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Suspicious neighbor
In the early 2000s, three girls disappeared in Cleveland, Ohio. For more than 10 years, their fate remained unknown. The relatives continued to look for them, but no longer hoped to meet them alive. It turned out that all this time they were very close. They abducted and kept in slavery a man who lived nearby. As they managed to get out-in the material of the weekly trigrum of the “ cold ” heading.
Three girls were captured for about 10 years. They were abducted by a man who lived very close
On May 6, 2013, the African American Charles Ramsi, the dishwasher of the Hodge's restaurant in Cleveland, was going to dine with food from McDonald's in his porch when he heard female cries.
“I <...> suddenly heard some girl screaming like a crazy one-she wanted to get out of a neighboring house. I thought it was not normal, because my neighbor should not live any girls! ” - Later told Ramsey during the interview.
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Ramsey saw his otherneighbor , Dominican Angel Cordero, who also heard screams, ran across the street and was on the sidewalk in front of the house, from where the screams were heard. Ramsey followed him. Approaching, they heard the girl begging for help. “At first I thought it was a marital quarrel,” Ramsey later said. Cordero refused to enter the house. Ramsey knew that Cordero did not get along with this neighbor. He had to go alone.
Ramsey broke the hole in the door. An unfamiliar girl was locked inside. She crawled out onto the porch, and Ramsey helped her rise. She grabbed Ramsey, then returned to the hole and pulled out a screaming child about six years old. “Either she is homeless, or she has problems - this is the only reason why she rushes to a black man,” Ramsey recalled, he thought .
The girl asked to call number 911. In a panic, she screamed into the phone that her name was Amanda Berry, she was kidnapped many years ago and she urgently needed police and help.
Disappearance
In 2002, a resident of Cleveland Michelle Knight was 21 years old. In high school, she was subjected to persecution, quit her studies, became pregnant, and then her little son was taken by the guardianship authority. On August 22, 2002, Michelle left the house of relatives - there she was seen for the last time.
Subsequently, she said that she got lost on the way to meet with social workers, with whom she had to talk about custody of her son, and went to the store to ask the road. “I was desperately trying to contact them, called from the Automatic phone, but he did not work. I realized that I did not have time, ”she said.
In the store there was a man in whom Knight recognized the father of her friend. He offered her to give her. “He said:“ I know where it is. I can take you right there. It will take me only ... five minutes. ” After that, Knight disappeared. Some believed that her disappearance was associated with the removal of the child, her mother Barbara Knight added .
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The girl was not considered missing, as some family members believed that she had left the house due to the fact that she could not return the child. However, Barbara Knight did not agree with this version: she said that she and Michel were close, and believed that her daughter could not leave without even calling. Therefore, for many months, she stirred ads on the disappearance on the western side of Cleveland.
Eight months after what happened in Cleveland, Amanda Berry disappeared . She grew up in the area where she disappeared, and in adolescence worked at the local Burger King. April 21, 2003-the day until the 17th anniversary-Berry disappeared on the way from work. She managed to call her relatives and warn that she would be lifted, but she never got to the house.
A week after Berry, her mother received a call from her daughter's number. “I have Amanda. Everything is in order with her, and after a couple of days she will return home, ”the unknown man said and hung up. Berry never returned, but this call allowed the FBI to exclude the version of the girl’s escape.
A year after Berry, April 2, 2004, the third girl disappeared . 14-year-old Georgina "Gina" de Hesus was born in Cleveland, her parents kept a household in the Clark-Fulton area, where many Puerto Ricans lived. On the way to the school, Gina walked daily on foot of almost 40 quarters - the path ran past the slum.
Your daughter is dead
Michelle Knight practically did not engage in the disappearance. A year after her loss due to the negligence of employees, data about her were removed from the FBI base, and they were generally stopped looking for it. Later it turned out that the employees simply could not get through to Knight’s mother to confirm that her daughter still had not returned.
