The City of Cleveland has agreed to pay two women who survived attacks by a convicted serial killer who sued over what they claimed were botched investigations that allowed him to continue raping and killing women.
The 260 thousand dollar settlement with Latundra Billups-Henderson and the 40 thousand dollar settlement with Gladys Wade-Thomas stem from them being attacked by Anthony Sowell, who was convicted in 2011 of killing 11 women and currently sits on death row. Sowell was convicted of attacking Billups-Henderson and Wade-Thomas as well. The city last September paid a combined 1 million dollars to the families of six women killed by Sowell.
