Shawn Michael Grate is an American convicted serial killer and former drifter who murdered five young women from 2006 to September 2016 in and around northern Ohio. Grate was convicted on two counts of aggravated murder on May 7th, 2018, in Ashland County, pleaded guilty to two additional murders on March 1st, 2019, in Richland County, and pleaded guilty to another murder on September 11, 2019, in Marion County.