Coroner says 6 women whose bodies were found at home died violently

Summary: In Cleveland, Ohio the bodies of six women were found at the home of Anthony Sowell, a convicted rapist, as police went there to attempt to arrest him on more rape charges. The police did not find Sowell at the home, but instead discovered two bodies in the upstairs of the house, and later found two more in a crawlspace, and two in shallow graves. All the women appear to have been strangled, and their bodies have been in the home anywhere from weeks to years. Police tracked down Sowell on Saturday, and arrested him.

Opinion: This story horrified me, and I am not alone. In her blog, Olivia expressed her shock over the fact that these women have been missing for such a long time, possibly years, and yet nobody launched a search for any of them. I completely agree with her, no one should simply disappear without the police doing their best to locate and save them. That these women slipped through the cracks is disturbing, and strange. Olivia also questioned how a convicted rapist like Sowell, with obvious mental problems, had been released from jail and left unsupervised enough to go on commiting terrible crimes. Stories like this prove that something must be done to change our criminal justice system. This crime was preventable, and should not have gone undiscovered for so long.

Sources:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/31/ohio.cleveland.bodies/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

Olivia Rice's blog on this topic