Kidnapping suspect points to remains of 3rd person

The woman said in the call released by authorities Wednesday that she had been tied up in the house in Ashland in OH but partly freed herself to make the call while the man was asleep.

In the harrowing call, she tells the dispatcher that she was walking with Grate when he told her about the abandoned house and she walked there with him.

Ashland Police have released the 911 call that came from a woman being held against her will in a home on Covert Court Tuesday morning.

Only one of the bodies has been identified as Stacey Stanley, 43.

The woman repeatedly says she is afraid to make noise, to open a squeaky door or to try and leave. Investigators also found the remains of two people at the home, Chief David Marcelli said.

The Ashland County Coroner has positively identified one of the bodies that was recovered as Stacey Stanley who was reported missing from Huron County Ohio last Thursday.

Bruce Wilkinson, pastor and director of Pump House Ministries, which owns the home and one next to it, said they had been vacant since March and were being renovated. They said she hadn’t been listed as missing at the time they were contacted.

Another says that they heard unusual noises from the house. Grate then provided officials with information on the location of another person’s remains at a nearby property in Richland County.

Richland County’s prosecutor tells the News Journal the suspect admitted he’d killed a woman in June at a property in Madison Township, near Ashland. The remains weren’t immediately identified, but authorities had a lead on the woman’s identity, Couch Page said. Forensics experts and anthropologists, along with investigators with the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation, combed through charred debris Wednesday and found the unidentified remains of a woman in a ravine behind the property.

The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections says Grate went to prison in February 1997 for burglary.

Grate is charged with abduction. It was not immediately clear if he has an attorney.