Why did police not arrest him after a woman accused him of rape, or after another woman jumped out of his window naked and he admitted smoking crack with her?
Thirty-seven days passed between the time a woman told police Sowell choked and raped her in his house and when police went to Imperial Avenue to arrest him. He was accused of raping and trying to strangle the woman inside the home hours after he answered his side door and spoke to a deputy on Sept. 22. Detectives were assigned the case the next day and left messages with the woman. They called her and then visited her home. The woman’s mother told police her daughter was hard to reach. A week passed, and she agreed to meet with detectives on Oct. 11. The woman did not show up for the interview and they later scheduled another interview. The woman met with detectives Tuesday, Oct. 27. They obtained a search and arrest warrant the next day, records show. Police discovered dead bodies in his home on Oct. 29 when they went there to serve arrest and search warrants “For four years, that man was compliant,” said Sue DeChant of the sheriff’s Sex Offender Registration Office. “He came in when
