10 bodies found in Ohio house of horrors (1st Lead)

Washington - Four more bodies have been found at the Ohio home of a convicted rapist, bringing the total number to 10, US media reports said Wednesday. A search was continuing for further bodies in the Cleveland, Ohio garden and house used by the suspect, Anthony Sowell, 50, who was released from prison in 2005 after serving a 15-year sentence for rape. 'He had an insatiable appetite to fill,' police chief Michael McGrath said. Detectives have a court warrant to tear apart the house looking for more bodies, the Cleveland Plain Dealer daily newspaper reported. Sowell was charged Tuesday with five counts of murder, rape and kidnapping, and faces the death penalty, the prosecutor said. On Wednesday, Sowell was ordered held without bail because 'the state believes (he) is an incredibly dangerous threat to the public, not only in Cleveland, but beyond the city's limits,' assistant county prosecutor Brian Murphy was quoted as saying. Police found the first six bodies at the home after they came to arrest him last Thursday on suspicion of committing another violent sex crime. Two of the bodies were in the living room, two in a cellar and one under the basement stairs. The sixth body was in a grave dug in the garden, where officers also found four other victims on Tuesday. Police also found a skull hidden in a bucket, but it was not immediately clear if this belonged to an 11th victim. The first six bodies found were badly decomposed. The victims were all African-American women. Reports said they could have been dead for months or even years. Initial investigations showed five of the women had been strangled. Sowell fled when police came to his house, but was captured nearby on Saturday. Sowell's attorney, public defender Kathleen DeMetz, wanted Sowell to be released on bail, referring to the pacemaker he wears for a heart condition.