Grate has been charged with kidnapping and two counts of murder.
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After a tense 911 call Thursday morning from a woman who said she was in the same room as her alleged kidnapper, police discovered an OH man may have kidnapped several women, at least two of which he may have murdered.
The Ashland County prosecutor on Friday identified the second woman as 29-year-old Elizabeth Griffith, of Ashland.
In searching the house, police also found the bodies of two other women, one identified as Stacey Stanley, 43.
Grate remains jailed on an abduction charge.
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Grate has confessed to killing a third, still unidentified, woman in Richland County and is awaiting charges in that case.
The bond hearing originally was scheduled Thursday at 5:15 p.m., but was postponed at the request of the state.
Stanley’s family reported her missing Saturday through the Huron County Sheriff’s Office.
Ashland police officers came to the victim’s rescue more than 20 minutes later, busting in the abandoned house where she was held, the audio reveals. Stanley’s son said she had been missing since September 8 after telling him she had gotten a flat tire.
Police found the bodies after freeing the woman and arresting Grate.
After Grate was taken into custody, he told officers he was involved in another woman’s murder in Richland County, according to the prosecuting attorney for Richland County, Bambi Couch Page. It was not immediately clear if the 40-year-old, who is homeless, has an attorney.
Bruce Wilkinson, pastor and director of Pump House Ministries, which owns the home where the two bodies were found and one next to it, said the properties had been vacant since March and were being renovated. Bowman, who has a daughter with Grate, said she has been estranged from him for four years.
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A Rolling Stone story has unearthed Shawn Grate’s lengthy criminal record.