But the story of the disappearance of the other two girls immediately attracted the attention of the media. The story of Amanda , like the story of Gina , appeared in the American's Most Wanted program. In one of the episodes in 2005, her friend Arlin Castro spoke about the disappearance of Gina.
The searches were intense: law enforcement officers collected hundreds of testimonies, examined empty houses, and used dogs. Stickers and posters were also printed, appeals on national television were made, hot lines were organized, and in 2005 the “photobot” of a suspicious person noticed in the area of the places where Gina was seen before disappearance was distributed . It was “Latin American, 25–35 years old, a height of 5 feet 10 inches, weight 165–185 pounds, with green eyes, about 178 centimeters and 75–84 kilograms.” Nevertheless, it was not possible to find the missing police.
Mother Berry, Luan Miller, a year and a half after the loss of her daughter, turned to the famous psychic of Sylvia Brown. During The Montel Williams Show in 2004, Brown to the question Miller about whether she would ever see her daughter said that they would meet "only in heaven, on the other side."
Luan Miller died in 2006 from heart failure , never learning that her daughter was actually alive.
Meeting with the police
On May 6, 2013, the first to call Charles Ramsi and Amanda Berry arrived by police Anthony Espad and his partner. “We drove up and saw the crowd, it seems to be on the porch. We see the girl - she raises her hand, holds the child. We look at each other: “Is it really she?” - recalled Espada.
Berry told the officers that there were two more women in the house. The Espada described the house, later nicknamed the "Home Home" as "quiet" and "calm."
Climbing the stairs, he heard a noise and after a few seconds he saw Michelle Knight, stolen in 2002. She rushed to him, shouting: “You saved us! You saved us! " At that moment, the third woman came out of the bedroom, and the Espada immediately realized that this was the missing Gina de Hesus.
After the liberation of women in the case of their abduction, the Castro brothers were detained : Ariel, Pedro and Onila.
Ariel worked as a school bus driver for almost 22 years until he was fired in September 2012. The reason was the reprimand for the fact that he left the bus unattended at the Schranton school for four hours and went home, citing the cancellation of the flight due to bad weather. Before that, Castro had already had reprimands: in 2004, due to the fact that he did not drop out a mentally retarded boy on time and rode a bus around the district, calling him in 2009 due to illegal turning, in February 2012 due to the fact that he drove off the route. His brother Pedro also lived in Cleveland and worked at the factory. Subsequently, due to addiction to alcohol, he lost his job and lived on benefits. The third brother, Onil, was a little worker and five years before the events was injured, which is why the state paid him compensation.
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The brothers lived separately. Onila and Ariel were detained when they returned from the dinner from the mother. When Onil asked the policeman why they were stopped, he said: “Everything I can say, you will be seriously accusations.” The third brother, Pedro, was at home when the police woke him.
The brothers were placed in different cameras. For more than 36 hours they did not know the real reason for the detention. After Pedro helped the prison employee with a translation for another impressive prisoner, he asked what he was accused of. The employee wrote the word "abduction" on paper. “I had no reading points, I looked and said:“ Ah, open containers. ” She said: “No, read it again.” I looked and said: “Ah! The abduction! Who did I abduct?” Pedro recalled.
Onilo managed to see Ariel briefly when he went to the toilet. “When he passed by, he said:“ You will never see me again. I love you, brother. ” And that’s all, ”Onil recalled.
Later, when they were delivered for interrogation, Ariel spoke with his brother again and apologized. “Then I broke on the way there. I asked [the policemen]: “What did my brother do? What did he do?” ”Onil said later.
A few minutes later, in the interrogation room, the detective showed the photo of Gina de Hesus and Amanda Berry. “It seemed to have collapsed to the ground,” Onil described this moment. He knew about the disappearance of the girls, because their photographs after the loss were hung throughout the area. It turned out that Ariel was accused of kidnapping four people and the rape of three. After the charges of Ariel, the brothers called him a “monster” and refused to consider him their relative.
