Location, location, location

[pbray]

The Cleveland police have now found at least ten bodies at the home of Anthony Sowell. If you've been following the news you may remember that some of the bodies were found decomposing inside the house with no attempts at disposal, while others were buried in the basement or backyard. One of the bizarre twists in this case is that for years neighbors had complained about a foul stench in the area, which was blamed on an adjacent sausage factory. The factory had even replaced its sewer lines and traps in an attempt to address the problem. Proving, I suppose, that murder is subject to the same real estate rules as any other endeavor--it's location, location, location.

Comments

[icedrake.livejournal.com]

Wow. I somehow missed the breaking of the story, but it sure reads like a Hallowe'en tale.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

It's the kind of thing that no one would believe in a book.

[karen-w-newton.livejournal.com]

Euwww!

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

[jjschwabach.livejournal.com]

And the less one knows about sausages....

Wow. My mom points out that, "shouldn't the point of sex offender registry be..." that when women disappear.... "...someone checks up on the sex offenders?"


She feels it's a major FAIL.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

It does appear to be a fail on many levels-- the police were at that house as recently as September 22nd to confirm that he was in residence, but no one went inside, or thought about the smell.

And there'd even been an earlier complaint by neighbors of a naked woman falling out of a window that was never investigated (my suspicion is he'd gotten so lazy that instead of carrying body downstairs he simply tossed it out the window before burying it in the yard.)

Also a missed opportunity in that no one realized there was a serial killer in the area, no one put together the missing women to recognize a pattern. Which, of course, brings to mind the cheerful thought that experts estimate anywhere from 50 to 300 serial killers currently operating in the U.S.