11 dead/ALL ID'd at Anthony Sowell's Ohio home (CONVICTED)

[Lovinlife]

Anthony Sowell was considered unlikely to attack again in 2005 evaluation
By Gabriel Baird, The Plain Dealer
November 05, 2009, 9:00PM

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The chances of Anthony Sowell sexually assaulting another woman after serving 15 years in prison for attempted rape were supposed to be low.

That was the conclusion of the report evaluating him three months after his June 2005 release from prisons.

The report, reviewed by The Plain Dealer, appears to be horribly wrong. The bodies of 11 women have been found or unearthed at Sowell's home on Imperial Avenue on Cleveland's southeast side. He is in jail facing aggravated murder and rape charges.

The report was done for Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court to evaluate whether Sowell was a sexual predator.

It also provides the most detailed history of Sowell's life from his childhood in Cleveland through his time in prison for sexually assaulting a pregnant woman in East Cleveland in 1989.

The evaluation is standard procedure for sex offenders just out of prison. It said that of 100 offenders with criminal histories like Sowell's, only six would commit another sex crime within five years of being released.

But the report cautioned: "These estimates do not directly correspond to the recidivism of an individual offender but to the risk group in which they fall."

This conclusion was reached after reviewing Sowell's history and interviewing him for 90 minutes on Sept. 1, 2005.

Sowell arrived early for the interview. He was coherent, cooperative and polite, showing no signs of mental illness.

"Initially, the defendant complained bitterly about the sexual predator evaluation and hearing process," the report says. "This dissipated after the defendant engaged in the interview."

As the interview progressed Sowell painted a picture of his past.

He was born into a working-class Cleveland home in 1959. His father was a construction worker who moved out while his son was still an infant, leaving the child's mother, who worked for a dry cleaner, to raise him and a younger sister.

Sowell had friends, but other children teased and bullied him. He didn't participate in organized sports, but played with other neighborhood children, according to the report.

He took shop classes at Shaw High School but didn't have enough credits to graduate by the end of his senior year.

He joined the U.S. Marine Corps in January 1978.

Nine months later, a local woman gave birth to Sowell's daughter.

He spent time in North Carolina, California and Okinawa, Japan with the Marines. He took some GED classes and worked as an electrician.

He married a fellow Marine in 1981.

At one point, he went AWOL for two months. His discipline included being knocked down in rank.

He was a sergeant in 1985 when he received an honorable discharge. That same year, he and his wife divorced.

During the interview, Sowell was asked about his sexual habits.

Sowell went to strip clubs, looked at pornographic magazines and watched pornographic videos. He said he lost his virginity at age 17 and estimated he had been with "more than 50" women since then.

During the nearly five years between the military and prison, Sowell had at least six drinks nearly every day. Sometimes, he started drinking when he woke up. At times, he would lose control or black out.

"He acknowledged having family problems and increased aggressiveness when drinking," the report said.

Sowell was convicted of domestic violence when he was 28. Two years later, in 1989, he said police suspected him of aggravated burglary, but didn't have enough evidence to charge him.

Sowell said he was drinking the night he committed the crime that would land him in prison.

He went to a motel on Euclid Avenue and told a woman he knew from around the neighborhood that her boyfriend wanted him to take her to his place.

The woman, who was pregnant at the time, told police he bound, gagged and raped her.

He was charged with kidnapping, attempted rape and rape. In the interview, he said he pleaded guilty because he didn't have a "good defense" in the case.

He was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 1990. While inside, he worked as an assembler, cook, electrician, food cart attendant, porter and a yard crewman. He also got his GED.

He also completed the 12-step Alcoholics Anonymous program along with programs for anger management, drug awareness and positive personality change.

He applied to a sexual offender treatment program in 1993, but wasn't accepted because he denied he had committed a sex crime.

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

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This says 3, but does not name her

http://chronicle.northcoastnow.com/2009/11/06/3-victims-of-cleveland-serial-killer-idd-but-some-relatives-reluctant-to-come-forward/
3 victims of Cleveland serial killer ID’d, but some relatives reluctant to come forward

CLEVELAND — Police say there’s only one way for the families of missing women to know for sure if their loved ones are among the victims found in suspected serial killer Anthony Sowell’s house: Give DNA samples. But relatives with checkered pasts in the hardscrabble neighborhood seem reluctant to come forward.

Area pastors are urging families to provide DNA samples that could help the coroner’s office identify the remains of eight black women, saying that nearly two dozen others are still missing in southeast Cleveland. The coroner’s office, meanwhile, tried to calm concerns by promising the samples would not be shared with police.

“The only way we are going to get closure is to find out who these victims are,” said City Councilman Zach Reed.

Police and a cadaver dog re-entered the house Thursday where Sowell apparently lived among the reeking, rotting corpses of 10 women and the paper-wrapped skull of another that authorities found in a bucket. The ex-Marine, who served 15 years in prison for attempted rape, is being held without bail on five aggravated murder charges.

