Authorities have identified one of two bodies found at an OH house during an abduction investigation that led to the arrest of a kidnapping suspect who pointed police to a third set of human remains.
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Grate led authorities to Richland County at the Park Avenue East vacant home where they discovered the body in the woods.
Thanks to the chilling 17-minute call, made just before 7 a.m. Tuesday, the woman was able to guide police to the house in downtown Ashland, about 80 miles from Columbus, and the arrest of Grate, who then confessed to murdering three people.
Grate is awaiting a court appearance and is now being held at the Ashland County Jail.
The house was cordoned off Wednesday with yellow police tape, and two bouquets of sunflowers were placed in front with a teddy bear and a cross with Stanley’s name and the message: “You are loved by many”.
CrimeTracker 10 searched dozens of police reports and court documents to uncover a disturbing pattern of violence against women by Grate.
The incident began when officers were dispatched to a report of a woman being held against her will in Ashland.
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.
On the call, the woman can be heard speaking quietly as she says “I’ve been abducted”.
Ashland police said Wednesday that one of the bodies was that of Stacey Stanley, who’d been reported missing from Huron County.
Other women in the area say they know him and have denied invitations from Grate to come over.
Only one of the bodies has been identified as Stacey Stanley, 43.
Richland County’s prosecutor tells the News Journal the man admitted he had killed a woman in June at a different property in nearby Madison Township.
Authorities checked the Mansfield-area site Tuesday and found decomposed remains of a woman down a ravine in a wooded area behind the house. The remains weren’t immediately identified.
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The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections says Grate went to prison in February 1997 for burglary.
