Lawyers for suspected serial killer Anthony Sowell argued this morning in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court that East Cleveland police should not have questioned him last week in the County Jail. The detectives confirmed that Sowell knew a woman who disappeared in 1989. His attorneys, John Parker and Rufus Sims, asked Judge Shirley Strickland Saffold to bar […]
Anthony Sowell, the Cleveland man accused of killing 11 women and keeping their remains at his Imperial Avenue home, asked a judge Wednesday to move his trial outside the area because the case has received so much publicity here.
A Cuyahoga County grand jury indicted Anthony Sowell today on multiple counts of aggravated murder and charges related to two other attacks on women, setting the stage for a trial that could lead to his execution.
The Cleveland Veterans Affairs hospital is investigating whether employees snooped in serial killing suspect Anthony Sowell’s private medical records.
It was Gladys Wade who ran to police, bleeding and screaming for help after she escaped from Anthony Sowell’s Imperial Avenue home last December. It was Wade who got more than a dozen stitches in her right thumb where it was ripped open on a jagged piece of glass from a window broken during a […]
The Cleveland Rape Crisis Center is launching a special hot line in hopes of hearing from those who survived encounters at the house where remains of 11 women were found.
Registered sex offender Anthony Sowell was arraigned Friday morning for an alleged attack that prompted a search and the discovery of 11 bodies at his home, Fox 8’s Suzanne Stratford reports.
Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Judge John P. O'Donnell added another $1 million to Sowell's existing $5 million bond.
Cleveland police on Monday confirmed the identity of the eighth victim in the Imperial Avenue slayings.
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Cleveland police and fire investigators converged on the old Lafayette Elementary School shortly after noon today. The property is about two blocks away from Anthony Sowell’s house on Imperial Avenue. Officers led at least two dogs into the property with the assistance of the Ohio Search Dog Association. The school closed in 1995 and the fenced-in […]
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.
