0:00:02 > 0:00:07- POLICE RADIO:- Help me, I'm Amanda Berry! I've been missing for 10 years and I'm here, I'm free now!
0:00:07 > 0:00:10This is the story of three girls who, in two years,
0:00:10 > 0:00:12all went missing from the same street.
0:00:12 > 0:00:17Michele Knight, 21, kidnapped August, 2002.
0:00:17 > 0:00:22Amanda Berry, almost 17, kidnapped April, 2003.
0:00:22 > 0:00:28And Gina DeJesus, aged 14, kidnapped April, 2004.
0:00:29 > 0:00:33Until May, 2013, they were held captive inside this house
0:00:33 > 0:00:37by a 52-year-old school bus driver and musician. His name?
0:00:37 > 0:00:38Ariel Castro.
0:00:40 > 0:00:42- POLICE RADIO:- We found them.
0:00:42 > 0:00:47So, who is the man who held the girls captive in a busy urban neighbourhood for 10 years?
0:00:47 > 0:00:50And how did he remain undetected?
0:00:50 > 0:00:53'I'm Rick Edwards, and I've come to the United States
0:00:53 > 0:00:56'to meet the people who live close to Ariel Castro.'
0:00:56 > 0:00:58His mother would come to see him
0:00:58 > 0:01:01and he would check her out from the porch or come and talk to her.
0:01:01 > 0:01:03He wouldn't let her in the house.
0:01:03 > 0:01:06I go inside the hospital to hear from the medical team
0:01:06 > 0:01:07who treated the girls.
0:01:07 > 0:01:10I did notice that the girls wanted to be together,
0:01:10 > 0:01:14so every time we would kind of separate them, they would come search for each other.
0:01:14 > 0:01:16Inside 2207 Seymour Avenue,
0:01:16 > 0:01:20what Castro told a friend who heard strange noises upstairs...
0:01:20 > 0:01:24I asked him, "What is these noises coming from?"
0:01:24 > 0:01:26And he said he had some dogs.
0:01:26 > 0:01:28And inside the Castro family,
0:01:28 > 0:01:31why they want to meet the daughter he fathered in captivity.
0:01:31 > 0:01:35She's our cousin. She's our blood.
0:01:37 > 0:01:41And I want her to know that she doesn't have monster in her blood.
0:01:41 > 0:01:45So why did nobody know that this ordinary house in this ordinary street
0:01:45 > 0:01:48was actually a prison?
0:01:48 > 0:01:51I've come to speak to the people here in the US city
0:01:51 > 0:01:53of Cleveland to find out what really happened.
0:01:53 > 0:01:56CROWD CHEERS
0:01:58 > 0:02:01This is a miracle. This does not happen.
0:02:01 > 0:02:04People do not come out alive out of this.
0:02:16 > 0:02:18This is Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States,
0:02:18 > 0:02:21a city that I know very little about.
0:02:21 > 0:02:23This area, downtown, looks nothing like the Cleveland
0:02:23 > 0:02:26that I've seen depicted in recent press coverage.
0:02:26 > 0:02:29It feels like a shiny, friendly American city.
0:02:29 > 0:02:33And yet somewhere very near here, three young women were held
0:02:33 > 0:02:35in a house captive for 10 years
0:02:35 > 0:02:41and subjected to unimaginable horrors, horrors that we don't even know the details of yet.
0:02:41 > 0:02:44It's hard to believe, it's hard to comprehend.
0:02:44 > 0:02:46I want to find out more.
0:02:48 > 0:02:53It is around 5.45pm, May 6th, 2013.
0:02:53 > 0:02:57A sunny spring evening on Seymour Avenue on Cleveland's west side.
0:02:57 > 0:03:01This is a neighbourhood of mainly first-generation immigrants on low incomes.
0:03:01 > 0:03:04Aurora Marti, from Puerto Rico, is sitting outside
0:03:04 > 0:03:08when she hears shouts from the house over the road.
0:03:08 > 0:03:11With her sons present, she tells what happens next.
0:03:15 > 0:03:19- TRANSLATION:- We were talking when we hear a shout.
0:03:19 > 0:03:21I looked in front of the house
0:03:21 > 0:03:27and it was Amanda Berry shouting for help with her hand like this.
0:03:27 > 0:03:31She could poke her arm through a gap in the door.
0:03:31 > 0:03:36The door was chained shut so I couldn't really see her.
0:03:36 > 0:03:41She did this. "I said, help me, my name is Amanda Berry!"
0:03:41 > 0:03:47Amanda's shouts are also heard by another neighbour, Charles Ramsey.
0:03:47 > 0:03:50I'm eating my McDonald's. I come outside.
0:03:50 > 0:03:54I see this girl going nuts, trying to get out of the house.
0:03:54 > 0:03:56So I go on the porch.
0:03:56 > 0:04:00I go on the porch and she says, "Help me get out."
0:04:00 > 0:04:02"I've been here a long time."
0:04:02 > 0:04:06So, you know, I figured it's a domestic violence dispute.
0:04:06 > 0:04:12My neighbour Angelo went over there and kicked a hole in the door.
0:04:12 > 0:04:14Then they broke the chain.
0:04:14 > 0:04:18There was another part that Angelo broke, and she was able to get out.
0:04:18 > 0:04:20Both of them were screaming.
0:04:22 > 0:04:27At 5.48, another neighbour's mobile phone captures the scene.
0:04:27 > 0:04:31Amanda Berry is out of the house and carrying a small child.
0:04:31 > 0:04:35She comes out with a little girl, and she says, "Call 911.
0:04:35 > 0:04:36"My name's Amanda Berry."
0:04:49 > 0:04:54I'm calling the 911 for Amanda Berry? I thought this girl was dead. You know what I mean?
0:04:59 > 0:05:02But the drama isn't over yet.
0:05:02 > 0:05:062207 Seymour Avenue is owned by a man named Ariel Castro.
0:05:06 > 0:05:09He's gone out but could return any moment.
0:05:16 > 0:05:20I felt really scared he was going to come back
0:05:20 > 0:05:23and there was nothing I could do.
0:05:23 > 0:05:26He always came and went.
0:05:26 > 0:05:28My neighbour shouted to me, "Grab them
0:05:28 > 0:05:32"and bring them inside or he kill us!"
0:06:29 > 0:06:33At 5.52, the dispatcher calls in a squad car.
0:06:59 > 0:07:06At 5.55, a neighbour's phone records police breaking into 2207 Seymour Avenue.
0:07:08 > 0:07:12The police arrived. She ran over and hugged them.
0:07:12 > 0:07:16They straightaway put her inside the police car.
0:07:16 > 0:07:21When she was inside the car, she told them there were two more women.
0:07:24 > 0:07:28See, the girl Amanda told the police, "I ain't just only one.
0:07:28 > 0:07:30"It's some more girls up in that house."
0:07:45 > 0:07:48And when they came out was just astonishing,
0:07:48 > 0:07:50because I thought they would come up with nothing.
0:07:50 > 0:07:54So they brought the other two out and took them to hospital.
0:07:54 > 0:07:57The other two girls were naked.
0:07:57 > 0:07:59They brought them down wrapped in blankets.
0:07:59 > 0:08:02He had them up there chained, naked.
0:08:04 > 0:08:08So, Paul, talk me through the sequence of events for you on May 6th, the evening.
0:08:08 > 0:08:10I just got home from work.
0:08:10 > 0:08:12It was about 14 minutes after six.
0:08:12 > 0:08:16I got a phone call from somebody highly placed telling me
0:08:16 > 0:08:18that they'd found Gina and Amanda.
0:08:18 > 0:08:21My reaction was shock that they'd been found, but then he said,
0:08:21 > 0:08:25"And a third girl." I said, "There's another body?"
0:08:25 > 0:08:29He said, "No, alive." And I was dumbfounded.
0:08:29 > 0:08:33At 6pm, a call goes out to trace Ariel Castro.
0:08:33 > 0:08:36At 6.16, police track him down.
0:08:36 > 0:08:39We've got Onil Castro
0:08:39 > 0:08:44and Ariel Castro incarcerated down here at McDonald's.
