MARION COUNTY, Ohio — Convicted serial killer Shawn Grate is facing new charges.
A grand jury indicted him yesterday on four new counts — aggravated murder, kidnapping, abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence.
The new charges stem from a case just revealed earlier this week.
Investigators announced that remains found along Victory Road in Marion County back in March 2007 belonged to 23-year-old Dana Nicole Lowrey.
Lowrey had been selling magazines in Ohio at the time. She was originally from Louisiana. Marion County Sheriff Tim Bailey says that Grate was angry with Lowrey for not delivering magazines to his mother, so he lured her into his car, took her back to his house and choked and stabbed her.
It took years for investigators to identify her remains. They used facial reconstruction and a confession from Grate saying her name was Dana or Diana. But the case still stalled until Project Link and the DNA Doe Project entered the picture.
Eventually, a genealogy database led to a relative and then Lowrey's daughters, who provided the DNA that finally confirmed her identity.
Marion County Prosecutor Ray Grogan tells 10TV he hopes Grate's arraignment can happen on Monday. That would take place via video. Grate is currently serving a death sentence for the murders of other women.
