Investigators trying to identify the bodies of six women found in the Cleveland, Ohio home of a convicted rapist are focusing the inquiry on eight or nine missing women, the coroner said.

Police were working today to identify three of six bodies discovered at the home of a convicted rapist.

Police in the US have arrested a convicted rapist after they found as many as six bodies at his house.

Police in the US said at least three bodies have been found at the home of a convicted rapist, and they expect to confirm three more.

A man believed to have shot dead his wife, her sister and three of her children, killed himself after police forced their way into the home where he had fled.