Castro family
The Castro family was from Puerto Rico. In addition to the two siblings, Ariel had Sister Marisol, as well as several half -brothers and sisters. When Ariel, Onil, Pedro and Marisol were still children, their parents Lillian and Pedro divorced. Father stayed at home, and the mother moved to the United States with the children. At first they settled in the city of Reding in Pennsylvania, but then moved to Cleveland. It is no coincidence that relatives lived here for many years.
Ariel Castro worked as a packer and cleaner in Pick-N-Pay, then a driller and an operator of the press station in Lesner Products, after that-the driver and utility workers in Cumba Motors, and in 1991 he got a job as a school bus driver, whom he worked until the fall of 2012.
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In 1980, Ariel Castro began to live with Grimild Figeroa. They had four children: three daughters and a son. Figeroa declared violence by Castro, he was arrested three times on appropriate charges. In 1994, the judges had to again consider the case regarding Castro accusations of violence, but Figeroa did not come to testify. As she said later, Castro threatened her on the day of the meeting. In 1996, after the next beating, Grimilda left the house. On January 22, 1997, Castro lost his care over children, he was also deprived of the right to visit.
On August 29, 2005, after complaints about a twice broken nose, a fracture of the ribs, knocked out teeth, a fracture of the skulls and numerous threats to her and her children, Grimild Figeroa filed a motion to issue a security order against Castro.
In 2004, there was an investigation against Castro on the creation of a threat to the child and his abduction. He picked up the student with mental disorders and put him on the bus. Then he went to the Wendy's restaurant and left the boy alone in the cabin. Returning, he went to ride around, including calling in the parks, and then after some time he returned the child to school. For this, Castro was removed from work for 60 days without saving salaries.
During the investigation, the police came to the house of Castro, from where three girls later managed to get out. But, not finding anyone at home, the officers left and did not return anymore. The police report states that the investigation did not reveal evidence of sexual violence or another attack on the boy. The investigation came to the conclusion that Castro did not violate the law.
In interrogations and in an interview, the Castro brothers said that Ariel always remained “separately” from the family and was a little “strange”. “Sometimes we have not seen him for two weeks, a month,” Ong recalled. - Mom said: "Check your brother, find out how he is." I wrote to him, he answered. "What are you doing?" - "Everything is fine"".
Over the past 10 years, Ariel has not let the guests go beyond the kitchen. Dense curtains were separated from the rest of the house. There was always some background noise at home: the radio or TV worked constantly. Because of this, it was impossible to hear what was happening in other rooms.
House of horror
The 21-year-old Michelle Knight Castro lured to his home, offering to give her to a meeting with guardianship officers. On the way, he told her that he had to call on his house to pick up her daughter - he and Michel were familiar.
Castro later started her into the house and locked the door. “He said:“ You won’t leave here for a long time, ”Knight recalled . - And then he began to undress. I fell to the floor and begged him to let me go: "I need to my son."
Eight months later, Castro offered to give a lift to 16-year-old Amanda Berry and also brought her home. He took a new stolen into one of the rooms: “It was dark there, he did not turn on the light, and there was a small room nearby, such as a dressing room. He led me there and said to take off my pants. At this moment, I realized that everything would be bad, ”she said after liberation.
Then he took Berry to the basement, shook her arms and legs with tape and tied her legs with a belt. “He said:“ Be sure and do not make noise. And then I will let you go home, ”Berry recalled. Castro tied, turned off the light and left in the dark with the TV. “I started screaming and crying ...” she said. -"Someone, help!" But no one came. I was so afraid to die, I thought that I would never return home. ”
About a year later, he stole a 14-year-old Gina de Hesus. That day she saw her friend Arlin Castro , daughter of Ariel. She wanted to take a visit to visit de Hesus, but she was not allowed. However, Father Arlin Arlel Castro soon drove up to Gina, who was returning home and said that he could not find his daughter. He asked de Hesus to help in search and took him to himself.
