Shortly after getting the call, officers responded to the area where they found the woman alive, along with 40-year-old Shawn Michael Grate.
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Police discovered two bodies at a Covert Court home and Grate led them to a third body in Madison Township.
Additional charges could be filed, Tunnell said.
After a 911 call led police to a home in Ashland on Tuesday, officers found a woman who claims she was being held against her will, Grate, and two bodies.
Throughout the call the woman said she was afraid of waking Grate up. It’s unclear if he has an attorney.
When asked whether she was bleeding, the woman answered, “Not anymore”. The kidnapping charge includes a specification that Grate had allegedly abducted her “to engage in sexual activity”.
Authorities found the bodies of Stanley and another unidentified woman at the home.
Stacy Stanley, 43, was missing since last Thursday night, September 8, 2016 around 10 p.m. Investigators also found the remains of two other people, Chief David Marcelli said.
The Mansfield News Journal (http://ohne.ws/2cBrE4y ) reports Stanley’s uncle told the crowd her disappearance led relatives searching for her toward an Ashland house, where another woman was held captive.
(AP Photo/Ann Sanner). Police tape cordons off the remains of a house. Police say a suspect in the abduction of a woman in neighboring Ashland on Tuesday confessed to killing a woman in the house in June, which was then destroyed in a fire.
Authorities checked the Mansfield-area site Tuesday and found decomposed remains down a ravine in a wooded area behind the house. The remains haven’t been identified.
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Record show Grate, who is homeless, has a long criminal record and served time in prison on a burglary charge beginning in 1997.
