Police Begin Removing Walls from Imperial Avenue Home

Just before noon a large black-and-white police van arrived at the Imperial Avenue crime scene as police prepared to re-enter the home of Anthony Sowell.

[mike k]

blaming the police how about pointing is one finger at the cops and three pointing back at you the family accusing the others and while your pointing the thumb is pointing up to God.
So get off the blame game and finger pointing merry-go-round, and stop enabling and get them to stop the drugs and get clean.
I hope not all members of the families are drug users and there are a few left that can help your brothers and sisters and cousins get off. Heck, there are so many programs out in your liberal neighborhoods supported by liberals to help them get off drugs

[adnil]

There need to been a search in the vacant apartments and houses around the Page and Wymore area of East Cleveland.
This man followed me one time around to Strathmore until he noticed that there could be witnesses.
Also in the vacant building on Elerwood

[Judy]

I think it is very strange that the first 3 women identified all have names that start with T

[clevelander]

Ok, everyone in Cleveland go drive down this guys street and tell everyone that its a safe area. I challenge every politician and civic leader to walk down those streets take your wife and kids and let them play with the crack heads after 5pm and run around with kids. Have a few of these good moms and dads living around there watch your kids while your all at work just for a day or two. Then after you've done that fix the dang neighborhood already and clamp down on these idiots that have taken it over. Prayer isn't going to help look at the place, its been prayed over how many times its getting worse.

[da streets]

The reality is nobody yet has known if these bodies were murdered there or these people were collected from the streets nearby, this is a community where family values have eroded from having the nations highest ranking school district to 3d and 2nd generation careless culture, and the folks in east cleveland have eroded a lot at the same time, the families do not report missing children - the police had to plea with folks to get dna to get some info on who these bodies really are.
The mysterious question remains did Sowell do any of these murders?
This is a community where drug culture is second nature, mayor Jackson's niece Lori reported living with him until a year ago and she is surprised of the recent discoveries involving the bodies found there, she reported Sowell took very good care of her, Sowell apparently had one of the victims as a visitor because a gentleman admits to dropping off Ms. Culver at the Sowell house, but with all the media interviews and questioning not one person has reported hearing or seeing Sowell digging any graves, burying anything, choking anybody and not a scream from any victims, Sowell had another lady visitor who said he was aggressive to her and she left - she did not complain about the smell but she filed the attempted rape charge on him bringing the police attention recently. During a week of camera interviews Sowell's neighbors talked about coming to his driveway cookout, talked with him on the streets and sat on his front steps tipping some brews probably talking about the sausage factory smell and the noisy car music that thumps around there all the time. With so many unoccupied houses broken open in this area creating hide outs for the drug culture and other bad elements who knows if the pimps did not use Sowell's place as a dumping ground for the remains of unproductive sidewalk workers, open your eyes and see how fast UPS delivers packages with only one person and slushy streets and they get a signature - imagine one of the jacked up trucks with 3 dudes on a mission, the sausage smell is older to this area than the falling leaves blowing against the side of the buildings and the tires sitting in empty lots. The drug dealers are now very upset that this man closed their livelyhood down, it would not surprise me if the cadaver dogs pointed to those empty houses they use as hideouts, martial law would get the city looking good but no politician wants to do it because they can not directly take the glimmer of the spotlight.
The victims found on the property have many visits to the court system, many more than Sowell who served 15 years for attempted rape and came out with good comments on the public release paperwork. More on this in the next post....

[da streets]

The victims list will grow but this public information was found in the Cuyahoga public court site, it appears most of them missed the opportunity to turn into productive citizens;
Tonia Carmichael, 1978 grand theft, 1982 concealed weapon, 1987 theft with specs, 1995 theft with violent specs, 2000 unauthorized motor vehicle, 2002 theft and burglary, 2003 permitting drug abuse, 2005 drug possession and soliciting.
Telacia Fortson, 2001 attempt drugs, 2001 possession, 2003 possession, 2008 theft and aggravated theft
Tishana Culver, 1999 attempt possession, 2000 drug possession, 2000 drug possession, 2001 attempt possession, 2003 possession and trafficking and criminal tools, 2009 escape
Nancy Cobbs, 1995 drug trafficking and criminal tools, 1995 drug trafficking and criminal tools, 2000 drug possession
Amelda Hunter, 1986 forgery, uttering, receiving stolen property, theft, 2001 drug possession, 2005 drug possession
Crystal Dozier, 1997 attempted drug possession, 1998 drug possession, 1999 drug possession, 2000 trafficking cocaine, preparation of drugs and drug possession
Michelle Mason, 1993 Break and enter, 1993 drug abuse, 1993 drug abuse, 1994 drug abuse, 1997 possession of drugs, 1998 drug possession, 1999 drug possession, 2000 soliciting after HIV positive, 2000 attempt drug possession, 2001 drug possession

How about taking down a few torn up houses next to an empty lot and build the casino there, the drugs, hookers and crime are already closeby, imagine the carbon planet and energy savings, there are about 34,000 people there waiting for a chance to work at least a part time gig. The Issue 3 idea has never been tried here legally anyway, come on down Dan Gilbert, shows us you really care.

