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Prosecutors focus on victims, crime scene at Anthony Sowell trial
(CNN) -- The trial of Anthony Sowell, a man accused of raping, killing and dismembering 11 Cleveland-area women between 2007 and 2009, is scheduled to enter a second day Tuesday.
Prosecutors spoke for more than an hour during opening statements Monday, detailing each woman Sowell is charged with killing and describing steps police took to obtain arrest warrants and gather evidence at Sowell's house.
Pictures were shown to the entire courtroom to further illustrate the scene SWAT team officers and Cleveland police encountered.
The defense spoke for just a few minutes, stressing that the state of Ohio has the burden to prove that Sowell committed the homicides. The defense argued that there is no DNA, fingerprints or evidence to prove Sowell committed the killings.
The defense also focused on Sowell's character and claimed that he has suffered mentally and physically since a heart attack in 2007 led to the loss of his job.
After opening statements, the prosecution's first witness took the stand. Richard Butler is a member of the SWAT team that worked with other Cleveland police to arrest Sowell and gather evidence at his house.
Butler is the officer who found the first two bodies in a small room on the third floor of Sowell's house.
Sowell has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to the 85 counts he faces.
Investigators at Sowell's home unearthed remains of five of the 11 women -- ages 25 to 52 -- in October 2009.
Since then, other women have come forward alleging that Sowell attacked them too.
In April 2010, prosecutors handed down a 10-count indictment against Sowell in connection with the alleged rape of a 34-year-old woman in his home.
Sowell's lawyers have declined previous requests by CNN to explain their case, and the suspect has not been interviewed. But in January 2010, attorney John Parker told The Plain Dealer newspaper in Cleveland that he felt police violated Sowell's Miranda rights as he was being interrogated.
Sowell grew up in East Cleveland, joined the Marines at age 18, and traveled to California, North Carolina and Japan, authorities said. People who interacted with him after his 2005 release from prison, where he had served 15 years for attempted rape, said he appeared to be "a normal guy," known locally for selling scrap metal.
His inconspicuous two-story home sits in a dilapidated neighborhood known as Mount Pleasant, where one in five homes was in foreclosure and at least a third of residents got food stamps, according to a 2010 study by Case Western Reserve University's Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development.
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Pictures were shown to the entire courtroom to further illustrate the scene SWAT team officers and Cleveland police encountered. The defense spoke for just a few minutes, stressing that the state of Ohio has the burden to prove that Sowell committed
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The Boston Public Library has put up a pretty amazing collection of historic crime scene photographs on their Flickr page . I've been browsing through them for a while now, and mostly what I've learned is that everyone in the early 20th century acted all spooked like around picture machines, like they still thought the camera was going to steal their soul, but maybe if they stood really still it wouldn't be able to get at them. How uncomfortable do most of these people look here? Like some sort of animal confronted with some sort of light source.
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