A pre-trial hearing was held on Tuesday in Richland County Common Pleas Court for convicted serial killer Shawn Grate, who is accused of 14 offenses in Richland County. Grate was convicted in Ashland County in the deaths of Stacey Stanley and Elizabeth Griffith and sentenced to death by lethal injection. Grate pled not guilty to the 14 offenses in Richland County, which is related to the deaths of two Mansfield women in 2015 and 2016.