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http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2363338/cleveland_serial_killer_body_count.html?cat=8

That site names the third victim ID'd in the last paragraph, but no copy/paste allowed.

Tonia Carmichael
Telicia Fortston
Tishana Culver

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USA TODAY
November 6, 2009 Friday
 
Families wait for victim IDs;
For some, years of anxiety will end in sadness
 
CLEVELAND -- Every day has been an exercise in fear and uncertainty for the families of the 14 women who have disappeared from this city's east side.

Now the answers they've been looking for may lie in the three-story home of an alleged serial killer, where police say he strangled his female victims and lived with their decomposed bodies.

"You stress out so much just from worrying and not knowing," said Franklin Williams, 23, whose mother, Michelle Mason, was 44 when she disappeared in October of last year. "If it turns out my mom is one of these ladies ... we'll be able to put this to rest and give her a proper burial."

At least it will end the anxiety, he said, if she is identified as one of the 11 women whose remains have been removed by police from the home and backyard of registered sex offender Anthony Sowell, 50. He is being held without bond on five counts of aggravated murder.

Police continue to search his home for more bodies and have expanded the search to vacant houses in the area.

The Cuyahoga County Coroner's Office has identified three victims: Tonia Carmichael, 52; Telacia Fortson, 31; and Tishana Culver, 31. Culver lived on Imperial Avenue, the same street as Sowell.
All the victims are black women, according to coroner Frank Miller. He said his office is using DNA and dental records to identify victims. Technicians take swabs from the mouths of relatives of missing women to see whether the DNA matches a victim.

The women vanished from a drug-torn neighborhood where blacks settled in the middle of the last century. Today, many of the once-stately houses are run-down or boarded-up.

Some of the women have a history of arrests and problems with drugs and alcohol, their families acknowledge. Some relatives say that because of their troubled pasts, police did not take their disappearances seriously and did not actively search for them. Relatives were left to find loved ones on their own, said Tonia Carmichael's daughter, Donnita.

"She was African-American, she fit a certain profile, she had a problem with drugs and she went missing in a certain area," Donnita Carmichael said. "But it doesn't matter what kind of life you lived, you are still worthy of being looked for."

Tonia Carmichael, who was working as a secretary when she disappeared in November 2008, had an arrest record going back to 1978 for drugs and theft.

Police Chief Michael McGrath sympathized with the families at a news conference Wednesday but denied that his department neglected their cases. He said he does not tolerate discrimination.

"I'm always concerned when someone is reported missing in the city of Cleveland," he said. "We consider them all very important."

About 10 people are reported missing every day in the city and at least 90% are found or return home within 48 hours, said police spokesman Lt. Thomas Stacho.

City Councilman Zack Reed, who represents the neighborhood and grew up there, is calling for an investigation into how police handled the missing-persons cases, as well as how city agencies responded to complaints by residents of foul odors at Sowell's home.

Michelle Mason, a recovering drug addict, normally spoke to her family several times a day, said her mother, Adlean Atterberry, 67. When Mason didn't answer her cellphone for several days, her family suspected she might never return.

The family reported her missing on Oct. 13, 2008. Since then, relatives and friends have posted more than 2,000 fliers with Mason's photos across the city and as far away as Chicago. They held rallies on the street where she was last seen, about seven blocks from Sowell's home. As recently as two weeks ago, they were searching for her in neighborhood parks.

Now every minute feels like an hour as the family waits anxiously to find out if Mason is one of the 11 victims, said Williams, the older of her two sons.

"It's been hell," Atterberry said.

Since the news broke about Sowell, Sandy Drain and her family have monitored the Internet and TV for updates, sharing every tidbit with one another as they wait to hear if her niece, Gloria Walker, is among the victims.

Walker, a mother of two, was 46 when she disappeared on May 20, 2007. Drain said when she heard on TV about the bodies at Sowell's house, she dropped the book she was reading and thought, "My God, this is it."

Walker's sons, she said, cling to the hope that their mother is alive. She said it would be a relief if Walker is identified as one of the victims.

"Then we would know," she said. "I can stop watching my family knocking their heads against a brick wall. ... They still expect her to walk through the door any day."
http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=574&topicId=100020825&docId=l:1069803403&start=5

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CLEVELAND, Ohio (CNN) -- Authorities on Friday released the name of a fourth victim found last week in or around the home of registered sex offender.

The family of Nancy Cobbs, 43, reported her missing to the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority police in April, but did not file a report with Cleveland police until Monday, according to the Cuyahoga County Coroner's Office.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/06/cleveland.bodies/

[Nut44x4]

RE: Nancy Cobbs
Nancy Cobbs 43, Msg 04/24/09, Cleveland OH [ID'd IN SOWELL CASE]
http://helpfindthemissing.org/forum/showthread.php?t=13815

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VICTIMS

Tonia Carmichael, 52, of Warrensville Heights, was the first woman identified. Her body was one of the first six discovered in the back yard of the home.



Telacia Fortson, 31, of East Cleveland. She was the mother of three young children and had been missing since May 31.



