I did not see this posted.......This just made me think of MWWS- Missing White Woman Syndrome- no one heard anything about these women being missing outside of this neighborhood.

Convicted rapist arrested in killings of 6 in Cleveland

(CNN) -- Police arrested a 50-year-old convicted rapist suspected in the killings of six people whose bodies were found this week in and around a house in Cleveland, Ohio.

"Anthony Sowell was arrested walking down the street near the 4th District Police headquarters at noon," Cleveland Police spokesman Lt. Thomas Stacho told CNN. "A tipster told officers of his whereabouts and a zone car found him and arrested him without incident."

The case began unfolding a month ago, when a woman accused Sowell of rape and felonious assault, Stacho said.

"Once we were able to get the cooperation of the victim, we secured an arrest warrant for Mr. Sowell and subsequently a search warrant for his premises," Stacho said.

On Thursday, detectives from the department's sex crimes unit and members of its SWAT team went to Sowell's home to execute the warrant and make an arrest, but he was nowhere to be found, Stacho said.

What they did find were the badly decomposed remains of two bodies on the third floor of the house, which is owned by an elderly relative of Sowell who does not live there, Stacho said.

A subsequent search on Thursday revealed what appeared to be a freshly dug grave under the stairs in the basement, he said.

On Friday, investigators returned to the house, dug up the grave and found a third body, he said.

A further search of the house and property found two more bodies in a crawl space, and a sixth body was found in a shallow grave outside the home, Stacho said.

Read local coverage on CNN affiliate WJW

None of the bodies has been identified, and the genders of only two -- those found on the third floor -- have been determined, he said. Both were female.

"He apparently is a serial rapist," Stacho said about Sowell, who he said makes his living as a "scrapper."

"He walks around and picks up scrap metal and takes it to junk yards to make a few pennies."

Sowell was convicted of a 1989 rape for which he was imprisoned from 1990 to 2005, Stacho said.

Authorities plan to continue their search of the house on Saturday.

Edited by Mianna - 05 Nov 2009 at 10:26am

Lord this world is sick....smdh

That's horrible!!

He is sick

this is crazy.....people were scared to leave there houses cause this fool was walking. so glad he was arrested,,,

oh my that crazy Even his pic looks crazy

SMH.

You know I read that story and it made me sick.  I sometimes think that our society should take a more fanatical view on punishment - castrate the rapist. 

oh.my.god 

why havent i heard about this?!!?

Originally posted by carolina cutie What?! He went to jail for 15yrs for a rape, got out and killed at least 6 people because who knows who else is buried around that property, and raped at least 1 other woman before he was caught and all under 4 years pf being released?   I swear rapists need to be put down like rabid animals.

People talk about rehabilitation, but these animals know right and wrong. Some people will NEVER change.

Had the woman that he attacked not reported this, he would still be on the streets.  Apparently, people did not know about his past because when he left prison he was not on parole so the Sheriff's dept was not keeping track of him. They think that there may be more people. I don't understand how the bodies were not really smelly. They said that he convinced the woman to come back to his place then raped her but that some of the women were taken by force.
People said that soon after he moved into the neighborhood, women started disappearing.....they think that there may be many others.

Because the women were not getting the attention from the media, there was no push to find these women. Unfortunately, people could not figure out who was taking these women......there was no pattern from what they are saying.....they also said that he used various burial methods, which means that there may be even more women that were raped and even more that are buried in the house our yard somewhere. According to CNN the women died violently and the following:

Five different burial methods were used on the victims, and the bodies were in varying states of decomposition, Miller said, making it difficult to determine the ages of the victims. He added that the states of the bodies made it hard to tell how long they had lain in the makeshift graves.

"It's really very difficult to tell," Miller said. "It's been some time, I would say probably at least weeks, if not months or years.