Coroner says 6 women whose bodies were found at home died violently

On Saturday October 31st in Cleveland, Ohio, six women were found dead in Anthony Sowell's home. The police had issued a search warrant and arrest of Sowell's house after a victim had charged him of rape. Sowell was already a convicted sex offender who was in jail from 1990 to 2005. Five of the women's bodies were found inside in make shift graves, while another was found in a shallow grave outside the house. Sowell made his living by "scrapping." He would find peices of scrap metal and sell it to junkyards. The six women are still unidetified but have apparently been in the house for weeks, months or maybe even years. It appears that Sowell strangled the majority of his victims.


It shocks me that these women have been missing for this long and nothing was done about it before. These women might have been missing for years and the police didn't search for them? This seems a little bit odd to me. Another thing that upsets me about this article is how this guy has already been in jail before and was released. The majority of people that are convicted of rape have a problem. Honestly, I don't think that this problem just goes away. Obviously Sowell had some major mental issues and by releasing him from jail he killed six innocent women. Stories like this are tragic and what makes them even sadder is the fact that it could have been prevented.


http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/31/ohio.cleveland.bodies/index.html?eref=rss_topstories