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Ashland police continue to investigate after one missing woman and two dead bodies were found at the same house Tuesday.

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ASHLAND, Ohio - Ashland police discovered one missing woman and the remains of two people Tuesday at a house in the city.

Officials with the Ashland police department and the county coroner's office held a press conference to discuss the ongoing investigation Tuesday afternoon. Police were called to an area house Tuesday morning while investigating a woman's abduction, Ashland police chief David Martelli said.

Ashland is about 65 miles southwest of Cleveland.

Officers found the woman alive, Martelli said. The man suspected in her abduction was also at the house, and he was taken into custody for questioning.

The woman has not been publicly identified.

At the same house, two bodies were discovered, Martelli said. The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation is now processing the house, and the identities of the deceased have not been determined.

The Ashland County Coroner's Office will identify the human remains once office officials are allowed access to the house, coroner Dale R. Thomae said at the press conference. The deceased individuals' families will be notified once the identifications are made.

The case remains an "open and active investigation," Martelli said.

Authorities discovered a third body in Madison Township, in Richland County, after the man arrested in connection with the abduction led police to the scene. The body was found near a house that was burned out in June, the Mansfield News Journal reports.

The suspect, who reportedly admitted to police that he killed the three individuals, is being held in Ashland County Jail. He has not yet been formally charged, court records show.

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