The time is December 2011. The place is Cleveland, Ohio. It’s late at night and we’re walking down the sidewalk, enjoying the cool breeze on our face. It’s a night like any other…and then we hear a noise. Is that demolition equipment? Let’s investigate, shall we?
Rounding the corner, we turn onto a street by the name of Imperial Avenue, and as we draw closer, we see that yes, it is indeed a demolition team. They’re parked outside of a house, the address being 12205 Imperial Avenue. On the outside the house looks nice, white in color with stone steps and a rather intricate front door, the only shoddy looking detail is the handmade railing on the front porch. Nothing out of the ordinary about it…you’d never have guessed what truly happened within those normal looking walls.
Revving up the massive excavator, the demolition team goes to town on the house, utterly destroying it. The walls crash and crumple, the roof breaks apart and caves in, the porch gets crushed underneath the debris, and the door is blasted inwards off its hinges. Minutes go by as we watch, and soon enough there is nothing left. Once more, nothing too out of the ordinary…but then we hear it.
The cheers. It’s now that we finally see the people. More importantly, we hear them. Cries of “Hallelujah!”
“Amen!” and “Tear it Down!” rings out in the night as people line the streets, watching on at the destruction of this simple looking home.
That’s because two years prior in 2009, a SWAT team charged inside that very house with the intent of arresting its sole occupant, a man by the name of Anthony Sowell. Neighbors at that time would have described Anthony as a kind man, sweet and neighborly, if perhaps a bit odd. It is now that we realize the discovery made by the SWAT team on that dark day, only two days before Halloween, would shake all of Ohio to its core, along with answering the questions surrounding the disappearances of a multitude of women two years prior.
As the darkness closes in around us once more, let us settle down as I relay to you all the tale of a monster that, had the proper steps been taken, could have been stopped long before he actually was…and at least a few lives could have been saved. This is the tale of Anthony Sowell, the Cleveland Strangler.
Born into Disorder
Let’s travel back in time even more as we set the scene. America in the 1950s and 1960s, a time where the south was full of racist, pathetic individuals and segregation was still in full swing. At the time, it was difficult for folks of the African American persuasion to make a good living and provide for their families, so during that period, there were many people and their families who migrated to the north in search of a fairer life with more opportunities.
This goes for one Claudia Garrison, known to many as Gertrude. She was a single mother who moved to Ohio at that time in order to provide a better life for her children, which included Anthony Edward Sowell, born on August 19th, 1959, in East Cleveland, Ohio.
Sowell was one of seven children born to Claudia, and she raised all of them under one roof. The house became even more cramped years later as one of Sowell’s sisters passed away from a chronic illness, so it came down to her mother to raise her own seven children. Talk about a full house.
It’s here that we once again meet an old familiar element in these cases: childhood abuse. However, it wasn’t so much against Sowell himself. On the contrary, it was against the children of her own daughter. Yes, that’s right, Garrison was downright awful to her own grandnieces and nephews, going so far as to have them strip naked and beat them bloody with electrical cables.
Perhaps it was from the stress of looking after so many children, but that’s no excuse. There’s never a good excuse for something like this. She tormented those poor children physically and verbally, and perhaps just as terrible, her own children watched on, absorbing the sight of the terrible treatment.
Anthony was reportedly a very quiet and shy child while in public, very timid and socially awkward, but at home, it was a different story. He’d become aggressive and angry, taking all his dark thoughts out on all of his younger siblings and other younger female relatives around him. He didn’t have a positive father figure in his life either, so he emulated not only his abusive mother, but also the abusive male family members that would come by day after day.
Children are like sponges, absorbing everything they experience as they grow up. So, all the abuse, all the negativity, he took all that in, allowing it to corrupt him to the core. It got to the point where he would actually rape his younger female cousins, many of them already being sexually abused by many of the older men of the family already.
A Place of Stability
As Sowell grew into a young man, the city around him was changing before his eyes. Many of the jobs and opportunities his mother had come to find had begun to dry up, people were losing their jobs and businesses were closing their doors. In their place, gangs and crime began to take advantage of the decline of the neighborhood, and things such as drugs and prostitution became more and more prevalent on the streets.