0:08:44 > 0:08:48You know, the neighbours say they had no idea whatsoever.
0:08:48 > 0:08:52They are absolutely stunned. They describe this man as very friendly.
0:08:52 > 0:08:54He would come out to get his mail.
0:08:54 > 0:08:56He would chat and strike up conversation.
0:08:56 > 0:08:58But they never saw any of the young women.
0:08:58 > 0:09:01They never even suspected whatsoever.
0:09:01 > 0:09:03But right now, here on Seymour Avenue,
0:09:03 > 0:09:07there is incredible joy here in this neighbourhood.
0:09:07 > 0:09:10Hundreds of news crews descend on Seymour Avenue.
0:09:10 > 0:09:13Normal programming is suspended.
0:09:13 > 0:09:16Live coverage takes over from night to next morning.
0:09:16 > 0:09:19Good morning. Just a half a block away from suspect Ariel Castro's home,
0:09:19 > 0:09:23his uncle, who works at this convenience store.
0:09:23 > 0:09:27We spoke exclusively to Julio Castro about his nephew
0:09:27 > 0:09:29to get his family's reaction.
0:09:35 > 0:09:37Two days after the three women are found,
0:09:37 > 0:09:41Ariel Castro is charged with four counts of kidnapping
0:09:41 > 0:09:43and three counts of rape.
0:09:43 > 0:09:46Bail is set at 8 million. He does not enter a plea.
0:10:06 > 0:10:10With respect to Mr Castro, he's waiving examination on each case.
0:10:10 > 0:10:15With respect to bond on Mr Castro, Mr Castro is 52 years old,
0:10:15 > 0:10:19he has lived in the area for 39 years,
0:10:19 > 0:10:22he is on unemployment compensation,
0:10:22 > 0:10:27and to the best of my knowledge he has no convictions
0:10:27 > 0:10:32for felonies or serious misdemeanours.
0:10:39 > 0:10:43So what did really happen all those years ago here in Cleveland?
0:10:43 > 0:10:46And why did it take more than 10 years to find three young women,
0:10:46 > 0:10:48two of them teenagers,
0:10:48 > 0:10:53who were snatched off the street and kept captive in a residential house?
0:10:53 > 0:10:54Let's start at the beginning.
0:10:57 > 0:11:00Michele Knight was last seen here on the corner of Lorain Avenue
0:11:00 > 0:11:05on West 106th Street on August 22nd, 2002.
0:11:05 > 0:11:09Less than a year after that, and just four blocks that way,
0:11:09 > 0:11:13at West 110th Street, again on Lorain Avenue, Amanda Berry was last seen.
0:11:13 > 0:11:16That was on April 21st, 2003.
0:11:16 > 0:11:20Less than a year after that, on April 2nd, 2004,
0:11:20 > 0:11:23Gina DeJesus was seen at that phone box
0:11:23 > 0:11:26on the corner of West 105th Street and Lorain Avenue.
0:11:26 > 0:11:29All Lorain Avenue.
0:11:29 > 0:11:33It seems that Ariel Castro took all of these girls from the same street.
0:11:37 > 0:11:42When the first of the three captives goes missing, there's no publicity.
0:11:42 > 0:11:45The victim is Michele Knight.
0:11:45 > 0:11:49It's August 22nd, 2002. Michelle is 21.
0:11:49 > 0:11:52She is last seen at her cousin's house
0:11:52 > 0:11:54near West 106th Street and Lorain Avenue.
0:11:54 > 0:11:57Her grandmother recalls for me the events of the day.
0:11:59 > 0:12:02When we first realised she didn't come home one day,
0:12:02 > 0:12:06I guess she went to the store or something over 106th,
0:12:06 > 0:12:08and she never came back.
0:12:08 > 0:12:14We just thought that maybe she had walked to somebody's house to visit,
0:12:14 > 0:12:16so we didn't take no mind to it
0:12:16 > 0:12:18until her mother had called the police
0:12:18 > 0:12:22and they said they couldn't do nothing about it for 48 hours
0:12:22 > 0:12:26or something, till they know if she's missing or not.
0:12:26 > 0:12:29We kept looking for her walking around,
0:12:29 > 0:12:32putting stuff on like the poles, putting up flyers...
0:12:35 > 0:12:38'Michele Knight's life was hard.
0:12:38 > 0:12:41'She'd reportedly been assaulted at school and dropped out at 17
0:12:41 > 0:12:43'because she was pregnant.
0:12:43 > 0:12:46'Her child was taken away by social services
0:12:46 > 0:12:48'just before she disappeared.
0:12:48 > 0:12:50'A missing persons report filed by her mother
0:12:50 > 0:12:53'shows Michele is wearing blue shorts and a white T-shirt.
0:12:53 > 0:12:57'She has mental abnormalities and is often confused by her surroundings.
0:12:57 > 0:13:00'Her nickname is Shorty.'
0:13:00 > 0:13:04At what point did you feel that you might never see Michele again?
0:13:04 > 0:13:08It took me, I would say,
0:13:08 > 0:13:11pretty much till about nine months, I would say,
0:13:11 > 0:13:15I started kind of giving up hope.
0:13:15 > 0:13:21Yet my heart was saying that she was still out there someplace.
0:13:21 > 0:13:23After 15 months,
0:13:23 > 0:13:26the police take Michelle off the missing persons list.
0:13:26 > 0:13:28To all intents and purposes,
0:13:28 > 0:13:31Michele Knight has vanished off the face of the earth.
0:13:36 > 0:13:40But by this time, Ariel Castro has struck again.
0:13:40 > 0:13:43The victim is Amanda Berry.
0:13:43 > 0:13:48It's April 21st, 2003, the day before her 17th birthday.
0:13:48 > 0:13:53Amanda's heading home from her evening shift at Burger King on Lorain Avenue.
0:13:53 > 0:13:56She calls her sister to cancel her lift.
0:13:56 > 0:13:58Someone else is driving her home.
0:13:58 > 0:14:01Originally it was thought that Amanda had run away from home.
0:14:01 > 0:14:04Then, a week later, a call was made from Amanda's mobile phone to her mother.
0:14:04 > 0:14:06The caller said that Amanda was fine
0:14:06 > 0:14:10and that she'd be coming home in a couple of days.
0:14:10 > 0:14:14The police and the FBI concluded that Amanda wasn't a runaway, she was a missing person.
0:14:14 > 0:14:19People can sit back and say, "Oh, this will never happen to my child."
0:14:19 > 0:14:22Well, guess what? It happened to my niece!
0:14:22 > 0:14:24Amanda's disappearance is big news.
0:14:24 > 0:14:27Her family, led by her mother, Louwanna Miller,
0:14:27 > 0:14:30does everything possible to keep people looking for Amanda.
0:14:30 > 0:14:34Her mother even agrees to go on television to ask a TV psychic
0:14:34 > 0:14:35if Amanda is alive.
0:14:35 > 0:14:39Before an audience, she's told her daughter is dead.
0:14:39 > 0:14:42So you don't think I'll ever see her again?
0:14:42 > 0:14:44Yeah, in heaven, on the other side.
0:14:44 > 0:14:47I can't understand why.
0:14:47 > 0:14:48She was such a good girl.
0:14:48 > 0:14:52Investigators dug into a prisoner's tip.
0:14:52 > 0:14:55Nothing of evidentiary value, nothing found in the dirt at all.
0:14:55 > 0:14:59'Cleveland police still don't know where Amanda Berry is.
0:14:59 > 0:15:01'But they know where she isn't.
0:15:01 > 0:15:04'And, for her family tonight, that's enough.'
0:15:04 > 0:15:06Day by day, I just think, "Either she'll come home
0:15:06 > 0:15:08"or, one day, I'm going to find my peace."
0:15:14 > 0:15:17Almost a year later, the third captive is taken.
0:15:17 > 0:15:20It's April 2nd, 2004.
0:15:20 > 0:15:24Gina DeJesus, aged 14, is on her way home from school.
0:15:26 > 0:15:29She's at the junction of West 105th Street and Lorain Avenue.
0:15:29 > 0:15:31A car pulls up.