Tishana Culver, 31, lived on Imperial Avenue, was not reported as a missing person, police said. Culver was the mother to four children. The children live with their grandparents on Imperial Avenue. DNA was not used to identify Culver.
 


Nancy Cobbs 43, family reported her missing to the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority police in April, but did not file a report with Cleveland police until Monday. Cobbs is the mother of three children and many grandchildren.
will try to find photo w/o news stamp


Michelle Mason, 45, lived in the 2900 block of East 121st Street. She was reported missing in Cleveland on Oct. 12, 2008 by her mother, who stated that she last saw her daughter on or about Oct. 4, 2008. At that time, it was reported to Cleveland police that Mason suffered from bipolar disorder and that she was not taking her prescribed medications. Checks were made in Cleveland and in Garfield but the extensive investigative effort failed to provide any insight into her location.



Amelda Hunter, 47 lived in the 3200 block of East 137th Street. Her family reported her missing on Nov. 3, indicating that she was last seen on or about April 18, 2009.



Crystal Dozier, 38 of Kinsman Avenue, was not reported as a missing person at the time of the discovery of the victims' bodies. She was reportedly last seen in October 2007.



Janice Webb 49, was last seen June 3 when she left the Lakewood house where she was living with her boyfriend.



Kim Yvette Smith, 44 of Cleveland, was last seen Jan. 1, 2009.
photo pending......


Leshanda Long (skull only) 25, of Cleveland. The last known address for Long was on Denison Avenue. She was not reported as a missing person and family members said she was last seen in August 2008. She was previously reported missing at the age of 13 and again at 17.
photo pending.......

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http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/07/cleveland.bodies/

3 more bodies from Cleveland sex offender's home identified
November 7, 2009 8:46 p.m. EST

(CNN) -- Authorities on Saturday released the names of three more victims found last week in or around the home of a registered sex offender in Cleveland, Ohio.

The Cuyahoga County Coroner's Office identified the bodies of Amelda Hunter, 47; Crystal Dozier, 38; and Michelle Mason, 45, all of Cleveland.

Anthony Sowell, who served 15 years after pleading guilty to attempted rape in a 1989 case, was arrested last week, two days after police discovered the first bodies at his home.

He faces five counts of aggravated murder, rape, felonious assault and kidnapping, police said, and was denied bond at a hearing Wednesday.

Police have discovered the bodies of 10 people and skull of an 11th victim at or near Sowell's home. Authorities have identified seven of the victims.

Remains of six victims were found inside the home. police said, and five outside. The skull was wrapped in a paper bag and stuffed into a bucket in the basement, police said.

Hunter was not reported as a missing person at the time of the discovery of the victim's bodies at Sowell's residence, according to the Cleveland Police Department. Her family reported her missing on November 3, telling police that she was last seen on or about April 18.

Dozier also was never reported missing to police. She was reportedly last seen in October 2007, police said.

Mason was reported missing on October 12, 2008. She was last seen earlier that month, according to police. At the time, it was reported that Mason suffered from bipolar disorder and was not taking her prescribed medications, police said.

Sowell has been placed on a suicide watch at the request of his attorney, according to his public defender, Kathleen DeMetz.

A psychiatric evaluation has been ordered but it's unlikely to happen until after a grand jury files an indictment, she said.

Sowell is being held in a solitary cell in the Cuyahoga County jail, wearing a white paper gown, County Jail Warden Kevin McDonough told CNN. Every 10 minutes, a guard checks on him to make sure he doesn't hurt himself.

Occasionally, Sowell is allowed out of his cell under escort to shower and use a dayroom with books and magazines, but no television, McDonough said.

He gets three meals a day. Lights are out at 10 p.m.

"He's been quiet and compliant," McDonough said. "He understands what incarceration is like."

Sowell was released from jail in 2005.

According to court documents, Sowell completed several programs while in jail, including "Living Without Violence," "Positive Personal Change" and "Cage your Rage."

In another court document filed shortly before his release and obtained by CNN, handwritten notes state Sowell "would be likely to re-offend because he still denies the rape."

Previously, the coroner's office said it had identified the bodies of Nancy Cobbs, 43; Tonia Carmichael, 52; Telacia Fortson, 31; and Tishana Culver, 31.

Police initially went to Sowell's home last week to follow up on a rape accusation. Last month, neighbors reported seeing a naked woman fall from the second floor, but no charges were filed.

Neighbors called 911 after the October 20 incident. Firefighters and paramedics responded, and later notified police. The woman told officers that she was at the home and "partying," when she fell off the roof.

"They were doing coke, drugs, getting high," Cleveland Police Chief Michael McGrath said. A man described as her boyfriend -- Sowell -- told police the same story.

