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    Trial opens for accused Cleveland serial killer
    By Kim Palmer | Reuters – Mon, Jun 27, 2011


    CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Prosecutors named each of the 11 women Anthony Sowell is alleged to have murdered and where their decomposing bodies were found buried in or around his house in opening statements for his trial on Monday.

    Sowell, 51, has been charged with the aggravated murders of the Cleveland women, whose bodies were discovered by police in his house and backyard in fall 2009. Prosecutors seek the death penalty.

    Cuyahoga County prosecutor Rick Bombik told jurors the case would be one they would never forget. Prosecutors outlined when each woman went missing, where in Sowell's house or backyard their bodies were found, and in what condition. "It will be burned into your memories as long as you live," Bombik said.

    Most of the homicides for which Sowell has been charged were caused by "ligature strangulation" and all of the victims were found nude or naked from the waist down.

    Sowell's attorney, John Parker, described his client as a man with a "regular job" and who "had a relationship" in a statement that ran a little more than 11 minutes. Parker said there were "no eye witnesses, no fingerprints and no DNA," in the case. The "forensic evidence will be greatly disappointing," he told the jury.

    The defense also said there was no evidence of kidnapping or "planning" that would justify the aggravated circumstances of the murder charges and questioned the "credibility" of the witnesses who will testify against Sowell.

    The trial before Judge Dick Ambrose is expected to include testimony from three alleged survivors. Prosecutors also are expected to present more than 8 hours of taped interviews between Sowell and the police.

    On Monday prosecutors presented testimony from the first officer who arrived on the scene at Sowell's house and the owner of a sausage shop next to his house.

    Earlier in the day jurors were taken to the home where Sowell lived and where the bodies of the 11 women were found.

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    And the question is... If HE didn't put the bodies in his yard and house... How the heck did they get there?

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    Were his alleged victims prostitutes - drug addicts. Were the victims throw-away people in our society who the police could care less about until the cops find a mass grave?

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    As much as people want to eliminate this criminal, the cost of prosecuting him on this evidence is problematic. Let him plead to life without parole and we all save money. The cost of a capitol prosecution and the inevitable appeal is far more expensive than just locking him away. The cost of security on death row is at least 20% higher.

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    Ohio suspect may have eaten evidence
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    STREETSBORO, Ohio – Police say a bank robbery suspect in Ohio may have eaten evidence when he gobbled a piece of paper while handcuffed and lying across the hood of a police cruiser.

    A police video camera captured the 35-year-old John Ford of Cleveland grabbing the paper with his mouth as police emptied his pockets.

    Ford was arrested following a report of a bank robbery in Streetsboro just south of Cleveland on Thursday.

    Police say a man walked into the bank and handed a teller a note that demanded money.

    Police say they found money in a bag in Ford's car, which fit the description of the bank robber's vehicle, along with a bank die pack that had exploded.

    Ford was being held in the Portage County Jail on Saturday where his file did not indicate he had a lawyer.

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    Information from: Akron Beacon Journal, http://www.ohio.com

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    Jury finds Anthony Sowell guilty of 11 murders
    By Kim Palmer | Reuters – 2 hrs 55 mins ago

    CLEVELAND (Reuters) - A Cleveland jury on Friday found ex-Marine and convicted rapist Anthony Sowell guilty of the serial killing of 11 women whose decomposed remains were found in and around his home.

    Sowell, 51, faces the possibility of the death penalty.

    Many of the victims had histories of drug problems or were transients, and their disappearances were not always immediately reported to police. Sowell, who had a previous conviction for raping a pregnant woman, had claimed that bad smells in the area came from a nearby sausage factory.

    Police discovered the first two bodies in 2009 after executing a search warrant for Sowell's arrest in response to an assault and rape charge.

    In total, more women's bodies were found in and around Sowell's Cleveland house.

    Two were found on the third floor, partially covered; one was in a plastic bag in pieces; another was covered with dirt in a crawl space. Two bodies were found in the basement -- one covered in dirt under the stairs, and one skull wrapped in plastic in a red bucket.

