EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio — An Ohio man will be charged with aggravated murder after three bodies wrapped in trash bags were found in suburban Cleveland, the mayor said this morning.

East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton said a call to police led authorities to a home and a standoff with the man, who was eventually arrested. The mayor has said the suspect indicated he might have been influenced by the earlier case of Cleveland serial killer convicted in the deaths of 11 women.

Norton announced today that 35-year-old Michael Madison will be charged with three counts of aggravated murder.

Police and volunteers scoured about 40 empty homes Sunday until their search was suspended, with no immediate plans to resume.

Authorities said they had identified only one of the victims, Angela Deskins, who was believed to be 38 years old. The other two bodies were too badly decomposed to identify. The medical examiner also said he couldn’t determine a cause of death because of the bodies’ conditions.

The first body was found in a garage Friday. Two others were found Saturday — one in a backyard and the other in the basement of a vacant house. The bodies, all women, were found about 100 to 200 yards apart, and authorities say the victims were killed in the previous six to 10 days.

Each body was wrapped in a plastic bag in the fetal position.