Anthony Sowell Case: How Lazy Police Let a Serial Killer Run Free

As if this story can get more unbelievable.....stupid cops found the story of a woman claiming to be raped by a convicted felon/rapist unbelievable. Unbelievable!!

Don't believe me?

Anthony Sowell was arrested last year for choking and attempting to rape a woman. But police didn't believe the victim and set him free. See update after the jump...

Fawcett Bess owns Bess Chicken and Pizza, across the street from the home of Anthony Sowell. This is where police found the bodies of 11 women -- left in the attic, stuffed in crawl spaces, and buried in his backyard. This is also where Cleveland police were called to at least five times in the weeks and months leading up to the discovery. But they did almost no investigation.

Bess recalls an incident two weeks before police discovered the bodies. He found a naked Sowell standing in the bushes next to his house. On the ground was a naked woman bloodied and beaten. Bess called 911 and an ambulance took the woman away. But police didn't arrive until two hours later -- and never bothered to interview him...

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http://www.truecrimereport.com/2009/11/anthony_sowell_case_did_lazy_c.php
 
i thinks those cops should be fucktards of the year
 
[Similar thing happened with Jeffrey Dahmer - perhaps some of you younger folks won't remember this. Dahmer had one of his boy victims (young guy, maybe a teenager?) in his apartment, and was going to experiment with cutting holes in him to fuck those holes, but he had already drilled a small hole in this guy's head. The guy ESCAPED Dahmer's apartment - NAKED (or maybe just his undies) - but the cops found him and upon hearing his story, chalked it up to a weird gay lovers quarrel, and TOOK HIM BACK TO DAHMER!!!

Okay, here's the Wikipedia excerpt:

In the early morning hours of May 30, 1991, 14-year-old Konerak Sinthasomphone (by chance, the younger brother of the boy whom Dahmer had molested) was discovered on the street, wandering naked, heavily under the influence of drugs and bleeding from his rectum. Two young women from the neighborhood found the dazed boy and called 911. Dahmer chased his victim down and tried to take him away, but the women stopped him.[29] Dahmer told police that Sinthasomphone was his 19-year-old boyfriend, and that they had an argument while drinking. Against the protests of the two women who had called 911, police turned him over to Dahmer. They later reported smelling a strange scent while inside Dahmer's apartment, but did not investigate it. The smell was the body of Tony Hughes, Dahmer's previous victim, decomposing in the bedroom. The two policemen failed to run a background check that would have revealed that Dahmer was a convicted child molester still under probation.[30] The officers laughed about the incident, one joking that his partner was "going to get deloused."[31] Later that night, Dahmer killed and dismembered Sinthasomphone, keeping his skull as a souvenir.

John Balcerzak and Joseph Gabrish, two of the three police officers who returned Sinthasomphone to Dahmer, were fired from the Milwaukee Police Department after their actions were widely publicized, including an audiotape of the officers making homophobic statements to their dispatcher and cracking jokes about having reunited the "lovers". The two officers appealed their termination and were reinstated with back pay. They were named officers of the year by the police union for fighting a "righteous" battle to regain their jobs. Balcerzak was later elected president of the Milwaukee Police Association in May 2005.[27][32]

By summer 1991, Dahmer was murdering approximately one person each week. He killed Matt Turner on June 30, Jeremiah Weinberger on July 5, Oliver Lacy on July 12, and finally Joseph Brandehoft on July 19. Dahmer got the idea that he could create "zombies" of his victims, and attempted to do so by drilling holes into their skulls and injecting hydrochloric acid into their brains.[33] Other residents of the Oxford Apartments complex noticed terrible smells coming from Apartment 213, as well as the thumps of falling objects and the occasional buzzing of a power saw.]
 
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It's not laziness, it's politically correct paralysis that's what's wrong with penal system / parolee follow up. It's to Sowell's credit that he's an African American, for careful monitoring of the man would be falsely interpreted as "over the top" harassment of a Black man. Duh ! :dunno:


Also, the cops are short handed because it's a fucked up job that isn't rewarding .
 
There's plenty of blame to go around, not just towards the police. The neighborhood itself (and the entirety of the city of Cleveland as well) is corrupt, the police are understaffed because of layoffs so they can't be everywhere at once, and the family members of these victims should have been more outspoken and been more active in trying to find their loved ones, etc.

I live just outside Cleveland, and it's pretty sad when I realize how much could have been averted had there not been as many critical mistakes as there were. I hope this shit will be a wake-up call for the city, but I sincerely doubt it. Everyone dropped the ball in this case.
 
It's not laziness, it's politically correct paralysis that's what's wrong with penal system / parolee follow up. It's to Sowell's credit that he's an African American, for careful monitoring of the man would be falsely interpreted as "over the top" harassment of a Black man. Duh ! :dunno:


Also, the cops are short handed because it's a fucked up job that isn't rewarding .

Wow.

There's plenty of blame to go around, not just towards the police. The neighborhood itself (and the entirety of the city of Cleveland as well) is corrupt, the police are understaffed because of layoffs so they can't be everywhere at once, and the family members of these victims should have been more outspoken and been more active in trying to find their loved ones, etc.

I live just outside Cleveland, and it's pretty sad when I realize how much could have been averted had there not been as many critical mistakes as there were. I hope this shit will be a wake-up call for the city, but I sincerely doubt it. Everyone dropped the ball in this case.

Uh, what more can you do when a rape victim reports it and the cops don't even question an ex-con rapist???
 
Uh, what more can you do when a rape victim reports it and the cops don't even question an ex-con rapist???

Protest, do what they can to keep it in the public's eye, take the story directly to the local/national media to gain attention, etc. I'm not saying those things would have been salvation or anything, but there were a lot of missed opportunities here. I'm not just referring to this particular story, but rather all of the situations they had with this guy.
 
It's not laziness, it's politically correct paralysis that's what's wrong with penal system / parolee follow up. It's to Sowell's credit that he's an African American, for careful monitoring of the man would be falsely interpreted as "over the top" harassment of a Black man. Duh ! :dunno:

Oh, right on. :rolleyes:
 
Protest, do what they can to keep it in the public's eye, take the story directly to the local/national media to gain attention, etc. I'm not saying those things would have been salvation or anything, but there were a lot of missed opportunities here. I'm not just referring to this particular story, but rather all of the situations they had with this guy.

But again, the cops didn't do what they were supposed to do. While others may have missed things the cops are not only the ones in this story that were duty bound to do something but were the only ones privy to the facts as to was or wasn't done after the reports.
 
Yes it does. Serial killers are usually very smart.

"smart"??:pukey:

I suppose some are more clever than others but in most cases cops just screw up because of the social status of the victims.

Most serial killers are almost begging to be stopped....like Dahmer but the cops usually fuck up. Sad but true.:2 cents:
 
"Snitches get stitches"

Blacks often don't call for the po-po.
 
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