0:15:31 > 0:15:33She recognises the driver as Mr Castro,
0:15:33 > 0:15:36the father of one of her friends.
0:15:36 > 0:15:37Castro offers Gina a lift home.
0:15:39 > 0:15:41Her family realise something's wrong
0:15:41 > 0:15:43when she isn't home at her usual time.
0:15:43 > 0:15:45Gina's reported missing.
0:15:46 > 0:15:49One of the most uncomfortable facts about this story
0:15:49 > 0:15:53is that the DeJesus and Castro families know each other well.
0:15:53 > 0:15:55Nancy Ruiz, Gina's mother,
0:15:55 > 0:15:58grew up with Ariel Castro in the same neighbourhood.
0:15:58 > 0:16:01When Gina's family held vigils for their daughter,
0:16:01 > 0:16:05Castro would play music, dedicate songs to her and hug Gina's mother.
0:16:05 > 0:16:08He also joined searches and handed out flyers.
0:16:11 > 0:16:14With two teenagers disappearing from the same neighbourhood
0:16:14 > 0:16:18in less than a year, people are angry and demanding action.
0:16:20 > 0:16:23Volunteers publicise appeals for Amanda and Gina
0:16:23 > 0:16:25but Cleveland TV reporters fear the worst.
0:16:28 > 0:16:31Gina and Amanda, about a year apart...
0:16:31 > 0:16:33Something's wrong. Something doesn't add up here,
0:16:33 > 0:16:36because coming home from school, working at a Burger King,
0:16:36 > 0:16:40these are not bad kids. And the proximity of...
0:16:40 > 0:16:44a couple of blocks apart, it just didn't add up, so that's why
0:16:44 > 0:16:46I think these two cases got such attention from the media.
0:16:46 > 0:16:48It didn't necessarily help.
0:16:49 > 0:16:51If you see it, say it.
0:16:51 > 0:16:55On April 22nd this year, two weeks before the discovery,
0:16:55 > 0:16:59local TV marks the tenth anniversary of Amanda Berry's disappearance.
0:16:59 > 0:17:04If she is still alive, tomorrow will be Amanda Berry's 27th birthday.
0:17:04 > 0:17:07The 17-year-old disappeared walking home from work,
0:17:07 > 0:17:11which was at this Burger King on West 110th and Lorain.
0:17:11 > 0:17:14A decade's worth of investigation drummed up lots of leads
0:17:14 > 0:17:17but no real answers here.
0:17:17 > 0:17:19But someone does have the answer.
0:17:19 > 0:17:22He's the man who kidnapped Michelle, Amanda and Gina
0:17:22 > 0:17:24and drove them three miles away to his ordinary-looking house,
0:17:24 > 0:17:27where they've been captive for ten years.
0:17:32 > 0:17:33His name is Ariel Castro.
0:17:38 > 0:17:40So who is Ariel Castro?
0:17:40 > 0:17:44And how was he able to maintain a job, a social life,
0:17:44 > 0:17:45be a member of this community,
0:17:45 > 0:17:48yet keep three women hidden in his house for so long?
0:17:48 > 0:17:52From his Facebook page, he just looks like an ordinary guy.
0:17:53 > 0:17:5528 friends...
0:17:55 > 0:17:57just a catalogue of banal posts,
0:17:57 > 0:18:01some of which seem sinister or loaded in retrospect but...
0:18:03 > 0:18:06He posted this four days before the girls were found.
0:18:06 > 0:18:08He shared a post which reads...
0:18:12 > 0:18:15"Do not lose sight of the fact that it's the child suffers."
0:18:15 > 0:18:16He said, "True that."
0:18:22 > 0:18:25Actually, all totally innocuous.
0:18:25 > 0:18:26But, then, why wouldn't they be?
0:18:26 > 0:18:29He's hardly going to write something incriminating.
0:18:29 > 0:18:31It occurs to me that, in fact, social media
0:18:31 > 0:18:34provides the perfect opportunity for someone like this
0:18:34 > 0:18:37to present an artifice of normality.
0:18:41 > 0:18:43It seems that no-one suspected the man
0:18:43 > 0:18:45who played bass in a local salsa band.
0:18:45 > 0:18:49Ariel Castro was also protected by his family's reputation.
0:18:49 > 0:18:52The Castros are said to be pillars of the Puerto Rican community
0:18:52 > 0:18:54in Cleveland's West Side.
0:18:55 > 0:18:58His cousin, Maria Montes, agreed to speak to me.
0:18:58 > 0:19:02She describes Ariel Castro's immediate family as tightknit.
0:19:04 > 0:19:07How close were you to Ariel?
0:19:07 > 0:19:09Um, well...
0:19:09 > 0:19:12we were very close when we were younger.
0:19:14 > 0:19:17He was not born and raised here in Cleveland.
0:19:17 > 0:19:20He was born in Puerto Rico,
0:19:20 > 0:19:23with his other brothers and sister.
0:19:23 > 0:19:24They were very close.
0:19:24 > 0:19:27I mean, they were raised in the same home,
0:19:27 > 0:19:31they were raised by a single mum.
0:19:31 > 0:19:37His mum, after she had divorced from my uncle, she never remarried.
0:19:37 > 0:19:43She dedicated her life to raising her children. And...
0:19:43 > 0:19:44they were close.
0:19:46 > 0:19:50Javier and Daniel Marti went to the same school as Ariel Castro.
0:19:50 > 0:19:52I've known him, I mean, you know,
0:19:52 > 0:19:57all throughout high school and junior high, his whole family.
0:19:57 > 0:20:01He's got a great family. I mean, the guy was just a regular Joe.
0:20:01 > 0:20:04He was outgoing, smart, very talented -
0:20:04 > 0:20:06played a bass, played in band,
0:20:06 > 0:20:09he would play softball every once in a while.
0:20:09 > 0:20:13- He was always, like, into cars and everything and...- He loved his cars.
0:20:13 > 0:20:17- Yeah, he had nice cars, bikes. - He loved his cars.- Yeah.
0:20:17 > 0:20:19He was just a regular kid.
0:20:21 > 0:20:26Ariel Castro moved into 2207 Seymour Avenue in 1992,
0:20:26 > 0:20:29with his wife and four children.
0:20:29 > 0:20:31He bought his house from his uncle
0:20:31 > 0:20:33and started living there with his wife.
0:20:33 > 0:20:35But, soon, things were going wrong.
0:20:35 > 0:20:38His neighbours, people who'd known him from school,
0:20:38 > 0:20:41remember it was a time of horrible domestic violence.
0:20:41 > 0:20:43He was a wife-beater.
0:20:43 > 0:20:46- He was a wife-beater. He always beat his wife.- Yeah, he was.
0:20:46 > 0:20:48You know, she used to run out of the house and stuff and...
0:20:48 > 0:20:53a couple of times, she came over to use the phone, to call the police.
0:20:53 > 0:20:55But we never... I mean, never got into...
0:20:55 > 0:20:59because you don't get into matrimonial disputes.
0:21:01 > 0:21:04Court records show that Castro struggles to control his temper.
0:21:04 > 0:21:07He's been accused of attacking his former wife,
0:21:07 > 0:21:11who suffered broken ribs, a broken nose, dislocated shoulders
0:21:11 > 0:21:12and a blood clot on the brain.
0:21:12 > 0:21:16However, she dropped the charges and the only consequence for Castro
0:21:16 > 0:21:19seems to have been losing custody of their children.
0:21:24 > 0:21:28After he got a divorce, he always kept to himself.
0:21:28 > 0:21:32- Yeah, he was the quiet type after that.- Real quiet, kept to himself.
0:21:32 > 0:21:36- Yeah.- Like locked up. Secluded in the house.- Right.
0:21:36 > 0:21:39- Nobody went to the house.- No.
0:21:40 > 0:21:43We always found that strange, though.
0:21:43 > 0:21:45I mean, me and my ex-wife would...
0:21:45 > 0:21:47talk about that. How that guy was weird.
0:21:47 > 0:21:51Neighbours say he was guarded about who could come in his home,
0:21:51 > 0:21:54and that he only entered and exited through the back door.
0:21:54 > 0:21:56His mother would come to see him.
