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In 2009, police discovered the bodies of eleven women decomposing in and around the home of a known sex offender. With access to the surviving victims, Unseen looks into how the murders of those women went unnoticed for so long.

We explore how serial killers choose their victim pool and the role the media plays in helping build the serial killer phenomenon including William Heirens who was the notorious Lipstick Killer.

The story of how, in 2009, police closed the net on Anthony Sowell, the prolific American serial killer known as the Cleveland Strangler.

In September of 2008, Vanessa met Anthony Sowell. He invited her to share drinks and drugs at his home. She was unaware that she was walking into a serial killer's house.

Anthony Sowell found the control he was so desperate for when he overpowered his first vulnerable victim -- a woman only hoping to connect with a friendly face.

Cleveland is shattered when the bodies of 11 murdered women are found in a literal house of horrors. As the crimes become public, the killer's sister faces death threats and reminders of a childhood spent with a young man turned monster.

Anthony Sowell poses as a friendly neighbor, enticing women into his home where he commits horrific acts of torture, rape, and murder, leaving a disturbing trail of violence.

At least eleven Black women were raped and killed on Cleveland, Ohio's East Side between 2007 and 2009 by a man named Anthony Sowell. It is one of the worst cases of serial murder in recent history and has been largely left untold. For Vice Media producer Wilbert L. Cooper, who was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, the real story lies in how Sowell was able to get away with these heinous acts for two years. These crimes say as much about the depraved killer as they do about race, class and law enforcement in the City of Cleveland. Wilbert goes home to Cleveland to dive back into the case that has haunted the city, meeting with some of Sowell's surviving victims, family members of the deceased, and the police officers who put Sowell on death row.

Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer looks at the case of Anthony Sowell who was arrested in 2009 after the bodies of eleven women were discovered at his home. Known as the Cleveland Strangler he lured his victims to his home were he raped and killed them.