Abducted woman calls police; three bodies found

[summer]

OMG, she was almost killed. Could you imagine?  

(Sorry the photo is so big) 



TIME





The desperate 911 call of an abducted Ohio woman led police to her alleged captor – and the discovery of the bodies of three more women, reports say.



While her alleged captor, Shawn Grate, 40, slept, a woman made a 17-minute phone call to police, begging them for help as she stood in the first-floor bedroom of an abandoned house in Ashland County on Tuesday, the The Columbus Dispatch reports.



“Please hurry … he’s got a taser,” the woman whispered to a dispatcher in the 911 call obtained by the Dispatch. When the dispatcher asked the woman if she was able to leave the house, she replied, “I don’t know without waking him and I’m scared.”

She was able to guide police to Grate’s home. He was arrested on Tuesday and charged with one count of abduction, an Ashland Police Department spokeswoman tells PEOPLE.



She told police that she and Grate had become friends about a month ago before he allegedly kidnapped her and held her captive in the abandoned house.



After his arrest on Tuesday, authorities allegedly discovered the remains of two women on the property, and Grate allegedly led them to the remains of a third woman on another property.



One of the bodies found Tuesday has been identified as Stacey Stanley, a 43-year-old mother who went missing about a week ago, Cleveland 19 reports.



“She didn’t want to die. She wanted to live. She had a family,” Jeana Stanley, Stacey’s sister, told Cleveland 19. “This guy who did this to her and these other women? He’s a monster.”



A prosecutor told the Mansfield News Journal that Grate allegedly admitted he had killed a woman in June.



Investigators found that body in a wooded ravine near a home partially destroyed by a fire, the Journal reports.



Grate was being held at Ashland County Jail on Thursday, according to jail records. An Ashland County Jail spokesman says it does not appear he has entered a plea or appeared in court yet. It was not immediately clear if he has retained an attorney.

[pixy0stix]

Allegedly, this guy is a monster.

How did she get the phone?

[OscarQ]

How terrible for those women. Not surprised to see he has a history of DV (in another article).

[Blahblah]

Sept 15, 2016 15:18:27 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

Allegedly, this guy is a monster.

How did she get the phone?

I read he had her tied up in his bedroom. He rigged the door to make noise if she tried to escape. Luckily for her, he had his phone in the room. She called 911 while he was asleep.

This is very very very close to home for me. Scary to think he was in my town. Those poor women.

[marriedfilingjoint]

This is terrifying.

[downtoearth]

This is so scary. There should be a way to text 911 - I mean, then you can send stuff without sound if needed!

[karinothing]

Sept 19, 2016 11:09:15 GMT -5 downtoearth said:

This is so scary. There should be a way to text 911 - I mean, then you can send stuff without sound if needed!

I think some places have this. I remember hearing about it locally

[kath16]

Sept 19, 2016 11:09:15 GMT -5 downtoearth said:

This is so scary. There should be a way to text 911 - I mean, then you can send stuff without sound if needed!

We have this in my area. Such a great idea

[stephm0188]

Ugh. He confessed to one more than 10 years ago in my hometown.

I wouldn't be surprised if there are others. He confessed to two more beside the two that were found at the house, and they're investigating a fifth that was found today. There's yet another case they reopened and are investigating to see if he is connected.

That woman is lucky to be alive. I'm glad she was able to make the call.

[darnkatz]

Holy shit. That is fucking awful. I am so glad that she is okay, but man. Those other women.

[awick14]

Holy crap! I'm so glad she got out alive!

[litebright]

Sept 19, 2016 11:09:15 GMT -5 downtoearth said:

This is so scary. There should be a way to text 911 - I mean, then you can send stuff without sound if needed!

Some places have it, but it's a technology that is being rolled out over time because of the costs -- I think it requires upgrades to both the service provider's network (like, all of them) and the local public safety answering point. Text messaging was designed to be, and has always been, a best-effort service within wireless networks, not one that is mission-critical and can be depended on for something to get through every time ASAP. Voice calls and other data services take priority for network resources -- so sometimes texts have a delay of minutes or hours. I know there have been times when I've seen texts that didn't arrive until the next day, then a bunch came all at once. If that happens with a 911 text, it could be fatal, and it's obviously it's a huge liability problem.

Then there are all the issues and limitations that go along with enabling text to 911. Like -- even if it isn't available in your area, and you text 911 anyway, your service provider has to make sure that you get a bounce-back telling you that text-to-911 isn't available and you have to call 911. There's no location information like there would be with a phone call, the length of messages is still limited, and I don't think at this point that you can text 911 for free like you can call 911 for free from any activated phone. Plus, what if you use an over-the-top texting app like WhatsAPp instead of the whatever default texting software you have on your phone that your carrier put on there? When you do that, your text is usually marked as "data" within the network, not as actual SMS (short messaging service, aka text message) traffic. 

It's really complicated and a huge range of companies from network equipment manufacturers to handset makers to billing software companies have to cooperate to make it work.   

[wackadoo]

This terrifies me. I just finished listening to Devil in the White City and it gave me nightmares, I never have nightmares, and this is pushing those same buttons for me. How horrible for those women, I'm so glad this woman was able to do this and escape.

Holy hell, this is freaking me out.

[WanderingWinoZ]

that's crazy awful- i'm so glad she escaped, but those other poor women.

there has to be ltos more to this story- i have so many questions.

[humpty]

I live here, this shit is awful. I'm glad he was caught.