee.

Goble's killing spree is detailed in the episode The Interstate Prowler in the TV series Main Street Mysteries.

[23] In 2003, the Discovery Channel TV show The New Detectives examined Goble in the episode titled "Blind Trust".