CLEVELAND, Ohio – Scores of law enforcement officers continued their search for convicted 50 years old sex offender Anthony Sowell, while investigators temporarily ended their work at Sowell’s home after finding the body remains of as many as six people inside and outside his house.

Anthony Sowell is wanted in connection for an alleged attack on a woman in his home in September. When police arrived at the home on Thursday with a search warrant, they found two bodies on the third floor. Because the bodies were in advanced stages of decomposition, the bodies have not yet been identified and their genders not yet determined. Friday afternoon a third body was uncovered in a shallow grave in the basement of the home. Cadaver dogs uncovered additional shallow graves in the home’s backyard. Investigators say they plan to continue searching the home for more evidence. At least two of the bodies were women. One body was found in the back yard, the rest in the house.

“Sowell is the most wanted man in Cleveland right now,” said police spokesman Lt. Thomas Stacho. He also said that the bodies “appear to be in different stages of decomposition.” He said an expert from the Cleveland Museum of Natural History was at the house helping coroner employees determine when and how the victims had died – at least one of the victims died from violence.

A review of police reports and court records show Sowell struck up conversations with women, usually by offering them alcohol. Once inside his home, three women said, Sowell choked them, stripped off their clothes and raped them. A fourth woman told police Sowell offered her a beer and choked her, but she was able to run away before he could sexually assault her.

Sowell remains at large and on the run. Crime Stoppers and U.S. marshals are offering a $12,000 reward for any information leading to Sowell’s arrest. 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.

Anyone with information can call 1-866-4-Wanted.

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Bangladeshi police said Monday they had arrested a 40 year old man, for theft, who confessed to brutal murdering of 11 woman,  garment factory workers in the south of the country in two years, in an attempt to reach the target of 101 serial murders, in revenge bid as he was denied in love nearly 16 years ago.

Chief of the local Faridgonj Police station in Chandpur Ranjit Kumar Palit said a 40 year old Rasu Khan, was initially arrested in Tongi on September 3 for stealing fans from a mosque in Faridganj, and later on he was interrogated regarding a woman murder case in the district. “Police had been investigating the recent murder of a woman in Chandpur Sadar, having been informed of the killing by a mobile phone call. When police tried to trace the number, the SIM was found to be inactive. It was later reactivated. Police arrested the user and found that he had bought the SIM from Khan“, said the Chief.

Being linked to the murder of that woman, Khan eventually confessed that he used to take women somewhere for traveling and then kill them viciously and dump their bodies in river, or other water, he said. He said he killed 10 more women, aged 15-35, up to August this year. He also said he used to rape the women he “liked” before killing them. Others were strangled to death straightaway, before he disposed of their dead bodies.

“We became aware of this man by chance. He lived in the capital with his wife and children and would target young women who lived in Dhaka and worked in garment factories. He would make contact with them using mobile phones and pretend he was interested in them romantically. He’d meet up with them and bring them to Chandpur and then murder them”, Palit said.

Sixteen years ago, the now self-confessed serial killer was living in Tongi, Dhaka. There, he told police, he met a girl, Sharmin, of a rich family. He claims he proposed to her several times but was always rejected. He also says she suffered a severe beating at the hands of her family members, which made him “angry with women“.
“So, I vowed to kill 101 women excepting my wife (as, bizarrely, he did marry—more than once) and then pass rest of the life at a shrine. I targeted to kill 101 women as part of taking avenge against women as the girl whom I loved nearly sixteen years ago did not respond to me”, the now self-confessed serial killer was quoted as saying in his confessional statement.

Khan also said his first victim was his brother-in-law’s wife, whom he killed in early 2007. He acted very well and lured the woman to travel with him to a remote lonely place where he raped and strangled her to death and left the body at the bank of a river. Later on, he said he managed to kill 10 more women, till August this year and was looking for another woman to hunt.

Palit said Khan was remarkably unruffled during interrogation by police while he does not look insane but seemed hard-hearted. The women-hating killer also reportedly appeared oddly at ease describing the cruel murder incidents even when produced before the media.
“I hope I am not caught in any ‘crossfire’, I’d rather be punished according to the law,” Khan said during a police press briefing.

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A 21 years old William Inmon who confessed to killing three people on Wednesday and pronounced himself a serial killer told authorities he committed the crimes because one man shot his dog, he didn’t want the second to hurt anyone else and his attempts to get a 16-year-old off drugs failed.

Authorities said his killing spree started in April 2007 with William “Stoney” McCarragher, 72. Inmon was interviewed in 2007 as a potential suspect but he denied killing William, stating how “the whole town is suspect because a lot of people did not care for Stoney” He told prosecutors that McCarragher inappropriately touched him when he was working on his property and also stated that another person shared the similar experience with him. He confessed to the murder saying how he didn’t want McCarragher to violate anyone else.

His second victim, Achten, a Vietnam veteran allegedly used drugs, shot his dog, and generally mistreated people, so he believed he had a duty to rid society of him. Inmon told the authorities he chased the victim toward a motor home and then shot him multiple times inside the home with a .22-caliber rifle.

