He initially lived there with his wife and four children. However, Castro was allegedly violent with his wife and she left him in , taking custody of their children as well. In , Castro offered year-old Knight a ride. Knight, who knew one of Castro's daughters, accepted.
After Castro convinced Knight to come inside his house, he proceeded to rape her. Knight would be Castro's captive for the next 11 years. In , Castro offered to drive Berry, then 16, home from her job at Burger King.
Like Knight, Berry knew Castro's children and got into his car. She was also kidnapped, assaulted and held captive. Castro repeated the same scenario in with year-old DeJesus, who was a close friend of his daughter, Arlene.
Castro kept the women chained in his basement for years before moving them to barricaded rooms upstairs. Throughout their captivity, Castro restrained the women and subjected them to multiple sexual assaults. When Knight became pregnant, which happened several times, Castro starved and beat her until she miscarried. He allowed Berry's pregnancy to come to term but forced her to give birth inside a plastic swimming pool.
While holding the women captive in his home, Castro maintained a seemingly normal outside life. She's last seen leaving her part-time job at a Burger King, and police would later say that Castro offered her a ride and lured her into his home by telling her his daughter, whom she knew, was inside.
No one answers the door. Child welfare officials had alerted police that Castro, a school bus driver, apparently left a child unattended on a bus. Police later spoke to Castro and determined there was no criminal intent. April 2, year-old Gina DeJesus goes missing in the same area as she's walking home from school. Police later said DeJesus, who was friends with Castro's daughter, was held inside the home after Castro asked her to help him carry a speaker to his car.
Castro trapped her in the basement by telling her the door was an exit, police said. March 2, - Berry's mother Louwana Miller, 43, dies after being hospitalized with pancreatitis and other ailments. She had spent the previous three years looking for her daughter. November, - A neighbor, Israel Lugo, said he heard pounding on some of the doors of Castro's house, which had plastic bags on the windows. Lugo said officers knocked on the front door, but no one answered. Officers walked around outside the house and left, Lugo said.
Berry decided to take a chance and scream for help from behind the storm door. She told police that she made no attempt to break through the other door that day because she believed that Castro was testing her. She screamed until she caught the attention of a neighbor, Charles Ramsey, who was eating a meal inside his home when he heard the desperate cries.
Ramsey and another neighbor, Angel Cordero, then kicked the storm door until Berry and her six year old daughter were able to crawl out. The three women and the child were all brought to the hospital. Berry and DeJesus were released the following day, and Knight was released on May On May 6, , Ariel Castro was arrested and charged with four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape.
In a heavily redacted three-page statement, Castro recounted how in all three cases,. Castro offered them rides. Trusting him, they got in his van or Jeep SUV, and he drove them to his home on Seymour Avenue — which would be their prison for the next decade.
But the batch of records does not include any interviews by Castro. Also, a federal protective order prevents the release of investigative reports, physical evidence, a diary and interviews of the three women. He pleaded guilty last summer to hundreds of charges and was sentenced Aug.
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