After 3 bodies found, Ohio police to resume search
Source: AP-Excite
EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) - Police plan to continue a search Sunday for possibly more victims after three bodies were found wrapped in plastic bags in a Cleveland suburb.
The bodies, believed to be female, were found about 100 to 200 yards apart and a 35-year-old man was arrested and is a suspect in all three deaths, although he has not yet been charged, East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton said Saturday.
The suspect is a registered sex offender and has served prison time, the mayor said. In police interviews, the man led them to believe he might have been influenced by convicted serial killer Anthony Sowell, Norton said in an interview with The Associated Press.
"He said some things that led us to believe that in some way, shape, or form, Sowell might be an influence," the mayor said.
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Law enforcement and FBI stand at the back of a boarded-up home where bodies were found earlier in the day Saturday, July 20, 2013 in East Cleveland, Ohio. Police say three bodies have been found in plastic bags in East Cleveland. Police Commander Mike Cardilli said a woman's body was found Friday in a garage and two other bodies were found Saturday _ one in a backyard and the other in the basement of a vacant house. (AP Photo/The Plain Dealer, Joshua Gunter) MANDATORY CREDIT; NO SALES
Rebellious Republican
(5,029 posts)To many times I have read the same story, change name and dates. Castrate the bastards!
FarPoint
(12,409 posts)The high tier offenders will never stop.
That said....many have never been caught until there are just too many bodies to hide effectively. They seem to be average citizens and go on unnoticed for years!
Mopar151
(9,983 posts)Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)It's not about the sex.
TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)to make room for the person that got a life sentence after they were caught with half a joint!
hockeynut57
(230 posts)Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)That act like marijuana users are the most dangerous threat to society and let the real threats out to make room to put more marijuana users in prison. It makes no sense.
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)This Wikipedia page has a good compendium of research findings:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_offender#Recidivism
A 2002 study by the United States Department of Justice indicated that recidivism rates among sex offenders was 5.3 percent; that is, about 1 in 19 of released sex offenders were later arrested for another sex crime. The same study mentioned that 68 percent of released non-sex offenders were rearrested for any crime (both sex and non-sex offenses), while 43 percent of the released sex offenders were rearrested for any crime (and 24 percent re-convicted).[3]
A collection of official studies spanning the years 19832010 for all 50 states and the federal government of the US has been assembled. This URL provides a spreadsheet and .zip file containing sources supporting the DOJ study, where the average recidivism of sex offenders committing new sex crimes since 1983 is approximately 9 percent, compared to the 42 percent average recidivism rate for all felony offenders committing any new felony offense.
According to the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) of the United States Department of Justice,[4] in New York State the recidivism rate for sex offenders has been shown to be lower than any other crime except murder. Another report from the OJP which studied the recidivism of prisoners released in 1994 in 15 states (accounting for two-thirds of all prisoners released in the United States that year)[5] reached the same conclusion.
In 2007 the State Bureau of Investigation in North Carolina made significant changes to its sex-offender registration system, including new search criteria that include an "offender status" search (enabling an explicit search for convicted sex-offense recidivists in the sex-offender database). Manual searches (by county) using the new criteria yield some of the lowest recidivism rates ever disseminated by any law-enforcement establishment. In the entire state of North Carolina there are only 71 recidivists shown on the registry, if incarcerated offenders are included. Per-county results for "registered"-status offenders (compared with "recidivist"-status offenders) on the North Carolina registry yield actual convicted recidivist percentages ranging from zero to a fraction of one percent.[6]
Of released sex offenders who allegedly committed another sex crime, 40 percent perpetrated the new offense within a year or less from their prison discharge. Within three years of release, 2.5 percent of released rapists were rearrested for another rape, and 1.2 percent of those who had served time for homicide were arrested for a new homicide. Of the 9,691 male sex offenders released from prisons in 15 US states in 1994, 5.3 percent were rearrested for a new sex crime within 3 years of release. Sex offenders were about four times more likely than non-sex offenders to be arrested for another sex crime after their discharge from prison (5.3 percent of sex offenders, versus 1.3 percent of non-sex offenders). An estimated 24 percent of those serving time for rape and 19 percent of those serving time for sexual assault had been on probation (or parole) at the time of the offense for which they were in state prison in 1991. On a given day in 1994, there were approximately 234,000 offenders convicted of rape or sexual assault under the care, custody, or control of corrections agencies; nearly 60 percent of these sex offenders were under conditional supervision in the community.
Approximately 4,300 child molesters were released from prisons in 15 US states in 1994. An estimated 3.3 percent of these 4,300 were rearrested for another sex crime against a child within 3 years of release from prison. Among child molesters released from prison in 1994, 60 percent had been in prison for molesting a child 13 years old or younger. The median age of victims of those imprisoned for sexual assault was less than 13 years old; the median age of rape victims was about 22 years. Child molesters were, on average, five years older than violent offenders who committed their crimes against adults. Nearly 25 percent of child molesters were age 40 or older, but about 10 percent of inmates with adult victims were in that age group.[3]
Botany
(70,515 posts)n/t
Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)It looks like East Cleveland is foreclosure-land. Sad.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)East Cleveland has always (with the except of one strip of 2 or 3 streets) been a low incomed city. It was hit really hard by the sub-prime scheming that became the mortgage melt-down.
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)that state sure is growing in the crime area....
kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)person? I just want them to have the right person and not allow this to happen again?