0:21:56 > 0:22:00He would check her out from the porch or come and talk to her in the car.
0:22:00 > 0:22:03- He wouldn't let her in the house. - Never went inside the house, never.
0:22:03 > 0:22:07You wouldn't stay too long in the backyard. He'd walk you out.
0:22:07 > 0:22:08He'd walk you out of the backyard.
0:22:08 > 0:22:11Remember that day we was drinking back there?
0:22:11 > 0:22:13Yeah, we had a couple of beers back there
0:22:13 > 0:22:15but then, after a minute, I mean...
0:22:15 > 0:22:16we had to come out.
0:22:18 > 0:22:21Castro was carefully concealing the prisoners held captive
0:22:21 > 0:22:23inside 2207 Seymour Avenue.
0:22:24 > 0:22:27To the outside world, he was living a normal life.
0:22:27 > 0:22:30During the day, he'd drive a school bus in Cleveland -
0:22:30 > 0:22:32a job he'd had for 22 years.
0:22:34 > 0:22:36At night, he played bass guitar in a salsa band.
0:22:40 > 0:22:42I have come to Belinda's Nightclub in Cleveland,
0:22:42 > 0:22:44to meet Tito and William.
0:22:44 > 0:22:46They've known Ariel Castro for 20 years
0:22:46 > 0:22:50and say he's one of the top bass guitarists they've played with.
0:22:50 > 0:22:52My God, what I can say about Ariel as a musician?
0:22:52 > 0:22:55One of the best musicians around.
0:22:55 > 0:23:00In this city, three bass players that are the best.
0:23:00 > 0:23:02And he was one of them.
0:23:02 > 0:23:04Did you feel that you knew him?
0:23:04 > 0:23:07Ariel was a person... He wanted to go dance,
0:23:07 > 0:23:09he would go and try and dance with somebody.
0:23:09 > 0:23:12And they would say no. Go back, say no. Go back, say no.
0:23:12 > 0:23:16And I'd tell him, "Come on, man. You'll embarrass yourself." He'd say, "No, I want to dance."
0:23:19 > 0:23:21I would say, "Dude, if they don't want to dance with you,
0:23:21 > 0:23:23"you can't force them to dance with you."
0:23:23 > 0:23:27He'd say, "Yeah, but look who I am, I'm a bass player, I'm on stage."
0:23:27 > 0:23:28I'm like, "Who cares?
0:23:28 > 0:23:31"You can be Liberace or you could be the President.
0:23:31 > 0:23:34"If they don't want to dance with you, you can't force them to."
0:23:37 > 0:23:40And were you friends outside of music as well?
0:23:40 > 0:23:44Yes, but not to a personal point where...
0:23:44 > 0:23:48He kept his personal life very...personal, if you will.
0:23:48 > 0:23:51He never talked about it and us, as musicians, you know,
0:23:51 > 0:23:53if somebody wanted to keep their personal life
0:23:53 > 0:23:56away from the business, we respect that.
0:23:56 > 0:23:57It's not our problem.
0:24:00 > 0:24:03So personal, his family say that he even kept his secrets
0:24:03 > 0:24:07from those closest to him, such as his two brothers,
0:24:07 > 0:24:11who were first arrested with Castro but then released without charge.
0:24:11 > 0:24:13I keep hearing people say,
0:24:13 > 0:24:14"How did these brothers not know
0:24:14 > 0:24:17"that their brother was doing this?
0:24:17 > 0:24:18"Don't you visit your brother's home?"
0:24:18 > 0:24:21I mean, he was a bachelor. So he lived alone.
0:24:21 > 0:24:24He probably made a lot of excuses, you know?
0:24:24 > 0:24:25"Oh, the house is a mess."
0:24:25 > 0:24:29You know, "Oh, I don't have anything in my refrigerator."
0:24:29 > 0:24:31You know, I am sure that's probably
0:24:31 > 0:24:34how he kept people away from the home.
0:24:34 > 0:24:36And we've been hearing that...
0:24:36 > 0:24:40Ariel actually went out on some of the searches
0:24:40 > 0:24:42and took part in some of the vigils.
0:24:42 > 0:24:43Right.
0:24:44 > 0:24:47Why would you think he would do something like that,
0:24:47 > 0:24:51knowing that he was the person that had...Gina?
0:24:53 > 0:24:59Um...the only thing that I can possibly assume...
0:24:59 > 0:25:02is that perhaps...
0:25:02 > 0:25:04he wanted to...
0:25:04 > 0:25:07kind of have an inside track.
0:25:07 > 0:25:10Did they suspect something?
0:25:10 > 0:25:12Could they possibly know something?
0:25:12 > 0:25:18I have no way of knowing what went on in the mind...
0:25:18 > 0:25:20of a person who is such a monster
0:25:20 > 0:25:25that he could look that mother in the face
0:25:25 > 0:25:28and ask her how she was and how she was doing.
0:25:28 > 0:25:32I just don't...I don't understand how he did any of what he did
0:25:32 > 0:25:36but how do you look at that family
0:25:36 > 0:25:42and pretend like nothing is wrong and pretend like you're caring for them?
0:25:42 > 0:25:45That is so chilling.
0:25:53 > 0:25:55What were conditions like for Amanda, Gina
0:25:55 > 0:25:57and Michelle all those years?
0:25:57 > 0:26:012207 Seymour Avenue seems pretty ordinary.
0:26:01 > 0:26:05Four bedrooms, one bathroom, a basement, no air conditioning.
0:26:05 > 0:26:08Details are starting to emerge of what happened inside.
0:26:17 > 0:26:20For the three women and young child who were trapped here,
0:26:20 > 0:26:23the house is both a prison and a torture chamber.
0:26:23 > 0:26:27This 3-D model shows that it's always dark with windows
0:26:27 > 0:26:30boarded up or covered.
0:26:30 > 0:26:33Inside there are three floors and a basement.
0:26:34 > 0:26:37Castro lives on the ground floor.
0:26:37 > 0:26:40He locks all the rooms upstairs and locks the basement
0:26:40 > 0:26:44and it's the basement where he first brings the women.
0:26:44 > 0:26:49It's small, dark and damp with a low ceiling.
0:26:49 > 0:26:50He chains them to the wall.
0:26:53 > 0:26:54Really hard for me to know
0:26:54 > 0:26:58what she had to go through for the last 10 or 12 years.
0:26:58 > 0:27:01It was a living hell.
0:27:01 > 0:27:04They were chained to the walls to the basement.
0:27:04 > 0:27:06Castro appears to treat the women differently.
0:27:06 > 0:27:09With Michelle Knight getting the worst punishment.
0:27:09 > 0:27:12The police assert that she was raped repeatedly
0:27:12 > 0:27:14and became pregnant several times.
0:27:14 > 0:27:16But every pregnancy was miscarried
0:27:16 > 0:27:18when Castro punched her in the stomach.
0:27:20 > 0:27:24It just really hurts me to think that he had turned around
0:27:24 > 0:27:28and beated her in the stomach just to have her miscarry
0:27:28 > 0:27:31so she couldn't have his kids.
0:27:31 > 0:27:37So have you thought about what Ariel Castro wanted Michelle for?
0:27:39 > 0:27:42Well, I think that
0:27:42 > 0:27:45he wanted her as a sex slave...
0:27:45 > 0:27:48to do whatever...
0:27:48 > 0:27:51whatever he wanted her to do.
0:27:51 > 0:27:53That must make you angry.
0:27:53 > 0:27:54Yes, it does.
0:27:54 > 0:27:59It makes me very angry to know that a human being would do
0:27:59 > 0:28:03something like that to another human.
0:28:03 > 0:28:11She was just terrified for all their lives, for what he might do to them.
0:28:11 > 0:28:16So I guess that's why in a way that she had went along with what he said.
0:28:16 > 0:28:21Them and...them two and her lived a living hell in that house.
0:28:30 > 0:28:33According to police and according to police reports,
0:28:33 > 0:28:37the house was kind of described as a prisoner-of-war camp.
0:28:37 > 0:28:40We were told that duct tape was used
0:28:40 > 0:28:43when Castro left the house for any length of time.
0:28:43 > 0:28:45He would duct tape their mouth.
