CLEVELAND (AP) – A convicted sex offender has pleaded guilty to hundreds of charges in Cleveland, including the murders of two women more than 15 years ago.
Elias Acevedo will serve life in prison after entering the pleas Monday afternoon. He agreed to plead guilty to 297 counts, including kidnapping and raping children.
The murder charges involve neighbor Pamela Pemberton, who was killed in 1994, and Christina Adkins, who was 18 years old and pregnant when she disappeared in 1995.
Authorities had re-examined the disappearances of women in Cleveland following the escape of three women held captive for a decade in a Cleveland home.
Acevedo also was charged with rape and sexual assault charges involving attacks on minors, some dating back more than 25 years.