10 BODIES FOUND IN CLEVELAND SEX OFFENDER'S HOME - SO FAR

UNREAL:

Remains of four more people were unearthed from the backyard of a rapist's home Tuesday, raising to 10 the number of bodies found in and near the house, as police also searched boarded-up homes in the neighborhood where residents complained for years of a stench that one even said ''smelled like a dead body.''

Anthony Sowell, 50, a registered sex offender who lives in the home, was charged Tuesday with five counts of aggravated murder.

''It appears that this man had an insatiable appetite that he had to fill,'' police Chief Michael McGrath said.

He said the four bodies were found buried in the backyard of the home and a skull was found in a bucket in the basement.

... Sowell is a registered sex offender and required to check in regularly at the sheriff's office. Officers didn't have the right to enter his house, but they would stop by to make sure he was there. Their most recent visit was Sept. 22, just hours before the woman reported being raped.

For the past few years, Sowell's neighbors thought the foul smell enveloping their street corner had been coming from a brick building where workers churned out sausage and head cheese.

It got so bad that the owners of Ray's Sausage replaced their sewer line and grease traps.

City Councilman Zack Reed, whose mother lives a block from the area, said he called the city health department on more than one occasion.

''What happened from there, we don't know,'' he said. ''It was no secret that there was a foul odor. We don't want to point fingers, but clearly something could have been done differently.''

Reed said he and other community leaders want an investigation into whether police and health inspectors missed signs that could have tipped them off to the bodies.

Reed said he can't imagine how police officers and sheriff's deputies could have missed the smell. His office records show that he called the health department in 2007 after a resident told him about an odor that ''smelled like a dead body,'' he said.

COULD THIS HAPPEN IN A RED COUNTY?

REALLY: THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT THE PERVASIVE PERMISSIVENESS OF DEEP BLUE COUNTIES THAT MAKES ME FEEL THE WAY THE POLICE IGNORED THIS MONSTER WAS NOT HAPPENSTANCE.

• I THINK IT REVEALS A DISREGARD FOR GOOD OL' LAW AND ORDER AND AN OVER-VALUING OF PC.

• THIS MONSTER SHOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN LET OUT OF PRISON AND ONCE OUT HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN ON A VERY SHORT LEASH.

• "BUT THAT WOULD BE CRUEL."

• OH YEAH!?!?

• TEN BODIES AND COUNTING.

• AND EVERY ONE OF THEM WOULD BE ALIVE TODAY IF CLEVELANDERS CARED LESS ABOUT THE PERPS AND CONVICTED VIOLENT SEX-OFFENDERS

MONSTERS CONVICTED OF VIOLENT SEX CRIMES SHOULD BE CASTRATED OR PUT TO DEATH.