0:28:46 > 0:28:51So, we now know that the outside front door was padlocked shut.
0:28:51 > 0:28:53We know that the bedroom doors were padlocked.
0:28:53 > 0:28:56We know that they were chained in the basement for some
0:28:56 > 0:28:59period of time, both from the ceiling and from the wall.
0:28:59 > 0:29:02We know that they were starved, we know that they were punched
0:29:02 > 0:29:03and beaten.
0:29:09 > 0:29:12They were really scared. They were scared of...
0:29:12 > 0:29:14To them, he was a monster.
0:29:14 > 0:29:19And that monster they didn't want to deal with.
0:29:19 > 0:29:24So whatever he said, they did, you know?
0:29:24 > 0:29:27And that's the horrible thing about that, that I see,
0:29:27 > 0:29:30he had them out once in the garage.
0:29:30 > 0:29:33I know he's got a big gate.
0:29:33 > 0:29:35He's gone at them, "Scream!
0:29:35 > 0:29:38"All three of you, scream at the top of your lungs."
0:29:38 > 0:29:41Too scared to scream. Too terrified to scream.
0:29:41 > 0:29:45He manipulated them, you know, in such a way that
0:29:45 > 0:29:49he had full control over three women in the house.
0:29:49 > 0:29:52And while Gina DeJesus is locked up in the house, her father is
0:29:52 > 0:29:56visiting the neighbours just across the street.
0:29:56 > 0:29:59Gina's father, yeah, he came around a few times and...
0:29:59 > 0:30:02I remember him coming over a few times and I...
0:30:02 > 0:30:04I remember him coming over and talking...
0:30:04 > 0:30:08One time, I talked to him and I was telling him how sorry I felt.
0:30:08 > 0:30:12That girl was, like, 40 feet away from him and nobody knew nothing.
0:30:12 > 0:30:17They made a big hole over here down the block,
0:30:17 > 0:30:19looking for remains of them girls
0:30:19 > 0:30:25and I remember sitting with Ariel talking about that,
0:30:25 > 0:30:29how a person could do... take these girls and he would say,
0:30:29 > 0:30:33"What kind of person would do that?"
0:30:33 > 0:30:37And all the time it was him and he had them girls up there.
0:30:37 > 0:30:38You know what he did?
0:30:38 > 0:30:42He went and got the tape, the crime-scene tape,
0:30:42 > 0:30:43he helped the police put up...
0:30:43 > 0:30:48I've seen that with my own eyes, put up the crime-scene tape
0:30:48 > 0:30:51around the street so people won't go over there.
0:30:51 > 0:30:57When Gina DeJesus came up missing, he gave money so...
0:30:57 > 0:31:00to her father or something, he made a donation
0:31:00 > 0:31:04so they could keep searching for her and he had her all the time.
0:31:12 > 0:31:17As days become weeks and then months and years in that tiny, dark space,
0:31:17 > 0:31:20the women probably lose track of time.
0:31:20 > 0:31:26They live on a diet of fast food brought to them by their kidnapper.
0:31:26 > 0:31:30The girls down the street comment that they..
0:31:30 > 0:31:36They would see him with big bags of McDonald's early in the morning.
0:31:36 > 0:31:38They ate McDonald's for 10 years.
0:31:40 > 0:31:42'In later years, Castro allows them
0:31:42 > 0:31:45'to live in separate rooms on the first floor where slits were
0:31:45 > 0:31:49'found cut into the doors as if to allow food to be slid in and out.
0:31:49 > 0:31:52'It appears the women only come outside only
0:31:52 > 0:31:55'twice during their decade in captivity.
0:31:55 > 0:31:59'Wearing disguises, they take a short walk in the yard.
0:31:59 > 0:32:02'Ricky Sanchez knew Castro for many years
0:32:02 > 0:32:05'and went inside the house just days before the women escaped.'
0:32:05 > 0:32:07When was the last time you came to the house?
0:32:07 > 0:32:12Last time I came here, it was last Thursday before it happened.
0:32:12 > 0:32:14So that was the 2nd?
0:32:14 > 0:32:17- The 2nd. - And why did you go over?- Er...
0:32:17 > 0:32:22I came here cos because we became friends on Facebook
0:32:22 > 0:32:27and he saw a British guitar that I had for sale
0:32:27 > 0:32:31and he liked it pretty much and he wants me to come here
0:32:31 > 0:32:37and show it to him, so then I spent about two hours in the house.
0:32:37 > 0:32:39A young girl came, she show up from the back...
0:32:42 > 0:32:43..and he approached her,
0:32:43 > 0:32:50he grabbed her by the arm and he asked her to say hi to me.
0:32:50 > 0:32:52I said hi to her but she never said hi to me
0:32:52 > 0:32:55and then he said that that was his granddaughter.
0:32:55 > 0:32:58Was there anything else that you kind of noticed
0:32:58 > 0:32:59when you were in the house?
0:32:59 > 0:33:02There were some type of, like, noises that I hear.
0:33:02 > 0:33:06I don't know exactly where the noises came from and I asked him,
0:33:06 > 0:33:10"What are these noises coming from?" And he said that he had some
0:33:10 > 0:33:14dogs in the second level of the house, the second floor.
0:33:14 > 0:33:18Knowing what you know now, knowing what you might have heard,
0:33:18 > 0:33:20what those noises might have been, how does that make you feel?
0:33:20 > 0:33:22When I heard the news at first,
0:33:22 > 0:33:25when it came out on Monday, I couldn't even believe.
0:33:25 > 0:33:27I went home and started looking at the news,
0:33:27 > 0:33:30really deep into the news, and when I saw it was him, I saw
0:33:30 > 0:33:34the picture, I could not believe, I was just inside the house.
0:33:34 > 0:33:38The little girl Ricky spoke to is not Castro's granddaughter,
0:33:38 > 0:33:40she's his daughter Jocelyn.
0:33:40 > 0:33:45On Christmas Day 2006, Amanda Berry aged 20 gives birth
0:33:45 > 0:33:48to her in a paddling pool in the basement.
0:33:48 > 0:33:50Michelle Knight is put in charge of the delivery.
0:33:50 > 0:33:54She says Castro threatens to kill her if the baby dies.
0:33:54 > 0:33:58Michelle keeps the baby alive with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
0:33:58 > 0:34:02One of Castro's older daughters recalls seeing a picture.
0:34:02 > 0:34:08He showed me a picture that was on a cellphone randomly and he said,
0:34:08 > 0:34:10"Look at this cute little girl."
0:34:10 > 0:34:16It was a face shot and I said, "She's cute, who is that?"
0:34:16 > 0:34:20you know, and he said, "This is my girlfriend's child."
0:34:20 > 0:34:25And I said, "Dad, that girl looks like Emily."
0:34:25 > 0:34:28Emily's my younger sister and he said,
0:34:28 > 0:34:32"No, that's not my child, that's my girlfriend's child by somebody else."
0:34:37 > 0:34:40Cleveland June 2008 - the moment
0:34:40 > 0:34:42when the local police did catch up with Ariel Castro.
0:34:53 > 0:34:57Arresting officer Jim Simone doesn't know it but Castro has
0:34:57 > 0:35:00already kidnapped three girls and is holding them captive in his house.
0:35:03 > 0:35:07I stopped him on a traffic violation in June of 2008.
0:35:26 > 0:35:28He didn't have a licence.
0:35:28 > 0:35:32The plates did not belong to that particular motorcycle.
0:35:32 > 0:35:37Normally I would have arrested him, had he given me any back talk,
0:35:37 > 0:35:39had been flippant with me or made some remark.
0:35:39 > 0:35:41I'd have slipped the cuffs on him and taken him to jail.
0:35:49 > 0:35:53He mentioned the fact that he was a school bus driver.
0:35:53 > 0:35:55I didn't want to take him to jail
0:35:55 > 0:35:58and have him lose his job over a traffic violation.
0:36:07 > 0:36:08I didn't arrest him.
0:36:08 > 0:36:10I gave him a ticket and let him push the bike home.
0:36:10 > 0:36:12I did a check on him. All these cars have computers
0:36:12 > 0:36:15and you can do a background check on anybody.
