OH OH - ANTHONY SOWELL, 11 bodies unearthed at his Cleveland home, 2007-09 *dies in prison 2021*

[LovinTK]

Cuyahoga deputies short-handed as they check on sex offenders



http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/11/post_127.html

Thank you for posting that article. They really do need to change the laws so that they are spending more time notifying the people in the neighborhoods about child molesters, rapists, and only people who are repeat offenders of statutory rape. While there are people who do repeatedly go after underage girls the majority of them are people who at 18 or 19 years old had a girlfriend that was 15 or 16. I personally know someone that at the age of 18 had a 15 year old girlfriend and was charged with that crime. Was it a poor choice? Yes, I think that it was. Should it have resulted in years of being in prison, being a RSO, and ruining his entire life? Some say yes but personally I don't believe it should have. I think they really need to change the laws. I think the penalties for the crime I just mentioned are too stiff while child molesters get off easy.

As far as the police only being able to check on about 10 sex offenders a day... that's just ridiculous with the amount of offenders in that area! They either need to put more officers on the job or even better why not let some regular citizens with no criminal background volunteer to verify addresses every other time a RSO needs to be checked on? I'm sure they can find plenty of volunteers who care enough to want to do it. I don't think verifying an address is too dangerous as long as some caution and common sense is used.

 

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Four women found at Anthony Sowell's home remembered at funerals

In four separate churches on Saturday, hundreds of mourners gathered to remember and celebrate four women whose bodies were found weeks ago on Imperial Avenue.

Relatives -- from a 9-year-old daughter to a distraught mother -- talked about the victims' warm smiles, the pain from their disappearances and, ultimately, their deaths.

Amelda Hunter, LeShanda Long, Tonia Carmichael and Crystal Dozier were among the 11 women whose decomposed bodies were found on the property of serial-killer suspect Anthony Sowell. Five other women already have been memorialized.

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/11/four_women_found_at_anthony_so.html

R.I.P Amelda:rose:, LeShanda:rose:, Tonia:rose: and Crystal:rose:

 

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Would the Imperial Avenue killings have been prevented if extra steps were taken?

What if? The question must haunt anyone whose path intersected that of serial-killer suspect Anthony Sowell over the past two decades.

What if Cleveland police and prosecutors worked to charge Sowell when they had the chance in 2008? Or in 1990? What if city officials kept looking until they found the reason behind a neighborhood stench in 2007? What if East Cleveland detectives investigating three unsolved murders had labeled Sowell a suspect in 1989?

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/11/would_the_imperial_avenue_kill.html

 

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Family mourns Tishana Culver, one of 11 found at Imperial Avenue

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- About 300 mourners gathered Sunday evening at a private memorial service for Tishana Culver, the third victim identified at the Imperial Avenue home of suspected serial killer Anthony Sowell.

Culver, who would have been 31 if she had lived, disappeared in July of 2008.

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/11/family_mourns_tishana_culver_o.html

R.I.P. Tishana:rose:

 

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Tracking Sex-Crime Offenders Gets Trickier

The focus on crimes against children that began in the Bush administration shows no sign of abating under President Obama. Federal child sexual exploitation prosecutions are up 147 percent since 2002, and the Justice Department is hiring 81 more prosecutors for these cases. Funding for task forces that bring charges in state courts rose this year from $16 million to $75 million.

But many of those offenders are now leaving prison, even as revenue-strapped states are cutting the budgets of probation departments. In Virginia, probation and parole cuts this year totaled nearly $10 million, including $500,000 for electronic monitoring of sexually violent predators. Maryland also has cut its budget.

"The burden on probation and parole officers is going to explode," said Ernie Allen, the national center's president.

The monitoring of virtually all sex offenders is required by law when they are on probation or parole.

The problem has gained national attention with the discovery of 10 bodies and a skull at a registered sex offender's home in Cleveland and revelations that Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped at age 11 in 1991 and allegedly held captive at a California sex offender's house until her reappearance in August. Officers had visited both homes and noticed nothing wrong.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11/23/politics/washingtonpost/main5748686.shtml

 

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I figured this belongs here.

