A known sex offender is expected to face charges today after authorities who responded to a report of a foul odour found the bodies of three women in a low-income Ohio neighbourhood.

A police chief in a Cleveland suburb said he believes there could be one or two more victims in addition to three bodies found earlier yesterday.

A police search is continuing after three bodies, believed to be female, were found wrapped in plastic bags about 150 yards apart in East Cleveland, Ohio.