Cleveland police find 8th body at home

That brings to eight the number of bodies found at the home of Sowell, 50, who was arrested Saturday after the discovery of the decomposing bodies of five women inside his house and another outside.

Workers resumed digging at the home Tuesday, and a tent is being put up in the back yard so crews can dig through the night, The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer reported. The newspaper said authorities had stopped searching for bodies for two days .

Five of the first six victims found had been strangled and the sixth died from unknown causes, police said.

Sowell was released from prison in 2005 after serving 15 years for raping a woman in East Cleveland.

Cleveland police have scheduled a news conference for 6 p.m. Tuesday.

People in Sowell's neighborhood lived with a foul odor for years but never connected it to corpses, residents told the Plain Dealer.

Some blamed a 57-year-old sausage shop across the street from the house.

"People used to think it was the sausage shop," the unnamed owner of a nearby pizza shop said. "We now realize what it was."

Renee Cash, owner of Ray's Sausage, told the Plain Dealer she knew her store wasn't the cause of the stench, saying the smell puzzled her and other employees and that they always were careful to clean the equipment.

"If we had any smells like that, we wouldn't be in business for 57 years," Cash told the newspaper. "That is wrong. This smell from here makes you want to eat."

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