Coroner's office to use experts to help identify 11 victim

The Cuyahoga County Coroner's Office will use an anthropologist and forensic artist to help identify the 11th victim found on Imperial Avenue in Cleveland.

Cuyahoga County Coroner Frank Miller said the office has contacted C. Owen Lovejoy, an internationally known anthropology professor at Kent State University who specializes in human origins modeling, and Linda Spurlock, a forensic reconstruction expert who directs the health department at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, to help with the identification process.

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/11/coroners_office_to_use_experts.html

NamUs entry:
https://identifyus.org/cases/6250

 

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Coroner's office to use experts to help identify 11 victim

The Cuyahoga County Coroner's Office will use an anthropologist and forensic artist to help identify the 11th victim found on Imperial Avenue in Cleveland.

Cuyahoga County Coroner Frank Miller said the office has contacted C. Owen Lovejoy, an internationally known anthropology professor at Kent State University who specializes in human origins modeling, and Linda Spurlock, a forensic reconstruction expert who directs the health department at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, to help with the identification process.

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/11/coroners_office_to_use_experts.html

 

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State Sen. Nina Turner proposes changes to Ohio sex offender laws

Turner’s legislation deals mostly with Tier III offenders. Tier III is for the most serious crimes, such as rape or kidnapping a minor. A 2008 law forced those offenders to personally register their address every 90 days.

Deputies are required to perform spot checks every year if the address is unchanged. But if an address changes, the law requires deputies to verify it. Notices are then mailed to every address within a 1,000-foot radius of the offender’s home.

Those guidelines would change under the proposed legislation. These are the key elements:

•Tier III offenders must register their address every 30 days instead of every 90 days. Deputies must confirm the addresses of Tier III offenders every 90 days through face-to-face contact at the offender’s residence and track the outcomes of such visits.
•Deputies must confirm the person’s address through personal contact at the offender’s residence after a Tier III offender initially registers. Sheriff’s offices must notify the community once a year of a Tier III offender address on the anniversary date of the original registration.
•All sex offenders must show a proof of residency similar to those used for voter registration under Ohio election laws.

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/11/state_sen_nina_turner_proposes.html

I hope all states adopt these guidelines. Good work, Sen. Turner:thumb:, a step in the right direction and without hesitation. I, especially, appreciate that the focus is on the most dangerous sex offenders and that neighbors will be notified yearly of an offenders presence. I would, however, feel better if Deputies were allowed to also search or enter the offenders home without a warrant and whether or not they are on parole. As long as they are a registered Tier III/high-risk offender, they should be subject to random searches. Could be costly, I know, but what is the going price for innocent lives these days, anyway? Lives can be saved if this bill is passed. JMO.
ETA: Of course, it would be even better if these animals weren't released from prison to begin with.

 

[octobermoon]

CLEVELAND — A Cleveland man who police say was living with 10 dead bodies and a skull has been indicted on 11 counts of aggravated murder.

Cuyahoga (ky-uh-HOH'-guh) County Prosecutor Bill Mason was announcing the indictments Tuesday afternoon in the case against 50-year-old Anthony Sowell (SOH'-wehl).

The prosecutor expects to seek the death penalty.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gomr1KG0RTt_F4GkAa0kkpqJE7OgD9CAM9RO0

 

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CLEVELAND -- Anthony Sowell, the man who police say was living with ten dead bodies and a skull on Imperial Avenue, has been indicted on 85 counts, including 11 counts of aggravated murder.

Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason made the announcement during a news conference Tuesday afternoon in the case against 50-year-old Anthony Sowell.


http://www.wkyc.com/news/local/news_article.aspx?storyid=126336&catid=45

 

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Grand jury indicts Anthony Sowell in 11 slayings; sets stage for death penalty trial

CLEVELAND, Ohio — A Cuyahoga County grand jury indicted Anthony Sowell today on multiple counts of aggravated murder and charges related to three other attacks on women, setting the stage for a trial that could lead to his execution.

