The woman told police she’d been abducted and the man who had done it was sleeping just feet away.
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Kurtis Stanley said his mother had health problems and was retired.
“I’ve been abducted”, the woman said in the 911 call as Grate, 40, allegedly slept nearby her.
The woman said in a 911 call released by authorities that she had been tied up, but partly freed herself in a bedroom to make the call while her captor was asleep in the same room.
Grate is accused of killing 43-year-old Stacey Hicks, also known as Stacey Stanley, and a second victim who has not yet been identified, Ashland County Prosecuting Attorney Christopher Tunnel said in a statement today.
He appeared in Crawford County Municipal Court on misdemeanor 1 identity theft and falsification charges, and a misdemeanor 2 obstruction of justice charge stemming from an incident on January 18, 2007. Her body was one of two recovered from the Covert Court home.
Grate led authorities to Richland County where they found the body of a third woman on Park Avenue East.
During a brief 4 p.m. press conference, Ashland County Coroner Dale Thomae said he had not been given access to the scene and would not be permitted to inspect and identify the remains until after BCI finished processing the scene.
“At first I thought he was different”, she said.
Police on Wednesday said the remains found in Richland County are too old to be those of Elizabeth Griffith or Stacey Stanley.
Stacey Stanley was last seen on September 8, with a flat tire at a petrol station. According to Richland County Prosecutor Bambi Couch Page, the home was destroyed by a fire on June 20. Two bodies were found Tuesday at a home in Ashland.
Human remains were found down a ravine in a wooded area behind the house in Mansfield, authorities confirmed. The remains weren’t immediately identified.
Grate, who’s homeless, has a long criminal record and served time in prison on a burglary charge beginning in 1997, records show.
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Argil Stanley says his niece made the decision to conquer her demons more than six months ago.