    Five bodies were found in the backyard, all wrapped in plastic in shallow graves.

    Sowell came to live in the Imperial Avenue house with his stepmother after serving 15 years in prison for rape. A balding man with glasses of medium height, he was described by neighbors as helpful, and a snappy dresser.

    The first of the 11 homicides occurred in the house in 2007. The house had tenants who moved out after complaining about the smell.

    Sowell was arrested shortly after one surviving victim jumped naked out of a window after being raped. At first, she claimed she had been in a car accident, but later told police she was attacked after seeing the bodies recovered from his house.

    After police took Sowell in for questioning, he was told about six bodies found at his house and one in the backyard. Sowell responded, "Oh, those," using the plural when only one body had been found in the backyard at the time, according to police testimony.

    In a videotaped interrogation by police, Sowell talked about meeting women and bringing them to his house. But he never gives any details about what happened to them or how their remains came to be in his house. "Maybe all I did was strangle ... that's what I did," he says.

    Most of the victims were strangled. Some victims were so badly decomposed that the cause of death could not be determined.

    The jury found Sowell guilty on 82 of 83 counts -- the not guilty on a single charge of stealing $11 from a surviving assault victim.

    A fierce thunderstorm raged outside the courtroom windows as the verdicts were read. Some family members of victims wept, while others nodded their heads in agreement with the guilty counts.

    Sowell blinked rapidly but otherwise showed no emotion as the verdicts were read.

    After he was told of his right to appeal, he refused to look at Judge Dick Ambrose, and yawned. As he left the courtroom, he put his fists up in the air.

    In closing arguments, the prosecution called Sowell a "vile and disgusting" serial killer. The 62 prosecution witnesses included women who said they had fled Sowell's house after being attacked.

    One prosecution witness was Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson's niece, Lori Frazier, an ex-girlfriend of Sowell, who said he suffered a series of suspicious injuries. Once she saw a deep gash across his head and blood on the floor and walls that he said were the result of a struggle with an intruder.

    Family members of some victims have filed suit against the city, complaining about the police's handling of the case. The father of one of the victims said his concerns were dismissed by police because of his daughter's history of drug use.

    The defense called no witnesses, but criticized the state's handling of the crime scene investigation and some of the women who testified against Sowell.

    The murder victims are Diane Turner, Telacia Fortson, Janice Webb, Nancy Cobbs, Tonia Carmichael, Tishana Culver, Leshanda Long, Amelda Hunter, Michelle Mason, Crystal Dozier and Kim Smith.

    Jurors deliberated for about 15 hours before reaching a verdict. On August 1 begins the mitigation phase of the trial, when the jury must determine whether Sowell should be expected.

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    Judge sentences Ohio killer of 11 to death
    By THOMAS J. SHEERAN - Associated Press | AP – Fri, Aug 12, 2011


    CLEVELAND (AP) — A serial killer was sentenced to death Friday for murdering 11 troubled women and scattering their remains around his property, horrors that shook the city over police handling of crime in poor neighborhoods.

    Anthony Sowell, 51, his eyes closed at times, sat impassively as Judge Dick Ambrose — accepting the recommendation of jurors who convicted Sowell of aggravated murder — announced 11 death sentences.

    Jurors, some wiping tears, returned to court to watch. The judge had the option of reducing the sentence to life in prison without chance of parole.

    The judge alluded to Sowell's stone-faced demeanor, saying he doubted it would have prompted reaction if the photos of victims had been brought into court daily, as some relatives of victims wanted.

    Sowell never looked at relatives as they spoke during the sentencing hearing. He ignored the judge when asked if he wanted to speak and again when asked to sign a legal document.

    "That's his personality," defense attorney Rufus Sims said later.

    Fellow defense attorney John Parker said he had no comment on the sentence.

    By law, Sowell's conviction and death sentence will be appealed automatically to the Ohio Supreme Court. That process could take 10 years or more, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason said.