In an attempt to escape this, at the age of 18, Anthony Sowell joined the US Marine Corps on January 24th, 1978. In cases like this, it’s fairly commonplace for the subject to end their military service on rather bad terms. Surprisingly, this wasn’t the case for Sowell. He actually excelled in the military, completing basic training, and going on to be a good Marine, being stationed at several bases across the country as well as a post overseas in Japan.
During his 7 year stretch in the military, he received many awards and honors. These include a Good Conduct Medal with one service star, a Sea Service Deployment Ribbon, a Certificate of Commendation, a Meritorious Mast, and two Letters of Appreciation.
It seemed that all Sowell really needed was stability, a place where there was structure, rules, and order. The Marines provided that for him, and so he thrived. His formal honorable discharge came on January 18th, 1985, and afterwards he returned to Cleveland, now aged 25.
A rather rough, and quite frankly horrendous, start, but it seems Anthony was able to turn things around and have a rather good career within the armed forces. You’d think that would have set him down a good path from here on out, yes? Well…not quite.
A 15 Year Stretch
Returning back home to a place filled with negativity and crime, it didn’t take long for Anthony to be dragged down into the depths once again. Cleveland, back in the 80’s, was very much in the gutter. Crime had skyrocketed, and gangs roamed the streets without issue. Drugs had the city in a vice grip, especially crack cocaine.
And sad to say some of the people hit hardest by this downward spiral were folks of the African American community. Crack was running rampant through black neighborhoods; people were hooked on it and their lives were taking a turn for the worse.
As far as Sowell is concerned, the removal of the structure and order he needed and had over the last 7 years threw him into his own downward spiral. He was unemployed, had become addicted to drugs and alcohol, and soon…the rage took hold.
In 1989 he came upon a pregnant woman who he invited back to his home. There he bound her, gagged her, tortured her, and then raped her. Thankfully she’d managed to escape and report him to the police. “He choked me real hard because my body started tingling. I thought I was going to die.”
Sowell was arrested and charged with kidnapping, rape, and attempted rape. Shockingly enough, Sowell was offered a plea deal by the prosecution, to which if Sowell pled guilty, he would only get 15 years in the pen at most and would need to register as a sex offender once he was released. Anthony, of course, took the deal and pleaded guilty to all of the charges, and in 1990 he was sentenced to 5-15 years in prison.
By the time Anthony Sowell was put away…the bodies of 3 women in his neighborhood had already been discovered. Their cases remain unsolved to this day. It’s rather convenient that Sowell had 4 years of relative quiet before the rape charge…makes you wonder, doesn’t it?
While locked up, he was given multiple psychological evaluations and each one came back the same: Anthony Sowell was diagnosed as being a low-risk offender, someone who could easily slip back into society with the likelihood of him repeating his untoward behavior being slim to none. Basically, he wouldn’t have to go door to door and introduce himself, outing himself as a sexual predator to the community once he was released.
It also helped that while in jail, he was a model prisoner. He was charming, helpful, followed instructions and didn’t give the guards any trouble. The return of order, the return of structure, it was doing wonders for him, though the darkness was always there, even if others couldn’t see it. He applied for parole several times while serving his sentence, but despite his good behavior, he was repeatedly denied. He ended up serving the whole 15 years behind bars before he was set free in the year 2005.
It should also be noted that while in custody, Sowell’s DNA was never taken, despite the fact that we had the technology at the time. Would have been mighty helpful later on.
It was in that same year that Anthony Sowell moved into his new home…the house at 12205 Imperial Avenue. He was honestly doing good for himself for a while. He got himself a job at a rubber factory, he had stability in his life, he even got himself a girlfriend named Lori Frazier. However, things seemed to fall off by the year 2007.
He’d lost his factory job due to simply refusing to show up, started collecting unemployment checks, he’d started drinking and doing drugs all over again, and because of this, Lori left him. Because of all this, something in Anthony snapped, and it was in 2007 that everything got worse…and women started to disappear.
Without a Trace
It was in May 2007 when the first disappearance occurred. 35-year-old Crystal Dozier was a mother of seven and, much like many who lived in the area, she was addicted to drugs, namely crack cocaine. Her habit only intensified after one of her children sadly passed away, so she took to the streets in order to get money in order to feed her terrible addiction. One night she met with Anthony Sowell on the street and was invited back to his home with the allure of drugs, drink, and the chance to make some money.
She took him up on his offer…and she was never seen again. Her family reported her missing, but almost nothing came of it.
