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- whatup732, on 11/05/2009, -2/+60To understand this story, you really need to understand East Cleveland. It's absolutely the worst place to live, with many houses selling for $5000 or less. The city gets nearly no funding, and alot of the policing is done by neighboring cities. Last I checked their high school graduation rate was below 50%. East Cleveland is festering ass of the greater Cleveland area.
I had a friend drive through east Cleveland and a stray bullet hit his car. He went to the police station and they basically said "okay, you got off lucky... don't dwell on it"
I'm not condoning, or making excuses for anything, but the way that neighborhood works, I'm surprised he was caught at all. - fahrvergnuugen, on 11/05/2009, -2/+52Yes
- asnaturalasgas, on 11/05/2009, -0/+4111 as of late last night
- tgc1, on 11/05/2009, -0/+40Holy *****. Dude's a psycho.
- pinchduck, on 11/05/2009, -0/+38I think we can stop referring to him as a rapist and start referring to him as an evil ***** murderer.
- sdigroup, on 11/05/2009, -2/+34Burn in Hell *****
- stevenwalters, on 11/05/2009, -1/+32That guy even looks like a ***** serial killer
- Jpatano, on 11/05/2009, -1/+32A $5000 home puts you squarely in the upper class section of east cleveland, where the meth heads look down their noses at the crack heads.
- GamerXR72, on 11/05/2009, -0/+21No your honor I did not kill these people. I find it unfortunate that a secret murderer has been storing bodies at my house.
- lolwatermelon, on 11/05/2009, -0/+20In every case, no matter the circumstances.
- irishjays, on 11/05/2009, -3/+22In October a woman fell off Sowell's balcony naked and the paramedics were called. They both went to the hospital and were questioned. The woman said she was high on cocaine and fell off the balcony when she was looking for her keys. Sowell was also questioned in the hospital waiting room, he claimed she was his 'girlfriend' and confirmed her story. I think they were let go without charge. Now what does that say about East Cleveland, A woman falls off a balcony admitting to be high on cocaine, and her boyfriend also admits they were doing hard drugs. No prob, do you need a ride home? No one looked into his past history as a rapist and sexual predator classification. A sexual deviant had a naked girl fall off his porch and no one did anything about it. Cleveland rocks!
- newerakb, on 11/05/2009, -0/+17oh you know, those wacky serial killers and their cuurrrraaaazy antics
- doctechnical, on 11/05/2009, -2/+19Another tid-bit: neighbors had been complaining about the horrible smell for quite a while. I guess they've brought in a cadaver dog and the damn thing nearly had a heart-attack.
Hey, ho, way to go, Ohio. - irishjays, on 11/05/2009, -1/+16Right whatup732, East Cleveland is an urban burb. To be honest, and I live on the east "side" of cleveland, it's not as bad as Detroit where I lived last year. Hey, I'm movin on up!
- gcnaddict, on 11/05/2009, -0/+13They haven't found the body for that eleventh skull, if I'm remembering correctly.
Still, eleven is eleven. - Biller13, on 11/05/2009, -8/+20Is he the first black serial killer? Not intended to be racist but the profile is usually 18-32 caucasian male if memory serves.
- searcade, on 11/05/2009, -0/+11Well he did get off lucky, what else can they do?
- whatup732, on 11/05/2009, -1/+12Yes, a military state is exactly what we need.
- briarmoss, on 11/05/2009, -2/+13OH my goodness! You have so many different guns! You must have the largest penis in the world!
- Sparrow06, on 11/05/2009, -0/+11To the East side!
- Zoshx, on 11/05/2009, -2/+11Yeah dude, due process and a fair trial are ***** *****.
- sharkd, on 11/05/2009, -1/+9I vote for BB gun firing squad -- keep pumping those Daisys until he's pushing up daisies.
(Because it'll hurt more.) - newerakb, on 11/05/2009, -1/+8Because then I'd be able to stash all my murder victims in the houses of people I don't like, then make a single phone call to the cops and have them killed.
...I mean, other people could do that. Not me.
*whistles* - jasvll, on 11/05/2009, -0/+7Because he was convicted of rape in 1989. He has not been convicted of murder.
- newerakb, on 11/05/2009, -0/+7he looks like Common
- PiddlyD, on 11/05/2009, -1/+8This dude, his eyes are so small and fall apart... every time I see his picture I think of one of these...
http://dogs.y2u.co.uk/photo/Dog_Bull_Terrier_01.jp ...
He looks unfinished. I can imagine him peeling off his skin and revealing the human-eating alien underneath. - sharkd, on 11/05/2009, -0/+7The neighbors thought that the smell was coming from a nearby sausage manufacturer. Ray's Sausage replaced multiple sewer lines, debris traps, air handlers, etc, because they didn't realize that the smell was decomposing bodies.
