Jury indicts Ohio man accused of living with bodies

CLEVELAND - A registered sex offender attacked 14 women and killed 11 of them, leaving their remains in and around his home, a prosecutor said Tuesday after announcing a grand jury indictment against the suspected serial killer.

Anthony Sowell, 50, is indicted with murder charges in the deaths of 11 women, plus dozens of other counts, including kidnapping, abuse of a corpse, attempted murder, assault and rape.

“The Cuyahoga County grand jury has returned an indictment against this monster for brutalizing three women, two of whom were raped, and murdering 11 more,” said County Prosecutor Bill Mason, speaking at courthouse news conference. He expects to seek the death penalty.

Sowell’s attorney in a rape case incorporated in the indictment, Brian McGraw, did not immediately return a message left by The Associated Press on Tuesday.

Sowell, jailed in a segregation cell, has turned away family and media requests to visit, Sheriff Bob Reid said. The Associated Press wrote to him last month asking for a jailhouse interview, but there was no response.

Mason said Sowell lured vulnerable women to his home and that, “once inside, he tormented them, threatened them and assaulted them. He murdered 11 of them.”