[MuffyBee]

  Rant warning.     What a sad, sordid mess.  Eleven women dead, some not even reported missing.  It looks like the police dropped the ball several times on this one.  Prospective families of the victims fear coming forward to give DNA to help identify bodies because of their own checkered pasts.  There was a shopkeeper that smelled the awful odor of decomp on Sowell, the neighbors smelled decomp.  Even when reports made or police called, nothing.   Any follow up anywhere?   How long did it take for anyone to put two and two together?  It took until the figure was eleven women dead.     The scary thing is, I wonder how many other Anthony Sowell's are out there?  And how many other men, women or children are buried in shallow graves, body parts in buckets/barrels across the U.S.  This wasn't even out in a rural area.  This case was in a busy neighborhood.

There are so many missing.  But how many more are missing and they haven't even been reported?  No one is even looking for them.      Are we headed back toward the dark ages?  We have computers with data bases, we have modern forensics, but at the end of the day, it looks like what is lacking is basic police work.   Back to the basics.  And where are we as a society?  Even though the women that were victims of Anthony Sowell may have been lured by promises of alcohol or drugs, even if they may have prostituted themselves for money or those other things, they are still human beings and deserve justice no less than any one else, imo.  The women were mothers, grandmothers, sisters, aunts, cousins.  These cases and those in New Mexico are only the tip of the iceberg, and that's what's truly scary to me.   

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You are right on the money Muffy...good old fashioned police work is lacking all over the country. Investigators need to pound the pavement instead of the keyboard.

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TIMELINE:

Anthony Sowell is in City Jail awaiting trial on charges of aggravated murder
after police found the bodies of 11 women at his home on Imperial Avenue. Below are key dates in his life, his dealings with the criminal justice system and the various investigations into Sowell:

Aug. 19, 1959: Sowell is born. He is raised in East Cleveland.

Jan. 24, 1978: Sowell enlists in the Marine Corps. He serves eight years, in North Carolina, California and Okinawa.

Jan. 18, 1985: Sowell is discharged from the Marines and returns to East Cleveland.

May 27, 1988: Rosalind Garner is found strangled in her home on Hayden Avenue in East Cleveland. The case has not been solved.

Feb. 27, 1989: Carmella Prater is found dead in an abandoned building on First Avenue in East Cleveland. Prater lived on Page Avenue, the same street as Sowell. She had been beaten but the coroner was unable to pinpoint how she was killed. The case has not been solved.

March, 28, 1989: Mary Thomas is found strangled near an abandoned building on First Avenue, the same street where Prater was found. The case has not been solved.

July 28, 1989: A woman tells police that Sowell took her into his home on Page Avenue, bound and gagged her and raped her.

June 24, 1990: A Cleveland woman tells police that Sowell choked and raped her inside her home on East 71st Street. Police arrest him but no charges were filed because, police said, they were unable to get the woman to testify.

Sept. 12, 1990: Sowell is sentenced to five to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to attempted rape for the 1989 assault in his home on Page Avenue.

June 20, 2005: Sowell, after repeatedly being denied parole, is released from prison. He moves in with his father and stepmother at 12205 Imperial Avenue. He registers with the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Office as a sex offender and is required to check in with them once a year.

June 29, 2007: A woman who lives across the street from Sowell calls City Hall to complain about a foul odor in the neighborhood, which she said smells like a dead person or animal.

January 2008: The Adam Walsh Act passes and Sowell is now required to report to the Sheriff's Office every 90 days.

Nov. 10, 2008: Barbara Carmichael sees her daughter Tonia, 52, for what would be the last time. Tonia Carmichael's car is found near East 115th Street and Kinsman Road a few days later, but there is no sign of her.

Dec. 2, 2008: Barbara Carmichael files a missing-persons report in Warrensville Heights. She tells police her daughter had a drug problem and sometimes disappeared between three and five days, but in this case she has not seen her daughter in three weeks and is worried something bad had happened.

Dec. 8, 2008: A bleeding woman runs up to a police car at East 116th Street and Kinsman. She tells police that Anthony Sowell asked her if she wanted to drink beer with him. When she said no, he punched her, choked her and tried to rip off her clothes. Police went to Sowell's home, went to the third floor and arrested him. Police later said no charges were filed because the woman did not want to talk to detectives.

Feb. 10, 2009: Warrensville Heights police check several houses between East 116th Street and East 120th Street near Kinsman Road and Oakfield Avenue, looking for Carmichael. No one recognizes photos of her, as was the case when they made other checks. They also check at bars and motels in Cleveland and East Cleveland, but no one has information on Carmichael.

Sept. 2, 2009: Sowell checks in at the Sheriff's Office, as he is required to do as a sex offender.

Sept. 22, 2009: Sheriff's deputies pay a surprise visit to Sowell's home to verify that he lives at the address he had given them. He answers the door and, as is standard, deputies do not enter.

Several hours later, Sowell persuades a woman to come to his house and drink malt liquor with him. She later tells police he got angry, choked her with an extension cord and raped her until she passed out.

She was able to get away after promising Sowell she would bring him $50 and not tell police about the incident, according to a police report. She went to police.

Sept. 24, 2009: The case is assigned to a sex-crimes detective, who has difficulty reaching the victim. The woman's mother tells police she is difficult to contact.