    Mason earlier had rejected an appeal by the relatives of some victims to accept a plea in return for sparing Sowell's life so that they could avoid the wrenching emotion of a trial. The community needed to see the case go to trial, Mason said.

    Sowell was arrested on Halloween 2009, two days after police went to his house on a sexual-assault complaint and began finding bodies.

    He went on trial in June and was convicted July 22 on 82 counts: aggravated murder, kidnapping, corpse abuse and evidence tampering.

    Some families complained that police hadn't taken the women's disappearances seriously, in part because some victims had drug histories, criminal records or had disappeared repeatedly. After the bodies were found, the mayor ordered a review of police handling of missing-person and sex-crime investigations.

    Assistant Prosecutor Pinky Carr has said the case "screamed death penalty." Her prosecution colleague, Richard Bombik, said "if this guy doesn't get the death penalty, nobody should."

    Sowell's defense team called no witnesses during the guilt phase of the trial and instead focused on sparing his life with sympathetic testimony about his troubled childhood, his Marine Corps service and good behavior while serving 15 years for a 1989 attempted rape conviction.

    Sowell's victims began disappearing in 2007. Prosecutors say he lured them to his home with the promise of alcohol or drugs.

    Police discovered the first two bodies and a freshly dug grave in late 2009 after officers went to investigate a woman's report that she had been raped there.

    The victims were disposed of in garbage bags and plastic sheets, then dumped in various parts of the house and yard. There was little left of one victim: a skull in a plastic bucket with non-human bite marks on the edge.

    Most of the victims were nude from the waist down, strangled with household objects and had traces of cocaine or depressants in their systems. All the victims were black, as is Sowell.

    Sowell took the stand Monday to make an unsworn statement in which he apologized. "The only thing I want to say is I'm sorry," Sowell told the jury. "I know that might not sound like much, but I truly am sorry from the bottom of my heart."

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    "I'm sorry" usually means "I'm sorry I was caught".

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    This is a case for a tall tree and short rope from days gone by when death came swiftly not 20 years down the road.

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    Sad for the family's to have to go through so much and have to wait so long for him to be put to death. Tomorrow is too long to have to wait !!

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    Of course his sentence should be death. This guy isn't capable of being rehabbed. He's been at this kind of behavior for a very long time. As a matter of fact the Marine Corp is working with the FBI to see if he's behind some of the mysterious killings of women that have happened around places where he served during his time in the service. I heard reports that some of them bear his signature M.O. This guy has been nothing but a living nightmare to many women and now it's time to put him where nightmares belong - to sleep.

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    He should be tortured to death, then his heart shocked back to life...REPEAT 11X
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    Rape charges against serial killer dropped
    Sep 12, 2011 7:03 PM CDT

    CLEVELAND (CNN) - Rape charges against a convicted serial killer have been dropped, reportedly leaving the victims happy.

    Anthony Sowell was set to stand trial for the rape and felony assault of two women who survived his attacks.

    Both women said they got closure from testifying during the murder trial.

    By dismissing the charges, the women avoid taking the stand again.

    Sowell, 51, was convicted last month of murdering 11 women between June 2007 and September 2009.

    He was sentenced to death.

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    This is a second and separate serial killer in Cleveland ....




    3rd female victim in Ohio slayings identified
    Shirellda Helen Terry, Shetisha Sheeley and Angela Deskins
    were found wrapped in trash bags in a neighborhood with abandoned houses in Ohio.

    1 day ago | By Regina Garcia Cano and Thomas J. Sheeran of Associated Press


    EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio — The last two of three female victims whose bodies were found wrapped in trash bags last week in northeast Ohio have been identified, family and authorities said Tuesday. One of the victims was 18-year-old Shirellda Helen Terry, the teen's grandmother told The Associated Press. Officials identified the other as Shetisha Sheeley, 28, of Cleveland.

    Both their bodies were found last week along with that of another woman in a dilapidated East Cleveland neighborhood pitted with abandoned houses.