[Wolfman57]

da streets...

Good idea but you will need more parking.. I think bull-dozing E.105 to E.185 St. should provide enough parking.. Maybe Gilbert can provide the low cost housing for the Urbanites there. He can call it Gilbert Heights.. Slots will be provided in the housing community. We don't wish to scare the out-of towners away.. I just don't know.. I still prefer the Vegas climate...

[clevelander]

How many of the vacant houses did he hide some bodies in or bury in that neighborhood? Are the police going to check any of them out? They might find more women this guy mutilated He's been a very busy man and out of prison for a long time.

[da streets]

clevelander wrote:

How many of the vacant houses did he hide some bodies in or bury in that neighborhood? Are the police going to check any of them out? They might find more women this guy mutilated He's been a very busy man and out of prison for a long time.

Clevelander, I think you are reading into the story like the policeman over there, there is a bigger picture here - The mysterious question remains did Sowell do any of these murders?
This is a community where drug culture is second nature, mayor Jackson's niece Lori reported living with him until a year ago and she is surprised of the recent discoveries involving the bodies found there, she reported Sowell took very good care of her, Sowell apparently had one of the victims as a visitor because a gentleman admits to dropping off Ms. Culver at the Sowell house, but with all the media interviews and questioning not one person has reported hearing or seeing Sowell digging any graves, burying anything, choking anybody and not a scream from any victims, Sowell had another lady visitor who said he was aggressive to her and she left - she did not complain about the smell but she filed the attempted rape charge on him bringing the police attention recently. During a week of camera interviews Sowell's neighbors talked about coming to his driveway cookout, speaking with him on the streets and sat on his front steps tipping some brews probably talking about the sausage factory smell and the noisy car music that thumps around there all the time. With so many unoccupied houses broken open in this area creating hide outs for the drug culture and other bad elements who knows if the pimps did not use Sowell's place as a dumping ground for the remains of unproductive sidewalk workers, open your eyes and see how fast UPS delivers packages with only one person and slushy streets and they get a signature - imagine one of the jacked up trucks with 3 dudes on a mission, the sausage factory smell is old to this area like the falling leaves blowing against the side of the buildings and the tires sitting in empty lots. Remember Sowell was not home for days, someone saw him walking several blocks away and drove to report him at the 4th district where cars were dispatched and picked him up without any problem or confrontation - wonder who that tipster was who could identify Sowell under the hoodie while driving? Is he a jealous one from the area, did he drive Sowell somewhere for a few hours while the delivery was in progress? He sure looked happy on the camera didn't he, he found that guy, before the story unfolded into the horror of the week after halloween - amazing, truly an amazing man. On a mission?

[clevelander]

Authorities search abandoned Cleveland school near Anthony Sowell's house
By John Caniglia, The Plain Dealer
November 09, 2009, 12:09PM
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CLEVELAND, Ohio --The Imperial Avenue strangler lured easy prey into his deadly spider web with alcohol and drugs.
He raped them to assert power over them, put cords around their throats to control them and asphyxiated them one at a time in a thrill-quest that lasted for years.
He got away with it for so long by living and hunting in society's margins, by lying and manipulating with pathological precision, and by hiding an intense hatred for women behind a "mask of sanity."
That is the opinion of five crime experts, who said the mounting evidence in Cleveland's serial-killer case suggests a stereotypical sexual sadist.
And, they said, if suspect Anthony Sowell is found guilty of killing the 11 women whose bodies were found in and around his home, law enforcement officials elsewhere should open their cold-case files as far back as Sowell's days in the Marine Corps in the 1970s and '80s.
"I can guarantee you, every place [the killer] lived, you're going to find cases of women just like these being raped and killed just like this," said John E. Douglas, the retired agent behind the FBI's Criminal Profiling Program, which extrapolates killer profiles from forensic evidence.
"There is no way he only started killing a few years ago," said Douglas, who interviewed serial killers David Berkowitz, Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy for the book "Sexual Homicide: Patterns and Motives."

DA STREETS IT LOOKS LIKE THIS GUY HAS A BAD PROFILE THAT STRETCHES ALL THE WAY BACK.

[clevelander]

Read the entire article below.
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/11/imper...

[Smitty]

I really wish the media stop showing this monster face. Every time I see him it gives me the chills and, if I feel this way I know the families and friends of these women are living the horror over and over again of what he did