OH - Shawn Michael GRATE: 3 bodies found, Ashland/Madison, Sept 2016

[Betty P]

I'm watching the video of the hearing here: http://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com...r-suspect-shawn-grates-bond-hearing/90424758/
My observations:
They are calling the abduction victim "Jane Doe" for protection of her identity.
Then he said Grate is accused of causing the death of "Mary Doe" sometime between August 16 and Sept 13th 2016. I wonder if that is just because they had not ID'd Elizabeth yet when the charges were filed?
He requested court appointed council.
He has no address other than the Ashland county jail
He is not receiving any form of government assistance (food stamps, disability, etc)
When asked if he was employed, Grate replied "Not no more, I was working in Save-a-lot"
He has no checking accounts or other banking accounts with cash in them.
Next hearing in Monday Sept 19, 2016 at 7:45 AM
They read a list of his past charges, if anyone caught anything not on the timeline, let me know thanks.
He was ordered to have no contact of any form (including social media) with Jane Doe.
He will have to wear a tracking anklet if he gets out on bond

Am I reading this right? They're going to let him out with just a tracking device? What is wrong with LE, the prosecutor and courts in that town?

 

[CoverMeCagney]

Am I reading this right? They're going to let him out with just a tracking device? What is wrong with LE, the prosecutor and courts in that town?

Only if someone stumps up $1m first.

 

[Gardener1850]

Am I reading this right? They're going to let him out with just a tracking device? What is wrong with LE, the prosecutor and courts in that town?

Only if he can make a $1 Million bail bond. The judge said he would also have to have an address before they let him out. He is homeless, unemployed and has no bank accounts and no assets. Everyone from his past either claims they never knew him or says they have severed their relationship with him long ago. The words "monster", "crazy" and "deadbeat dad" were used to describe him to the press by those who knew him well. I don't think he is getting out anytime soon.

 

[AF555]

I hoped for the amount to be higher or no bond due to multiple charges and his criminal record. All someone would need to bail him out would be 100k or a house, unless the 10% bail thing is just a Texas thing.


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[Gardener1850]

Rumors of more than a dozen people missing from Ashland/Mansfield area led a paper to look into it: http://www.norwalkreflector.com/Law-Enforcement/2016/09/16/Rumors-of-missing-persons

List published by the paper:

• Tiera Evans, 16, Mansfield, Aug. 21
• Elizabeth A. Griffith, 29, Ashland, Aug. 20
• Mariah M. Witherspoon, 17, Mansfield, July 24
• Kisean Butler, 15, Mansfield, June 12
• Latia Dotson, 17, Sandusky, May 1
• Ian C. Landis, 16, Massillon, April 19
• William Kirk, 16, Gallion, March 17
• Derek Roop, 18, Oberlin, Feb. 26
• Jamaria Brown, 17, Sandusky, Feb. 1

Not saying any of these cases are related but it's pretty unsettling...

ETA: clearly this was published before Elizabeth Griffith was named as the second body in Ashland.

ETA2: I have now created thread for every person on this list. A majority of these missing have no photos and no other press or info about them except what is on the Ohio Attorney General's website: http://www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/...Ohio-Missing-Persons/All-Missing-Persons.aspx

 

[Tssiemer]

Elizabeth G was only 29?


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[Owutatangledweb]

I hoped for the amount to be higher or no bond due to multiple charges and his criminal record. All someone would need to bail him out would be 100k or a house, unless the 10% bail thing is just a Texas thing.


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Depends on whether its a cash or surety bond.

 

[Gardener1850]

Elizabeth G was only 29?


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That's what is published elsewhere. Her age is not on her thread because I couldn't find it in the early missing reports. Quotes in the press about her are only from friends so I wonder if she has any family? Just so sad.

 

[Owutatangledweb]

This would just be a horrible idea and no you can't legally sue people for owning a vacant home.

Definitely not for the intentional torts of another....Unless the other is your minor kid.

 

[AF555]

That's what is published elsewhere. Her age is not on her thread because I couldn't find it in the early missing reports. Quotes in the press about her are only from friends so I wonder if she has any family? Just so sad.