    Rosetta Terry said authorities notified the family Tuesday that her granddaughter was one of the victims. She said Shirellda was last seen July 10, leaving a Cleveland elementary school where she had a summer job. Rosetta Terry described her granddaughter as a caring person who would frequently attend Bible study groups and called and texted her mother. "She was a good girl; she was a hugger," said Rosetta Terry. "We used to tease her that we were gonna put her on a hug diet."

    The county medical examiner's office did not confirm Shirellda Terry's identity, saying the family had asked for time to inform relatives.

    Michael Madison, 35, is in custody facing preliminary charges of aggravated murder and kidnapping in the slayings. He is a registered sex offender who served four years in prison beginning in 2002 for attempted rape and attempted possession of drugs. Madison was moved from the East Cleveland jail Tuesday to Cuyahoga County Jail.

    Earlier Tuesday, East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton identified Sheeley as among the victims. The identification was made through fingerprints and information from the tattoos, which "permitted the comparison" that led to her identification, said Thomas Gilson, Cuyahoga County's medical examiner.

    Gilson said his office hoped to release information on how the women died within a few days.

    Sheeley's mother, Kim Sheeley, asked for prayers and told WEWS-TV that her daughter's death "has been really, really" hard on her.

    Shetisha Sheeley was arrested June 30, 2012, on a charge of firing a weapon from a vehicle but the case was dismissed three months later. Her court-appointed attorney, Michael Nelson, said there were no witnesses who saw her firing the weapon.

    Nelson told The Associated Press that Sheeley came from a troubled family background and never got help posting her $1,000 bond, keeping her locked up while the case moved through the courts.

    "She lived on the edge," said Nelson, who recalled her as unemployed, living in an apartment alone and vulnerable as she struggled to make a life. "The streets are just mean," he said. "She was a vulnerable person, and with that it probably multiplied her risk."

    Police on Monday identified the first known victim as Angela Deskins, 38, of Cleveland, whose body was found Saturday. Norton said in brief remarks that he realized on hearing her name that he knew her family and went to school with some of her relatives.

    The Deskins' family supported Angela and provided a place for her to live, the mayor said. "She always had a place to rest her head, they always assured that she had money to live with," Norton said. "And just when she trusted herself — she was a very trusting person — entrusted herself to someone who had the worst of intentions, then and only then did this fate befall her."

    Her family said in a statement that she was much loved, WEWS-TV reported. "She was a wonderful daughter, sister and aunt who truly cared about her family and friends. She is loved so much and will be missed by everyone who knew her. Our family would appreciate privacy during this time."

    East Cleveland police responded to a call about a foul order on Friday and discovered a body in a garage. Within hours they identified Madison as a suspect and went to his mother's house where he was arrested after a brief standoff.

    They found the additional bodies Saturday after their questioning of Madison led them to renew their search.

    Authorities searched again Sunday but called it off without finding additional bodies.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jolie Rouge View Post
    This is a second and separate serial killer in Cleveland ....


    3rd female victim in Ohio slayings identified
    Shirellda Helen Terry, Shetisha Sheeley and Angela Deskins
    were found wrapped in trash bags in a neighborhood with abandoned houses in Ohio.

    1 day ago | By Regina Garcia Cano and Thomas J. Sheeran of Associated Press


    EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio — The last two of three female victims whose bodies were found wrapped in trash bags last week in northeast Ohio have been identified, family and authorities said Tuesday. One of the victims was 18-year-old Shirellda Helen Terry, the teen's grandmother told The Associated Press. Officials identified the other as Shetisha Sheeley, 28, of Cleveland.

    Both their bodies were found last week along with that of another woman in a dilapidated East Cleveland neighborhood pitted with abandoned houses.

    Rosetta Terry said authorities notified the family Tuesday that her granddaughter was one of the victims. She said Shirellda was last seen July 10, leaving a Cleveland elementary school where she had a summer job. Rosetta Terry described her granddaughter as a caring person who would frequently attend Bible study groups and called and texted her mother. "She was a good girl; she was a hugger," said Rosetta Terry. "We used to tease her that we were gonna put her on a hug diet."

    The county medical examiner's office did not confirm Shirellda Terry's identity, saying the family had asked for time to inform relatives.

