Alleged Ohio serial killer rare among mass killers
By JOHN SEEWER and ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS
CLEVELAND (AP) - Authorities say alleged serial killer Anthony
Sowell is among a narrow subcategory of killers who hunt their
victims from home.
The designation includes the 1893 Chicago Fair killer, Milwaukee
cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer and John Wayne Gacy, who had 27 bodies
buried beneath his Chicago-area house.
National serial-killer expert Robert Keppel says such killers
are so rare that it's impossible to understand why they took such
actions.
Police say Sowell lured women into his home in a busy
neighborhood, killed them and scattered their remains throughout
the inside and buried some in the backyard.
His home and backyard - a burial site for five victims - were
shielded by an empty home to the left and the windowless brick wall
of a sausage company on the right.
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