I haven't seen anything so far about her family either.

I keep trying to understand all this and make sense of it. I can't imagine what these families are going through right now. To lose your loved one at the hands of such a monster, knowing they were discarded like they were. I don't believe I'd be able to handle it. RIP Elizabeth and Stacy


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[rsd1200]

When you hover over the date (1999) on his facebook, it says Jan. 1, 1999 @ 4:00am. The entry to facebook was March 10, 2014 @ 8:44pm. I don't think the date is accurate though. I checked when he graduated and it has a time and date of Jan. 1, 1995 @ 4:00am.

He was pretty violent that year according to his records but it does appear it's the woman he had a child with & another woman in Oct. 1999.

http://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com...hawn-grate-has-had-many-run-ins-law/90362328/

The latest 4 women he murdered/kidnapped don't appear to have been connected to him via children, marriage or living together.

Yeah, I saw that, but I just figured he was filling in where he'd traveled, or lived, at that point in history. I've got link on mine, with a date and the location, but, FB wasn't event invented at that point in time.

 

[Dr. Know?]

I probably should have said that the January 1, 1995 & January 1, 1999 dates were default fb dates added at a later date in 2010. I don't do facebook but have had an account since 2009. The things people put on fb are astonishing at times. Thank goodness for the criminals who post everything.

 

[rsd1200]

I probably should have said that the January 1, 1995 & January 1, 1999 dates were default fb dates added at a later date in 2010. I don't do facebook but have had an account since 2009. The things people put on fb are astonishing at times. Thank goodness for the criminals who post everything.

I'm not sure that I'm following you. I do use FB, and am not a criminal, and I am capable of setting FB dates to any time that I choose. It will still show a date that I added them, and when someone hovers the item they'll see that, but I can put the actual date of the event in there. For example, if I added a place that I lived, it may show the actual date/time that I added it, but I can personally choose the year that I lived/visited there, which, for example, I'll use; Kansas City, MO in 1986. If I were to add KC, MO, FB would default to the current Month/Day/Year, but, I could personally select July 31, 1986, if that's what I want FB to reflect. If I'm misunderstanding, I apologize.

I do agree that what folks put on FB can be somewhat, well, eye rolling.

 

[Gardener1850]

During the hearing, which was broadcast via a Skype video conference, Grate was charged with three felonies — one count of kidnapping and two counts of murder. Ashland County Common Pleas Court Judge Ron Forsthoefel set Grate’s bond at $1 million, citing his lengthy criminal record dating back to 1994, which included a previous abduction charge in 1999. During Friday’s hearing, Forsthoefel told Grate if he were able to post his bond, he couldn’t have contact with the rescued victim and would be constrained to a 9 p.m. to 7 a.m. curfew. He also would have a GPS electronic monitor.

http://www.norwalkreflector.com/Law...body-identified-as-missing-Ashland-woman.html

 

[rsd1200]

http://www.norwalkreflector.com/Law...body-identified-as-missing-Ashland-woman.html

Let's hope he can't scrounge together $1 mill.

 

[Gardener1850]

Updated the timeline with a few more charges:

Shawn Grate Timeline

November 1994: Arrested for assault charges in Marion

January 1996: Criminal damaging charge

January 1996: Disorderly conduct charge

1995: Shawn Grate graduated from River Valley High School in Marion, Ohio.

Between 1996 and 2005 in Marion County, Grate was charged repeatedly with misdemeanor charges involving aggression toward women: assault, criminal damage (he ripped a woman's shirt), aggravated menacing, phone harassment, violation of a protection order and domestic violence.

October 1996, Grate and a juvenile accomplice broke into a home by prying open a sliding glass door and stole jewelry and money, according to Marion Common Pleas Court records.

January 1997: Grate was convicted on a burglary charge in Marion County and sentenced to four years in prison, but he was granted judicial release after serving 180 days.

1997: Grate’s request for judicial release was granted and his sentence was commuted to five years of community control.