0:36:15 > 0:36:20He only had a few traffic violations and no criminal background.
0:36:20 > 0:36:22With that, I gave him the tickets and let him go.
0:36:22 > 0:36:24I made 10,000 arrests as a policeman.
0:36:24 > 0:36:28That's not traffic tickets, that's 10,000 people I've put
0:36:28 > 0:36:32handcuffs on thrown in the back of the car and took them to jail.
0:36:32 > 0:36:35There are times when you're amazed how bad it gets.
0:36:37 > 0:36:40Jim has been a Cleveland cop for 38 years.
0:36:40 > 0:36:4318 patrolling the second district which includes Seymour Avenue.
0:36:46 > 0:36:49I went past this house 1,000 times. Nothing at that house
0:36:49 > 0:36:53drew my attention, even with the crime-scene tape around it.
0:36:53 > 0:36:55It was just a house on Seymour.
0:36:55 > 0:36:57Yet in that house, there was
0:36:57 > 0:37:00a heinous crime being committed every second of every day for ten years.
0:37:02 > 0:37:05While police incompetence features highly in many of America's
0:37:05 > 0:37:08most notorious kidnap cases, the failure to find Castro
0:37:08 > 0:37:12and the Cleveland captives may be down to something else.
0:37:13 > 0:37:15The missing persons database kept by the Cleveland police
0:37:15 > 0:37:19department has over 100 names on it as of last week with nearly
0:37:19 > 0:37:22half of them missing all year.
0:37:22 > 0:37:24When you look at this list of names,
0:37:24 > 0:37:27you get an idea of how swamped the police are.
0:37:27 > 0:37:29Do they have the resources to cope?
0:37:29 > 0:37:33In the Second District alone, which is where Castro's house is,
0:37:33 > 0:37:3671 people are missing right now.
0:37:36 > 0:37:39The number of detectives assigned to work on cases of missing
0:37:39 > 0:37:40people is one.
0:37:43 > 0:37:46Do you feel like the police have done a good job?
0:37:48 > 0:37:51No, I think that they could have done a better job
0:37:51 > 0:37:53than what they were doing, especially for her.
0:37:53 > 0:37:57Do you feel there's enough resources at the police's disposal to
0:37:57 > 0:38:01successfully look for these kids that go missing?
0:38:01 > 0:38:02No.
0:38:02 > 0:38:07No, there's not. We handle a realm of things.
0:38:07 > 0:38:10It's not just the missing persons. It's the auto theft.
0:38:10 > 0:38:12It's the burglaries. It's the rape.
0:38:12 > 0:38:15The B and Es, the shooting, the homicide.
0:38:15 > 0:38:19In reality, the chief may want to contradict me later on,
0:38:19 > 0:38:22we're stretched thin.
0:38:22 > 0:38:27You don't have the man hours to invest in a major investigation.
0:38:27 > 0:38:31When I was a young policemen, it was about catching the bad guy.
0:38:31 > 0:38:34Today, it's how much is it going to cost us to catch the bad guy?
0:38:34 > 0:38:37If it costs too much, it's set aside.
0:38:37 > 0:38:40What happens, they make the initial investigation, then we wait.
0:38:40 > 0:38:45We wait for the body to be found, or in this case,
0:38:45 > 0:38:47for some amazing rescue.
0:38:47 > 0:38:51..members of the community who still want to know what happened to her.
0:38:51 > 0:38:53Just two weeks before the amazing rescue,
0:38:53 > 0:38:58local TV marks the tenth anniversary of Amanda Berry's disappearance.
0:38:58 > 0:39:02No-one knows she's alive and in a house just a few miles away.
0:39:02 > 0:39:05The vigil just breaking up in the last five minutes and those
0:39:05 > 0:39:08who were in attendance today and everyone around here
0:39:08 > 0:39:12and the city to know it's never too late to do the right thing.
0:39:12 > 0:39:15No tip, no clue, is too small.
0:39:16 > 0:39:20The clue is provided by Ariel Castro himself.
0:39:20 > 0:39:24He's gone out but hasn't chained up all of his captives.
0:39:25 > 0:39:27Finally, he's made a mistake.
0:39:28 > 0:39:30Was he good or what?!
0:39:30 > 0:39:35What kind of person would do something like that? He slipped.
0:39:38 > 0:39:40Amanda Berry can see the front door open
0:39:40 > 0:39:43though the outer storm door made of thin wire mesh is bolted shut.
0:39:44 > 0:39:48Often Castro would test his captives by leaving doors unlocked.
0:39:48 > 0:39:50He beats them if they try to get out.
0:39:52 > 0:39:56Because Amanda can see Aurora Marti on the porch opposite,
0:39:56 > 0:39:58she goes for it.
0:39:58 > 0:40:01- 'Help me. I'm Amanda Berry.- Do you need police, fire or ambulance?
0:40:01 > 0:40:05- 'I need police. - OK, what's going on there?
0:40:05 > 0:40:09'I've been kidnapped and I've been missing for 10 years and I'm here.
0:40:09 > 0:40:10'I'm free now.'
0:40:10 > 0:40:14On a day that will long be remembered, Charles Ramsey's
0:40:14 > 0:40:17account of the break-out makes him an instant internet legend.
0:40:17 > 0:40:20I knew something was wrong
0:40:20 > 0:40:23when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man's arms.
0:40:23 > 0:40:25Something is wrong here!
0:40:25 > 0:40:27Dead giveaway.
0:40:27 > 0:40:30'From Seymour Avenue, ambulances rush Michelle, Amanda,
0:40:30 > 0:40:33'Gina and the child to the local hospital.
0:40:33 > 0:40:35'Gerald Maloney is the admitting doctor.'
0:40:37 > 0:40:42- You were in charge of their care for the evening.- Yes.
0:40:42 > 0:40:47They came in by ambulance and there was a lot of law enforcement
0:40:47 > 0:40:49officers, Both local police and FBI,
0:40:49 > 0:40:51with them as well at that point.
0:40:51 > 0:40:54It was fairly chaotic when everybody came in initially.
0:40:54 > 0:40:56There were a lot of people here.
0:40:56 > 0:40:58There was a lot of energy, good energy.
0:40:58 > 0:41:01Where were the girls taken immediately when they arrived?
0:41:01 > 0:41:04They were taken to the rooms behind us.
0:41:04 > 0:41:07- Would it be possible to have a look? - Absolutely.
0:41:07 > 0:41:10'It's the first time any cameras have been allowed into the room
0:41:10 > 0:41:13'where Amanda, Michelle and Gina were examined.'
0:41:13 > 0:41:17We did an exam, checked their head, neck,
0:41:17 > 0:41:23body extremities looking for any injuries or medical issues.
0:41:23 > 0:41:25Too often, we hear the end to these stories...
0:41:25 > 0:41:27We don't hear of people being found
0:41:27 > 0:41:29and being alive.
0:41:29 > 0:41:35It's usually finding remains.
0:41:35 > 0:41:37We're very excited they were alive.
0:41:37 > 0:41:40We were very excited we were the first safe harbour for them
0:41:40 > 0:41:42after they'd been rescued.
0:41:43 > 0:41:47Nurse Betsy Martinez is a neighbour of the DeJesus family and has
0:41:47 > 0:41:49a daughter the same age as Gina.
0:41:49 > 0:41:52She's on duty on May 6th and is just about to have dinner
0:41:52 > 0:41:55when her boss breaks the news that will live with her for ever.
0:41:56 > 0:42:00They found the man that had Berry and Gina DeJesus. I could not...
0:42:00 > 0:42:03I didn't understand. Who?
0:42:03 > 0:42:06I kept saying, "Who?" He said, "Amanda Berry and Georgina DeJesus."
0:42:06 > 0:42:11I was in awe about it. He was, "I need somebody back there with them."
0:42:11 > 0:42:13Forget dinner, I'm on my way in.
0:42:13 > 0:42:16I dropped my purse, ran back into the trauma bays
0:42:16 > 0:42:19when I noticed Georgina and Amanda Berry walking in.
0:42:19 > 0:42:22It was a big deal to me cos it was like hitting home.
