Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Man charged in Ohio killings arrested last year

A woman told police in December that a Cleveland man now suspected of killing 11 women had beaten her and tried to rape her, but he wasn't charged in the case.

A city prosecutor tells The Plain Dealer Anthony Sowell was arrested, but released without being charged. The prosecutor tells the newspaper that a detective felt the woman was not credible.

A police report obtained by The Associated Press says the woman had several red scratches around her neck and was bleeding from a gash in her thumb when she flagged down police near Sowell's home on Dec. 8.

Police say they found what appeared to be blood on a tissue in the driveway and footprints in …

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