Episode Summary
Police in Cleveland enter a home in Mount Pleasant to arrest a man on sexual assault charges. But they don’t find their suspect. And what they do find sends an already struggling community into chaos.
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Episode Info
Anthony Sowell in 1990
Police searching the backyard of Anthony Sowell’s house
The 11 victims
Anthony Sowell at his trial
Episode Source Material
- Nobody’s women: The crimes and victims of Anthony Sowell, the Cleveland Strangler, by Steve Miller
- House of Horrors: The Shocking True Story of Anthony Sowell, the Cleveland Strangler, by Robert Sberna
- The Akron Beacon Journal: Police find bodies in home, by Mark Puente and Joe Guillen
- BBC News: Six bodies at sex attacker’s home
- The Times-Tribune (Scranton, PA): Coroner: 6 bodies found in rapist’s home, by Thomas J. Sheeran
- Dayton Daily News: 6 bodies found at Cleveland home; convicted rapist arrested, by Thomas J. Sheeran
- The Akron Beacon Journal: Officers arrest man suspected in killings, by Mark Puente & Michael Sangiacomo
- South Florida Sun Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL): Grisly find roils Cleveland, by P.J. Huffstutter
- The Montgomery Advertiser (Montgomery, AL): Cleveland inquiry focuses on 8 to 9 missing women, by Thomas J. Sheeran
- Baxter Bulletin (Mountain Home, AR): 4 more bodies found at Ohio rapist’s home, by Associated Press
- Tipton County Tribune (Tipton, IN): Police prepare to tear down walls of rapist’s home, by Associated Press
- Lansing State Journal (Lansing, MI): Stench lingered, but bodies stayed hidden, by Associated Press
- ENC Today: Marine Corps says accused serial killer stationed twice at Cherry Point and once at Camp Lejeune, by Drew C. Wilson
- 1Cleveland.com: Anthony Sowell was considered unlikely to attack again in 2005 evaluation, by Gabriel Baird
- NY Daily News: Police ID first of 11 victims found decomposing in Anthony Sowell’s Ohio home as Tonia Carmichael, by Brian Kates
- Livingston County Daily Press and Argus (Howell, MI): Woman: I got away from serial killing suspect, by Vicki Smith & Meghan Barr
- The Newark Advocate (Newark, OH): Ohio suspect rare among mass killers, by John Seewer & Andrew Welsh-Huggins
- Cleveland.com: Names put to three more victims in Anthony Sowell case, by Gabriel Baird
- The Cincinnati Enquirer: Onlookers drawn to ‘House of Horrors’, by John Seewer & Andrew Welsh-Huggins
- The Times Recorder (Zanesville, OH): Case against bodies suspect expands overseas, by Thomas J. Sheeran
- Vice: ‘The Cleveland Strangler’: The Story of a Brutal Serial Killer & His Forgotten Victims
- Daily Motion: The Devil You Know – The Cleveland Strangler
- Documentary: Unseen, by Laura Paglin
- State v. Sowell (Appeal)
- Fox 8: Anthony Sowell dies: Looking back on Imperial Avenue murders, by Jen Steer
- Cleveland.com: Frequently asked questions about suspected serial killer Anthony Sowell
- The Plain Dealer: The Sowell house revealed
- The Plain Dealer: Sex offender sought after Cleveland police find two decomposed bodies, By Stan Donaldson
- CNN.com: Neighbor – Sowell said, ‘It’s all going to come out’ after bodies found, by Susan Candiotti
- Reuters: Jury finds Anthony Sowell guilty of 11 murders, by Kim Palmer