After random fatal knife attack on missionary couple, Wichita man pleads guilty
A Wichita man has pleaded guilty in a random home invasion and knife attack that left a 64-year-old woman dead and her 73-year-old husband gravely wounded at their south-side home three years ago.
Goldy Lee Metcalf, 39, pleaded guilty on Nov. 19 to amended counts of second-degree reckless murder and attempted second-degree murder in the Dec. 4, 2021, attack on missionaries Rosane and Marcelo Machado in the 600 block of South Green.
Prosecutors plan to ask Sedgwick County District Judge Christopher Magana to send Metcalf to prison for just under 39 years when he is sentenced on Jan. 27, Metcalf’s plea agreement says.
As part of the plea deal, prosecutors agreed to reduce the severity of Metcalf’s murder and attempted murder charges and dismiss seven other counts, including aggravated burglary, burglary, theft, criminal damage to property and criminal trespass.
Originally, the Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office charged Metcalf with first-degree meditated murder and attempted premeditated murder, plus the other crimes. Had Metcalf been convicted of premeditated murder, he could have expected to spent 50 years to life in prison.
The Machados are from Brazil, where they had worked as missionaries and church pastors before moving to Kansas and becoming U.S. citizens, Rosane Machado’s obituary says. They did not know Metcalf, and police have said his attack was random.
Police have said the Machados’ stabbings were part of a Dec. 4, 2021, crime spree that Metcalf carried out while he was already on parole for previous crimes. The day started with an attempted car break-in around 5 a.m. where Metcalf was cited for misdemeanor tampering with a vehicle and received a ride from police to a hospital so he could get treatment for a lip injury.
Three hours later, Metcalf left the hospital against medical advice, carjacked a pick-up truck that he crashed into a church and forced his way into the Machados’ back door while they were preparing breakfast and looking at photos of their sons.
Once inside, Metcalf choked and pushed down Rosane Machado, slammed a frying pan into Marcelo Machado’s head and stabbed them both when they tried to defend themselves.
Rosane Machado died from a puncture wound to her stomach that injured her liver, heart and a lung. She had also been stabbed on one side of her head. Her husband had knife wounds on his stomach, arm and on each side of his neck, but he survived.
Marcelo Machado told police Metcalf had yelled about someone with a gun trying to kill him as he pushed his way into their house shortly after 8 a.m., but neither he nor his wife saw anyone there. Their home is near Kellogg Drive and Grove.
Metcalf told officers after his arrest that he “was being chased by white males and the FBI” and claimed he had stabbed the Machados in self-defense, a probable cause affidavit released in the case says.
This story was originally published November 22, 2024 at 3:44 PM.
