SHAWN GRATE is a notorious serial killer who went after women for their money and if they declined his request, then he would show a violent side.
This is all about Shawn Grate, who seemed charming at first, but a monster when he shows his true colours.
Shawn Grate is a notorious American serial killer who used to live in Marion, Ohio.
He was convicted of the deaths of five women in 2016.
Grate carried out the murders from 2006 to 2016 in similar ways such as strangulation and sometimes even brutally beaten and stabbed, autopsy reports confirmed.
He was arrested in September 2016 when a woman called 911 asking for help after Grate kidnapped her.
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The 38-year-old woman remains unnamed and is referred to as ‘Jane Doe.’
Grate sexually abused and assaulted her for three consecutive days before she managed to get hold of 911.
On June 1, 2018, he was given the death sentence after he was found guilty of two killings.
Then, on March 1, 2019, he pleaded guilty to the inhumane murders of two other women and was given a life imprisonment sentence without parole.
His last sentence came on September 11, 2019, when he was found guilty of another woman and was given another lifetime imprisonment sentence without parole and an additional 16 years.
Grate murdered five women.
He saw them as opportunities to get money, and if they refused, they had to deal with his abusive and violent side.
Rebekah Leicy, 31, was a sex worker who’s body was found in March 2015.
At first, her death was ruled as an overdose, however, late it was discovered that it was Grate who ended her life.
There was also 29-year-old Candice Cunningham who live with Grate in Mansfield before she disappeared in 2015.
The bodies of 43-year-old Stacey Stanley and Elizabeth Griffith, 29, were found in his home.
It was concluded that they were strangled to death.
Another women, the youngest victim aged 23, Dana Nicole Lowrey was discovered in Marion County in 2007.
She had two daughters under the age of five at the time of her death, and she was only identified in June 2019 through her DNA.
Amber Nicole Bowman was only married to Shawn Grate for a year, having divorced in 2012.
They had one daughter together, however Amber keeps their lives very private.
She previously said in a statement: “My prayers are with the familied who lost their loved ones.
“For the sake of my innocent child, I ask the press to respect our privacy at this time.”
Shawn Grate is now 45 and is spending his life in jail waiting for death.
He is imprisoned in the Chillicothe Correctional Institution.
Shawn Grate will be put to death in 2025.
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Before he was sentenced he expressed his wish to live: “I really would like to stay alive through all this.”
However, his other statement didn’t really help his case as he said: “I would have loved to have been able to do a lot, but I know I wouldn’t have been able to get away with it.”
