Investigators have discovered the body of fifth person who had been believed to be connected to an Ohio man already accused of killing two women and kidnapping another.
Shawn Grate, who entered a not guilty plea on Monday, in charges of murdering two women in Ashland, Ohio, was arrested on Sept. 13 after a woman called 911 to report that she had been abducted.
While processing the scene at Grate’s home, police discovered the two bodies, later identified as missing women Elizabeth Griffin and Stacey Stanley. Police said that Grate led them to a third body buried in a wooded area behind a home in Mansfield, Ohio. The name of the female victim has not yet been declared, but sources said that she is from Canton and had not been reported missing.
On Saturday, the Marion County Sheriff’s Department confirmed that they had been examining a fourth case possibly connected to Grate. According to the police, Grate confessed to murdering the woman and said she was his first kill.
Police said that Grate killed her in 2005 after he became upset that she was delivering newspapers and magazines to everyone’s house but his. Her body was found March 10, 2007, and still has not been identified.
According to the source, the fifth body, which was found on Monday, belonged to a woman who was killed in March 2015.
By Prakriti Neogi