Ohio serial killer Anthony Sowell wants new trial

CLEVELAND, OHIO -- Evil Anthony Sowell is bizarrely going for it. He thinks he deserves a new trial. Here's a refresher: the serial killer butchered 11 women and hid the remains in his rundown Cleveland house. As it stands, evil Tony has date with the executioner but his lawyers think "a judge wrongly closed a portion of jury selection and a hearing where attorneys argued about his police interrogation", the Associated Press reports. The prosecution ain't fooled by the 55-year-old monster.

"It's important to note that everything the judge did in this case he did to protect Anthony Sowell's right to a fair trial," assistant Cuyahoga County prosecutor Chris Schroeder said . "That was the reason why he closed the courtroom." MORE FROM ABC NEWS

Austin Myers, 19, gets death in Justin Back murder

LEBANON, OHIO – Austin Myers, left, has a date with the executioner. The cold-blooded 19-year-old killer was sentenced to death for the murder of Justin Back, 18. Myers and his family made a desperate last minute plea to save his life but those efforts were shot down.

 "It's only going to cause more pain and suffering for another family," Myers said.
His mother also made a tearful, desperate courtroom plea. "When I'm looking at all these pictures, I describe it like my boy - I love him with all my heart - he just has a light in him in all of his pictures and then he doesn't," Danielle Copeland said, of the changes she saw after splitting with her husband.

OHIO FAMILY TRIED TO HACK OFF LOVE RIVAL'S FINGERS

HEARTACHE

FAT GERRY

A spurned young woman, her obese dad and her chess-playing boyfriend lured a love rival to the family trailer home and then tried to cut off her fingers with pruning shears.

Cops say Shena Moore, 24, invited the victim --and artist-- to the home in Mason, Ohio after learning her boyfriend, John "Game, Set, Match" Gulley, 31, had been sexting the woman. The artist, 27, agreed to discuss the pair's falling out on May 5.

When got there, Moore's father, 450-lb. Gerald "Fat Gerry" Moore Jr., 49, hit the victim with his cane while Shena began punching her. The twisted trio then pinned the terrified woman to the ground and

CRAIGSLIST KILLER RICHARD BEASLEY'S 'HEART OF GOLD'

THE SUSPECTED mastermind behind the Ohio Craigslist slaughter has a "caring heart" and was even a mentor to the teenager busted with him in connection to three grisly homicides. Richard 'Dick' Beasley, 52, a volunteer chaplain was arrested Nov. 16 with Brogan Rafferty, 16, for luring victims to their demise via job ads on Craigslist. The doomed men were told to bring all of their belongings because they would also be living on the farm. There never was any such farm. For Beasley's mom, well, it's all too much.

FLA., OHIO EXECUTE KILLERS WHO MURDERED FAMILIES

WELL, you can be against the death penalty or for it but pretty much one thing is clear. The final, deadliest tool in America's justice system was designed for guys like these and yesterday, the nation took her vengeance.
EXECUTION 1: Reginald Brooks, 66, was executed last night in Ohio for the murdering his three little boys while they slept in 1982. No remorse. No statement. Oh, he did extend the middle fingers of both hands as he was strapped to the gurney while the mother of the three boys sobbed. MORE IN THE PLAIN DEALER
 EXECUTION 2: Evil Oba Chandler, 65, was executed last night in Florida for killing an Ohio woman and her two teen daughters who had just had the day of their life at Disney World. Chandler sweet talked

TEEN RAPED FIVE-YEAR-OLD GIRL AT MCDONALDS: COPS

 

TEENAGE RAPIST?

THIS is the twisted teen who cops say raped a five-year-old girl in McDonald's playland.
The 13-year-old youngster was turned in by his parents after cops launched a huge  campaign to find the teenage attacker.

GANG BANG TEACHER STACY SCHULER GUILTY; JAILED

THE FUN-LOVING Ohio high school teacher who enjoyed a balls to the walls gang bang with the football team has been convicted of having sex with five students. Unrepentant party girl Stacy Schuler had claimed she was insane and that the teens took advantage of her during the orgy at her Springboro, Ohio home in 2010. However, she can ask a judge to spring her in six months. The five teens testified that Schuler, a health and gym teacher, had been drinking alcohol at the time of the encounters and was a willing participant in the hormone-charged hijinks,

OHIO GYM TEACHER STACY SCHULER'S TEAM GANG BANG

NO ONE could party like Ms. Schuler! Popular (we mean, REALLY popular) former gym teacher teacher Stacy Schuler, 33, is on trial for having sex with multiple students including a wild gang bang with the football team in her Springboro, Ohio home. Testimony has been steamy with witnesses saying the teacher was plotting her insanity defence from the moment rumors of her hijinks began swirling.
A taste of the action: "They were making out and she pressed her body up against mine, and my back was towards the back of the wall and then

OHIO AMISH TRIO CUT CHURCH RIVAL'S BEARD OFF

 

IT'S NOT often you're going to see this unless things get totally out of hand during Rumspringa but there you have it. Three Amish men in Ohio were busted for doing a barn invasion and cutting another Amish man's beard. Sam Mullet said he didn't order the hair-cutting but didn't stop two of his sons and another

MISSING SINCE '97; COPS BELIEVE ANNA ZIRKLE SLAIN

COPS in Ohio searched a rural property for the body of a Columbus mother who vanished in 1997. Anna Zirkle disappeared Feb. 1 of that year and was 22 when she was last seen. Columbus cops were tipped off recently that her body may be buried on a property in Orwell.  Sadly, no remains were found but the search has triggered new interest in the troubling case.
Published reports say the funny, popular woman lived with Darren Williams, her two young sons and her boyfriend's cousin, Troy Austin. She allegedly told Austin she was "tired of everything" and "had to get away." She left her little boys with Austin. Williams was out of town at the time but the mystery of Anna Zirkle is hazy. She reportedly gave

BANANA ATTACKS MAN IN GORILLA MASCOT COSTUME

IT WAS a battle for the ages in Strongville, Ohio. Someone in a banana costume attacked wireless company's gorilla mascot! The banana remains at large. Manager Brad Parham said: "I noticed a kid in the bushes. Then he just emerged, dressed up as a banana, and sprinted as fast as he could at our gorilla. The kid just speared our gorilla." REVENGE OF THE BANANA

REP. ROBERT MECKLENBORG IN OHIO BOOZE-A-RAMMA

OH DEAR. Going on a booze-a-ramma hopped up on Viagra and the warm glow of a 26-year-old woman sounds terrific. Just one thing: don't get in your car, like uh, Ohio Republican Rep. Robert 'Bobby' Mecklenborg who was busted for drunk-driving way back in April--and it's all on at tape released Friday.

HIV+ LENNY LOVE JR. RAPED 6 MTH. OLD BABY: COPS

MEET the most evil man in America: Lenny Love Jr. Love, 29, told cops he was HIV positive when he allegedly raped a 6-month-old baby. Now, people from around the world are furious the sick monster is only be charged with rape and are calling the Silverton, Ohio PD to protest.
One caller from Mississippi said he wanted to kill Lenny Love: "Yes. Ya'll should charge dude with murder. Ya'll should kill his ---. I'll kill him if I ever see him."
Another added: "I'm disgusted as a parent and as a teacher. These kids come to us. They survive and they're just messed up from the very beginning."
According to cops, Love marched into the police station Saturday and