Via: WRAL.com
The discovery of 11 bodies in one home in a run-down neighborhood here has relatives of the presumed victims wondering how such a gruesome scene could have gone unnoticed for perhaps years, and they charge that police ignored their missing person reports.
The man who lives in the home, 50-year-old Anthony Sowell, was ordered held without bond Wednesday on five counts of aggravated murder. No one is sure how long Sowell, a registered sex offender who would offer free barbecue to the neighbors, had been living in his three-story house with corpses lying around, many of them black women who had been strangled
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Can we please stop making this a race issue! So many things that are put off on race are really a cultural or economic issue. What happened in Cleveland is horrible, I pray for the families, but you have to understand the history of serial murder to truly weigh in on this issue. These women went un-searched for after being reported missing because of their possible habits or lifestyle. It is extremely hard for police to try to find your loved ones if they are involved in certain things. For example, if they usually dissapear for long periods of time, if drug use or prostitution is involved, people involved in these lifestyles are constantly on the move and in danger. Does that make them less important, NO. But its just like with other very famous serial killings in the past, the most notable is the Green River Killer of Oregon state. This man killed women for 20 plus years, flying under the radar and why, mostly because he killed prostitutes, people who fall away and lost touch with their families for periods of time or forever. This man killed 48-71 women! Not all of them were prostitutes, some were just average people in the wrong place at the wrong time, excepting a ride from what looked like a nice man. Now his victims were both black and white. Now I hope families find some answers, but you must believe that our police force does have people who care about these victims. If some of the stuff being said to these families is true, then I feel very sorry and it is not appropriate, they should be dealt with, with the utmost respect and compassion. In my opinion, this was a failure of the system, this man should have been monitored CLOSELY! Rape is a violent crime, which is not very often cured, so to speak. Rape is usually just the first step to such crisis as the one that has occured, so I hope that our system learns from such mistakes and takes further and better precautions than it has in the past with violent offenders.