Grate is charged with kidnapping in the escaped woman’s abduction.
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Grate led police to a third body in nearby Richland County, that was found near the rubble of a burned home, prosecutors said. A woman’s report that she was being held captive in a home led to the arrest of a kidnapping s. Her family said she had been missing since last week.
The Ashland County charges allege Grate purposely caused the deaths of Stacey Hicks, also known as Stacey Stanley, and a second victim who has yet to be identified.
After the bail amount was announced, Shawn M. Grate, 40, was heard replying to Ashland County Judge Ronald Forsthoefel over video conference, “Sounds fair”.
3 bodies found in the property where the woman was held.
“I’ve been abducted”, the woman said in the call, begging, “Please hurry”.
Prosecutors said Grate was homeless at the time of his arrest and had broken into the house where he brought the woman he kidnapped. It could take months to identify the body, after which charges will be filed in that case, authorities said.
The woman in the house said in the 911 call that she had been tied up but had partly freed herself in the same room where her captor was asleep.
The unidentified woman was killed between August 16 and September 13, according to court documents. She also added that the accused had a stun gun. Prosecutors said Grate had kidnapped the woman on Sunday “for the objective of engaging in sexual activity”.
“She had been off of the stuff the last six months and was living with her sister, going to work every day”, her uncle told People.
Forty-year-old Shawn Grate appeared in a video bond hearing Friday and was appointed an attorney after telling the judge he had no money, job or home.
The prosecutor detailed Grate’s past arrests dating back to 1994, including felony abduction, domestic violence, assault and multiple drug offenses.
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Grate, who is being held in the Ashland County Jail.