    Michael Madison, 35, is in custody facing preliminary charges of aggravated murder and kidnapping in the slayings. He is a registered sex offender who served four years in prison beginning in 2002 for attempted rape and attempted possession of drugs. Madison was moved from the East Cleveland jail Tuesday to Cuyahoga County Jail.

    Earlier Tuesday, East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton identified Sheeley as among the victims. The identification was made through fingerprints and information from the tattoos, which "permitted the comparison" that led to her identification, said Thomas Gilson, Cuyahoga County's medical examiner.

    Gilson said his office hoped to release information on how the women died within a few days.

    Sheeley's mother, Kim Sheeley, asked for prayers and told WEWS-TV that her daughter's death "has been really, really" hard on her.

    Shetisha Sheeley was arrested June 30, 2012, on a charge of firing a weapon from a vehicle but the case was dismissed three months later. Her court-appointed attorney, Michael Nelson, said there were no witnesses who saw her firing the weapon.

    Nelson told The Associated Press that Sheeley came from a troubled family background and never got help posting her $1,000 bond, keeping her locked up while the case moved through the courts.

    "She lived on the edge," said Nelson, who recalled her as unemployed, living in an apartment alone and vulnerable as she struggled to make a life. "The streets are just mean," he said. "She was a vulnerable person, and with that it probably multiplied her risk."

    Police on Monday identified the first known victim as Angela Deskins, 38, of Cleveland, whose body was found Saturday. Norton said in brief remarks that he realized on hearing her name that he knew her family and went to school with some of her relatives.

    The Deskins' family supported Angela and provided a place for her to live, the mayor said. "She always had a place to rest her head, they always assured that she had money to live with," Norton said. "And just when she trusted herself — she was a very trusting person — entrusted herself to someone who had the worst of intentions, then and only then did this fate befall her."

    Her family said in a statement that she was much loved, WEWS-TV reported. "She was a wonderful daughter, sister and aunt who truly cared about her family and friends. She is loved so much and will be missed by everyone who knew her. Our family would appreciate privacy during this time."

    East Cleveland police responded to a call about a foul order on Friday and discovered a body in a garage. Within hours they identified Madison as a suspect and went to his mother's house where he was arrested after a brief standoff.

    They found the additional bodies Saturday after their questioning of Madison led them to renew their search.

    Authorities searched again Sunday but called it off without finding additional bodies.
    Victim's father attacks serial killer in court
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    Jun 3rd 2016 4:00AM


    CLEVELAND, June 2 (Reuters) - Michael Madison, a East Cleveland man convicted of murdering three women and keeping their bodies wrapped in plastic as trophies, was sentenced on Thursday to death by an Ohio county judge. Madison's attorney, David Grant, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

    A jury earlier this month unanimously recommended the death penalty for Madison, 38, after his conviction on May 5 in the murders of Shetisha Sheeley, 28; Angela Deskins, 38, and Shirellda Terry, 18.

    In addition to aggravated murder, he was convicted on additional counts, including rape, kidnapping and gross abuse of a corpse, and was ruled a violent sexual predator.

    East Cleveland police found the first of the three women in July 2013 after receiving a complaint about foul odors coming from a garage behind Madison's apartment.

    The bodies of two more women were discovered nearby the next day. Madison was arrested at his mother's Cleveland home after a two-hour standoff with police.

    After Madison was sentenced by Cuyahoga County Judge Nancy McDonnell, Terry's father, Van Terry, ran toward the convict and lunged at him. "Right now I guess we are supposed to give you forgiveness. You tortured our families. You take my child," Terry said.

    ( Reports by witnesses in courtroom state that Madison grinned at Terry and used his hand to make a "brush off" motion : as if dismissing Terry's words ... or the very life of his daughter. Terry snapped. )

    Sheriff's deputies quickly subdued Terry and Madison, who appeared unharmed, was taken to a holding cell adjacent to the courtroom.

    Video at link http://www.aol.com/article/2016/06/0...ourt/21388574/
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