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The Murderer Next Door
Insanity, Ignorance and Serial Killing in Cleveland
December 10, 2009
Anthony Sowell appeared in a Cuyahoga County court last week and pled "Not Guilty" to the charges against him.
Authorities allege that over the past several years Sowell lured women to his Cleveland home and attacked them.
The registered sex offender is charged with killing
11 women and hiding their remains in and around his house.
Anthony Sowell
Evidence against the 50-year-old defendant is overwhelming.
The remains of 10 women and a skull were found in the residence or buried in the yard. In all, he faces 85 criminal
counts -- including murder, rape, assault and corpse abuse -- in the slayings
and in the attacks on three women who survived.
Sowell, 50, has pled "Not Guilty" to the serial killings by reason of insanity.
Also last week, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson responded to complaints of police misconduct from relatives of victims.
Jackson has appointed a commission to review police policies
for handling sexual assault and missing-person reports. The commission will not look into the Sowell case to explain
how -- or why -- area authorities missed so many opportunities to end the horror.
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