Cleveland serial killer Anthony Sowell passed away Monday afternoon after suffering a terminal illness that prompted his hospitalization on January 21.
Sowell was 61-years-old when he died at 3:27 p.m., according to a spokesperson of the Ohio Department of Corrections who added Sowell received end-of-life care at the Franklin Medical Center before his death.
Sowell’s Mount Pleasant residence was raided by police on a grisly October 2009 day after two female bodies were discovered inside during a random investigation.
A further search revealed not less than 9 other bodies, some of them heavily decomposed and one buried in a freshly-dug grave at the home where Sowell continued to live.
The victims were identified as Tonia Carmichael, Nancy Cobbs, Tishana Fortson, Amelda Hunter, Leshanda Long, Michelle Mason, Kim Yvette Smith, Diane Turner, and Janice Webb.
“I am glad he is dead,” Carmichael’s daughter said. “God made it happen. I will never, ever ever forgive him.”
“We can go on because he’s dead. We don’t have to hear about him anymore,” Webb’s sister Joann Moore said.
In 2011, Sowell was convicted of 81 counts including aggravated murder and kidnapping, and was sentenced to death. He, however, continued to appeal the sentence until last May.