0:42:22 > 0:42:26I remember seeing Georgina and I hugged her and said, "Welcome home."
0:42:26 > 0:42:30I tried to do some nursing and get her vital signs
0:42:30 > 0:42:35and I was just in awe about it. I kept staring at her.
0:42:35 > 0:42:38I couldn't believe that I was sitting next to her.
0:42:38 > 0:42:42Then to see Amanda Berry and her beautiful child.
0:42:42 > 0:42:49It was confusion, but I had to do my job and stay professional first.
0:42:49 > 0:42:52What I thought was professional was to love them and let them
0:42:52 > 0:42:58know that they were safe. You were crying, you were happy, you were sad.
0:42:58 > 0:43:03It wasn't about what happened to them. It was welcome home.
0:43:03 > 0:43:07"We've been looking for you for a decade. What can I get for you?
0:43:07 > 0:43:08"What can I do for you?"
0:43:08 > 0:43:11It was a very emotional and exciting day to have the pleasure...
0:43:11 > 0:43:14to see her father and her mother and sister walk in.
0:43:14 > 0:43:19To see them for that first moment. You got butterflies.
0:43:19 > 0:43:21You got goose bumps.
0:43:21 > 0:43:26You try to wipe your tears and stay professional but I couldn't help it.
0:43:26 > 0:43:28How did the girls seem?
0:43:28 > 0:43:30They were still trying to get their surroundings.
0:43:30 > 0:43:32They were, like, "Who are you?"
0:43:32 > 0:43:34I made sure that everyone introduced themselves.
0:43:34 > 0:43:37So they knew that they were workers here. They were safe.
0:43:37 > 0:43:41I did notice that the girls wanted to be together.
0:43:41 > 0:43:43Every time we would separate them,
0:43:43 > 0:43:45they would come search for each other.
0:43:45 > 0:43:48They kept asking for the other one. We had to let them know,
0:43:48 > 0:43:50"They're just around the corner. They're here."
0:43:50 > 0:43:52You could tell that they had a bond.
0:43:52 > 0:43:55You mention that you're from the neighbourhood.
0:43:55 > 0:43:58What was the effect at the time when the girls disappeared?
0:43:58 > 0:44:00You could not go anywhere in Cleveland
0:44:00 > 0:44:02and not know Amanda Berry's name or Georgina.
0:44:02 > 0:44:05You could not go anywhere in Cleveland...
0:44:05 > 0:44:08There were signs everywhere. The family never gave up.
0:44:08 > 0:44:11I could not believe that they were alive. I did not...
0:44:11 > 0:44:12This doesn't happen.
0:44:12 > 0:44:17This is a miracle that I will probably never see again in my life.
0:44:17 > 0:44:20This does not happen. People do not come alive out of this.
0:44:21 > 0:44:24I remember one time, pinching Georgina and she's like,
0:44:24 > 0:44:27"Why did you do that?" And I'm like, "Because you're here.
0:44:27 > 0:44:29"This is not a dream."
0:44:29 > 0:44:30It was that amazing.
0:44:32 > 0:44:34After 10 years of waiting, relatives
0:44:34 > 0:44:38and neighbours can finally celebrate. But there's also anger.
0:44:38 > 0:44:42Some like Gina's uncle struggle for control.
0:44:42 > 0:44:44I want to bust down and cry right now.
0:44:46 > 0:44:48- But...- Tears of relief?- Yeah.
0:44:50 > 0:44:54And I don't know if you can print this or put this on the air
0:44:54 > 0:44:57but if I got my hands on that guy...
0:44:59 > 0:45:03Amanda Berry had made the news for 10 years as a missing person.
0:45:03 > 0:45:07Now it's a different story. From the sister who dreamed of her
0:45:07 > 0:45:09coming home, a plea for privacy.
0:45:09 > 0:45:12I just want to say we are so happy to have Amanda
0:45:12 > 0:45:14and her daughter home.
0:45:14 > 0:45:17I want to thank the public and the media for their support
0:45:17 > 0:45:19and courage over the years.
0:45:19 > 0:45:24At this time, our family would request privacy so my sister
0:45:24 > 0:45:26and niece and I can have time to recover.
0:45:28 > 0:45:32Amanda learns that, in 2006, three years after her kidnap,
0:45:32 > 0:45:34her mother had died.
0:45:34 > 0:45:36Louwanna Miller had never stopped fighting
0:45:36 > 0:45:37for her daughter to be found.
0:45:37 > 0:45:40Friends say she never recovered from Amanda's disappearance.
0:45:42 > 0:45:44Gina had been taken aged 14.
0:45:44 > 0:45:46She returns to her parents as a 23-year-old.
0:45:48 > 0:45:51We want to have a block party and close the street down.
0:45:51 > 0:45:53CHEERING
0:45:58 > 0:46:00That's the best...
0:46:01 > 0:46:04That's the best Mother's Day present any mother could have.
0:46:06 > 0:46:08CHEERING
0:46:22 > 0:46:23CHEERING
0:46:23 > 0:46:27- REPORTER:- She gave a big thumbs up as she got out of the van.
0:46:27 > 0:46:29There she goes, in the green.
0:46:41 > 0:46:44Michelle's condition is more serious.
0:46:44 > 0:46:48She leaves hospital five days later but doesn't go home to her family.
0:46:48 > 0:46:50Instead, she goes to Gina's house.
0:46:53 > 0:46:57I have come to Gina's house and it is actually very confusing.
0:46:57 > 0:47:00I don't really know how to feel.
0:47:00 > 0:47:04The banner suggests celebration
0:47:04 > 0:47:08and, yet, is this a celebration?
0:47:08 > 0:47:12The police tape is a very stark reminder that something
0:47:12 > 0:47:14terrible has happened.
0:47:15 > 0:47:20The 14-year-old girl on that missing poster is gone.
0:47:20 > 0:47:21Who is she now?
0:47:21 > 0:47:24We know that Gina and Michelle are in that house.
0:47:24 > 0:47:29It's interesting that, having been forced together for nearly
0:47:29 > 0:47:33nine years, Gina and Michelle are now choosing to be together.
0:47:33 > 0:47:37I assume because they have grown to rely upon one another.
0:47:37 > 0:47:42So I don't really feel comfortable staying here any longer
0:47:42 > 0:47:48because both girls obviously want privacy
0:47:48 > 0:47:54and don't want cameras outside their house the whole time.
0:47:54 > 0:47:57I'm kind of looking at that tarpaulin and this is speculation
0:47:57 > 0:48:01but I assume that the last thing that either of them want is to be
0:48:01 > 0:48:04cooped up inside a house after being cooped up inside a house for
0:48:04 > 0:48:08so long so they have had to put the tarpaulin across the backyard
0:48:08 > 0:48:11so they can still maintain a degree of privacy.
0:48:16 > 0:48:19Michelle's grandmother is still waiting to see her.
0:48:19 > 0:48:22We've was told that she didn't want to see us at all
0:48:22 > 0:48:28so that kind of really hurt all of us to figure...
0:48:28 > 0:48:33You know, to think that all these years that she didn't want to see us.
0:48:33 > 0:48:37So we was all kind of frustrated and crying and all this
0:48:37 > 0:48:40because if somebody would come up to you and say,
0:48:40 > 0:48:42"Well, your daughter or your granddaughter
0:48:42 > 0:48:44"don't want to see you,"
0:48:44 > 0:48:46it would kind of hurt you or break your heart
0:48:46 > 0:48:49and that's kind of what it was doing to us.
0:48:49 > 0:48:54We thought, kind of, that she was blaming us
0:48:54 > 0:49:02for not giving her the attention like Amanda's and Gina's family did.
0:49:02 > 0:49:07Do you think that, from what you have seen of the press coverage,
0:49:07 > 0:49:10your family has been represented in a good light?
0:49:10 > 0:49:13Well, we heard that...
0:49:15 > 0:49:20It was going around in there that, as a family, we was beating her,
0:49:20 > 0:49:26tormenting her, we was abusing her, um...
0:49:29 > 0:49:33..we didn't care about her or nothing because we didn't look for her.
0:49:33 > 0:49:36That's not the truth. That's not the truth at all.
