Eleven corpses and a blind police force in Cleveland

Eleven corpses and a blind police in Cleveland: The serial killer Anthony Sowell An unbearable stench emanated from an ordinary house in Cleveland since the summer of 2007. Neighbors repeatedly complained, but authorities blamed the adjacent sausage factory. In reality, eleven women were decomposing in three different floors, in the basement, and buried in the yard, while the police visited the house multiple times without seeing the obvious. In this episode, we explore how three documented reports of rape and strangulation were filed away, minimized, or misclassified. We analyze the routine check on September 22, 2009, that detected nothing, and the security footage from October 20 that captured a naked woman falling from a window without being investigated at the time. How did a serial killer kill for two years under constant police surveillance? Victim: Anthony Sowell Date: 2007-2009 Location: 12.205 Imperial Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio Status: Sentenced to death; died in 2021 - Sowell was released in 2005 as a registered sex offender and settled in the house where he would kill eleven women in two years. - Three survivors reported identical attacks: beatings, forced rape, attempted strangulation with a wire; none of the reports were thoroughly investigated. - An officer from the specialized sexual crimes unit classified the attack on Gladys Wave as "attempted robbery," a mistake that cost him his job and opened a civil lawsuit against the city. - Wires wrapped around necks, a skull in a plastic bucket in the basement, and evidence of necrophilia revealed a systematic pattern of depravity that the police overlooked. Anthony Sowell, Cleveland Ohio, murder, 2009, serial killer, failed investigation, forensic, justice, imperfect crimes, police negligence, true crime EnglishTo listen ad-free and access premium episodes, start your 30-day free trial at obomedia.comOBOMEDIA presents true crime storiesa true crime podcast built on real cases.Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived.We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered.From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault.© 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie