Solving a cold case that for so long has been a mystery. Grate is in court pleading not guilty to the horrors accused there, he tells investigators, the first kill was Marion County and pinpoints this field off a rural road where he dumped the body. Remains were in 2007 and never identified and never a clue as to what happened to a young woman sketched to look like this. Ultimately, grate says she didnt look like that at all wanting has found god. When we went and talked to him he was nice and cordial and shook the investigators hands and nice and giving as many details as he could remember from 10 years ago. Reporter he seemed remorseful . Yes. He did. Very detailed. Grate telling saying the victim delivered his moms orders and never happy about that and recognized the woman walking in downtown marion and lured her to his car and took her to a house where the family had being remodeled and killed her and stabbed her and a couple days later retrieved the body and dumped it in the woode
At first he was given a field sobriety test by troopers before he was handcuffed and taken away. So they do have someone arrested, somebody in custody for this. But again a state trooper based in cleveland was pulling somebody over, got out of his cruiser when he was hit and killed. A very tragic situation that has i90 westbound near the cleveland lakewood border closed. It is closed for several miles. Traffic is backed up. We have a lot of traffic that is actuly heights boulevard as an alternate. Obviously an area that you are going to want to avoid this afternoon. Thats the latest from cleveland. Derick waller, newschannel5. We want to take you to clevelands air tracker 5 for a look at how this tragedy is tieing up traffic right now. John, tell us what you are seeing. Reporter well, frank, you are looking at the ramp from to go to 90 westbound just coming across the bridge. It is causing traffic to backup well past dead mans curve, stretching to about east 55th street. It is moving a