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Ariel Castro kidnappings

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Kidnappings of Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight
Location2207 Seymour Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Coordinates41°28′21″N 81°41′52.5″W / 41.47250°N 81.697917°W / 41.47250; -81.697917 (2207 Seymour Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio)
DateAugust 22, 2002
– May 6, 2013
Attack type
Kidnapping, rape,[1] aggravated murder, attempted murder, and assault[2]
Victims
  • Michelle Knight
  • Amanda Berry
  • Gina DeJesus
  • 6-year-old daughter of Amanda Berry

On May 6, 2013, three women from Cleveland, Ohio – Amanda Berry, Georgina "Gina" DeJesus, and Michelle Knight – were rescued from their 9-to-11-year captivity 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.[3][4]

Knight disappeared in Cleveland in 2002 at age 21, Berry in 2003 at 16, and DeJesus in 2004 at 14.[5] While captive, the women reportedly had multiple pregnancies, at least one live birth (Berry's daughter), and multiple miscarriages.[6] The women were at times bound with chains and rope.[7][8]

Ariel Castro was arrested on May 6, 2013, shortly after the women were freed.[9] On May 8, Castro was charged with four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape, charges that carry prison sentences of 10 years to life.[1][10] On May 9, Castro's bail was set at $8 million.[11] Additional charges are pending, including aggravated murder (for allegedly terminating the pregnancies), attempted murder, assault, a charge for each alleged instance of rape, and a kidnapping charge for each day each victim was allegedly held captive.[2] The case received front-page news coverage worldwide.[12][13]

Victims

Michelle Knight

Michelle Knight disappeared on August 23, 2002, after leaving a cousin's house.[14] Knight was 21 years old at the time.[15][16][17][18] On the day of her disappearance, she was scheduled to appear in court for a child custody case involving her son, of whom she had previously lost custody to the state.[14][19]

Following Knight's rescue, police acknowledged that limited resources had been spent on investigating her disappearance, in part because she was an adult and was believed to have run away voluntarily due to anger over losing custody of her son. According to Cleveland Deputy Police Chief Ed Tomba, Knight "was the focus of very few tips."[20] Knight's removal from the National Crime Information Center database, 15 months after she disappeared, has been criticized, although police and the FBI maintain that her inclusion or exclusion had no bearing on her rescue.[21]

According to a report by officers who found Knight, she accepted a ride home from Castro, but was instead driven to his house, tied up in his basement and beaten, and eventually moved to a locked room upstairs.[22][23] Her mother thought she had once seen her with an older man at a shopping plaza in Cleveland.[24]

According to reports and confirmed by Michelle's grandmother, Knight will likely require facial reconstruction surgery because of the beatings she endured. She also lost hearing in one ear. She generally refused all hospital visitors but expressed thanks for all the flowers and well wishes.[25]

Amanda Berry

Amanda Marie Berry went missing on April 21, 2003, one day before her 17th birthday.[26] At approximately 7:10 p.m., Berry called her family to tell them she was getting a ride home from her job at a Burger King at West 110th Street and Lorain Avenue.[27] Berry has told police she accepted Castro's offer of a ride home after he had told her that he had a son who also worked at Burger King. After Berry entered Castro's vehicle, he allegedly drove straight to his own home and imprisoned her.[22]

Police initially considered Berry a runaway, until a week after her disappearance, when a man used Berry's cell phone to call her mother. The man claimed that he and Berry were married and that Berry would return home in a few days.[27] Amanda Berry's mother, Louwana Miller, searched for her daughter for three years, but died in 2006 of heart failure.[28]

Berry was featured in a 2004 segment of America's Most Wanted (re-aired in 2005 and 2006) which linked her to Gina DeJesus, who by that point had also gone missing in Cleveland.[28][29] 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."[30][31][32][33] This pronouncement caused Berry's mother to almost give up hope, take down pictures and give away her daughter's computer. Her health failed from the toll of her daughter's disappearance and she died three months later.[34][35] Following Berry's escape, Browne received criticism for the false prediction.[36]

In 2006 Felix Berry said he was angered by the lack of an AMBER alert, which was not issued because no one actually witnessed an abduction. He said people would still pay attention and that "The Amber Alert should work for any missing child. It doesn't have to be an abduction. Whether it's an abduction or a runaway, a child needs to be found. We need to change this law."[37][38]