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Castro forbade captives to communicate and followed every movement. From the rooms they were allowed to leave only during cleaning. He beaten and raped them many times. Once, when there was a guest in the house, he kept the girls in the garage.
Berry secretly kept a diary to fix the number of rape. She wrote on anything - she had enough records from the fast food for a whole week of records.
Three years after the abduction, Berry became pregnant . Another captive had to take birth, Michelle Knight. Castro told her that he would kill her if she did not save the child.
The birth took place in an inflatable pool, at some point a newborn girl stopped breathing, but Knight managed to reanimate her, making artificial breathing. The girl was called Joselin. Subsequently, the DNA analysis confirmed that the girl’s father is Ariel Castro.
The abductor gave her daughter more freedom than captives: she could go out and go to church with her father. At the same time, Castro forbade Michelle and Gina to call his real names under the girl. Michelle Knight told the police that she was pregnant with Castro at least five times. However, each time he frowned her with hunger, and then beat her on his stomach to cause a miscarriage.
Berry said that the more they cried and showed pain, the more energy it gave Castro. Knight tried to escape from the house of Castro at least six times, but the door was closed, she was afraid that Castro would shoot her from a gun, if she noticed. The girls managed to escape only in 2013 due to the fact that Castro did not close the door to Berry's room.
Court and verdict
Ariel Castro appeared before the trial a few days after the detention. On May 10, 2013, the District Prosecutor said that he might charge him in murder under aggravating circumstances in connection with violent termination of pregnancies, and made it clear that he would achieve the death penalty.
In the end, Castro was charged with 977 points, including murder under aggravating circumstances, abduction and rape. Castro concluded a deal with the investigation of guilt, which allowed him to avoid the death penalty.
The trial began the same summer. During the hearing, Castro said he was sick. According to him, he did not rape or tortured victims, there was a “harmony” in the house, and “most of the sex in the house took place by mutual agreement.”
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“To clarify the situation: I am not a monster, I did not hunt these women, I just acted on my sexual instincts because of my sexual addiction,” said Castro at the meeting. - I swear by God, I never beat these women the way they say. I never tortured them. "
At the same time, during the preliminary hearings, psychiatrists appointed by the court recognized him as sane: Castro understood the charges against him and was able to help his lawyers in preparing the defense.
In court, Michel Knight spoke over Castro, saying: “You took 11 years of life from me, and now I have returned them. I spent 11 years in hell. Now your hell is just beginning. ” Other victims were represented by their relatives.
Castro received a lifelong opinion without the right to parole and an additional 1000 years of imprisonment. A month after the sentence, in early September 2013, he was found hanged in the cell.
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After liberation, the victims of Castro began a new life. Berry began to conduct the Missing with AManda Berry heading on the Fox 8 News television channel in Cleveland, helping to look for missing children and adults. Ее дочь Жоселин осталась с ней, обе проходили реабилитацию после пережитого. Де Хесус вместе с кузиной открыла Cleveland Center for Missing, Abducted and Exploited Children and Adults — благотворительный центр, который она принципиально разместила на Сеймур-авеню, недалеко от «дома ужасов». Этот дом снесли в 2013 году, через неделю после оглашения приговора Кастро.
Мишель Найт сменила имя на Лили Роуз Ли, переехала, вышла замуж и теперь помогает другим жертвам насилия.
Колумнистка издания Plain Dealer Реджина Бретт, которая освещала исчезновения девушек, впоследствии рассказывала , что узнала о Мишель Найт лишь в день ее освобождения 6 мая 2013 года. «Как журналист я потрясена. Как я могла не знать? — говорила она. — Понимаете, если бы мы знали, что в одном и том же районе пропали три женщины… Неприятно это говорить, но всегда повторяют: если что-то произошло дважды — это еще случайность, а вот три раза — это уже закономерность».
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