0:49:42 > 0:49:44So, if he is found guilty, what punishment should
0:49:44 > 0:49:49Ariel Castro now face - life in prison or the death penalty?
0:49:49 > 0:49:51The death penalty is on the statute in Ohio
0:49:51 > 0:49:53and prosecutors say that they will press for it
0:49:53 > 0:49:58if it is found that Castro forcibly caused any of the women to miscarry.
0:49:58 > 0:50:02In Ohio, a foetus has personhood
0:50:02 > 0:50:04so, as a person, that can be construed as murder.
0:50:04 > 0:50:07The county prosecutor, Timothy McGinty,
0:50:07 > 0:50:09has said he intends to pursue that and see
0:50:09 > 0:50:13if the claims that he forced miscarriages five times is true.
0:50:13 > 0:50:17I suppose medical testing could figure that out in some fashion.
0:50:17 > 0:50:21I'm certainly not a doctor but, yeah, a foetus as a person,
0:50:21 > 0:50:25has personhood in Ohio, therefore the murder charge.
0:50:25 > 0:50:28And if a murder is committed in the commission of another crime,
0:50:28 > 0:50:31it would be aggravated murder and that would be the death penalty.
0:50:31 > 0:50:34For multiple murders is another aggravating circumstances.
0:50:34 > 0:50:36In that case, we have the death penalty in Ohio
0:50:36 > 0:50:37and he could be executed.
0:50:37 > 0:50:41Talking about the death penalty, I think that's too easy for him.
0:50:41 > 0:50:44I think they should just make him suffer
0:50:44 > 0:50:46like he made them girls suffer.
0:50:46 > 0:50:51He needs to suffer. The death penalty is way too easy.
0:50:51 > 0:50:54As far as it goes, if they give him the death sentence,
0:50:54 > 0:50:57the death penalty, that's fine.
0:50:57 > 0:51:00But I'd really like to see him get more than that.
0:51:00 > 0:51:03I'd like to really see him suffer as they had to suffer.
0:51:03 > 0:51:06Justice needs to be served here, for sure.
0:51:06 > 0:51:09He should never see the day of light again in his life.
0:51:09 > 0:51:11He'll never see the daylight again.
0:51:11 > 0:51:14Whatever he did to those girls, you can rest assured that while
0:51:14 > 0:51:17he is in the penitentiary it's going to be very, very difficult for him.
0:51:17 > 0:51:20Cos there is a hierarchy in a jail.
0:51:20 > 0:51:23At the top of the list is the police-killer.
0:51:23 > 0:51:25He is the number one guy.
0:51:25 > 0:51:27It goes all the way down and the bottom social rung
0:51:27 > 0:51:31in the jail are perverts and sexual deviants.
0:51:31 > 0:51:35Because even the murderers have mothers, sisters and kids.
0:51:35 > 0:51:40No-one wants to be in Ariel Castro's shoes right now.
0:51:40 > 0:51:44What do you think should happen to Ariel Castro?
0:51:44 > 0:51:48- Are you asking me as a policeman or a father?- Both.
0:51:48 > 0:51:53As a father, I have three daughters, I think that
0:51:53 > 0:51:55Ariel Castro should be brought out onto the streets
0:51:55 > 0:51:57and handcuffed to that telephone pole
0:51:57 > 0:52:01and we go get the fathers of those three girls and give them
0:52:01 > 0:52:03Louisville Sluggers and go, "There he is.
0:52:03 > 0:52:06"Do what a father would do."
0:52:06 > 0:52:09As a police officer, I am bound by oath.
0:52:09 > 0:52:12There are things that you know you would love to do,
0:52:12 > 0:52:16that the person deserves it, but you can't do that.
0:52:17 > 0:52:19The county prosecutor is currently
0:52:19 > 0:52:22preparing the case against Ariel Castro.
0:52:22 > 0:52:26Right now he is going to present evidence to a county grand jury
0:52:26 > 0:52:30and by every indication he is going to seek additional charges.
0:52:30 > 0:52:34He is looking at filing charges for every day each woman was
0:52:34 > 0:52:37kidnapped, every time that they were raped
0:52:37 > 0:52:40and every time there was a lost pregnancy.
0:52:40 > 0:52:44I don't believe there is a torture law in Ohio but there
0:52:44 > 0:52:48really doesn't need to be one for him to seek the death penalty.
0:52:48 > 0:52:51This is a very hard-nosed, aggressive prosecutor.
0:52:51 > 0:52:52He not only sounds tough,
0:52:52 > 0:52:55he is tough and I think he will seek the maximum penalty.
0:52:56 > 0:53:00But Ariel Castro's defence team has said that he intends to plead
0:53:00 > 0:53:03not guilty to all charges.
0:53:03 > 0:53:05I spoke with his attorneys.
0:53:05 > 0:53:10His attorneys told me that Castro has not confessed to any crime.
0:53:10 > 0:53:14In fact, the attorneys call him a regular guy who has a heart
0:53:14 > 0:53:16and who loves his child.
0:53:27 > 0:53:33I think that the initial portrayal by the media
0:53:33 > 0:53:36has been one of a, quote, monster
0:53:36 > 0:53:39and that's not the impression that I got
0:53:39 > 0:53:41when I talked to him for three hours.
0:53:41 > 0:53:46This is the initial stages of the investigation
0:53:46 > 0:53:50by the prosecutor's office as well as the defence
0:53:50 > 0:53:54but it is to be expected that it will be a not guilty plea to all charges.
0:53:56 > 0:54:00For his victims, Michelle, Amanda and Gina,
0:54:00 > 0:54:03this will lengthen the legal proceedings.
0:54:03 > 0:54:05Meanwhile, his cousin Maria wants to convince them
0:54:05 > 0:54:07that the Castros are a good family.
0:54:09 > 0:54:11As a family, the Castros, we are
0:54:11 > 0:54:18so incredibly sorry that these horrible things happened
0:54:18 > 0:54:22to them at the hands of someone
0:54:22 > 0:54:25that is a part of our family.
0:54:25 > 0:54:27Or was a part of our family.
0:54:27 > 0:54:32You know, I would love nothing more than for, one day,
0:54:32 > 0:54:38for these girls to be able to meet the rest of us
0:54:38 > 0:54:42in one of our family gatherings or one of our family reunions
0:54:42 > 0:54:48and...and see the good people that are a part of this family,
0:54:48 > 0:54:50the happy people that are a part of this family,
0:54:50 > 0:54:53the people that are generous and kind and loving
0:54:53 > 0:54:59and...and I would love for them to experience that.
0:54:59 > 0:55:04I would love nothing more than to meet that little girl Jocelyn.
0:55:05 > 0:55:11I mean, it's been proven now that she is his child.
0:55:13 > 0:55:17That means she's our cousin. She is our blood.
0:55:18 > 0:55:23And I want her to know that she doesn't have monster in her blood.
0:55:24 > 0:55:30She has good, kind, generous, loving blood.
0:55:36 > 0:55:39If there is a positive message that survives this story, it is
0:55:39 > 0:55:43perhaps one of strength in the face of terrible circumstances.
0:55:43 > 0:55:46There is the incredible strength of the three women,
0:55:46 > 0:55:49Michelle, Amanda and Gina, who survived together, defied their
0:55:49 > 0:55:54captor and are now receiving the best psychological and medical care.
0:55:54 > 0:55:57Strength is also being displayed by the people of Cleveland.
0:55:57 > 0:56:02Their initial joy and relief was quickly overtaken by fear and guilt.
0:56:02 > 0:56:05I have heard people talk about being scared of their neighbours,
0:56:05 > 0:56:07feeling that they can't trust anyone.
0:56:07 > 0:56:09But now a new mood is detectable.
0:56:09 > 0:56:11People are talking about how to make changes
0:56:11 > 0:56:14to ensure that this never happens again.
0:56:14 > 0:56:17The phrase that I keep hearing is, "We are our brother's keeper."
0:56:17 > 0:56:19CHANTING: Gina! Gina! Gina!
0:56:19 > 0:56:20CHEERING
0:56:25 > 0:56:28- REPORTER:- There she goes, in the green.
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