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Lori Frazier says when she looks back now on her relationship with serial-killings suspect Anthony Sowell, she can see the holes in the stories he told her to obscure the cause of suspicious injuries he suffered.
Frazier, a recovering drug addict and niece of Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, testified Tuesday in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court about the two years she lived with Sowell.
Prosecutors say Sowell lured women to his home on Imperial Avenue and killed 11 of them. Several others survived violent attacks, investigators contend. Many of the women fought back. Frazier now believes she saw the evidence of those encounters.
She remembers seeing a deep gash across Sowell's head and blood on the floor and walls. He claimed they were the result of a scuffle with an intruder at his home.
Once he explained flesh torn from his neck with a story about a vagrant jumping him near an abandoned building. And on another occasion, while strolling through a park at night, he asked a stranger for a light and got robbed instead, he told Frazier. His throat was sliced so badly it required stitches. But perhaps most disturbing was the night Frazier came home and found blood gushing from his head.
Sowell, 51, is accused of multiple counts of aggravated murder and a host of other offenses. He faces the death penalty if convicted. He trial, which began June 6, is expected to take months and feature as many as 132 witnesses testifying.
Frazier said she met Sowell in July 2005 –- the year he was released from prison after serving a 15-year sentence for attempted rape. She was walking down East 116th Street looking for some beer, when she bumped into him, she said. They spent the evening drinking together at a local bar, before Sowell invited Frazier back to his house.
Within weeks, Frazier had moved in. For many months, Sowell was a doting boyfriend. He was quiet, she said, but he treated her well. He worked at a local factory, did the cooking and cleaning and stood by her despite her debilitating crack addiction.
Then Sowell began smoking crack too. And his demeanor changed. He became mean, angry and aggressive. And Frazier would come home to find Sowell in the house with strangers.
They broke up in 2007, and Frazier moved out, though they kept in touch, and Frazier still visited the house on Imperial Avenue.
She didn't know why a spare bedroom was locked until October 29, 2009 -- when Cleveland SWAT officers arrived at the house to arrest Sowell in connection with a sexual assault accusation. They kicked in the third-floor door and found the bodies of two women, half-nude and decomposing on the floor.
Sowell's lawyers tried to use Frazier's drug addiction to discredit her testimony. She stood by her words and said she has been clean since her mother's death in 2007.
Lori Frazier says when she looks back now on her relationship with serial-killings suspect Anthony Sowell, she can see the holes in the stories he told her to obscure the cause of suspicious injuries he suffered.
Frazier, a recovering drug addict and niece of Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, testified Tuesday in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court about the two years she lived with Sowell.
Prosecutors say Sowell lured women to his home on Imperial Avenue and killed 11 of them. Several others survived violent attacks, investigators contend. Many of the women fought back. Frazier now believes she saw the evidence of those encounters.
She remembers seeing a deep gash across Sowell's head and blood on the floor and walls. He claimed they were the result of a scuffle with an intruder at his home.
Once he explained flesh torn from his neck with a story about a vagrant jumping him near an abandoned building. And on another occasion, while strolling through a park at night, he asked a stranger for a light and got robbed instead, he told Frazier. His throat was sliced so badly it required stitches. But perhaps most disturbing was the night Frazier came home and found blood gushing from his head.
Sowell, 51, is accused of multiple counts of aggravated murder and a host of other offenses. He faces the death penalty if convicted. He trial, which began June 6, is expected to take months and feature as many as 132 witnesses testifying.
Frazier said she met Sowell in July 2005 –- the year he was released from prison after serving a 15-year sentence for attempted rape. She was walking down East 116th Street looking for some beer, when she bumped into him, she said. They spent the evening drinking together at a local bar, before Sowell invited Frazier back to his house.
Within weeks, Frazier had moved in. For many months, Sowell was a doting boyfriend. He was quiet, she said, but he treated her well. He worked at a local factory, did the cooking and cleaning and stood by her despite her debilitating crack addiction.
Then Sowell began smoking crack too. And his demeanor changed. He became mean, angry and aggressive. And Frazier would come home to find Sowell in the house with strangers.
They broke up in 2007, and Frazier moved out, though they kept in touch, and Frazier still visited the house on Imperial Avenue.
She didn't know why a spare bedroom was locked until October 29, 2009 -- when Cleveland SWAT officers arrived at the house to arrest Sowell in connection with a sexual assault accusation. They kicked in the third-floor door and found the bodies of two women, half-nude and decomposing on the floor.
Sowell's lawyers tried to use Frazier's drug addiction to discredit her testimony. She stood by her words and said she has been clean since her mother's death in 2007.
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