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Ariel Castro kidnappings

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2013 Cleveland, Ohio, missing trio
Location2207 Seymour Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Coordinates41°28′21″N 81°41′52″W / 41.47250°N 81.69778°W / 41.47250; -81.69778 (2207 Seymour Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio)
DateAugust 22, 2002
- May 6, 2013
Attack type
Kidnapping, rape[1]
Victims
  • Michelle Knight
  • Amanda Berry
  • Georgina DeJesus
  • 6-year-old daughter of Amanda Berry

On May 6, 2013, three women from Cleveland, Ohio,– Georgina "Gina" DeJesus, Amanda Berry, and Michelle Knight – were rescued after being held captive for between nine and eleven years, after Berry escaped and contacted police. They were freed from a house owned by Ariel Castro, the suspect in their kidnappings. A six-year-old daughter of Berry, born while she was captive, was also rescued.[2][3]

Knight disappeared in 2002 at age 21, Berry in 2003 at 16, and DeJesus in 2004 at 14, all last seen on the same city block of Lorain Ave in front of a shopping center.[4]. While confined, the women had multiple pregnancies, at least one live birth (Berry's daughter), and multiple miscarriages.[5] The women were at times bound with chains and rope.[6][7]

Ariel Castro was arrested on May 6, 2013, shortly after the women were freed.[8] On May 8, Castro was charged with four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape,[1]charges which carry prison sentences of 10 years to life.[9] On May 9, Castro's bail was set at $8 million.[10]

Abductions

Michelle Knight

Michelle Knight was last seen when she left her cousin's house on August 22, 2002. She disappeared near West 116th Street and Lorain Avenue, on a day she was to appear in court for a child custody case concerning her son.[11] She was 21 years old at the time of her disappearance.[12][13][14]

According to a report by the officers who found Knight, she accepted a ride from Castro, but he instead drove her to his house. She was tied up in the basement, and beaten, though eventually moved upstairs to a locked room.[15][16]

Police and family members came to believe that Knight may have left on her own, believing she was frustrated after losing custody of her son.[11] Her mother thought she had once seen her with an older man at a shopping plaza on West 117th Street.[17]

Amanda Berry

Amanda Marie Berry went missing on April 21, 2003, at age 16, one day before her 17th birthday.[18] She was believed to have made it home from her job at a Burger King at West 110th Street and Lorain Avenue, and she changed from her uniform at her family's apartment, but no one witnessed her there.[19] She left money and all her clothes at home, and was known to have had plans to celebrate her birthday the next day.[19]

Berry has told police that after her shift a Burger King, she accepted a ride home from Castro, who said he had a son who worked there as well. She called her family to say she was getting a ride home, but instead was taken to Castro's house and imprisoned.[20]

Police initially considered Berry a runaway, until a man used her cell phone to call her mother, Louwanna Miller, claiming the teenager would return in a few days and that they were married.[19] Miller searched for her daughter for three years, but died in 2006 of heart failure.[21]

Berry was featured in a 2004 segment of America's Most Wanted, which re-aired in 2005 and 2006 and linked her to Gina DeJesus, who had subsequently also gone missing in Cleveland.[21][22] They were profiled on The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Montel Williams Show, where self-described psychic Sylvia Browne told Miller in 2004 that her daughter Amanda was dead, and that she was "in water."[23][24][25][26] Browne received significant media criticism for her prediction being "false and potentially damaging."[27]

Before her disappearance, Berry had been in a gifted program at John Marshall High School, but had switched to an online home school program in which she was on track for early graduation.[19]

Gina DeJesus

2004 FBI sketch of a suspect in DeJesus' disappearance

Georgina "Gina" Lynn DeJesus went missing at age 14.[28] She was last seen at a pay phone at about 3 p.m. on April 2, 2004, as she headed home from her middle school at West 105th Street and Lorain Avenue. She and suspect Ariel Castro's daughter Arlene Castro had called Ariel's wife, Grimilda Figueroa, asking to have a sleepover at DeJesus' house, but Figueroa said they could not.[29] Berry and DeJesus disappeared within five blocks of each other, perhaps even on the same block.[30][31]

DeJesus said Castro offered her a ride to his house to see his daughter, her friend. Instead she was placed in captivity. [32]

No AMBER Alert was issued the day DeJesus disappeared, because no one had witnessed her being abducted. The lack of an AMBER Alert angered her father, Felix DeJesus, who said in 2006 that he believed the public would listen even if the alerts become routine.[33]

A week after Gina's disappearance, police released a sketch and description of an Hispanic man aged 25 to 35, 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) tall, weighing 165 to 185 pounds (75 to 82 kg), with green eyes and a pencil-thin beard. The suspect had been seen near her school driving a light blue or white car, and asking for Gina.[34]