January 1, 1999: His facebook page claims he went to “Houston, Texes”. It’s unclear if he actually went there but he had to add that date and location himself (fb was not in existence in 1999).

February 1999: Drug abuse, unlawful restraint and assault charges

March 1999: Grate was found guilty of disorderly conduct, unlawful restraint and criminal trespassing. Two counts of aggravated menacing. Telephone harassment.

April 1999: violation of a protection order

Oct. 22, 1999: Marion County, Grate approached two women with a long butcher knife while they were in a bedroom, blocking the doorway and hitting the women several times. One of the woman tried to leave to call 911, and he physically restrained her while she was holding Grate’s minor child. This led to an indictment on two third-degree felony abduction counts and one first-degree misdemeanor child endangering count. He pleaded guilty to one abduction count and was sentenced to five years of probation. A second count of abduction and a child endangerment charge were dropped.

Sept 1999: Grate had a son with LB.

Dec. 22, 1999: Marion County, his judicial release in the 1996 case was revoked due to the abduction charge, and Grate was sentenced to the remainder of the four-year prison term.

2003: A woman who said she was the mother of his son reported she had been assaulted by Grate, according to a Marion County Sheriff's Office report. He told deputies they had argued and she scratched him.

Oct 2003: Two counts of domestic violence

Dec 2005: Theft charge

Jan. 19, 2007: Crawford County, Grate was charged with misdemeanor counts of falsification, identity theft, obstruction, driving under suspension and false registration. For each of the five counts, he was sentenced to between 10 and 60 days in jail and required to pay fines ranging from $50 to $250.

2008: Richland County child custody case between Grate and LB.

July 7, 2009: Crawford County, Grate was charged with possession of marijuana and fined $50.

July 2009: Arrested by the Ohio Highway Patrol on a charge of failure to pay child support and failure to appear for review hearing.

May 8, 2010: Grate flipped his girlfriend over the foot of the bed and hit her in the face twice. Grate went on to grab her by the throat and sit on her, according to reports. Police said Grate allowed her to get up to wash her face, but then grabbed her again by the throat and told her not to leave the bathroom or he would "beat her face in." That's when police arrived and arrested Grate.

June 10, 2010: Crawford County, Grate was charged with first-degree misdemeanor domestic violence. After pleading guilty, Grate was fined $150 and was sentenced to 180 days in the Crawford County Correction Center, but got 10 days off for good behavior.

Dec 2011: Grate Married ANB

Dec 2012: Grate divorced ANB

From 2012 to March 2016, Grate’s home address was listed as 165 Cliffbrook Dr., according to Richland County Sheriff and Mansfield Police Department records.

October 2012: Grate allegedly helped another suspect get away with shoplifting at a Dollar General on Lexington Avenue in Mansfield.

January 2013: Grate allegedly sent threatening texts to his ex-wife saying he was 'preparing for a grand finale.'

March 2013: Grate’s ex-wife, ANB, reported receiving threatening calls from him. Grate called his ex-wife at her place of work and told her, 'If I can't see my daughter then no one will,' a statement she took as a clear threat to both her and her little girl. The police report states Grate made the call because “she hasn’t given him any financial support since their divorce in December.” ANB had custody of the child and did not allow visitation, according to the police report.

April 2013: Grate’s ex-wife, ANB, was granted a domestic violence civil protection order preventing Grate from coming within 500 feet of her and their child.

August 13, 2013: Richland County, Grate pleaded guilty to charges of drug abuse, possession of drug paraphernalia and receiving stolen property. He was sentenced to 180 days in jail and fined $100 for each count.

April 2014: Grate was then charged with criminal mischief in when he allegedly wrote “cheese” on a woman's window.

July 15, 2014: Richland County, Grate pleaded not guilty to possession of drug paraphernalia, but the case was dismissed.

July 2014 to February 2015: Grate violated probation 4 times according to police records.

Nov 2014: Possession of drug paraphernalia charge.

2015: Grate started working at Mansfield’s Holiday Inn as “a maintenance man” according to his facebook page.

