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

DYING NIGHT STALKER RAMIREZ TURNED GREEN

What secrets did notorious serial killer Richard Ramirez --AKA The Night Stalker-- take to the grave? Detectives have never completely closed the book on the maniac even though he's been on death row at San Quentin since 1989.
Ramirez, 53, died Friday morning of liver failure but when his body was found, his skin was a fluorescent green, the New York Post reports. Ramirez was the sinister conductor of an orchestra of bloodshed and mayhem that terrorized southern California in the 1980s. And there is another mystery to be solved: Why was his skin green? The day before, the Satan-loving madman had a shocking green hue to his skin, a source told The Post.