Prosecutor Bill Mason and other law enforcement officials announced the charges at an afternoon news conference.

Sowell, 50, of Cleveland, faces 85 counts in total, including aggravated murder, attempted murder, gross abuse of a corpse, felonious assault, rape, attempted rape, kidnapping, aggravated robbery and tampering with evidence.

The charges carry the death penalty.

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/12/grand_jury_indicts_anthony_sow.html

 

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Victims timeline

http://media.cleveland.com/metro/photo/sowell-graphicjpg-266b6ebe6808eef8.jpg

 

[fran]

Seeing all the victim's faces makes me cry. Those poor things.


fran

 

[MWright]

Victims timeline

http://media.cleveland.com/metro/photo/sowell-graphicjpg-266b6ebe6808eef8.jpg

One woman went missing in 2007, four in 2008, and five in 2009 (at least, since we don't know when unidentified victim 11 went missing).

Makes you wonder what was going on with Sowell in 2006 and in 2007 (since his release in 2005) . Did he or did he not kill in 2006? Or did he simply have another MO of disposing bodies? Did his stepmother's presence in the house affect his MO (I forgot when she was relocated to the nursing home)? Was his rate of killing increasing (one victim in 07, four in 08, and five in 09, just through October)? So many unanswered questions...

Seeing all the victim's faces makes me cry. Those poor things.


fran

I know... so very sad... my heart aches for them. Despite their troubles, these women were daughters, sisters, mothers, aunts, and had hopes, dreams, and wishes. God Bless them.

 

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Murder Suspect 'Lived With Bodies And Skull'

Assistant Cuyahoga County prosecutor Richard Bombik said Sowell had "a specific scheme of doing things ... a distinct pattern".

"The three people that survived in this case will be probably the most important evidence in the case because it will show a pattern," he said.

"The guy does have this thing for choking people ... It's the same pattern except three of them lived to escape and talk about it."

He also said the testimony would be helpful because the victims' bodies are so decomposed forensic tests will be limited.

"A lot of them were nude from the waist down, even when he buried them," he said.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Wo..._Cleveland,_Ohio,_After_Bodies_Found_In_House

 

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Ray's Sausage tries to move beyond serial killings next door

In good times or bad, it's not unusual for Renee Cash to say a few words to the photo of her late father before she heads upstairs to her office at Ray's Sausage Inc.

These days, she peers into her dad's eyes and wonders aloud how to move forward - how to overcome the image of a suspected serial killer living next to the business her father founded 57 years ago.

"I just look at his photo sometimes and ask for strength," Cash said.

As soon as police started to discover 11 decomposed bodies at Anthony Sowell's house, reporters nationwide pounced on the same fact: that neighbors thought the foul smell had come from the meat company.

http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2009/11/rays_sausage_tries_to_move_bey.html

 

[Texas Mist]

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EAST CLEVELAND -- Police units have arrived on Page Avenue at the former East Cleveland home of suspected serial killer Anthony Sowell.


According to a WKYC news crew, the FBI, East Cleveland, and Cleveland police are on scene with cadaver dogs.

Authorities say nothing in particular prompted this new search, only that police wanted to "leave no stone unturned" in their investigation of Sowell.


http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=126421

 

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EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio — For more than three hours today, Cleveland FBI agents searched the house where Anthony Sowell lived 20 years ago.

They did not use high-tech equipment, but removed several "items of interest" from the large Page Avenue home that is occupied.

The current owners gave the FBI access to the house where Sowell lived until he was arrested in 1990.


http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/12/fbi_searches_anthony_sowells_f.html

 

[Texas Mist]

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CLEVELAND -- Anthony Sowell has pleaded not guilty by reason on insanity in connection with several charges after the remains of 11 bodies were found in his home or on the home's property.

Sowell, 50, appeared in court Thursday morning.

He also faces several other charges in connection with an 85-count indictment.

No bond was issued. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.



http://www.newsnet5.com/news/21795180/detail.html


good luck w/ that plea, monster!

 

[Tizzle]

We already know you're insane, but good luck with that, Tone!

Don't think so.