CLEVELAND — More remains were discovered Tuesday at the Cleveland home of a man convicted of attempted rape, raising to 10 the number of bodies that have been found there, authorities said.
Four more bodies and a skull were found at the home, where the remains of six women were removed last week, said Police Chief Michael McGrath.
Fifty-year-old Anthony Sowell, who lives in the home, is in jail and was charged Tuesday with five counts of aggravated murder.
“It appears that this man had an insatiable appetite that he had to fill,” McGrath said.
He said the additional bodies were found buried in the backyard of the home. The skull was found in a bucket in the basement.
Authorities do not know whether the skull belongs to an 11th victim, said police spokesman Lt. Thomas Stacho.
The search was to continue today, with Fire Department crews planning to search in the walls of the home, McGrath said.
Last week, investigators said they found one body in a shallow grave in the backyard. The rest were inside the house — one in the basement, two in the third-floor living room and two in an upstairs crawl space.
Police discovered the first six bodies Thursday and Friday after a woman reported being raped at Sowell’s home, and Sowell also was charged Tuesday with rape, felonious assault and kidnapping related to her complaint.
Sowell is to be arraigned today, Stacho said.
The Cuyahoga County coroner is attempting to identify the bodies through DNA and dental records. All six were black, and five were strangled. The bodies could have been there anywhere from weeks to months to years, said Powell Caesar, a spokesman for the coroner.
This article has been corrected in this online archive. Originally, due to incorrect information provided by the Cleveland Police
Department to The Associated Press, stories this
week about the discovery of multiple bodies in the home of a
Cleveland man misstated his prior conviction. Anthony Sowell was
convicted of attempted rape.