Oct. 11, 2009: The victim in that case does not show up for an interview with detectives.

Oct. 20, 2009: An ambulance is sent to Sowell's house after neighbors call 9-1-1 to report a naked woman falling or being thrown from a second-floor window. Sowell tells rescue workers he and the woman had been doing drugs all day and that she accidentally fell out the window. EMS takes the woman to MetroHealth Medical Center and calls police, who go to Sowell's home but don't find anyone there. Police then go to Metro, where the woman refuses to talk to investigators.

Oct. 27, 2009: The woman from the Sept. 22. attack meets with sex-crimes detectives, who one day later get an arrest warrant for Sowell and a search warrant for his home.

Oct. 29, 2009: Police go to arrest Sowell but he is not home. They enter the house and find two decomposing bodies.

Oct. 30, 2009: Police find three more bodies -- two in a crawl space in the house and one buried in the basement's dirt floor.

Oct. 31, 2009: Sowell is arrested walking down Mount Auburn Avenue, about one mile from his home.

Nov. 3, 2009: Prosecutors charge Sowell with five counts of aggravated murder. Police find six more bodies at his home, most of them buried in the back yard.

Nov. 4, 2009: The Cuyahoga County coroner announces that all 11 victims are black women. At least eight of them were strangled, the coroner says. He makes the first identification of a victim: Tonia Carmichael.

Nov. 5, 2009: Police identify a second and third victim: Telacia Fortson and Tishana Culver. Both would have been 31 and both struggled with drug addictions, their families say. Fortson was last seen in June. Culver lived four houses down from Sowell and was last seen in 2008. Members of her family say they assumed she was in jail or living with a boyfriend in Akron.

Nov. 6, 2009: East Cleveland police announce they are reopening the investigations into the strangulations of Garner and Thomas and the killing of Prater. Cleveland police identify a fourth woman found at Sowell's home as Nancy Cobbs, 43.

Nov. 7, 2009: Police identified three more victims: Michelle Mason, Crystal Dozier and Amelda Hunter.

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

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Anthony Sowell case: Mayor’s niece lived with suspected Cleveland serial killer
November 8, 7:51 Pm

The niece of Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, says she lived with Anthony Sowell, in the house where the decaying bodies of several women were found last week.

Lori Frazier calls herself Sowell’s girlfriend and told Action 19 News “He came out from the penitentiary June 23. Me and him hooked up July 7 and I have been with him ever since.” Sowell had served 15 years in prison for a prior rape conviction.

The mayor’s niece is an admitted drug user and said she and Sowell did drugs together until she moved out of his home last year to attempt to end her addiction.

Frazier claimed the terrible smell—that turned out to be decomposing bodies—was explained away by Sowell as emanating from his stepmother, who lived on the bottom floor of the house. In addition, a sausage factory stands next door that also produced pungent smells.

Frazier said she is perplexed as to Sowell’s alleged actions against women. “I want to know why, why would he do this. He took care of me. Good care of me,” she said.

To see photos related to the case, click here.

Last week, Jackson was elected to a second term as Cleveland’s mayor and has vowed to look into why police did not investigate Sowell, a convicted sex offender, sooner. Officers had responded to calls regarding Sowell and his residence, however, they claimed they had no right to enter his home—despite the terrible smell coming from his house.

http://www.examiner.com/x-1168-Crime-Examiner~y2009m11d8-Anthony-Sowell-case-Mayors-niece-lived-with-suspected-Cleveland-serial-killer

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8th Imperial Avenue Victim Identified

POSTED: 3:21 pm EST November 9, 2009
UPDATED: 3:34 pm EST November 9, 2009

CLEVELAND -- Cleveland police on Monday confirmed the identity of the eighth victim in the Imperial Avenue slayings.

Police notified the family of 49-year-old Janice Webb that she was among the 11 victims discovered last month in the home of Anthony Sowell, who is so far charged with five counts of aggravated murder.

Her family said Webb disappeared in June.
http://www.newsnet5.com/news/21563673/detail.html

[Nut44x4]

Nancy Grace had it right. “There will be more.” Anthony Sowell is the worse kind of serial killer in some peoples opinion. Police have located the bodies of 11 women in his home and about his property buried in multiple locations. How did this happen? How did this serial killer get away with his murderous deeds? Will any more of these names be attributed to him?

 

Complete list of women missing from the city of Cleveland provided by WOIO.

