Several women in Ashland claim that they had been approached by the suspect in a kidnapping case that led police to three bodies.
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Grate remains jailed on an abduction charge.
The dispatcher encourages the woman to leave the house, but she repeatedly says she’s afraid of waking up her accused abductor, Shawn M. Grate, 40, who is in the same room. They found remains of two people at the supposedly vacant property.
The woman was unable to provide her exact location in the call, aware only that the home was across the street from an Ashland Laundromat near Covert Court.
The documents reveal Grate stopped one of the women from calling police by “wrapping his legs around her body” and hitting her while she was holding Grate’s “child in her arms”.
She identifies Grate as the man who tied her up, saying, “I kind of freed myself” enough to get the phone and call for help.
Family members of a Greenwich woman reported missing last week showed up at a Tuesday press conference hoping for answers and later criticized police for jumping to false conclusions about her because of past drug problems.
Another says that they heard unusual noises from the house. But after she was rescued Tuesday morning and Grate arrested, police found the remains of two other women on the property. The police statement says the coroner hasn’t determined her cause of death or identified the second body.
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. It was unclear whether he had an attorney.
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Richland County’s prosecutor tells the News Journal that Grate admitted he had killed a woman in June at a different property near Mansfield. Investigators went to a house in Mansfield and located a third body about 60 feet into the woods behind the burned out and abandoned home.
