A man was arrested after three bodies were discovered in northeast OH on Tuesday, authorities said.
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CrimeTracker 10 searched dozens of police reports and court documents to uncover a disturbing pattern of violence against women by Grate.
The woman said the man had a stun gun, and she was afraid that if she woke him, he would catch her. A judge granted him early release in October of that same year.
Grate, who’s homeless, has a long criminal record and served time in prison on a burglary charge beginning in 1997, records show.
The woman said she was able to free herself from being tied up and called police on Grate’s phone while he was asleep.
Grate pleaded guilty to abduction and was sentenced to five years’ probation.
Records show an OH man arrested after the report of an abduction led to the discovery of three bodies has a long criminal record and served prison time for burglary. CrimeTracker 10 discovered Grate didn’t stay out of trouble for long.
Two bodies were found at a home on Covert Court on Tuesday.
The Mansfield News Journal says police went to an Ashland home after the woman called authorities Tuesday morning.
Records from several OH counties show arrests and charges against the 40-year-old going back to 1996, including abduction, theft, domestic violence, burglary, assault and drug abuse.
The Ashland County Prosecutor said a decision about any additional charges will come Thursday. Her family mounted an exhaustive search and have been devastated by the news that she was found less than two miles away, in the home occupied by OH man Shawn Grate. She had last been seen at the BP Station on East Main and Union streets when she had a flat tire, the Mansfield News Journal reports.
The remains of two other people were also found.
OH fire marshal’s investigators returned Wednesday to check the Mansfield-area property, which remains under investigation because no cause has been determined for the blaze.
The coroner has not determined Stacey Stanley’s cause of death or identified the second body in the home, police said. “We have several BCI agents on the (Missing Women) Task Force and they have access to the profiles of our missing women, so if there’s a connection we will know quickly”.
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Sheldon said authorities are trying to recover evidence at the house and near the body, which was found 60 feet into the woods at the back of the property. The remains weren’t immediately identified, but authorities had a lead on the woman’s identity, Couch Page said.
