Ohio’s most populous county has just two sheriff’s deputies to check regularly on 1,416 of the worst sex offenders, an issue highlighted by charges against a serial murder suspect who was living in a house with 11 bodies.

Police investigating the discovery of 10 bodies and a skull at the home of a registered sex offender dug at the scene and an adjacent backyard Wednesday and hauled out evidence bags as they pursued clues provided by an FBI high-tech sweep.

People have come together in Cleveland to thank the coroner’s office for quickly identifying women whose remains were found at the home of a suspected serial killer.

A registered sex offender pleaded not guilty Friday to an alleged attack that prompted a search and the discovery of 11 bodies at his home.

Authorities have identified nine of 11 victims whose remains were found at the Cleveland home of Anthony Sowell, who has been charged with five counts of aggravated murder.

One of Ohio’s foremost champions of tougher sexual predator laws conceded a certain futility to such efforts as body after body was removed last week from the Cleveland home of Anthony Sowell.

Authorities are investigating whether the Cleveland man who owned the home where several bodies were found is connected to any killings in places he lived while in the military.

Authorities say Anthony Sowell lured women into his home in a busy neighborhood, killed them - most by strangulation - and scattered their remains throughout the inside and buried some in the backyard.

Relatives with checkered pasts in the hardscrabble neighborhood seem reluctant to come forward.

A Cleveland woman said Thursday that she was choked and threatened this year by the man now charged with murder after the remains of several people were found on his property - and that she is racked with guilt for not speaking up earlier.

The discovery of 11 bodies in one home in a run-down neighborhood here has relatives of the presumed victims wondering how such a gruesome scene could have gone unnoticed for perhaps years, and they charge that police ignored their missing person reports.

A rapist who lived at a Cleveland house where 10 bodies have been found has been ordered held without bond.

Police say four more bodies and a skull have been found at the Cleveland home of a convicted rapist where police last week removed the remains of six women.

The discovery of six bodies at a house in Cleveland has left some in the community concerned about women who haven’t been seen in a long time.

NBC 4 UPDATE: A man with a urine fetish is set to begin serving his 60-day jail sentence next week.