In July 2012, Robert Wolford, a prison inmate who used to live in the neighborhood from which the women disappeared, claimed to have information about the location of Berry's body and led police to an empty lot on Cleveland's West Side, where a fruitless search was conducted.[28][39] Wolford was sentenced in 2013 to four and a half years in prison for obstruction of justice, making a false report and making a false alarm.[40][41]

Gina DeJesus

2004 FBI sketch of a suspect in DeJesus' disappearance

Georgina "Gina" Lynn DeJesus went missing at age 14.[42] She was last seen at a pay phone at about 3 p.m. on April 2, 2004, on the way home from her middle school at West 105th Street and Lorain Avenue. DeJesus and her friend, Ariel Castro's daughter Arlene, had called Castro's wife, Grimilda Figueroa, for permission to have a sleepover at DeJesus' house, but Figueroa had said they could not, and the two girls parted ways.[43] It is alleged that Castro offered DeJesus a ride to his home to see his daughter but instead took her captive.[22] Berry and DeJesus disappeared within five blocks of each other according to some sources and on the same block according to other sources.[44]

A week after DeJesus' disappearance, police released a composite sketch of a Hispanic man being sought in connection with the case. Prior to her disappearance, the man had been seen near DeJesus' school and asking for her.[45]

DeJesus was featured on a 2004 America's Most Wanted segment, which re-aired in 2005 and 2006, and which linked her to Berry.[46] 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[47][48] and he reportedly participated in a search party and tried to get close to the family.[49] Police kept an active investigation open, offering a $25,000 reward for information.[50][51]

Child of Amanda Berry

According to police interviews with the victims, Amanda Berry gave birth to a daughter on December 25, 2006,[52] inside the house where they were imprisoned. Knight was ordered to assist in the birth, which took place in a small inflatable swimming pool, and was threatened with death if the baby did not survive. At one point, the baby stopped breathing, but Knight was able to resuscitate her.[53][54] Castro occasionally took the child out of the house; in 2013, he showed his adult daughter a picture of the child and said that it was his girlfriend's daughter.[53][55]

Discovery and aftermath

Discovery

On May 6, 2013, Knight, DeJesus, Berry, and Berry's 6-year-old daughter were discovered to have been imprisoned in Castro's home at 2207 Seymour Avenue, in the residential Tremont neighborhood approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) from where the three young women had disappeared.[56][57][58][59]

Neighbor Angel Cordero responded to the noise of a woman screaming inside the house,[60] but was apparently unable to communicate with her, since he spoke little English. Another neighbor, Charles Ramsey, joined Cordero at the house's locked front door. The woman, later identified as Berry, told Ramsey that she and her baby were being kept inside the house against her will.[61] Because the door was locked, Ramsey and Cordero together kicked a hole through the bottom of it, and Berry crawled through, carrying her daughter.[61] Berry was wearing a jumpsuit, white tank top, rings, and mascara.[61] Upon being freed, she went to the house of another Spanish-speaking neighbor[60] 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."[61][62]

Responding police officers entered Castro's house. As they walked through an upstairs hallway with guns drawn, they announced themselves as Cleveland police. After peeking out from a slightly opened bedroom door, Knight entered the hallway and leapt into an officer's arms, repeatedly saying, "You saved me." Soon afterward, DeJesus entered the hallway from another room.[63] The women were able to walk out of the home; all three women and the child were taken to MetroHealth Medical Center.[64] They were all released from the hospital by the next morning, although Knight later returned for unspecified reasons.