Missing from Cleveland’s First District

Cynthia Curry
Diara Sherman
Evelida Martinez
Nadia Worthy
Aileen Galarza
Cynthia Allender
Leslie Wallace
Kristen Anaya
Eugena Rodgers
Heather Shaw
Roneisha Taylor
Cindy Waddell

Missing from Cleveland’s Second District

Lois Langdon
Tyesheia Freeman
Maria Clark
Ericka Jones
Sonya Sanders
Jamie Kane
Jeanine Davis
Tatiana Gilmore
Marianne Budziak
Thu Ta
Amy White
Martha Washington
Anissa Benton
Chantell Rogers
Marissa Johnson
De Nisha Elams
Kandeise Sewell
Andrea Williams
Slaina Green
Aletha Carter
Hasha Jambor
Sandra Sanders
Kiairra Maxey
Nakia George
Kathleen Jewell

Missing from Cleveland’s Third District

Rokeisha Brooks
Adrianna Webster
Tiffany Cistrunk
Vernice Davis
Nautica Cade
Bianca Sims
Laurel Rogers
Sherri Jenkins
Janice Webb  /  recently found Sowell Victim
China Randle
Twonda Hodge
Fasonia Jackson
Tamara McQueen
Linda Williams

Missing from Cleveland’s Fourth District

Lacey Jones
Natalie Turner
Kim Smith
Nancy Cobbs  /  recently found Sowell Victim
Amelda Hunter
Mary Jackson
Alexis Murphy
Clarrissa Floyd
Linda Jarrett
Patricia Lewis
Mariah Campbell
Kiera Newborn
Jasmine Pearson
Chelsey Hager
Rose Davis
India Reese
Martina Williams
Johnetta Jackson
Contessa Cowan
Kinya Jones
Dirisa Williams

Missing from Cleveland’s Fifth District

Shanequa Horne
Catherine Cortes
April Williams
Deanna Bunker
Marilyn Jones

http://crimesandjustice.com/anthony-sowell-complete-list-women-missing-city-cleveland/

[Fanny Mae]

Nancy Grace had it right. “There will be more.” Anthony Sowell is the worse kind of serial killer in some peoples opinion. Police have located the bodies of 11 women in his home and about his property buried in multiple locations. How did this happen? How did this serial killer get away with his murderous deeds? Will any more of these names be attributed to him?

 

Complete list of women missing from the city of Cleveland provided by WOIO.

Missing from Cleveland’s First District

Cynthia Curry
Diara Sherman
Evelida Martinez
Nadia Worthy
Aileen Galarza
Cynthia Allender
Leslie Wallace
Kristen Anaya
Eugena Rodgers
Heather Shaw
Roneisha Taylor
Cindy Waddell

Missing from Cleveland’s Second District

Lois Langdon
Tyesheia Freeman
Maria Clark
Ericka Jones
Sonya Sanders
Jamie Kane
Jeanine Davis
Tatiana Gilmore
Marianne Budziak
Thu Ta
Amy White
Martha Washington
Anissa Benton
Chantell Rogers
Marissa Johnson
De Nisha Elams
Kandeise Sewell
Andrea Williams
Slaina Green
Aletha Carter
Hasha Jambor
Sandra Sanders
Kiairra Maxey
Nakia George
Kathleen Jewell

Missing from Cleveland’s Third District

Rokeisha Brooks
Adrianna Webster
Tiffany Cistrunk
Vernice Davis
Nautica Cade
Bianca Sims
Laurel Rogers
Sherri Jenkins
Janice Webb  /  recently found Sowell Victim
China Randle
Twonda Hodge
Fasonia Jackson
Tamara McQueen
Linda Williams

Missing from Cleveland’s Fourth District

Lacey Jones
Natalie Turner
Kim Smith
Nancy Cobbs  /  recently found Sowell Victim
Amelda Hunter
Mary Jackson
Alexis Murphy
Clarrissa Floyd
Linda Jarrett
Patricia Lewis
Mariah Campbell
Kiera Newborn
Jasmine Pearson
Chelsey Hager
Rose Davis
India Reese
Martina Williams
Johnetta Jackson
Contessa Cowan
Kinya Jones
Dirisa Williams

Missing from Cleveland’s Fifth District

Shanequa Horne
Catherine Cortes
April Williams
Deanna Bunker
Marilyn Jones

http://crimesandjustice.com/anthony-sowell-complete-list-women-missing-city-cleveland/

If that isn't the most disgusting list of people, some one's daughter, sister, aunt, mother, niece, friend and just human beings that are just gone...........gone. 

[Nut44x4]

Case Against Alleged Serial Killer Expands
posted: 1 HOUR 13 MINUTES AGO

CLEVELAND (Nov. 9) – Authorities are investigating whether a suspected serial killer whose home and yard harbored the remains of at least 11 people is connected to any killings in places he lived while in the military, including Japan, California and the Carolinas.
The FBI will investigate any leads in the case against Anthony Sowell, 50, who served in the Marines from 1978 to 1985, said Scott Wilson, an FBI spokesman in Cleveland.

FBI behavioral specialists visited the Sowell property during the weekend and will try to develop a profile of the killings that could help determine whether investigations need to be opened or reopened elsewhere, Wilson said.
Sowell was stationed at various times at Parris Island, S.C.; Cherry Point, N.C.; Okinawa, Japan; and Camp Pendleton, Calif.
The city of East Cleveland is also reviewing three unsolved slayings in 1988 and 1989, after Sowell returned there from service in the Marines and before he went to prison for attempted rape, said Sgt. Ken Bolton, a detective for the police department in the Cleveland suburb.

