Anthony Sowell, a convicted rapist and sex-offender, is being sought after six bodies, found in a Cleveland home, were discovered by authorities executing a search warrant after Sowell was accused of rape last month. Police were searching the home when they found the remains of two people upstairs in the home. Then they found four more bodies during the search. Sowell was not at home when the search was conducted, and has not been located at this time.
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Anthony Sowell is a registered sex offender and was being sought in connection with an alleged rape that occurred last month. Police, with cooperation from the victim, were able to obtain a search warrant to gather evidence from Sowell’s home. Sowell was not present when police, including SWAT and members of the Cleveland Sex Crimes unit, conducted the search of the home. A total of six bodies, scattered between the home and the backyard, have been found by police. Sowell has not been found.
Sowell is considered extremely dangerous and police have begun an intense search for Sowell. The US Marshalls service has been called in to help locate Sowell. Sowell spent nearly fifteen years in prison, from 1990-2005, after being convicted of Rape in 1989.
According to reports:
Sowell remains at large and on the run. He is considered to be extremely dangerous. He is 6 feet tall and 155 pounds. He wears eyeglasses and frequently sports a mustache. He does not drive a car, and is known to collect and cash in scrap metal. He spent 15 years in prison for a rape dating back to 1989.
A $12,000 reward has been offered for information leading to Sowell’s arrest. The search of the home has been suspended for the night, but will continue tomorrow. Police are not ruling out the possibility of even more bodies being discovered in and around the home.
Hopefully the authorities are able to catch Anthony Sowell and get to the bottom of the six bodies found in his Cleveland Home. I believe this man would be a great candidate for capital punishment if it is discovered that he murdered these six people, whose remains are so decomposed that police have only been able to determine the gender of two of the bodies, both of the bodies are female. If anyone has information about Sowell’s location they are urged to call 1-866-4-Wanted and report his whereabouts to police.
October 31st, 2009 at 4:28 am
Capital punishment is inhuman and it’s just as bad as what a murderer did. Furthermore it’s an escape for a murderer. Life imprisonment is much better because the murderer has to live with himself and what he did for the rest of his life. And that the cost to keep the murderer alive is expensive is a strange argument. A civilised society will take a lot of effort and money to maintain. And if your not willing to pay; you are just as bad as the People’s Republic of China!
Floris
From the Netherlands
P.S.
And how can you speak of capital punishment for Anthony S. (that’s how we write the names of suspects). if he isn’t even convicted for the murders yet. Have some reserve, people have died you know!
October 31st, 2009 at 6:06 am
I have no issue with capital punishment per se; my issue is with the time it takes to effect it. Justice delayed is justice denied. 15, 18, 20 years after the crime the execution has lost its connection to the crime and simply devolves into a bureaucratic exercise. The message, the reason for the execution, is lost. My issue with life imprisonment is not so much the cost but that life often turns out not to be “life” and even then we get caught up in misplaced concerns for the “human rights” of the perpetrator: cell mates, general population, college educations, televisions, visitors, conjugal allowances, recreation areas, weightlifting. For some types this is a pretty normal life. My ideal punishment would be real lifetime incarceration, until they carry out the corpse, lived in a windowless, barren metal box with food slipped under the door 3 times a day and medical care sufficient only to assure the punishment lasted as long as possible before the “life” sentence ends. Clothing optional depending on behavior in the box.
October 31st, 2009 at 8:36 am
to keep someone incarcerated 15-25 years just to play out the appeal process is a waste of taxpayer money. Appeals should run their course in no more than 3-5 years maximum but it should be thourough including any dna retesting etc. They can retry the case with that amount of time and memories and witnesses will still be reasonably accessable. They will save 10-20 years incarceration costs, and on death row I imagine that adds up to 1-2 million dollars of taxpayer funds that could buy 100-200 $10,000 dollar student scholarships or do 50 cardiac bypasses on poor people. But I would limit that kind of sentence to the most horrific type of murders where the predator or killer planned it and carried it out.
October 31st, 2009 at 8:40 am
Floris we have some really damaged violent people in the US that offer absolutely nothing to our society and never will except pain and misery that other people will end up paying for. Every other week some new horrendous crime happens here. its really gotten bad. I am not sure these people are even aware of what justice is, they are just damaged and dangerous. I think people are just exasperated at what to do with them. As soon as 70 percent or more of them are released from prison they just go out and do it again. I abhor the concept of the state imposing the death penalty on its citizens, but you should see some of these citizens. They are beyond the pale.
October 31st, 2009 at 8:54 am
Time to deal with sex offenders - for repeat offenders give them the death penalty. All pedophiles, child molesters, rapists and sex offenders should get HEAVY mandatory sentences. One way or another we have to stop these wild animals. Mandatory Castration followed by fixing their brain, a Lobotomy is the next step. You cant cure pedophiles and sex offenders. They are what they are, lock them up and throw away the key.
October 31st, 2009 at 10:58 am
Capital punishment is inhuman? Is it humane to the victims’ family who are forced to pay TAXS virtually at the point of a gun to provided food, shelter, education, healthcare, and entertainment for the murders while their son, daughter, mother, brother, sister, father or mother is rotting in their grave? Is it humane if a murder is able to murder again while in state’s custody like Willie Horton and many other have done? A girl in my senior high school class was kidnapped and killed by two convicted murders who escaped from prison. Where is the humanity in that? They say capital punishment isn’t a deterrent. Can you show me an example where someone killed again after having be put to death?
October 31st, 2009 at 11:31 am
They should castrate sex offenders.
October 31st, 2009 at 5:38 pm
Brian as I already said about paying taxes for life imprisonment is part of living in a civilised society just like having a healthcare system for everyone even for people who can’t pay for them self. I don’t know if you ever will understand that in the USA, but I guess that’s why your forefathers and mothers left Europe.
Look if a murderer can escape from prison, is that the fault of the murderer? No, it’s the failing prison system for letting them escape! If the prison system is faulty you are just going to kill the prisoners, because you can’t keep them inside? That makes no sense. And will killing a murderer bring back his or her victim(s)? No, nor will it take away the sense of loss for their friends and family. Maybe for you; as a third party it will give relieve. But I’m sure for close friends and family of the victims and that of the murderer only pain will remain.
Life imprisonment should be really life imprisonment otherwise what’s the point? Here life imprisonment is just that. A prisoner can appeal for parole, but parole must be granted by our Queen. And an appeal for parole is almost never successful.
Oh yes sure capital punishment is a deterrent, well just look at the numbers on the following wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate How come the Netherlands have one of the lowest homicide rates in the world if the death penalty was abolished for peacetime offences in 1870. (by the way it isn’t a contest and every life taken is one too many).
And the number isn’t low because we don’t have damaged violent people here, because we sure do. I like to close by saying the Dutch aren’t any better then people from the USA.
November 1st, 2009 at 6:40 pm
Again, a rush to judgement…what haven’t we learned in the past two decades….. let the legal process take it’s course, then let’s decide if he’s guilty. The Police may have planted this evidence.
November 1st, 2009 at 6:58 pm
Jimmy-
I really doubt the police could plant six bodies without someone noticing it. I’m just sayin…