EP95: The House of Horrors

Crimes and Consequences

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

For almost two years Ray's Sausage Company was blamed for the awful stench that permeated the Imperial Avenue neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio. But after a woman showed up at the hospital with a terrifying tale of rape and attempted murder, police discovered the true origin of the horrid smell: 11 rotting bodies in the home of serial killer Anthony Sowell. Check out this week's episode to learn all about the Cleveland Strangler.

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Sources:
1) House of Horrors: The Shocking True Story of Anthony Sowell by Robert Sberna
2) Cleveland.com - "The Women of Imperial Avenue"
3) The Daily Mail - "Strangled bound with shoe strings socks belts and phone chargers, the grisly details of 11 women murder by serial killer Anthony Sowell"
4) Findagrave.com - Nancy Cobbs
5) Cleveland.com - "Latundra Billups earns her master degree in 2015"
6) Cleveland19.com - "Former Cuyahoga County coroner provides autopsy details of Anthony Sowell's victims"

Transcript

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0:00.0	This episode may contain content of a graphic nature,
0:03.0	including descriptions of physical and sexual violence
0:06.0	against adults, children, and animals.
0:09.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:12.0	Hi everyone, I'm Tlaia and I'm Tanya and together we are crimes and consequences a true crime
0:19.3	podcast. cast. Hi Tanya, I tellia. Welcome back everybody to crimes and consequences. I have a phenomenal true crime story to tell you guys today.
0:47.0	Oh, I can't wait.
0:49.0	Most of the time I do a story it's because I'm really interested in learning about a crime that I don't know much about.
0:57.9	And this is one of those cases. This is about the infamous Cleveland Strangler.
1:04.0	I'd heard him on the news, and I didn't know much about his crimes,
1:07.6	but I do now.
1:08.8	And it's so shocking.
1:11.9	What is it on the gruesome scale? It's not all that high in the gruesome scale, but it's really high on the interesting scale.
1:18.0	Awesome. And it's kind of nasty. So it's kind of gruesome?
1:22.6	So if there's a nasty scale?
1:24.0	It's a ten on the nasty scale.
1:27.0	Do you know much about them?
1:28.0	No.
1:29.0	Well then let me tell you.
1:30.0	Yeah, let's hear it.
1:31.0	Quit wasting all this time.
1:32.0	Let's do it.
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