Police Commander Mike Cardilli said a woman’s body was found Friday in a garage and two other bodies were found Saturday — one in a backyard and the other in the basement of a vacant house.
Police did not know the gender of the two bodies found Saturday and did not know the identities of any of the three victims. They were sent to the coroner’s office.
Cardilli said a 35-year-old man was arrested after a standoff with police Friday, and he is a suspect in all three deaths. Police did not immediately release the suspect’s name. Cardilli said more details would be released.
All three people are believed to have been killed in the last six to 10 days.
Police searched other vacant houses in the neighborhood Saturday for other possible victims. The Plain Dealer reported that police, the FBI, the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation and the Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Department went through yards and abandoned houses in the area where all three bodies were found. They used dogs trained to find cadavers.
East Cleveland’s mayor told WEWS television station that officials will continue their search Sunday.
East Cleveland is a suburb of Cleveland. In 2011, Anthony Sowell was found guilty of killing 11 women and hiding their remains around his Cleveland home. He was sentenced to death, and remains in prison.