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

[Stoshie]

That's the Oct one and she did go to the hosp and the hosp did call LE. But when LE talked with her she said it was an accident. I wonder if he threatened her to keep her quiet? I sure hope LE interviews her again!

Yeah. It sounds like a lot of the complaints against this guy, the women wouldn't talk. There is an article about the September rape complaint. The police said that she didn't show at the station, in early October when she was supposed to. She finally showed up on October 27th. That was when they were able to obtain the search and arrest warrant.

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

 

[mysteriew]

Hoppy did you catch that this guy didn't have a car? His travel consisted of a bus. And he was in prison from 1989 to 2005.

The ones that we know for sure about now, he tends to know them, they are "street people" either drug or alcohol addictions, they are from the neighborhood.

But he has had a posting on a fetish website since 2005. So I guess women could have come to him. Also posted above is his Marine enlistment in 1978 he was stationed in North Carolina, Okinawa and Coronado, Calif. They are looking at one unsolved rape in Calif.

 

[Stoshie]

I know that Gina DeJesus and Amanda Berry disappeared before he was released from prison.

Those disappearances hit a little close to home for me. I used to live in that part of town.

 

[hoppyfrog]

I'm coming to this thread rather late, so forgive me. I've brainstormed a list of possible victims:

Gloria Walker
Tarnesha Chester
Cheri Yvette White-Haywood
Jonni Clemett
Georgina Lynn DeJesus
Amanda Marie Berry
Ashley Nicole Summers
Alicia Michelle Hogue


Cheri and Gloria would be at the top of my list as potential victims, though I haven't done any mapping or looked at timeframes.


Are any of the posters on this thread local to this case and could go look at the "missing" posters in the area and report the names back to us?


Hoppy

Thanks for the info about him being in prison 1989-2005.

So, that makes these women possible victims:

Gloria Walker
Tarnesha Chester
Ashley Nicole Summers

There are threads for all three of them here at WS.

Still haven't done any mapping.

Hoppy

 

[Hulagirl29]

What sick freaks live in this world...

I know... what a messed up world we live in!!!

 

[Nore]

I'm listening to the Cleveland Police scanner.Nothing so far two people shot. west 50th and Clark! man these guys are busy!!They just announced on tv. he will be arranged at 630am.

 

[Snufamonbobball]

If he's been using the internet to meet women on BDSM websites, some of these women may have traveled to meet him from outside the area.

 

[Nore]

If he's been using the internet to meet women on BDSM websites, some of these women may have traveled to meet him from outside the area.

They are checking into this possibility.Police mentioned it at the conference.

 

[Nore]

Hoppy did you catch that this guy didn't have a car? His travel consisted of a bus. And he was in prison from 1989 to 2005.

The ones that we know for sure about now, he tends to know them, they are "street people" either drug or alcohol addictions, they are from the neighborhood.

But he has had a posting on a fetish website since 2005. So I guess women could have come to him. Also posted above is his Marine enlistment in 1978 he was stationed in North Carolina, Okinawa and Coronado, Calif. They are looking at one unsolved rape in Calif.

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That would be most of the neighborhood.

 

[Snufamonbobball]

They are checking into this possibility.Police mentioned it at the conference.

Sharon Lopatka arranged to be tortured and killed on a BDSM board. I don't think that's the case here, but it is a case of consensual homicide facilitated by a BDSM board.

I personally believe that true sexual sadists (pathological sadism) need a non-consensual victim to fulfill their master fantasy or a slave where there are no boundaries, allowing everything- including death.

He reminds me of Maury Travis, although I don't know if his thinking is as sophisticated. I'll bet he's sitting in jail right now, thinking I can't believe I got away with it for so long.

 

[Texas Mist]

<snip>

Updated at 10:44 p.m.

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Police found at least four more decomposing bodies and the skull of another person at Anthony Sowell's house Tuesday, making his home on Imperial Avenue among the deadliest crime scenes in Cleveland history.

