Another bizarre twist in the search for missing Fayetteville 5 year old, Shaniya Davis. A witness spotted the little girl at an area hotel with a man who has been identified as Mario McNeill. McNeill was seen on surveillance, carrying Shaniya through the hotel. This witness contacted the authorities but, by the time authorities got to the hotel, McNeill had already split with the toddler.

Shaniya Davis / Mario McNeill

McNeill’s attorney says McNeill turned himself in to authorities early this morning, where he allegedly confessed and was later charged with first degree kidnapping. He was arraigned this afternoon and is being held on $100,000 bond. So basically, he turns himself in but his attorney says McNeill plans to plead not guilty. Brilliant.

Yesterday, authorities had arrested and charged Shaniya’s mom’s boyfriend, Clarence Coe who said he was not guilty in a Fayetteville courtroom during his arraignment. The charges have since been dropped. Both men have extensive criminal backgrounds.

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An alleged rape case led to the grisly discovery of 11 bodies at the Ohio home of convicted sex offender, Anthony Sowell, who was in court today. Sowell pleaded not guilty moments ago to charges of raping and choking a woman at his Cleveland home in September. The investigation of that alleged September attack heats up in late October when cops show up to arrest Sowell and search his hom. That’s when investigators find the bodies of several female victims.

Anthony Sowell

Follow-up searches, including an extensive dig in the backyard, result in a total of 11 bodies recovered throughout the home. Sowell is already behind bars on $5 million bond on 5 murder charges and is now facing additional attempted murder, rape and kidnapping charges. A judge set an additional bail at $1 million in the alleged September assault. Back at Sowell’s Cleveland house of horrors, it looks like investigators think there could still be more victims. The FBI will use high-tech thermal imaging and ground-penetrating radar to search for additional victims. Investigators will also zero in on an abandoned home next to Sowell’s. Will there be even more victims?

Here are the victims identified so far:

Tonia Carmichael, 53
Nancy Cobbs, 43
Tishana Culver, 31
Crystal Dozier, 38
Telacia Fortson, 31
Amelda Hunter, 47
Leshonda Long, 25
Michelle Mason, 45
Kim Yvette Smith, 43
Janice Webb, 49

Police uncovered their suspect in Jayme Austin’s disappearance closer to home than anyone would have expected. Last night Patrick Horath – Austin’s brother-in-law of almost 14 years – was arrested and charged with her murder.

Yesterday Horath was brought into the Sheriff’s office at about 8:30am, by 6pm “he had more or less confessed” to killing the 31-year-old mother of two, according to his wife Alyssa Horath, also the sister of Jayme Austin.

Jayme Sue Austin

“I’m numb. I’m angry,” said Horath, but she is trying to stay strong for her 13 and 10 year old children.

At about 8am on Monday, November 9 Jayme Austin called her mother to use her shower. Her hot water was not working. She also called her job to let them know she’d be late. By noon Jayme’s job called her mother out of concern because Jayme still had not shown up to work. It was out of character for Jayme. When Jayme’s mother arrived home she found her car in the driveway but Jayme was nowhere to be seen inside or outside the home. The Coos County District Attorney believes Jayme made it inside the home.

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