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Ohio rapist charged with murder | |
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A convicted rapist living in an Ohio home where several bodies have been found has been charged with five counts of aggravated murder, US police say. | |
Anthony Sowell, 50, was also charged with rape, assault and kidnapping, Cleveland police spokesman Lt Thomas Stacho says, quoted by AP. | |
Mr Sowell, a registered sex offender, is due in court on Wednesday. | Mr Sowell, a registered sex offender, is due in court on Wednesday. |
Police found the bodies of six women at his home last week, followed by reports of two more earlier today. | |
A Cleveland TV station said the two latest bodies were found buried in the back garden of the home. | |
Detectives were using dogs and digging equipment to search the home and backyard for evidence, Lt Stacho said. | |
The BBC's North America correspondent Matthew Price says the nondescript wooden house on the suburban street in Ohio is slowly giving up its secrets. | |
Our correspondent says people living nearby held a vigil outside the house this week, in memory of those found so far. | |
Some clutched photographs of women who have gone missing from the area in recent years. | |
Mr Sowell - who spent 15 years in prison for a 1989 rape - was arrested on Saturday not far from his home. |