It was around this time that the neighbors around 12205 Imperial Avenue started noticing a rather putrid odor. They started complaining to local officials and anyone they could speak with, it almost smelled as if something had died in the area. However, the health inspector that was sent to investigate didn’t look too far into it at the time. The reason?
There was a corner store right across the street and it was run by a number of folks of Arab descent. These officials brushed the complaints of these people off using the stereotype of Arab folks having a pungent smell as the reason. The laziness and the sheer ignorance towards these people is staggering.
A little over a year later in June 2008, another woman vanished. This was 33-year-old nursing assistant Tishana Culver. Much like Dozier, she was a mother with several children, and she also had a well-established drug problem, along with several run-ins with the law. She disappeared and her family reported her missing…and nothing happened.
Ex-boyfriend Marcus Johnson has been quoted as saying, “She loved her kids. She would talk about them all of the time, and she just had this big smile on her face whenever she could see them.”
At this point, the smell in the community only got worse. Once again the health inspector came out to check and see what could be causing the problem. The whole “Arabs with an odor” explanation is quickly and thankfully ruled out…however they didn’t replace it with one much better. Instead, they blamed it on the sausage store named Ray’s Sausage Shop that was next door to the house, blaming it on the poor ventilation system.
If they honestly thought that it was sausages causing that particular stench…it’s truly flabbergasting.
It’s here that we meet a woman by the name of Vanessa Gay. Much like the other women who’d gone missing, she’d lived a relatively normal life until she reached her thirties, and that’s when she started abusing drugs. One night, she came upon a man who invited her back to his house to smoke and drink. That man was Anthony Sowell.
Almost as soon as she’d stepped foot in his home, Sowell punched her in the face and forced her to strip naked in front of him. He then proceeded to rape this poor defenseless woman over and over again until she managed to escape and report the attack to the police…and nothing happened.
She reported this assault and repeated rape to the authorities, and they did nothing. Apparently back in 2008, the Cleveland Police simply didn’t have a proper procedure when it came to dealing with rape victims, and even less so when it seemed the victim was a drug addict. They said they couldn’t do anything about it unless she came down to the station herself and reported it in detail.
And all the while, the dispatcher sounded bored and uninterested about the whole ordeal. Violated and humiliated, and given the impression the police could care less what a drug addict had to say, Vanessa didn’t “officially” report the attack.
Had the police taken Vanessa seriously, so many lives could have been saved. Had the police actually done anything to investigate the previous two vanishings and not simply written them off as worthless drug addicts who had disappeared into the wind, everything that happened afterwards could have been stopped. But they didn’t, they couldn’t be bothered to do their jobs, and because of that, the violence continued unabated. Prejudice and bias at its worst.
The Vanishings Continue
Following Vanessa’s escape, several more women would disappear without a trace. Leshanda Long was 25 years old when she disappeared in August 2008. She was the youngest of Sowell’s victims, had gotten pregnant at 14, and by the age of 17 already had three children. Another troubled woman caught in the grips of a monster.
Next was 45-year-old Michelle Mason in October 2008. She too was a drug addict at one point in her life, even after having her two sons, and on top of that she was diagnosed with HIV. However, after an incident where she was shot in her eye, she decided to turn her life around. Kicking her drug habit, she dedicated herself to her children, did plenty of work around the community, and volunteered at the local HIV Center. She wanted to live her best life…sadly she never had the chance to.
Tonia Carmichael was the next to go. 53 years old, she too was a mother, and she too had a drug problem. Even with her addiction, she tried to live her life to the fullest, studying at Cuyahoga Community College as well as going on multiple cruises and outings. It was in November of 2008 that she went missing.
Then in December 2008, another opportunity to end this nonsense arose. By this point, Sowell could be found wandering the streets looking for bits of scrap metal to sell for money, which was pretty much how he was sustaining himself at that junction. It was on the streets that he met a woman by the name of Gladys Wade. Sowell attacked Wade on the street, in broad daylight, by the corner store by his house.
He dragged her into his house where he proceeded to beat on her for several minutes, even throwing her through a glass pane. She fought back however, scratching up his arms and face, managing to escape. She found a police car nearby and reported the attack, to which the officers drove to the house.