Investigation developments

The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Cleveland Police Department were assigned to investigate the disappearances. In at least one of the disappearances, Ariel Castro's daughter was reported to be the last person to see the victim before she disappeared. There is no record of police going to the Castro home at the time of the disappearance to investigate.[65] Multiple neighbors reported calling the police about the Castro home, including reportedly seeing naked women in the backyard. Cleveland Police did not go to the Castro home to investigate, and maintain they have no record of the calls.[66]

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.[66]

Based on interviews with the victims, police said the women were initially kept in chains and ropes in the basement before being locked in upstairs rooms, and that they were only twice taken outside, in disguise, and only as far as the garage.[67]

A DNA test confirmed that Castro fathered Berry's 6-year-old daughter.[68] Castro occasionally took the girl out of the home, and had visited his mother, whom the girl called "grandmother".[69] Castro's DNA will also be compared to unknown DNA from other crimes.[70]

Knight told police that Castro had impregnated her at least five times, and had induced miscarriages each time through beatings and starvation.[71][72] According to The New York Post, Knight may have suffered hearing loss from the beatings.[8] DeJesus told police she did not believe she had ever become pregnant, despite allegedly being raped by Castro.[71]

Legal proceedings

On May 9, 2013, Castro made his first court appearance in Cleveland Municipal Court. Bail was set at $2 million per kidnapping charge, for a total of $8 million.[11]

Suspect

Ariel Castro (born July 10, 1960)[73] was 52 years old at the time of his arrest. His father, Pedro Castro, moved from Puerto Rico in 1954, first living in Pennsylvania and then moving to Cleveland.[74][75][76] His mother, Lillian Rodriguez, lives nearby in Cleveland.[77] Ariel is one of nine siblings.[78] According to Ariel Castro's uncle, his family knew the DeJesus family and had grown up in the same west Cleveland neighborhood.[79] Ariel Castro is a 1979 graduate of Cleveland's Lincoln-West High School.[80][81]

Castro met his future common law wife, Grimilda Figueroa, when his family moved into a house across the street from her family in the 1980s. The couple lived with both sets of parents, but moved into their own home at 2207 Seymour Avenue in 1992.[82][83] The home is 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.[84][85][86]

According to Figueroa's sister, after the couple moved into their new home, "all hell started breaking loose." She and her husband claim Castro beat his wife, breaking her nose, ribs, and arms, and once threw Figueroa down a set of stairs, cracking her skull.[83] In 1993, Castro was arrested for domestic violence, but was not indicted by a grand jury.[87] Figueroa moved out of the home in 1996 and secured custody of the couple's four children. Police assisted in the move and detained Castro, but did not pursue charges.[83]

Castro continued to threaten and attack Figueroa after her move out, according to Figueroa's sister. A 2005 filing by Figueroa in Cuyahoga County Domestic Relations Court accused Castro of inflicting multiple severe injuries on Figueroa, and accused Castro of "frequently abduct[ing]" his daughters. A temporary restraining order against Castro was granted, but was dismissed a few months later.[83] Figueroa died in 2012 at the age of 48, due to complications from a brain tumor.[83]

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,[79][88] using his bus to go grocery shopping, and finally for leaving the bus unattended while he took a nap at home.[89] He was earning $18.91 per hour when he was discharged.[90] At the time of his arrest in 2013, his home was in foreclosure due to three years (2010–12) of unpaid real estate taxes.[91]

After Castro's arrest, his son Anthony 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."[92] Neighbors described Castro as seemingly normal, and observed that he mostly kept to himself.[93]

While a journalism student in 2004, Anthony Castro had written an article about the Berry and DeJesus disappearances for the Plain Press, for which he had interviewed DeJesus' mother.[94][87][95] He said his father asked him about three weeks before the escape if Amanda Berry would ever be found. Anthony said he told Ariel that Berry was likely dead, and that Ariel responded: "Really? You think so?"[96] Anthony's sister Arlene Castro had been friends with DeJesus and was the last person to see DeJesus before her disappearance.[97]

See also

  • Fritzl case, woman locked in her own basement by her father for 24 years
  • Kidnapping of Colleen Stan, 1977–84 abduction case in California
  • Kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard, 11-year-old girl abducted in California; when found 18 years later, she had borne her kidnapper two daughters
  • Michael J. Devlin, convicted kidnapper abducted two boys, holding one for more than four years
  • Tanya Nicole Kach, American girl abducted in Pennsylvania from 1996 until her escape in 2006
  • Natascha Kampusch, girl abducted at the age of 10 and held for more than eight years
  • Steven Stayner, boy kidnapped in 1972 and held until he escaped with a second kidnap victim in 1980
  • The Factory, 2011 film about man who abducts a number of young women, keeps them captive in his home for years, and has children with them, until they escape.

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