As for his third victim, a 16 years old Ricky Flores, Inmon told authorities he wanted him to change his life, authorities assumed drugs were the issue. He allegedly picked Flores from his home and the two of them argued about Flores’ drug use. Inmon then drove him outside town where he chased him down and killed him with a single shot from a .12-gauge shot gun in his left ear.

Inmon was proud of committing the murders of Achten and McCarragher, but admitted he was remorseful about the death of Flores – one of only three moments when he showed real emotion and broke down to tears. Apache County Attorney Michael Whiting said Thursday that Inmon’s overwhelming motive in the murders was that he wanted to rid society of less-than-desirable people. He told authorities he would have continued his vigilante killing spree had he not been caught.

“This is the best result for the justice system, the community, and most importantly for the victims’ families,” said Whiting. Whiting agreed not to seek the death penalty based on the suspect’s age and on his cooperation with law enforcement. faces prison sentences of 25 years to life on each of three counts of first-degree murder.

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People terrorized by a serial killer who shot five people to death in their small community were relieved after police said they killed the man responsible. He was shot dead on Monday and he was a career criminal paroled just two months ago, authorities said. But with his death, an answer to why he launched the bloody spree remains unknown.

The name of the serial killer who killed five people in the small town in South Carolina is Patrick Tracy Burris, and he was 41 at the time of his death. He was shot to death by officers investigating a burglary complaint at a home in Gastonia, North Carolina, 30 miles from where the killing spree started June 27. Ballistics tests showed his gun matched the one used to kill residents in and around Gaffney over six days last week, said State Law Enforcement Division Chief Reggie Lloyd.

Patrick Burris was a career criminal paroled from a North Carolina prison in April after serving nearly eight years for felony breaking and entering and larceny, authorities said, describing him as transient who had a drug and criminal past. “Look at this,” Lloyd said, waiving a stapled copy of Burris’ criminal record. “This is like 25 pages. At some point the criminal justice system is going to need to explain why this suspect was out on the street.”

But investigators don’t know if Burris fatally shot five people in Cherokee County, S.C., for drug money – or if the career criminal was motivated by nothing more than the desire to kill. At the crime scenes, he left behind cash and valuables, police said. Instead, they said he took items out of character for a robbery, but they wouldn’t say what those items were. “Some of the (valuable) things weren’t taken,” said Gaffney, S.C., police Chief Richard Turner. “You have to back up and say, ‘If it’s not a robbery, then what was the intent?’”

“He was unpredictable. He was scary. He was weird,” said Neil Dolan, deputy director of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division. “The mind of a psychopath is something you cannot predict.”

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Here is a short transcript from the article: Serial killer became more and more brazen, dangerous. To read the rest of this detailed article, written by Jason Spencer, go to goupstate.com:

As the terror slowly subsides in rural Cherokee County following the death of a serial killer who claimed five lives, people are asking more and more: Who was the killer? Who was Patrick Tracy Burris?

Burris was a bully. He was a bully whose behavior no class, program, jail or prison was ever able to correct, control or contain. He was a bully who, because he was able to continue getting away with things, became increasingly brazen, reckless and dangerous. He was a bully with substance-abuse problems who should not, under any circumstances, have had access to the .25-caliber handgun he used to shoot five people to death.

At 19 years old, he began racking up numerous felony convictions for burglary and grand larceny. Within three years, he would move to Rockingham County, N.C., though not without first violating his probation…

Police in South Carolina say they have a serial killer on the loose. In the past week, four people have been murdered in and around the town of Gaffney. All the crime scenes are within miles of each other. “Let me say that, under the FBI’s definition of a serial killer, yes, we have a serial killer,” Sheriff Bill Blanton told reporters.

The first shooting happened Saturday, when peach farmer Kline W. Cash, 63, was found dead by his wife in their home, said Leigh Caldwell, a victims services coordinator for the sheriff’s office. Sheriff Bill Blanton said Cash’s home may have been robbed.

On Wednesday, the bound and shot bodies of 83-year-old Hazel Linder and her 50-year-old daughter, Gena Linder Parker, were found in the mother’s home, where she lived alone. “We’re still trying to determine if anything’s missing from there,” Blanton said.

Thursday night brought two more shooting victims — 45-year-old Stephen Tyler was found shot dead and his 15-year-old daughter wounded in the family-run furniture and appliance store, Tyler Home Center, said Chief Rick Turner of the Gaffney Police Department. He would not say whether the Tylers were bound.

Authorities began circulating a flier announcing a $2,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of Cash’s killer. The flier provides a composite sketch and description of the suspect and a picture and description of his SUV, that witnesses claimed they saw when he killed Tylers.

“Somebody knows this man,” Blanton said. “It’s easy to change his appearance. We assume he did, but he can’t change his height and hasn’t had but five days to change his weight,” he added.

About 100 investigators from North and South Carolina were working the case. “I think our community has a right to be concerned,” he said. “We’re concerned. We’re dealing with a man that’s killed four people.” He urged residents to check on relatives, especially those who live alone. “We’re asking the people in our community to be vigilant, to report anything.”

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