note-a-bear:

tilthat:

TIL. A company named Ray’s Sausage spent over $20,000.00 in improvements to their sausage making business due to constant complaints for causing foul odors, but the odors were actually from the rotting victims of serial killer Anthony Sowell.

via reddit.com

Wait, so this is cute and funny, right

But the serial killer, The Cleveland Strangler, targeted almost exclusively Black Women. Specifically Black Women who were drug users and/or street based sex workers. In an alarming parallel to the infamous, equally unrecognized, Grim Sleeper of South Central LA, he was caught and incarcerated (for 15 years). He was only caught for his crimes after that release because of the stench mentioned in the blurb above.

Vice, I believe, put out a documentary last year or the year before about Sowell, and there’s another coming out this year, called Unseen.

From the director

“I want them to think of a drug addict they might pass on the street as a human being and realize that we, as individuals, aren’t insulated from the circumstances that impacted these women. The killer, Anthony Sowell, took advantage of the attitudes already present — the idea of treating women with an addiction as non-people or as ‘crack heads.’”