Ray's Sausage

A convicted rapist and former Marine was ordered held without bond Wednesday after 10 bodies were found at his Cleveland home and a prosecutor described him as an "incredibly dangerous threat to the public."

Anthony Sowell, 50, appeared Wednesday before Municipal Court Judge Ronald Adrine on five counts of aggravated murder.

Authorities say more bodies could be found on his property. They searched Sowell's home, yard and nearby vacant buildings again Wednesday.

He has been in jail since last week, when police discovered the first six bodies Thursday and Friday after a woman reported being raped at Sowell's home. All six were black women; at least five had been strangled. The cause of death wasn't known for the sixth.

Investigators believe Sowell would meet women in bars or on the street, offer to go drinking with them and then lure them back to his house and sexually assault them, Stacho said. Some of those attacks turned deadly, according to police.

Investigators said they found one body in a shallow grave in the backyard. The rest were inside the house — one in the basement, two in the third-floor living room and two in an upstairs crawl space.

They found four more bodies Tuesday in Sowell's backyard, as well as a skull wrapped in paper inside a bucket in his basement.

The stench from the remains led to numerous complaints from neighbors who thought it was coming from Ray's Sausage next door, forcing the business to replace its drainage pipes and sewage line, owner Renee Cash told Fox News. But she had no idea the awful smell was that of decomposing bodies, she said.