Bail for a homeless Ohio man facing kidnapping and murder charges was set Friday at $1 million.
After the bail amount was announced, Shawn M. Grate, 40, was heard replying to Ashland County Judge Ronald Forsthoefel over video conference, “Sounds fair.”
A frantic 911 call Tuesday from a woman who said she had been abducted led police to an abandoned Ashland home.
The woman was rescued, Grate was arrested, and authorities found the bodies of two other women in and near the home.
Grate is charged with two murders and kidnapping.
Grate led police to a third body that was found near the rubble of a burned home in nearby Richland County, prosecutors said. It could take months to identify the body, after which charges will be filed in that case, authorities said.
CNN reached out to Grate’s public defender and prosecutors but didn’t get an immediate response.
Grate told the judge he previously worked at a grocery store, but currently has no financial means or a permanent address and is not collecting any financial help from the state.
One of the bodies has been identified as Stacey Stanley, from Greenwich, about 17 miles from Ashland. Stanley, 43, was last seen September 8.
Kurt Stanley remembered his mother as loving and always supportive of her family.
“She would make dinner for everybody. She’d give anybody anything, you know,” he said.
Stacey Stanley was a nurses’ aide before an injury forced her to retire about four years ago, Kurt Stanley told CNN.
She will be buried Saturday. She is survived by Kurt Stanley, 24, and his 22-year-old brother, Kory.
Grate is due back in court Monday for a preliminary hearing.
Ashland is a rural city about 60 miles southwest of Cleveland.