Cops resume search after bodies found in Cleveland
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July 22, 2013, Monday
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US Police resumed their search yesterday for possibly more victims after three bodies were found wrapped in plastic bags in a Cleveland suburb.
Yesterday morning, authorities walked through knee-high weeds in yards near where the bodies were found in East Cleveland, Ohio, and went door-to-door asking neighbors for any information that could help the case.
The bodies, believed to be female, were found about 90 to 180 meters apart. One body was found last Friday in a garage. Two others were found on Saturday - one in a backyard and the other in the basement of a vacant house.
East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton said on Saturday that a registered sex offender arrested after a police standoff on Friday is a suspect in the three deaths, though he has not yet been charged. The mayor said the 35-year-old suspect has served prison time and indicated he might have been influenced by Cleveland serial killer Anthony Sowell.
"He said some things that led us to believe that in some way, shape, or form, Sowell might be an influence," the mayor said.
Sowell was found guilty in 2011 of killing 11 women and hiding their remains around his Cleveland home from June 2007 to July 2009. Police found their mostly nude bodies throughout the house after a woman escaped and said she had been raped in there. He was sentenced to death.
All three women are believed to have been killed in the last six to 10 days and police did not know their identities.
Yesterday morning, authorities walked through knee-high weeds in yards near where the bodies were found in East Cleveland, Ohio, and went door-to-door asking neighbors for any information that could help the case.
The bodies, believed to be female, were found about 90 to 180 meters apart. One body was found last Friday in a garage. Two others were found on Saturday - one in a backyard and the other in the basement of a vacant house.
East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton said on Saturday that a registered sex offender arrested after a police standoff on Friday is a suspect in the three deaths, though he has not yet been charged. The mayor said the 35-year-old suspect has served prison time and indicated he might have been influenced by Cleveland serial killer Anthony Sowell.
"He said some things that led us to believe that in some way, shape, or form, Sowell might be an influence," the mayor said.
Sowell was found guilty in 2011 of killing 11 women and hiding their remains around his Cleveland home from June 2007 to July 2009. Police found their mostly nude bodies throughout the house after a woman escaped and said she had been raped in there. He was sentenced to death.
All three women are believed to have been killed in the last six to 10 days and police did not know their identities.
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