Now at this time the smell should have been unbearable, yet the officers didn’t have anything to say about it. Regardless, they spoke with Sowell about the incident, and he told the police that she had tried to rob him. Common sense would dictate that the woman, who reported the whole thing and looked significantly worse, was the one telling the truth. She should be treated as a victim and he should be arrested.
There’s no way that both would be arrested for this…right? Well sadly that’s precisely what happened. Both Sowell and Wade were arrested, and after Wade was treated, they both were released.
Again, another instance where the police could have fixed this whole thing, saved all the lost lives to come, and yet they didn’t. They had their heads too far up their own asses to do what was needed, and because of that, more women died, starting the new year of 2009 with the vanishing of 44-year-old Kim Yvette Smith. She was the only victim not to have children and was the caretaker of her wheelchair-bound father when she disappeared.
She’d had drug problems before, but she wanted to get her life together after getting out of prison. When interviewed, Smith’s aunt Christine Schobey stated, “Her only desire when she got out of jail was to get back on her feet and take care of her father.”
2009 continued to be a busy year for Sowell as 5 more women would go missing. Nancy Cobb and Amelda Hunter, aged 45 and 47 respectively, would both go missing in April of that year. Nancy was a grandmother of 5 and Amelda was a bookworm with three children, a fourth dying after birth, and both had their issues with drugs, a sadly common thread in this case.
After that, it was reported that another woman had been attacked and raped yet managed to escape. She went to the police and they actually did a rape kit…and nothing happened. The kit sat there at the station, collecting dust, as things kept on going down the drain. Hands down some of the worst police incompetence imaginable.
Then in June 2009, two more women were lost. Janice Webb was the first one, aged 48. She loved her family dearly and was known as a prankster, but she had been suffering from a crack addiction for some time before she vanished. Next was Telacia Forston, a mother of three who also had a crack addiction, many believed it to stem from the fact she was adopted. Telacia’s mother was relentless about following up with the police about her daughter, calling them every single day about it, but nothing was done.
The number of missing women simply continued to rise, and their files would continue to collect dust on a desk somewhere at the police department. The final victim was one Diane Turner. 38 years old, she had a difficult childhood, marred with abuse and drug issues, but she managed to become a mother to 6 children before she went missing. Ex-boyfriend James Martin stated in an interview that, “She didn’t bother nobody. Some of these girls, they’ll go out and steal from you.
Diane wasn’t like that… . She was a drug addict, she wasn’t no thief. She didn’t drink. She was basically a quiet person.”
The Nightmare House
At this point, the community was more than fed up with all the disappearances. All these African American women vanishing in such a short amount of time in such a small area, it’s ridiculous that no action was being taken. The folks in the streets started to spread the word and start looking around themselves…Anthony Sowell among them.
Then in September 2009, things all started to come crashing down. It started with a woman by the name of Latundra Billups. She’d been invited back to Sowell’s house for drinks, and in doing so ended up captured, beaten, and raped repeatedly. She managed to escape, but she didn’t report the attack. Not hard to believe at this point, the police are pretty much useless, so why bother, right?
Then a month later in October, a woman named Sean Morris came upon Anthony Sowell on the streets and once again, he invited her back to his home. They relaxed, smoked, drank, nothing sexual. The next morning comes and she’s ready to leave, heading upstairs to get her things. Then out of nowhere, Sowell pounces on her, starts beating her, then goes around to lock all the doors and windows, trying to prevent her from leaving.
Thinking fast, Morris ran upstairs and right through the second story window. Sowell came running out, butt naked, after her, but all of this caught the attention of neighbors, who called the police.
Morris was taken to the hospital and treated, all while Sowell said that it was all a misunderstanding, sex gone wrong, and that he was her boyfriend and/or husband. Morris didn’t want to speak to anyone about what happened, but the incident caught the attention of a lot of people, including Latundra Billups. That was enough to give her the courage to go to the police and tell them everything that happened to her.
For some reason, and by the grace of God, it was Billups’ report to the police that gave them the kick in the ass they needed. An arrest warrant was put out for Anthony Sowell, and a warrant to search his house was issued on October 29th. Police surrounded his home, and a SWAT team was called in, busting down the door, looking for Anthony. He wasn’t home…but what they found was much worse.
Remember how Ed Gein’s house was full of the body parts of his victims and those whose graves he robbed? How about John Wayne Gacy and how he had the corpses of almost 30 young men stuffed into the crawl space of his home? We have a similar situation here, and we finally get the real answer to what that hideous smell was that plagued the neighborhood for two years.
