Ashland wants to raze house where bodies were found Posted on July 17, 2017 0 ASHLAND (AP) — An Ohio city wants to demolish a house where two women’s bodies were found and an alleged serial killer was arrested. The (Ashland) Times-Gazette reports officials in Ashland recently applied for federal grant money to raze the home deemed uninhabitable because of the slayings. Forty-year-old Shawn Grate pleaded not guilty in October to aggravated murder and kidnapping charges in the deaths of 29-year-old Elizabeth Griffith and 43-year-old Stacey Stanley. He could face the death penalty if convicted. A trial has been scheduled for November in Ashland County. The women’s bodies were found last September inside a supposedly unoccupied home after a third woman called 911 from a bedroom and said Grate was holding her hostage. Grate has told police he killed two other women elsewhere. ——— Information from: Ashland Times-Gazette, http://www.times-gazette.com