The FBI will review its national database of unsolved crimes for any clues to possible connections to Sowell, particularly at his military service locations, Wilson said. The first step is to get a detailed timeline of his service, Wilson said.
Police in Coronado, Calif., near Camp Pendleton, said a woman told them that she saw Sowell's mug shot on TV and was sure he had raped her in 1979.

Officers talked with the woman but were unable to confirm her story because rape investigation records from 30 years ago have been thrown out, said Jesus Ochoa, Coronado police commander.

"She seemed credible," he said.

Near Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, Onslow County Sheriff Ed Brown and his deputies are sifting through paper records to check for any unsolved killings or disappearances during the time Sowell was at the Marine base from May 20, 1978, to July 12, 1978.

Brown said he has already run Sowell's name through computerized court files and hasn't found that Sowell got so much as a traffic ticket while in the area. But the paper search is slow going.

"The computer technology then is not what it is now," Brown said.
Near Parris Island, where Sowell did his initial Marine training, Beaufort County authorities said they were waiting to be told the specific dates Sowell lived in the area before going back over any cases.

"Once we have received more concrete information regarding the time frame in question, we will certainly be evaluating any connections to unsolved crimes in our area," said sheriff's Cpl. Robin McIntosh.

The unsolved East Cleveland slayings of Rosalind Garner on May 27, 1988, Carmella Prater on Feb. 27, 1989, and Mary Thomas on March 28, 1989, will be checked against the autopsies of the bodies found at Sowell's home to check for similarities, Bolton said.

"It's for the family's closure," he said. "They are unsolved and they happened around the time that he was not in jail."

No connections had been made by Monday, he said.

Also Monday, the remains of two additional women — Janice Webb, 48, and Kim Yvette Smith, 44 — were identified by the Cuyahoga County coroner's office, according to Cleveland police Lt. Thomas Stacho.

Webb, of Cleveland, was last seen June 3 and reported missing Aug. 2. Webb had a son and three grandchildren and had struggled with alcohol and drug addictions, said her sister, JoAnn Moore.

"She was loving and regardless of her addiction, she knew that we loved her unconditionally," Moore said.

Police said they had searched for Webb by checking with friends and relatives and at hospitals and shelters. Webb's boyfriend, Ronnie Bowie, said he last saw her in June when she left to visit family and friends in Sowell's neighborhood.

Smith, also of Cleveland, was last seen Jan. 1, police said.
Police discovered the first two bodies and a freshly dug grave Oct. 29 at the house on the city's east side. The number grew to 11 by Tuesday.
Investigators returned Monday to the house, which has been cordoned off as a crime scene under 24-hour guard, but there was no immediate word on their activities inside.

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Ninth body from Anthony Sowell's house identified as Kim Yvette Smith

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Authorities have identified 44-year-old Kim Yvette Smith as the ninth of 11 women whose bodies were found in and around the house of suspected serial killer Anthony Sowell. Post your condolences to the families of the victims here.
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Coroner: Eight of nine bodies unclaimed; victims' stories emerge

CLEVELAND -- The Cuyahoga County Cororner's office confirmed Tuesday afternoon that eight of the nine bodies of the victims removed from the Imperial Avenue house remain unclaimed.  Only the family of Telacia Fortson has claimed her body. What about the others?

Funeral services for Fortson will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at Grace Missionary Baptist Church on East 131st Street in Cleveland.


Here is what we know about the nine victims identified so far, according to Channel 3 News and the Associated Press.

Fortson, 31, of East Cleveland, disappeared in June. She had three children, but lost custody of them because of drug use. She still spent time with them and, when she didn't show up to braid their hair, family members became alarmed. Fortson also liked arranging flowers and attending church. She was reported missing Oct. 31 after news of the bodies at Sowell's house first emerged

Tonia Carmichael, 52, of Warrensville Heights, was the first victim identified. Family members say they feared the worst when the first bodies were discovered in the home and backyard. Carmichael was last seen nearly a year ago after telling a friend she was going out for some fun. Her family says she was a crack cocaine addict and claim police didn't pursue her disappearance because of her drug history. She was reported missing to the Warrensville Heights Police Department Nov. 10, 2008.

Tishana Culver, 31, of Cleveland, lived a few houses away from Sowell on Imperial Avenue. The mother of four was last seen by her family in June, 2008 and was never reported missing. She had several drug convictions and worked as a beautician.

Nancy Cobbs, 43, of Cleveland, disappeared in April around the time of her birthday. She was reported missing to Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority police on June 11 and to Cleveland police Nov. 2.  She had four children and was living with a daughter about three blocks from Sowell's house. She was a familiar face in the area and had a history of drug abuse.

Amelda Hunter, 47, of Cleveland, was a mother of two sons and a daughter. Family members say she vanished last April, and they reported her missing on Nov. 3.  Hunter's brother says he had dropped her off in Sowell's neighborhood several times and knows that she drank beer with him in his house.  Known to friends as Amy, family members say she loved to read, watch television and work crossword puzzles.

