Anthony Sowell pleads not guilty by reason of insanity to killings

Right: Anthony Sowell. Don't know that I could say he is insane, but he sure is ugly.

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By Michael Sangiacomo
December 03, 2009

cleveland.com

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CLEVELAND, Ohio — Suspected serial killer Anthony Sowell entered a surprise plea of not guilty by reason of insanity Thursday morning to charges accusing him of killing 11 women and assaulting three others at his Imperial Avenue home.

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Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Eileen Gallagher ordered Sowell, 50, to be held in jail without bond. Prosecutors had asked for a bond of $14 million -- $1 million for each victim...

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Judge Timothy McGinty will preside over the death penalty case...

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"Quite frankly, he's a psychopath, a person void of any human empathy," said Assistant County Prosecutor Rick Bombik. "That does not mean he is mentally ill. A psychopath is not insane, he's just a lousy, evil person with a personality disorder."
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Lewis Katz, who has taught law for 40 years at Case Western Reserve University, described it this way: "A sociopath, or psychopath, lives his life unaffected by the moral code and other concepts that guide the rest of us," Katz said. "It does not mean they are insane."

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FBI agents resume then end search at Anthony Sowell's home

November 14, 2009

cleveland.com

By Michael Sangiacomo

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- FBI agents and Cleveland police searched the area around Anthony Sowell's home today but left after apparently finding nothing.

They searched for a few hours last night before resuming today at 9 a.m. The men and women packed up their heat image sensing equipment, rakes, pokers and other tools and instruments and left the scene around 1:30 p.m...

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Anthony Sowell's house of horrors

The Prairie Chicken

November 5, 2009

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In the wake of discovery of 11 (and counting) women found murdered in the house of Anthony Sowell of Cleveland, Ohio, women who escaped his attacks have been coming forward to the Cleveland Police Department.

Tomorrow the CPD will begin looking behind walls and other areas of the house that may look benign, but may still hold evidence of his five year murder spree.

One has to wonder--when 14 women go missing in one neighborhood and there is a stench of death in that same neighborhood, what are police thinking about when they are eating their donuts? Their golf game, or 14 MISSING WOMEN? For God's sake.

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Smell permeated Cleveland neighborhood where 11 bodies found, in Anthony Sowell's house

November 4, 2009
From Susan Candiotti,
CNN.com

Cleveland, Ohio (CNN) -- The smell permeated the neighborhood, turning the stomachs of residents and curtailing their outdoor activities..."We used to think that it was coming from out of Ray's Sausage," said one resident. "But you smell these smells, and I live right there and ... we used to come out here and oh, these smells would just be horrible."

Ray's Sausage Co. replaced a sewer line and grease traps, trying to rid the area of the stench. But Ray's wasn't to blame after all. Instead, police said, the foul odor had a much more sinister source.

Eleven bodies have been found inside and outside a home adjacent to Ray's -- six inside and five outside...

The first victim was identified Wednesday as Tonia Carmichael, who was 52 when she was last seen on November 10, 2008, police said. Carmichael was identified using DNA. She disappeared from Warrensville Heights, a Cleveland suburb near Sowell's home.

Seven of the victims died from strangulation by a ligature, said Frank Miller, Cuyahoga County coroner. A ligature can include a string, cord or wire. All seven still had something tied around their necks, Miller told reporters...

Some of the victims could have been missing for up to five years, Cleveland Police Chief Michael McGrath told reporters, and he doesn't believe authorities were able to discern any pattern relating to the disappearance of African-American women. Eleven women go "missing" in the same area and they have no pattern? b-s. I wonder if the eleven women were white, would there have been more of an effort to see what was happening? Just saying...

...Sowell showed no emotion during his hearing Wednesday before Municipal Judge Ronald Adrine. Asked whether he could afford a lawyer, Sowell responded quietly, "No sir."

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Cleveland Police: Four More Bodies Found At Anthony Sowell's Home

Right: Rapist Anthony Sowell

November 3, 2009

by JOHN SEEWER,

Associated Press Writers

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AP Photo/Cleveland Police Department

CLEVELAND -- More remains were discovered Tuesday at the Cleveland home of a convicted rapist, raising to 10 the number of bodies that have been found there, authorities said.

Four more bodies and a skull were found at the home, where the remains of six women were removed last week, said police Chief Michael McGrath. Fifty-year-old Anthony Sowell, who lives in the home, is in jail and was charged Tuesday with five counts of aggravated murder.

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"It appears that this man had an insatiable appetite that he had to fill," McGrath said.
He said the additional bodies were found buried in the backyard of the home. The skull was found in a bucket in the basement.

Authorities do not know whether the skull belongs to an 11th victim, said police spokesman Lt. Thomas Stacho. The search was to continue Wednesday, with fire department crews planning to search in the walls of the home, McGrath said...

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Police discovered the first six bodies Thursday and Friday after a woman reported being raped at Sowell's home, and Sowell also was charged Tuesday with rape, felonious assault and kidnapping related to her complaint. Sowell is to be arraigned Wednesday, Stacho said...

Sowell is a registered sex offender and required to check in regularly at the sheriff's office. Officers didn't have the right to enter his house, but they would stop by to make sure he was there. Their most recent visit was Sept. 22, just hours before the woman reported being raped...

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