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CLEVELAND - As police say they have identified Cleveland mom Tonia Carmichael as the first of at least 11 bodies found in the home of Anthony Sowell, the woman's family is outraged that police didn’t take their cries for help seriously a year ago.

"They told us to go home, and as soon as the drugs are gone, she'll show up," said Markiesha Carmichael-Jacobs, whose 53-year-old mother, Tonia, a drug addict, vanished Nov. 10, 2008. Police identified her Wednesday as one of the victims, saying her body was found buried in the backyard with marks indicating strangulation.

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NEW YORK - There was a stench in the neighborhood in Cleveland that folks complained about for months. People said it's that little sausage factory.

But, it wasn’t of course.

The smell was of decomposing human flesh in and outside the house of Anthony Sowell. Authorities have counted ten bodies on the property so far and they’re looking for more.

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CLEVELAND - Cleveland police continue to find horrors in the home of Anthony Sowell. In addition to four more bodies found buried in his backyard, investigators found a skull wrapped in paper in a bucket in the basement.

Police are now expanding their search of Sowell's neighborhood and his neatly kept home where more bodies may yet be found.

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CLEVELAND - For the past few years, neighbors assumed the foul smell enveloping their street corner was coming from a brick building where workers churned out sausage and head cheese.

No such luck.

Now they know the odor was coming from the three-story house where convicted sex offender Anthony Sowell lived -- the house where the decomposing bodies of at least six women had been discovered, and where more digging was taking place, even as community leaders called for an investigation into the signs that may have been missed.

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