The House on Imperial Avenue: The Cleveland Strangler
For two years, a sickly-sweet stench hung over Imperial Avenue in Cleveland. Neighbors blamed the sausage shop next door. They were wrong.
Inside a quiet duplex, Anthony Sowell — a former Marine and registered sex offender — was hiding the bodies of eleven women he had raped and strangled. He lured them in with drugs and alcohol, then buried or concealed their remains in the basement, crawl spaces, and backyard while the city walked past.
In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, host Alexander Lawson examines how Sowell operated in plain sight, why so many of his victims went unreported or…
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