February 2015: Grate allegedly stole jewelry items from a woman. The police report listed her as Grate’s girlfriend at the time. When Richland Source News called the woman she denied knowing Grate.

June 2016: Grate was kicked out of his 132 W. Second St. apartment in Mansfield for failure to pay rent.

June 2016: The landlord who kicked Grate out of the Second St apt had his truck torched. There were no suspects in the arson investigation.

June 2016: Charge of obstructing official business

June 20, 2016: Richland County, a sheriff's deputy stopped Grate for suspicious behavior. He was wanted on a felony child support warrant. As the officer was relaying Grate's social security number to a dispatcher, Grate began to run and would not stop despite multiple requests. The officer attempted to stun Grate, but did not hit him. Grate escaped, but in the process lost his shoes, which the sheriff's department kept as evidence.

June 20-21, 2016: House fire at 1027 Park Avenue East in Madison Township

June 2016: Grate allegedly murdered a woman and left her body in the woods behind 1027 Park Avenue East in Madison Twp, a burned out house in Richland County. He confessed to this when arrested Sept 13[SUP]th[/SUP], 2016.

August 16, 2016: Elizabeth Griffith disappeared from a Walmart/ALDI parking lot in Ashland

Sept. 8, 2016: Stacey Stanley had a flat tire at the BP station and subsequently disappeared. She was last seen with a man fitting Grate’s description helping her with the tire.

Sept. 11, 2016: Grate allegedly took a woman against her will and held her in a bedroom at 363 Covert Court in Ashland, across from the Fourth Street Laundromat.

Sept. 13, 2016: The woman held at 363 Covert Court in Ashland got free from her restraints and called 911. She was rescued and in the process of processing the scene, LE found 2 dead bodies. One of those bodies was confirmed to be Stacey Stanley.

Sept. 15, 2016: Grate was charged with 2 counts of Murder and 1 count of kidnapping in Ashland County. He is accused of murdering Elizabeth Griffith (AKA “Mary Doe” in court records) sometime between August 16[SUP]th[/SUP] and Sept 13[SUP]th[/SUP] and murdering Stacey Stanley Between Sept 8[SUP]th[/SUP] and Sept 13. He is accused of kidnapping Jane Doe Sept 11[SUP]th[/SUP] and holding her against her will for the purpose of sex until Sept 13[SUP]th[/SUP] when he was arrested.

Other items of note without a date:

*Court records indicate Grate has moved around a lot, with addresses on Woodbine Street in Bucyrus, on Curren Drive and East Fairground Street in Marion and West Second Street in Mansfield.

*According to a case worker at Harmony House in Mansfield, Grate was a client there at some point in time. The case worker did not provide records to confirm.

*According to Mansfield Baptist Temple Pastor Rob Kurtz, Grate attended the church on Stewart Road a number of years ago.

*The house on Covert court in Ashland is owned by Pumphouse Ministries and was previously used with the house next door for men coming out of shelters, but had been vacant since March 2016.

*He worked at Save-a-lot in Ashland

 

[Dr. Know?]

I hope the murderer pleads guilty. Save the families and friends so much heartache. PLEAD GUILTY FOOL. Death penalty could be added at a later date. Creepy sick dude.

 

[rsd1200]

Updated the timeline with a few more charges:

Shawn Grate Timeline

November 1994: Arrested for assault charges in Marion

January 1996: Criminal damaging charge

January 1996: Disorderly conduct charge

1995: Shawn Grate graduated from River Valley High School in Marion, Ohio.

Between 1996 and 2005 in Marion County, Grate was charged repeatedly with misdemeanor charges involving aggression toward women: assault, criminal damage (he ripped a woman's shirt), aggravated menacing, phone harassment, violation of a protection order and domestic violence.

October 1996, Grate and a juvenile accomplice broke into a home by prying open a sliding glass door and stole jewelry and money, according to Marion Common Pleas Court records.

January 1997: Grate was convicted on a burglary charge in Marion County and sentenced to four years in prison, but he was granted judicial release after serving 180 days.

1997: Grate’s request for judicial release was granted and his sentence was commuted to five years of community control.

