11/03/2009

Police found at least four more decomposing bodies and the skull of another person at Anthony Sowell's house Tuesday, making his home on Imperial Avenue among the deadliest crime scenes in Cleveland history. Crews continued digging for corpses in Sowell's back yard after dark, even erecting a heated tent so they could work into the night. The search stopped around 9 p.m. but will resume in the morning. At the same time, the city prosecutor filed five counts of aggravated murder against Sowell, for the bodies found at his home last week that investigators determined were strangled. Detectives were stunned by the scope of the killings. [...] Police on Tuesday searched vacant homes within a quarter-mile radius of Sowell's home in the 12200 block of Imperial Avenue. They are expected to expand by another quarter-mile Wednesday, as their colleagues continue digging in the yard and tearing apart the walls of Sowell's home, looking for more bodies.

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