Crystal Dozier, 38, of Cleveland, was last seen two years ago in October, 2007 and was not reported missing.  She lived a few miles away from Sowell's house on the city's east side, but a few years earlier had lived on the same street as Sowell.

Michelle Mason, 45, of Cleveland, lived near Sowell's neighborhood and rarely went longer than two days without talking to her family.  They went to police Oct. 12, 2008, after not hearing from her for a few days. Her sister says police didn't take it seriously because of her arrest record, even though she had stopped cashing her Social Security checks.  Police say they conducted dozens of searches, including near her home and at hospitals.

Janice Webb, 48, of Cleveland, often hung out in Sowell's neighborhood. She was last seen on June 3 and her family reported her missing Aug. 2.   Cleveland police say they searched for her unsuccessfully by checking with friends and relatives and at area hospitals and shelters.  Her sister says she was a loving person who struggled with drug and alcohol addiction. Webb was a mother of one and grandmother of three.

Kim Yvette Smith, 44, of Cleveland, was last seen Jan. 1 and was reported missing to police on Nov. 2.

http://www.wkyc.com/news/local/news_article.aspx?storyid=125080&catid=3

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It would be nice if Mayor Frank Jackson could help these families out with a proper burial of their loved ones.  Obviously they are from modest means and can't afford a proper burial. JMO

“There is still a lot of work that needs to be done and a lot of unanswered questions that need to be addressed. Until the families of the victims get the closure they seek and ultimately the justice they deserve, this case will continue to be our focus,” said Mayor Frank G. Jackson.  http://portal.cleveland-oh.gov/CityofCleveland/Home/Government/MayorsOffice

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http://www.newarkadvocate.com/article/20091111/NEWS01/911110324
U.S. Rep.: Sex offender registry couldn't have stopped Cleveland deaths

BY JULIE CARR SMYTH • Associated Press • November 11, 2009
COLUMBUS -- One of Ohio's foremost champions of tougher sexual predator laws conceded a certain futility to such efforts as body after body was removed last week from the Cleveland home of Anthony Sowell.

Republican U.S. Rep. Steve Austria, a former state senator from the Dayton suburb of Beavercreek, repeatedly championed state laws that he and other supporters thought would make the state safer.

Yet Sowell, a compliant registered sex offender after doing prison time for attempted rape, is accused of murdering several unsuspecting women and stowing their bodies in a house and yard that reeked of rotting flesh.

Remains of 11 people have been found, and Sowell, 50, has been charged with five counts of aggravated murder. The FBI has expanded its investigation to unsolved murders in other states where Sowell lived.

Bills that Austria introduced and ushered through the state Legislature cracked down on Internet predators, created a tracking system for sex offenders within and outside the state's borders and established the country's first substantially complete sex offender registration and notification systems under the federal Adam Walsh Act.

Austria acknowledged, though, that no law probably could have been written that would have avoided the "horrific and disturbing tragedy" that's unfolding in Cleveland.
While these bills play an important role in allowing us to keep track of sex offenders and requiring them to register, those who are going to commit these terrible acts unfortunately will find ways around any safeguards we create in the law," he said.

States have turned their attention to laws aimed at curbing sexually predatory crimes since about 1994, said Donna Lyons of The National Conference of State Legislatures. Among legislative trends that have swept through the states have been stricter residency reporting requirements for convicted sex offenders and tougher surveillance strategies, including GPS monitoring.

"Certainly going back over a decade, there's been a lot of interest in the states," Lyons said.
According to a 2008 report by the Office of Sex Offender Management, a project of the U.S. Justice Department, "these laws have significant resource implications, yet to date very little research has been conducted to examine the extent to which these investments have yielded significant public safety returns."

When he announced in September that Ohio had achieved substantial implementation of the Adam Walsh Act, Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray said registration information was clearly providing benefits to families.

"Effective tracking and monitoring of sex offenders equips parents with the information they need to keep their children safe," he said in a statement at the time. "Taking deliberate steps to provide a common foundation for all the registration systems throughout the United States allows our families to make the most effective use of the information those systems provide."

The Buckeye Sheriffs Association added that electronic sex offender registration was a tool that would provide families unprecedented peace of mind, because it allowed law enforcement agencies to communicate across communities and state borders.

Joyce Lukima, executive director of the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, said registries are most effective when followed up with aggressive monitoring of sex offenders after they're released.

In the Sowell case, police said they were unable to access his home during their routine visits. Also, some of the women who were his alleged victims were seen fraternizing willingly with Sowell before their disappearances, either unfazed by his sex offender status or unaware of it.
But even women aware of the registries can be at risk. Megan O'Bryan, director of the Cleveland Rape Crisis Center, said sex offender registries are addressing only part of the problem.

"They are focused on convicted sex offenders, and this is a vastly underreported crime," she said. "It's not a comprehensive way of looking at the problem. It may increase the safety of a community, but it limits it to the small number of sex offenders who are actually convicted. It's a false sense of security."