January 1, 1999: His facebook page claims he went to “Houston, Texes”. It’s unclear if he actually went there but he had to add that date and location himself (fb was not in existence in 1999).

February 1999: Drug abuse, unlawful restraint and assault charges

March 1999: Grate was found guilty of disorderly conduct, unlawful restraint and criminal trespassing. Two counts of aggravated menacing. Telephone harassment.

April 1999: violation of a protection order

Oct. 22, 1999: Marion County, Grate approached two women with a long butcher knife while they were in a bedroom, blocking the doorway and hitting the women several times. One of the woman tried to leave to call 911, and he physically restrained her while she was holding Grate’s minor child. This led to an indictment on two third-degree felony abduction counts and one first-degree misdemeanor child endangering count. He pleaded guilty to one abduction count and was sentenced to five years of probation. A second count of abduction and a child endangerment charge were dropped.

Sept 1999: Grate had a son with LB.

Dec. 22, 1999: Marion County, his judicial release in the 1996 case was revoked due to the abduction charge, and Grate was sentenced to the remainder of the four-year prison term.

2003: A woman who said she was the mother of his son reported she had been assaulted by Grate, according to a Marion County Sheriff's Office report. He told deputies they had argued and she scratched him.

Oct 2003: Two counts of domestic violence

Dec 2005: Theft charge

Jan. 19, 2007: Crawford County, Grate was charged with misdemeanor counts of falsification, identity theft, obstruction, driving under suspension and false registration. For each of the five counts, he was sentenced to between 10 and 60 days in jail and required to pay fines ranging from $50 to $250.

2008: Richland County child custody case between Grate and LB.

July 7, 2009: Crawford County, Grate was charged with possession of marijuana and fined $50.

July 2009: Arrested by the Ohio Highway Patrol on a charge of failure to pay child support and failure to appear for review hearing.

May 8, 2010: Grate flipped his girlfriend over the foot of the bed and hit her in the face twice. Grate went on to grab her by the throat and sit on her, according to reports. Police said Grate allowed her to get up to wash her face, but then grabbed her again by the throat and told her not to leave the bathroom or he would "beat her face in." That's when police arrived and arrested Grate.

June 10, 2010: Crawford County, Grate was charged with first-degree misdemeanor domestic violence. After pleading guilty, Grate was fined $150 and was sentenced to 180 days in the Crawford County Correction Center, but got 10 days off for good behavior.

Dec 2011: Grate Married ANB

Dec 2012: Grate divorced ANB

From 2012 to March 2016, Grate’s home address was listed as 165 Cliffbrook Dr., according to Richland County Sheriff and Mansfield Police Department records.

October 2012: Grate allegedly helped another suspect get away with shoplifting at a Dollar General on Lexington Avenue in Mansfield.

January 2013: Grate allegedly sent threatening texts to his ex-wife saying he was 'preparing for a grand finale.'

March 2013: Grate’s ex-wife, ANB, reported receiving threatening calls from him. Grate called his ex-wife at her place of work and told her, 'If I can't see my daughter then no one will,' a statement she took as a clear threat to both her and her little girl. The police report states Grate made the call because “she hasn’t given him any financial support since their divorce in December.” ANB had custody of the child and did not allow visitation, according to the police report.

April 2013: Grate’s ex-wife, ANB, was granted a domestic violence civil protection order preventing Grate from coming within 500 feet of her and their child.

August 13, 2013: Richland County, Grate pleaded guilty to charges of drug abuse, possession of drug paraphernalia and receiving stolen property. He was sentenced to 180 days in jail and fined $100 for each count.

April 2014: Grate was then charged with criminal mischief in when he allegedly wrote “cheese” on a woman's window.

July 15, 2014: Richland County, Grate pleaded not guilty to possession of drug paraphernalia, but the case was dismissed.

July 2014 to February 2015: Grate violated probation 4 times according to police records.

Nov 2014: Possession of drug paraphernalia charge.

2015: Grate started working at Mansfield’s Holiday Inn as “a maintenance man” according to his facebook page.

