One year ago the nation turned its eyes to a home on Imperial Avenue. By the end of the investigation at Anthony Sowell’s house, 11 bodies would turn up.
Tonight, there’s a rally and vigil in front of Cleveland’s house of horrors to remember and honor the victims — the 11 women who died at the hands of the monstrous serial killer.
The Plain Dealer also published a remarkably detailed and sad look back at the case — from the first moments when cops and reporters arrived at what looked like a relatively normal crime scene, to when the full story of Sowell’s heinous acts were uncovered. It’s well worth your time. The first part is embedded below. The rest can be found here.
| Imperial Avenue Uncovered, Part 1: The First Call |
This article appears in Oct 27 – Nov 2, 2010.
What is a bigger shame is the other 14 houses in this area with similar symptoms of stinking bags on porches, in yards and indoors of the houses left open for long durations of the summer before – I took councilman Ried to 5 of them and gave him the list on paper, if you visited the imperial 123 corner in the frozen chill of february or march you could not smell anything offensive from the sowell yard but when you turned the corner and smelled the basement vents of the sausage shop the smell came back reminding you off food kept too long needing to go to the refuse container. Do not assume this cemetary was created entirely by sowell if at all.