229 | Tone Death 2/2: Anthony Sowell 'The Cleveland Strangler'
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🗓️ 16 April 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Anthony Sowell became known as the Cleveland Strangler after eleven rotting corpses were found in his home at 12205 Imperial Avenue. For 2 years Sowell had been luring in women under the guise of smoking crack cocaine. Once the victim was in his house, Sowell would rape, torture, and strangle them to death.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, guys, welcome back to Part 2's episode of Anthony Sewell, The Cleveland Strangler. |
| 0:07.8 | Today we're heading into Tone's house to check out the skeletons in his closet. |
| 0:12.6 | He started selling drugs to support himself and heavy drinking. |
| 0:25.9 | Now we're talking about right when he gets out of the Marines. |
| 0:29.5 | And on July 22, 1989, he was actually put in prison for 15 years. |
| 0:37.0 | Wow. |
| 0:38.0 | Now this is before all the murders. |
| 0:40.4 | He actually rapes a pregnant woman. |
| 0:43.0 | This woman was lured to his home after her car broke down on Euclid Avenue. |
| 0:48.0 | He said he would give her a ride to his home so she can use the phone to call her husband. He took her to her house to use the telephone. |
| 0:55.8 | She noticed the house was extremely tidy and clean. So, way before all the shit that we just saw. |
| 1:05.0 | So he basically did the same thing as what we talked about earlier with the first rape we talked about, same type of thing. |
| 1:11.0 | But after the rape, kept apologizing. Tell her he was sorry over and over again. |
| 1:19.2 | He was really remorseful about it. |
| 1:22.4 | This is a sign of a sexual status. So Ted Bundy was like |
| 1:25.3 | this too. He you would do something that horrible but then you'd feel awful about |
| 1:30.4 | it. It's because you don't have any control over it. |
| 1:33.0 | You know what I'm saying? |
| 1:34.0 | That's being a sexual sadist. |
| 1:36.0 | Yeah, you know right from wrong, but I mean, it's that urge is so strong, |
| 1:41.0 | you just can't control it. That's why he does it and that's why he was |
| 1:45.8 | apologizing for it. Now this is from the woman that was rape that was pregnant. |
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