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title: "The Cleveland Strangler: House of Horrors"
description: "The horrifying true story of Anthony Sowell, the Cleveland Strangler, who murdered 11 women in his Imperial Avenue home and the shocking police failures that allowed him to continue killing."
url: https://casualcriminalist.pub/article/the-cleveland-strangler-house-of-horrors.md
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datePublished: 2026-06-26
dateModified: 2026-06-26
author:
  - name: Dana Ortiz
    url: https://casualcriminalist.pub/author/dana-ortiz
publisher: Casual Criminalist
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---

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The horrifying true story of Anthony Sowell, the Cleveland Strangler, who murdered 11 women in his Imperial Avenue home and the shocking police failures that allowed him to continue killing.
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