Timothy Sheehan was 49 and working as a maintenance supervisor at Cleveland State University when he was shot multiple times and killed in a restroom on August 27, 1982. His body was found by a security guard who had been searching for him after he failed to answer a beeper page. The murder was one in a series carried out on the university campus by Frank Spisak, described in reports as a cross-dressing Nazi sympathizer who targeted people at Cleveland State.

Spisak was arrested soon after Sheehan’s killing. At trial he displayed a Hitler mustache, claimed the killings were acts of God, and was convicted of the aggravated murders of Reverend Horace Rickerson, Timothy Sheehan, and Brian Warford. He was sentenced to death. Sheehan’s death affected his family and the Cleveland community and remains a somber reminder of violence on campus.

Anyone who knew Timothy Sheehan or has information about his time at Cleveland State is asked to share what they remember.