By Nick Allen in Los Angeles
Published: 11:41PM GMT 03 Nov 2009
Police said they discovered the remains of four more people at the house of Anthony Sowell, a convicted rapist, in Cleveland Ohio, after the bodies of six women were unearthed there last week.
Detectives said the latest four bodies were found in the back yard which is still being excavated. A skull was also found wrapped in a paper bag in a bucket in the basement.
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Woman serial killer was just a phantom, German police admitSowell, 50, has already been charged with five counts of aggravated murder, along with charges of rape, felonious assault and kidnapping.
The local fire department is now being brought in to search the walls, ceilings and beneath the floors for potential additional victims.
Police are also searching vacant and abandoned properties within a quarter mile of the house.
The initial six victims were all women and five of them had been strangled.
Police believe some of the women disappeared at least six months ago and Sowell had been living with their corpses in the house.
For the past few years his neighbours assumed a foul smell enveloping the street was coming from a nearby sausage business.
Sowell is a registered sex offender and required to check in regularly at the sheriff's office. Officers visited his home as recently as September 22.
His home was only searched after a woman reported being raped by him. Sphere: Related Content
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