OH kidnapping suspect points cops to remains of 3rd person

Upon police arrival, they found the woman – who police are not identifying – nearby and she led police officials to the home where she was being held captive.

While processing the scene, two bodies were also found.

Richland County’s prosecutor told a newspaper Grate admitted he’d killed a woman in June at a property in Madison Township, near Ashland.

Grate had led authorities to Richland County where they discovered the body approximately 60 feet into the woods. “I mean, I’ll never get to see my mom again and I can’t take that back”, her son Curtis said. That team, in conjunction with the Mansfield crime lab, Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation and sheriff’s detectives, are attempting to determine the woman’s identity and cause of death, as well as recovering evidence from the scene.

The woman found alive had not been identified as of Tuesday night, and neither had any of the bodies.

However, their search came to a poignant end when they received a call from Ashland police, asking them to come to the station. The case was listed as a missing person abduction case earlier in the day Tuesday.

October 1999: Grate is arrested after being accused of threatening two women armed with a butcher knife at a home in Marion County. The third body was found in a house that had burned down in June. She had been abducted from a BP station.

The incident began when officers were dispatched to a report of a woman being held against her will in Ashland.

Bruce Wilkinson, pastor and director of Pump House Ministries, which owns the home and one next to it, said they had been vacant since March and were being renovated.

Two years later, in October 1999, accusations of violence against women surfaced in Marion County where court records show Grate cornered two women with a “long butcher knife”. She said she’d known him about a month and a half.