Entering the house, the smell was overpowering, near vomit-inducing. Dead flies littered the floor, dry rat droppings crunching underfoot, it was disgusting. How anyone was able to live like that, in all that filth, it sends a shiver over the whole body. And then…there were the bodies.
Heading upstairs, guns drawn, they came upon 2 corpses. Both women, long dead, just out in the open for the world to see. Further searching of the upper floors uncovered two more bodies, long into the decomposition process. That’s 4…but what about the rest?
Heading downstairs, the team descend into the basement where they find a large mound of dirt underneath the basement stairs. Removing the dirt, they find another body, along with a human skull sitting in a red bucket nearby. That brings the body count to 6.
It’s then that they go outside, and it’s in the backyard of the house where the stench was the strongest. The smell that was blamed on a group of people…the smell that was blamed on a sausage company…ignorance and ineptitude at its finest. In the backyard is where they find the remaining 5 bodies, either haphazardly buried or just left out to rot under the sun.
This vile, demented, abhorrent creature of a man had lured all of these women to his home, promising them drinks, drugs, and a good time. He then captured, beat, tortured, raped, and killed them all without a hint of remorse, all through manual strangulation. He then stored all these bodies in his home, where he allowed them to rot and decay as he lived with the smell and the sight of it all…it’s the stuff of nightmares.
It took the loss of 11 poor unfortunate women, but the police were finally on their game. For two days, they searched for Anthony Sowell, and eventually they found him. He was disheveled, dirty, and looking exhausted, as if he’d been sleeping outside in a bush for the last few days. He was finally arrested and charged at age 50 with the sexually motivated aggravated murder of 11 women, 5 counts of rape, 4 counts of attempted murder, 2 counts of kidnapping, 11 counts of abusing a corpse, and 11 counts of tampering with evidence.
Trial, Conviction, and a Bittersweet End
While in custody, Sowell tried to play the insanity card, telling his interrogators that he’d been hearing voices for years and it was them that told him to kill. When that didn’t work, he tried to make out like he was dreaming, saying that nothing about the situation felt real, that the murders didn’t feel real, and that he barely remembers them…and yet he provided vivid and detailed commentary on every single victim.
Sowell’s trial was repeatedly pushed back until it finally commenced on June 6th, 2011. He originally pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, but when it became clear that wouldn’t fly, he downgraded to simply a plea of not guilty. The trial lasted only a little over a month, with multiple surviving victims coming forth to provide testimony on what Sowell did to them. It was clear to all that had they not managed to get away, the death toll would be much higher than 11.
On July 22nd, Anthony Sowell was convicted on all but two of the counts with which he was tried, including the murders of the eleven women whose bodies were found in his house in 2009. On August 12th, 2011, he was sentenced to death. He was then transported to death row and imprisoned at Chillicothe Correctional Institute in Chillicothe, Ohio.
It was after his sentencing was read and he was transported to his new prison home that his deplorable house was torn down, harkening back to the opening of our tale. Sowell appealed on multiple occasions, each time trying to get his death sentence overturned. His original death date was October 12th, 2012, but a Stay of Execution was ordered based on his appeal to the Ohio Supreme Court, being granted in April of 2012.
At his appeal hearing, he and his lawyers argued many points, the most important being that he did not receive a fair trial because of the extensive media coverage, that the courtroom had been closed to the public “during an evidentiary hearing and while a jury was picked,” and that he had received “lousy legal representation.” “Sowell’s trial attorneys should have had their client plead guilty to killing the women and then focus their efforts on preventing Sowell from getting the death penalty.”
The Ohio Supreme Court heard his arguments in September 2014 and April 2016, his lawyers augmenting that his Sixth Amendment Right to a speedy and public trial had been violated after the press had been barred from the proceedings. They attempted to have his death sentence reduced to life in prison, but the courts were not having any of it. They argued that his Sixth Amendment Right had not been violated, and even if it had been, the evidence against him was so overwhelming that nothing would have made a difference. They also stated that Sowell was clearly in no way remorseful of his despicable actions, and that everything put together more than warranted the death penalty.
In December 2016, May and October 2017, February 2018, and May 2020, Sowell exhausted the rest of his appeals to the Ohio Supreme Court, the US Supreme Court, and the State of Ohio’s 8th District Appellate court. They all rejected him.
