Anthony Sowell is no ordinary serial killer. According to authorities, he lured women into his home in a busy neighborhood and then he killed most of them by strangulation. And then he scatters their remains throughout the inside and buried some in his backyard.

What about the stench, you say? His home lies beside a sausage company. Neighbors blame the smell on the meat processing.

Experts have a category for this kind of serial killers but it’s a narrow subcategory. It includes the 1893 Chicago Fair killer, Dr. H.H. Holmes, and Milwaukee cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer, who hunt from home.

Robert Keppel, a national serial-killer expert who investigated serial killer Ted Bundy in Washington state in the 1970s said, “These types are so rare that you can’t make a summary estimation as to why or what went wrong or anything.”

Director of the New York Center for Neuropsychology and Forensic Behavioral Science N.G. Berrill adds that this kind of mentality belongs to a different level of mental sickness.

(via AP)