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Shawn Michael Grate (born August 8, 1976 is an American convicted serial killer, rapist, and former drifter who murdered numerous young women from 2006 to September 2016 in and around northern Ohio. Grate was convicted on two counts of aggravated murder on May 7, 2018, in Ashland County, pleaded guilty to two additional murders on March 1, 2019, in Richland County, and pleaded guilty to an additional murder on September 11, 2019, in Marion County.

Grate is sentenced to death, and is scheduled to be executed in 2025.