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Ten corpses found at Cleveland home
Tue Nov 3, 2009 7:53pm EST
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By Kim Palmer
CLEVELAND, Ohio (Reuters) - A convicted rapist was charged with
multiple murders on Tuesday after police dug up 10 corpses at his
home, which produced a stench of death in the depressed Cleveland
neighborhood.
Authorities searched the fetid property owned by Anthony Sowell with a
backhoe, jackhammers, wall saws, and cadaver dogs. They planned to
take the three-story house apart.
Four bodies were found in the back yard, while six others were
discovered elsewhere on the property, including in the basement of the
house. A skull wrapped in a paper bag in a bucket could be an eleventh
victim.
Five of the victims were black women who had been strangled, according
to the coroner.
Sowell, 50, was arrested over the weekend for rape. The victim said he
had invited her in for a drink then became enraged and choked her with
an extension cord.
When police entered Sowell's house they found two decomposing bodies
lying on a floor upstairs.
A sausage store next door to Sowell's home was blamed for the rank
smell wafting through the neighborhood, but an attempt at repairs
failed to stop the odor.
Sowell, who served in the military in the 1970s and 1980s, was charged
with five murders as well as five counts of rape, kidnapping and
assault. Other charges are likely after more of the victims are
identified.
Authorities were trying to match the victims' DNA to that of missing
women. "In some cases, no missing person's report was made," said
Cleveland Police Chief Michael McGrath.
He said Sowell cooperated with authorities initially but later
requested a lawyer. "It appears he had an insatiable appetite he
needed to fill," McGrath told reporters.
Neighborhood residents said they avoided Sowell, who was released from
prison in 2005 after serving 15 years for raping a pregnant woman.
(Writing by Andrew Stern; editing by Chris Wilson)
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE5A306S20091104
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