DeJesus was featured on America's Most Wanted in 2004, 2005, and 2006, and the television program also linked her to Berry.[35] The disappearances received regular media attention over the years, as recently as 2012, while family and others held vigils and searched for DeJesus and Berry. Ariel Castro was identified by Gina's family in video footage of two of these vigils[36][37] and he reportedly participated in a search party and tried to get close to the family.[38] Police kept an active investigation open, offering a $25,000 reward for information on their location.[39][40]

Discovery and aftermath

Discovery

On May 6, 2013, Knight, DeJesus, Berry, and a previously unknown 6-year-old female child of Berry were found in a home at 2207 Seymour Avenue, in the residential Tremont neighborhood 3 miles (4.8 km) from where the three young women had disappeared.[41][42][43][44][45] Neighbor Angel Cordero responded to the noise of a woman screaming,[46] but was apparently unable to communicate with the women inside the house, since he spoke little English. Another neighbor, Charles Ramsey, joined Cordero at the door and said that a woman, later identified as Berry, told him that she was being kept in the house with her baby against her will.[47] Because the door was locked, Rasmey and Cordero together kicked a hole in the bottom of it, and she crawled through, carrying her daughter.[47] Berry was wearing a jumpsuit, white tank top, rings, and mascara.[47] Upon being freed, she went to the house of another Spanish-speaking neighbor[46] and called 9-1-1, saying, "Help me, I'm Amanda Berry... I've been kidnapped and I've been missing for 10 years. And I'm here, I'm free now."[47][48]

Several responding officers crawled in the broken bottom of the front door and searched the house with guns drawn. One of the officers saw a pair of eyes peeking through a slightly opened upstairs bedroom door. Michelle Knight fled the room and leapt into the arms of an officer repeatedly saying "you saved me."[clarification needed] Soon DeJesus entered the hall from another room.[49] All three women and the child were taken to MetroHealth Medical Center.[50] They were all released from the hospital by the next morning, although Knight later returned for unspecified reasons.

Investigation developments

A suspect, Ariel Castro, was arrested on May 6, 2013, and charged with four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape on May 8. Two brothers of Castro's were also initially taken into custody, but they were released a few days later after police announced that they had no involvement in the kidnappings.[51]

Police said that, based on victim interviews, the women were initially kept in chains and ropes in the basement before being locked in upstairs rooms. They were only twice taken outside, in disguise, and only as far as the garage.[52] An unnamed police source said the young women had multiple miscarriages and at least one live birth.[53] WKYC reported that the women were raped repeatedly by their captor, and beaten severely when they became pregnant.[7] According to The New York Post, one young woman had three miscarriages, and Knight may have suffered hearing loss from the beatings.[7] A Cleveland city councilmen who read a police report and claimed multiple briefings by sources in the police department said that one of the women had had five miscarriages caused by weeks of starvation and beatings to the stomach.[54]

Interviews with the victims revealed the three women only left the house twice during their captivity and that was in disguise and only to go to the garage.[1]

The suspect is believed by police to have fathered Berry's 6-year-old daughter, and a warrant for the suspect's DNA has been obtained.[1][55] The girl was at times taken from the home, and visited the suspect's mother, calling her "grandmother".[56]

Various law enforcement officers searched Ariel Castro's property collecting evidence. A cadaver dog was used [57] but no human remains were discovered.[58]

Suspect

Ariel Castro

Ariel Castro, 52 years old at the time of his arrest, is the son of Puerto Rican immigrants; his father, Pedro Castro, emigrated to the continental United States in 1954, first living in Pennsylvania and then moving to Cleveland.[59][60][61]

Ariel Castro knew the DeJesus family, and his family had grown up in the same west Cleveland neighborhood, according to his uncle, Julio Castro, who ran a grocery store half a block from the Castro house.[62][63]

Castro met his future wife Grimilda Figueroa when the Castros moved into the house opposite her own family’s home during the 1980s. At first, Ariel and Figueroa lived with both sets of parents. They moved into their own house at 2207 Seymour Avenue together in 1992.[64]

Castro owned and lived in the home at 2207 Seymour Avenue since 1992, when he bought it for $12,000. It was a two-story, 1,400-square-foot (130 m2), four-bedroom, one-bathroom house with a 760-square-foot (71 m2) unfinished basement built in 1890 and remodeled in 1956.[65][66][67]

Castro's former sister-in-law Elida Caraballo said “All hell started breaking loose, I would go over to the house and be knocking at the door, and she was there and he wasn’t, and I’d say ’Open the door’ and she’d say ‘I can’t, he locked it’." She also claims Castro beat his wife, broke her nose, ribs and arms, once threw her down stairs which broke her skull.[68]

Ariel Castro had been arrested for domestic violence in 1993, and spent three days in jail before being released on bond, but a grand jury declined to indict him.[69][70] He was also arrested in December 1993 for disorderly conduct, to which he plead guilty.

