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DEVIANT

REVISITED: A Killer in Cleveland

DEVIANT

Cold Open Media

True Crime

4.8 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Anthony Sowell terrorized Cleveland’s Mount Pleasant neighborhood in the late 2000s. A convicted rapist and registered sex offender, he went unnoticed for years—even as neighbors complained about a foul stench they thought came from the sausage factory next door. By the time police finally acted, 11 women were gone. Hosts Dan Szematowicz and Andrew Iden take you inside Sowell’s house of horrors. From the overlooked red flags to the night a woman leapt from his attic window, this is the story of how one man preyed on a neglected community—and how authorities failed to stop him. This case isn’t just about a serial killer. It’s about ignored warnings, systemic failure, and the lives of Black women who deserved better. JOIN OUR PATREON: http://www.deviantpodcast.com Visit DEVIANT's socials: http://www.instagram.com/deviant.podcast http://www.tiktok.com/@deviant.podcast Copyright 2025 Cold Open Media LLC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Andrew, it's been a year since we dropped the first episode of a series that we're really proud of.

0:06.0

A year?

0:07.3

A year.

0:07.7

I know.

0:08.0

It's crazy about serial killer Anthony Sowell.

0:11.5

And we'll get to that in just a second.

0:13.8

But before we do, I want to tell everyone, I want you to tell everyone about the new series that we're working on that we're also very proud of.

0:20.7

Sure.

0:21.1

We talk a lot about deviants on this show and different kinds of deviants.

0:26.3

And one of the subjects I've always wanted to get into is extremism and, you know,

0:32.9

radicalization and extremism and people that are kind of out there on the fringes there.

0:37.3

Yeah, we've handled a lot of that on some of the off scripts that we've done. We've talked to people who've kind of been in that world, but we've always wanted to do with some sort of exploration like we've done with Israel Keyzer. Yeah, absolutely. Like Cicone. Absolutely. And so the next series that we're working on is about a young man who kind of falls into this world.

0:56.1

He becomes radicalized and is kind of in the neo-Nazi extremist universe, and it turns into a murder story.

1:05.1

But more than that, that's sort of just the tip of the iceberg and sort of our way in to exploring all the different

1:12.6

corners of that universe that entails. There's some really interesting conversations that I've

1:17.5

had with some people that really, really know this stuff and know this story. And there's a lot of

1:23.3

tape and documents and stuff to sift through. So there's a whole lot of stuff to unpack here.

1:29.9

And I'm looking forward to it. I think you'll really like it. I think the audience will really

1:33.2

like it. And if you know anything about Andrew, you know he loves unpacking stuff. And I'm not saying

1:37.1

that facetiously. Like this, this is something that he is great at, loves doing, really digs into.

1:42.5

And let's tell everyone who we're going to be talking about.

1:46.6

This story is about a young man named Devin Arthur's, who in 2017 killed his two roommates

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