- irishjays, on 11/05/2009, -1/+8From what I heard in the police conference, no one actually called the police about the smell. The houses are really close together as well, it just shows the quality of the people in the neighborhood when you walk by and say. Damn Sowell's place smells. Then just move on. It's not like he was concealed burying bodies in the backyard either, people just ignore you in urban communities. As a Cleveland east sider, If I sit on my porch, no one even looks at me, no one says hi, when they walk by. I could probably it there with a corpse and no one would even notice, because they just aren't friendly, or do they care. If you watch the street long enough you see something illegal, and no one wants to be involved.
- stevenwalters, on 11/05/2009, -2/+9ARE YOU SURE?
- NovaPrime9, on 11/05/2009, -1/+8How the hell do you know one of his parents was bisexual?
- josecapgar1, on 11/05/2009, -0/+6What exactly are the resources of the parole departments these days? If he's a recently paroled rapist who served fifteen years, how is he not monitored more closely? Our local news states that Garrido (the guy who held Jaycee Dugard for 18 years in his backyard) was a convicted rapist and parole agents noticed a 12-year-old in his home on a visit. This isn't a normal misdemeanor, this is a criminal element with a high recidivist rate. Devote some damn resources to your cases to make sure these pervs haven't resumed practice for 18 YEARS or enough time to commit 11 murders.
Link: http://www.kcra.com/news/21521622/detail.html - bandomac, on 11/05/2009, -0/+6Probably has Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
- PiddlyD, on 11/05/2009, -0/+6Of him peeling off his skin and being a lizard, or of the similarity between him and a bull terrier?
I figured I was getting buried because I had offended Bull Terrier fans (which are probably nice dogs, even though they look remarkably like serial killers from East Cleveland)... :) - BoneheadFarker, on 11/05/2009, -1/+6To a deluxe apartment in the skyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!
- gartsteve, on 11/05/2009, -0/+5This didn't happen in East Cleveland. It happened on the east side of Cleveland. And the neighborhood there isn't a particularly bad one. I should know - I live just a couple of miles away. In fact, within 3 miles of this guy's house, you'll find the trendy Shaker Square area and some million dollar homes at the edge of Shaker Heights.
However, this doesn't mean that the location wasn't part of what allowed this to happen. On the radio here today, they were talking about how some reports to police from neighbors there actually reported smelling something like decomposing bodies. It seems like with a known violent sex offender who just got out of prison not long ago living nearby would warrant a police visit. Hell, shouldn't his parole officer be checking up on the guy anyway?
Cleveland is dysfunctional - but don't just chalk this up into people in the slums not caring. - briarmoss, on 11/05/2009, -0/+5Thank you. Thanks for that image. *****.
- andyb747, on 11/05/2009, -0/+5Full grown crack baby.
- JoeF8577, on 11/05/2009, -0/+5Oh! I think he said the sheriff is near...
- TexMexRex, on 11/05/2009, -0/+5No.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Williams
I don't think it's that terribly uncommon.
http://www.topix.com/forum/afam/T4HNH3B4TSGFJ0475
http://freebillwhite.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=15
(please note, the above references are to sites that express some opinons I don't agree with, but the facts they present are facts.) - Elsewhere42, on 11/05/2009, -0/+5I was thinking the same thing, then I remembered John Allen Muhammad.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Allen_Muhammad
However, this guy might be better described as a terrorist. - JoeF8577, on 11/05/2009, -0/+5Seriously, I didn't even know a smell could get so bad in a house that YOU SMELL IT ON THE STREET!!! WTF PEOPLE!
- FozzDog, on 11/05/2009, -0/+4Why is this in the Offbeat section?
- TheMachine1, on 11/05/2009, -1/+5Except for the tan.
- davidjunit, on 11/05/2009, -0/+4I would probably request a report just so my insurance company would have that to work with when repairing the hole, well, unless of course you told the insurance company you were east Cleveland and they immediately understood. heh
- welestgw, on 11/05/2009, -0/+4Welcome to East Cleveland.
- josecapgar1, on 11/05/2009, -0/+4I believe they thought the smell came from a nearby meat packing plant. The plant replaced their lines and bleached them, but couldn't get the smell to go away. Turns out some evil ***** was burying bodies nearby.
- bandomac, on 11/05/2009, -0/+4Once a rapist, always a rapist...even if you never do it again.
Reminds me of the joke...But, you ***** one goat. - black27696, on 11/05/2009, -0/+3@jeff
10 seconds - 07scupet, on 11/05/2009, -0/+3Yeah, rep' it East Cleveland.
But really, this city needs to get it's ***** straight. This is despicable.
This coming from an Clevelander of the East side (further out of the city to be sure). - RagManX, on 11/05/2009, -0/+3"Is a trial really necessary?"
According to US law, yes it is. -
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