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July 25, 2021, 9:00 PM ET Where Is The Cleveland Strangler, Who Murdered 11 Women And Kept Bodies In His Home, Today?
Convicted serial killer Anthony Sowell was sentenced to death a decade ago for the murders of 11 women in Ohio. Anthony Sowell
Preying on vulnerable individuals, Anthony Sowell, notoriously nicknamed the Cleveland Strangler, was ultimately behind the murders of 11 Black women.
Sowell’s depraved crimes are chronicled in chilling detail in the two-hour
Oxygen special “Snapped Notorious: The Cleveland Strangler. The gruesome slayings, which occurred in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood Sowell lived in, have left an indelible mark on Ohio’s second-largest city.
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Feb 09, 2021 06:15 PM EST
A Cleveland serial killer charged with killing 11 women in Cleveland died of a fatal disease in jail on Monday, authorities said.
Cleveland serial killer died of terminal disease
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Serial killer Anthony Sowell has died. ODRC says he passed away at 3:27 p.m. today. Sowell was on death row for murdering 11 women in Cleveland. We’re told he had a terminal illness & had been in end of life care unit at the Franklin Medical Center since 1/21.
Anthony Sowell, 61, was transferred to the end-of-life care center at a psychiatric treatment prison in Columbus on January 21, a spokesperson for the corrections department said.
Anthony Sowell: Read The Plain Dealer’s original coverage of the Imperial Avenue murders, profiles of his victims
Updated Feb 09, 2021;
Posted Feb 09, 2021
The Imperial Avenue home of serial killer Anthony Sowell, shown in November 2009. (Scott Shaw, Plain Dealer file photo)The Plain Dealer
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CLEVELAND, Ohio It was in October 2009 that the Cleveland area first learned of serial killer Anthony Sowell. For the next few weeks, the horrors of his crimes would emerge.
Sowell, who died Monday afternoon at an Ohio prison hospital of an unspecified illness at the age of 61, eventually was convicted in July 2011 of the deaths of 11 women and was sentenced to death.