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How a Serial Killer Brutalized Marginalized Women

By Seth Ferranti, Contributor
Huffington Post

For two years numerous women went missing in Cleveland’s Mount Pleasant neighborhood. But nobody really cared because these woman were junkies and prostitutes and crack heads, marginalized women in poverty-stricken areas where people tended to keep to themselves. Finally a reported rape leads police to a house of horrors...

The 'Unseen' Victims Of Cleveland Serial Killer Anthony Sowell

By David C. Barnett
Senior Arts Reporter for WCPN

Convicted Cleveland serial killer Anthony Sowell was back in court today to appeal his 2011 death sentence for the murders of 11 women over a three-year period. A new documentary about those crimes, called “Unseen”, had its debut at the Cleveland International Film Festival, this past weekend. It tells the stories of Sowell’s victims. From the Here & Now Contributors Network, David C. Barnett of WCPN takes a closer look at the lives of a vulnerable population...

UNSEEN Discussed

PBS | Sound of Ideas

On PBS’s Sound of Ideas, hosts discuss the strong reaction to UNSEEN at the Cleveland International Film Festival...