US rapist charged with multiple murders

Wed Nov 4 2009 17:44:30

A convicted rapist has been charged with five murders after police dug up ten corpses at his Ohio home.

Anthony Sowell, 50, was also charged with rape, assault and kidnapping.

Police said on Tuesday they had possibly found another four bodies and a skull at the house. The bodies of six women were found there last week.

Police Chief Michael McGrath said the latest bodies were found buried in the back garden of the house and the skull was in a bucket in the basement.

His home was searched after a woman reported being raped by him.

Authorities are trying to match the victims' DNA to that of missing women.

Sowell, a registered sex offender, was jailed in 1989 for raping a pregnant woman. He was released in 2005 after serving 15 years.

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