February 2015: Grate allegedly stole jewelry items from a woman. The police report listed her as Grate’s girlfriend at the time. When Richland Source News called the woman she denied knowing Grate.

June 2016: Grate was kicked out of his 132 W. Second St. apartment in Mansfield for failure to pay rent.

June 2016: The landlord who kicked Grate out of the Second St apt had his truck torched. There were no suspects in the arson investigation.

June 2016: Charge of obstructing official business

June 20, 2016: Richland County, a sheriff's deputy stopped Grate for suspicious behavior. He was wanted on a felony child support warrant. As the officer was relaying Grate's social security number to a dispatcher, Grate began to run and would not stop despite multiple requests. The officer attempted to stun Grate, but did not hit him. Grate escaped, but in the process lost his shoes, which the sheriff's department kept as evidence.

June 20-21, 2016: House fire at 1027 Park Avenue East in Madison Township

June 2016: Grate allegedly murdered a woman and left her body in the woods behind 1027 Park Avenue East in Madison Twp, a burned out house in Richland County. He confessed to this when arrested Sept 13[SUP]th[/SUP], 2016.

August 16, 2016: Elizabeth Griffith disappeared from a Walmart/ALDI parking lot in Ashland

Sept. 8, 2016: Stacey Stanley had a flat tire at the BP station and subsequently disappeared. She was last seen with a man fitting Grate’s description helping her with the tire.

Sept. 11, 2016: Grate allegedly took a woman against her will and held her in a bedroom at 363 Covert Court in Ashland, across from the Fourth Street Laundromat.

Sept. 13, 2016: The woman held at 363 Covert Court in Ashland got free from her restraints and called 911. She was rescued and in the process of processing the scene, LE found 2 dead bodies. One of those bodies was confirmed to be Stacey Stanley.

Sept. 15, 2016: Grate was charged with 2 counts of Murder and 1 count of kidnapping in Ashland County. He is accused of murdering Elizabeth Griffith (AKA “Mary Doe” in court records) sometime between August 16[SUP]th[/SUP] and Sept 13[SUP]th[/SUP] and murdering Stacey Stanley Between Sept 8[SUP]th[/SUP] and Sept 13. He is accused of kidnapping Jane Doe Sept 11[SUP]th[/SUP] and holding her against her will for the purpose of sex until Sept 13[SUP]th[/SUP] when he was arrested.

Other items of note without a date:

*Court records indicate Grate has moved around a lot, with addresses on Woodbine Street in Bucyrus, on Curren Drive and East Fairground Street in Marion and West Second Street in Mansfield.

*According to a case worker at Harmony House in Mansfield, Grate was a client there at some point in time. The case worker did not provide records to confirm.

*According to Mansfield Baptist Temple Pastor Rob Kurtz, Grate attended the church on Stewart Road a number of years ago.

*The house on Covert court in Ashland is owned by Pumphouse Ministries and was previously used with the house next door for men coming out of shelters, but had been vacant since March 2016.

*He worked at Save-a-lot in Ashland

Just. . .wow. After a couple-three of those red flags in that history you'd think maybe they'd try something different. Thanks, for putting this together, Gardner.

 

[rsd1200]

I hope the murderer pleads guilty. Save the families and friends so much heartache. PLEAD GUILTY FOOL. Death penalty could be added at a later date. Creepy sick dude.

It would be worth giving him LWOP if he gave up any other names/whereabouts of any other women he's murdered. I have a weird feeling that there are more. Give those families peace, or at least closure.

 

[AF555]

It would be worth giving him LWOP if he gave up any other names/whereabouts of any other women he's murdered. I have a weird feeling that there are more. Give those families peace, or at least closure.

I hope they are taking a closer look at all the other burned down vacant houses in the area that were posted earlier in this thread and the circumstances surrounding the fires.

There are a few people reported missing, but I imagine there are many other folks that are NOT reported missing, like the 911 caller. Especially homeless people or women/men who are known to be MIA for long periods of time due to drug use. It's hard to believe he all of a sudden started doing this in June.


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