Crews continued digging for corpses in Sowell's back yard after dark, even erecting a heated tent so they could work into the night. The search stopped around 9 p.m. but will resume in the morning.


more here

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

 

[MWright]

This article shows a picture of Sowell from a sex fetish site, alt.com, and describes one possible victim, Janice Webb.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/02/crimesider/entry5495923.shtml

article snippets:
1)
"If your [sic] submissive and like to please, then this master wants to talk to you," Sowell's profile on Alt.com reads. "So get you&#8217;re (expletive) on over here NOW!"

2)
"The Web site says his last login was more than three months ago.

On his Alt.com profile, Sowell described his ideal partner as submissive and willing to "please&#8230; anytime, anyplace and anyway." He also describes himself as a "performer," someone who "loves to be around people." "


I wonder if he was on any more mainstream dating websites? Even so, this makes me want to reconsider using even "normal" dating websites.

 

[MWright]

Hi nursebeme,I just wrote a long reply and lost it!! I grew up on the West Side near Metro Hospital ( City)..I just watched the news conference,he's been charged with multiple offenses.He doesnt have a car.They have ten bodies now but Chief said when they do DNA tests (they are collecting from families of missing) there could well be more than one body in a grave.They found a skull wrapped in paper in a bucket in the basement.hope its not another J. Dahmer! We should notify B. they are using cadaver dogs (with hits) and DNA testing.He goes to a sex website! fire Dept. will rip out walls tomorrow.I pray for the people in the neighborhood.God be with them.
Tell your husband I say Thank You!!!

Yeah, when I heard about the skull I too was wondering if he consumed at least this victim....

 

[Inch High PI]

I'm confused about this house. It looks like what appears to be a two-family but I have not heard any mention of someone else living in the building. In some shots of the house there appear to be two front doors, side by side and I definitely saw a shot of two mailboxes attached to the wall- one over the other. Did he live in both homes? Was on vacant and that is where he stored the bodies?

 

[Stoshie]

The home has been in the family for a long time. It was originally owned by his grandfather. I think that he has been there by himself. The area is a very depressed part of town with a lot of abandoned homes and buildings. I think that they have mentioned that the house next door is empty too.

It does appear to be a two-family.

Yep, definately a typical Cleveland two-family home.

 

[carbuff]

He had to be doing something with all those garbage bags he bought daily.
Sure wasn't cleaning up his house that was reported as piled sky-high with clothes, garbage and junk.
He did cut the grass, so the outside would appear normal, leading me to believe he was trying to cover his tracks somewhat.
I wonder if he kept ID from his victims hidden somewhere?


IMO

Since he was a "scrapper," going around salvaging salable junk from the trash, some of the bags probably went to that.

But, boy, if the neighbors are used to seeing him prowling the streets dragging black garbage bags of stuff...

 

[ohiogirl]

Someone took a picture of him outside the house when the woman fell out of the window. He was crouching next to her and they were both naked. There is a video on WOIO about the incident. If you to the site, look for the video about a victim surviving.

http://www.woio.com/global/Category.asp?c=177485


They are still reporting 10 + 1 skull.

That is amazing, thanks for the link. Hard to believe this went on so long.

 

[trigger]

This reporter on NG said there are missing persons posters all over the area. I have to wonder why we didn't know about them on WS? Why weren't there questions as to where all these women were going?

This is bugging me so much!

Finally i'm off today and i'm catching up. Yes I saw that on NG that I taped. OMG. These poor families. Didn't LE ever think gee we got all these females missing here, look at all these posters, something is not right???? What the heck...Just now on Fox a reporter just said theres so many abandon houses on this block, one house is right across the street. They (the reporters) want to go search it, because LE won't. WHAT??? I think we will find out he killed more then 10.

Sorry but can anyone tell me how the lady met this creep in September? Did she go there on her own? Or did he kidnap her?

 

[ohiogirl]

Maybe the Cleveland LE should consider calling in some help if they can only work so many hours.

 

[ohiogirl]

Can anyone refresh my memory on when the father died and the step mother went into the nursing home?