Ariel Castro has at least four adult children, including three daughters and a son.[71]

In 1996, Ariel Castro was accused of pulling a fence post from a neighbor's property. The neighbor's 6-year-old daughter stepped in the resulting hole and fell, hurting herself. Court documents detailed significant hostility between the neighbors, and Castro said he spoke with police "on a number of occasions” about the neighbor. Castro was ordered to pay $241 in damages.[72]

According to her relatives, in 1996 Ariel's wife left after a particularly bad beating, taking their four children with her. Police assisted in the move out and detained Ariel but did not pursue charges.[73]

Photos of Castro in 2001, provided by his family, show a padlocked basement door inside the house.[74]

Castro has been charged with kidnapping Michelle Knight in 2002, with kidnapping Amanda Berry in 2003 and kidnapping Gina DeJesus in 2004 and imprisoning them in his house.

Ariel Castro's son, also named Ariel Castro but known as Anthony, wrote an article in June 2004 about the Berry and DeJesus disappearances for the Plain Press, when he was a journalism student at Bowling Green State University.[70][75] He interviewed the mother of DeJesus for the piece.

Arlene Castro, a daughter of Ariel, was a school friend of DeJesus and appeared on America's Most Wanted in 2005, saying she was the one who last saw DeJesus before her disappearance. They discussed Arlene Castro going DeJesus's home and called Castro's mother, who said no. DeJesus than started walking home and was not seen again until rescued in May 2013.[76]

Although they were no longer living together, Castro's violence against his ex-wife continued according to his sister-in-law.[77] According to a 2005 filing in Cuyahoga County Domestic Relations Court, Castro was accused of attacking his former wife, Grimilda Figueroa. Figueroa twice suffered a broken nose, and suffered broken ribs, a knocked-out tooth, a blood clot on her brain, and two dislocated shoulders. Attorney Robert Ferreri requested that a judge "keep [Castro] from threatening to kill" Figueroa, and said Figueroa had full custody with no visitation for [Castro] of the children. The attorney claimed that Castro "frequently abducts daughters and keeps them from [sic] mother."[72] A temporary restraining order was granted to Figueroa in August 2005, but the matter was dismissed without prejudice in December 2005 after Figueroa's attorney did not appear at a hearing.[78]

Castro is also charged with the kidnapping of Amanda Berry's daughter, said to be born on Christmas Day 2006 in a plastic pool in the Seymour Street house.[79]

Castro was stopped six times by Cleveland Police between 1995 and 2008 for traffic violations.[80]

The Seymour house was in foreclosure due to three years (2010-2012) of unpaid real estate taxes, at the time of his arrest in 2013.[81]

Castro worked as a bus driver for the Cleveland Metropolitan School District for 22 years, from February 1991 until he was fired for "bad judgment" in November 2012 after a series of issues including making an illegal U-turn with children on the bus,[62][82] using his bus to go grocery shopping, and finally for leaving the bus unattended while he took a nap at home.[83] He was earning $18.91 per hour at the time of his discharge.[84]

Grimilda Figueroa, Castro's former wife, died in 2012 of a brain tumor. Her family believes that the tumor may have been the result of injuries inflicted by her husband.[85]

Neighbors described Castro as seemingly normal, and observed that he mostly kept to himself.[86]

According to his former sister-in-law, Castro had dinner with his daughter Angie in his house just hours before the captives escaped the house. “She thought he was the perfect dad,” said her aunt. [87] After the arrest of his father, Anthony Castro described his father's house "The house was always locked. There were places we could never go. There were locks on the basement. Locks on the attic. Locks on the garage." He said his father asked him about 3 weeks before the escape if Amanda Berry would ever be found. When the son said she was likely dead, the elder Ariel Castro responded: 'Really? You think so?'[88][89]

On May 9, Castro made his first court appearance in Cleveland Municipal Court and bail was set at $2 million per case, for a total of $8 million.[90]

Investigation prior to discovery

Local police and the FBI maintained active investigations after the disappearances, following many leads. The investigations into the disappearance of DeJesus and Berry were widely covered by media regionally over 10 years, and on both national and international TV shows.

Other criminal charges related to the investigation

In January 2013, Robert Wolford, a prison inmate who used to live in the neighborhood from which the women disappeared, was sentenced to four and a half years after pleading guilty to obstruction of justice, making a false report, and making a false alarm for providing a false burial tip in the disappearance of Berry. He led the police to a location in Cleveland, which was dug up with backhoes, but at which the police found nothing.[33][21]

Disappearance of Ashley Summers

Since 2008, police have been investigating the disappearance of Ashley Nicole Summers as being possibly related. Summers was born on June 16, 1993, and last seen on July 6, 2007.[91][92] Summers also disappeared from the same five-block area in Cleveland as the women who were found. She was initially reported as a runaway after a family argument, taking her clothes with her. She called her mother a month later to say she was well, but she had not been heard from since. Summers' step-grandmother believes she spotted her in a car in November 2007.[93][30] In April 2009, the FBI said it suspected that the same man abducted Summers, Berry, and DeJesus, a belief that has not changed with the recovery of Berry and DeJesus alive.[92] The abductions of Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Ashley Summers were covered together on The Oprah Winfrey Show in October 2009.[94]

See also

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