In the end, he was forced to wait until his fateful day arrived. Surprisingly, that day came sooner than expected. In January 2021, Sowell contracted an unnamed terminal illness, beginning end-of-life care on the 21st of that month, and on February 8th, 2021, Anthony Sowell, The Cleveland Strangler, passed away at the Franklin Medical Center at the age of 61.
It might not have been at the end of the needle, and his surviving victims as well as the families of his long dead victims might not have been able to watch him die, but they surely let out a sigh of relief when the news arrived that the man who destroyed their lives was no more.
A 21st Century Serial Killer
And that brings us to the end of our tale. A tale of a destructive man who ruined everything and everyone in his wake, sending shockwaves through the city of Cleveland that terrify folks even to this day. And it’s also a story of how the police completely and utterly failed the people that they were sworn to protect. It doesn’t matter if they were drug addicts, it doesn’t matter that they were black.
They were people, same as you and I, and they did not deserve the savage and horrifying end that befell them. Had the police stepped in when they were needed, had they been bothered to do their jobs, none of this might have happened, and that’s truly the saddest part. This whole mess could have been prevented…and it just wasn’t.
The really scary part? The fact that this was so recent. What do we think of when we hear the term serial killer? We think of killers of times long past.
We think of the 70s and 80s when the Golden Age of Serial Killers was in full swing with the Big Four of Bundy, Gacy, Dahmer, and Ridgeway were on the loose. The closest most would consider when thinking of serial killers is perhaps during the 90s…this was 2008-2009. This was less than 20 years ago that this beast was killing, and he’s already been described by most as one of the most infamous and despicable killers in American history.
This generation has an air of invincibility about them, like they are untouchable…that can’t be further from the truth, and this case proves it. When studying killers of old, it’s interesting, fascinating even. But when things are so recent and close to home? It goes to show that evil is always present, no matter the time period.
The plot of land where 12205 Imperial Avenue once stood was a vacant lot for many years after the house was destroyed. However on July 16th, 2021, months after his death, ground was broken on his former property with the creation of the Garden of 11 Angels memorial, and on November 6th, 2021, it was completed and officially dedicated to the 11 lives lost at the hands of this murderous monster.
It’s with them that we end this story today, for it is them that should be remembered and mourned, not the piece of garbage that took them away.
Crystal Dozier, Tishana Culver, Leshanda Long, Michelle Mason, Tonia Carmichael, Kim Yvette Smith, Nancy Cobbs, Amelda Hunter, Janice Webb, Telacia Fortson, Diane Turner.
Rest in peace, dear ladies, hopefully if there is actually an afterlife, for you it is a pleasant one.
Key Takeaways
- Anthony Sowell, the Cleveland Strangler, murdered 11 women between 2007-2009 and hid their bodies in his Imperial Avenue home.
- Multiple police failures and systemic bias against drug-addicted Black women allowed Sowell to continue killing despite survivor reports and neighborhood complaints.
- Sowell’s house was demolished in December 2011 while community members cheered, and later became the Garden of 11 Angels memorial.
- Sowell received a lenient plea deal in 1989 for kidnapping and rape, served 15 years, and was misclassified as low-risk despite his violent history.
- Sowell died in February 2021 from terminal illness while on death row, never having been executed for his crimes.
Dana Ortiz covers prosecutorial mechanics, evidentiary procedure, and how investigations unwind decades after the original case file went cold.
Frequently Asked Questions
What was the address of Anthony Sowell’s house?
12205 Imperial Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio.
When was Anthony Sowell born?
August 19th, 1959, in East Cleveland, Ohio.
How many women were found dead in Sowell’s house?
11 women were found dead in his house.
What branch of the military did Anthony Sowell serve in?
The US Marine Corps.
How long did Sowell serve in the military?
7 years, from January 24th, 1978 to January 18th, 1985.
What was Sowell’s sentence for his 1989 kidnapping and rape conviction?
5-15 years in prison after accepting a plea deal.
When was Sowell released from prison?
What was the name of Sowell’s girlfriend who left him in 2007?
Lori Frazier.
When was Sowell’s arrest warrant issued?
October 29th, 2009.
When was Sowell convicted?
July 22nd, 2011.
Sources
- Original Casual Criminalist video: The Cleveland Strangler: House of Horrors
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