:00:07. > :00:07.Do you need police, fire or ambulance?
:00:08. > :00:28.For more than decade, there was dark secret hidden away
:00:29. > :00:35.In a quiet suburb, three girls were imprisoned,
:00:36. > :00:49.Ariel Castro, a school bus driver, had kidnapped all three girls.
:00:50. > :01:02.The girls were abducted on this street between 2002 and 2004.
:01:03. > :01:10.Gina DeJesus, Amanda Berry and Michelle Knight.
:01:11. > :01:13.This is Lorraine Avenue in Cleveland and this road connects
:01:14. > :01:18.Michelle was taken from here at 1.06pm on Lorraine.
:01:19. > :01:21.Gina was taken one block that way, Amanda was taken three blocks
:01:22. > :01:24.But something else connects the girls.
:01:25. > :01:40.In 2013, a decade on, miraculously, they escaped.
:01:41. > :01:44.And now, Amanda and Gina have decided they are finally ready
:01:45. > :02:05.I had gotten off work early that day and I worked at Burger King.
:02:06. > :02:11.She was at work and I had called a friend for a ride and he didn't
:02:12. > :02:19.And as I was walking there was a van and it was in a driveway that I had
:02:20. > :02:24.And I looked up and saw a man and a girl in the van.
:02:25. > :02:28.The girl looked like someone that I had worked with so I smiled
:02:29. > :02:34.A couple of minutes later, the van pulls up and he says,
:02:35. > :02:45.I was walking home from school with his daughter, Arlene Castro.
:02:46. > :02:48.And she used the pay phone to call her mum to ask
:02:49. > :02:52.if she could come to my house and her mum said no,
:02:53. > :02:57.she went her other way and I went the other way.
:02:58. > :03:01.He asked me if I had seen his daughter and I said yes
:03:02. > :03:04.and he was, like, can you help me find her?
:03:05. > :03:11.And he didn't turn around and went to go into his house.
:03:12. > :03:18.He noticed that and he was talking about how his son had used
:03:19. > :03:22.And that I knew a couple of his kids.
:03:23. > :03:31.And then, of course, when you get to the house,
:03:32. > :03:34.you immediately know that he is not going to let you out?
:03:35. > :03:42.Amanda was just 16 when she was kidnapped.
:03:43. > :03:44.Once locked inside Castro's house, she discovered his first victim,
:03:45. > :03:58.This is Seymour Avenue, less than four miles
:03:59. > :04:03.Ariel Castro moved here in 1992 and he was well-known the area.
:04:04. > :04:06.He imprisoned the three girls here for more than ten years.
:04:07. > :04:08.They were chained up for much of the time,
:04:09. > :04:16.raped over and over again, half starved, sometimes beaten
:04:17. > :04:19.2207 Seymour Avenue has been razed to the ground now.
:04:20. > :04:29.One less physical reminder of the girls' decade in hell.
:04:30. > :04:32.Amanda, you had demonstrated extraordinary foresight
:04:33. > :04:41.Within the first week, I was just sitting in a dark room
:04:42. > :04:43.watching a small black and white TV and he asked me,
:04:44. > :04:46.is there anything that we needed from the store?
:04:47. > :04:53.And I said, yes, a colouring book would be nice and a journal.
:04:54. > :04:58.The code, you were being raped repeatedly, sometimes up to five
:04:59. > :05:04.But what you did, you would just put 3X, 4X, 5X.
:05:05. > :05:11.I knew eventually, if we were ever freed, my mom would read this
:05:12. > :05:14.and I wanted my family to kind of know what I went through and how
:05:15. > :05:17.horrible it was and I also wanted him...
:05:18. > :05:21.I wanted everything to be accounted for.
:05:22. > :05:26.Was it also a way of writing about the rapes but not writing
:05:27. > :05:32.Gina, he also raped you hundreds of times, you were just 14.
:05:33. > :05:36.What happened when you decided to take matters into your own hands
:05:37. > :05:43.How did you have the courage to do that?
:05:44. > :05:48.I don't know, I think he just kept shaking me and was annoying me.
:05:49. > :05:55.And what happened when you smacked him?
:05:56. > :06:01.He smacked me back and then he sent me upstairs.
:06:02. > :06:13.My chain went through her wall to my wall.
:06:14. > :06:18.Her room and my room were connected so it went straight through the wall
:06:19. > :06:21.and I was divided from my ankle to Michelle's ankle.
:06:22. > :06:33.It must have been terrible to have the chains on all the time.
:06:34. > :06:36.But also, when he was abusing you, physically, he had you sometimes
:06:37. > :06:40.There was only a couple of times that happened with me and,
:06:41. > :06:47.I remember crying and telling him no.
:06:48. > :07:00.I think the more we cried and showed him our pain and sorrow,
:07:01. > :07:12.To don't cry, don't show him your pain, don't show him you are mad.
:07:13. > :07:25.One of the cruellest things, I think, early on that he did
:07:26. > :07:28.was he talked to you about the fact that he had been on his motorcycle
:07:29. > :07:31.and he had seen your mum handing out flyers about your disappearance?
:07:32. > :07:35.And he had gone up and taken a flyer from her and asked if there was any
:07:36. > :07:37.information about you, which was so cruel.
:07:38. > :07:45.Because my mom was handing out the flyers and it was the only thing
:07:46. > :07:52.And did you think that you would be able to keep the flyer to the day
:07:53. > :08:05.Gina's parents, Nancy and Felix, never gave up the search
:08:06. > :08:13.Any ideas that came up, if anybody approached us,
:08:14. > :08:16.we took advantage because we knew we had to keep her alive.
:08:17. > :08:21.We knew we had to keep her out there so people would not forget.
:08:22. > :08:26.And to let everybody know that she was still missing.
:08:27. > :08:30.You got a chance to see your families on television.
:08:31. > :08:33.That must have been both heartbreaking but it would also
:08:34. > :08:40.That was the only way they knew how they looked,
:08:41. > :08:48.To know that they were still fighting for you.
:08:49. > :08:52.I felt like a piece of my heart was missing because it was just me
:08:53. > :08:55.and my mom and my sister and my two children and my husband
:08:56. > :08:59.When she came up missing, I lost a piece of me.
:09:00. > :09:01.We were so close, she is my best friend.
:09:02. > :09:08.I kept going because I would never give up hope on my sister.
:09:09. > :09:13.If I didn't know anything about her, there was nothing bad in my heart.
:09:14. > :09:18.So all I could do was keep hope and keep going.
:09:19. > :09:23.And for you, Gina, you have this big, fun family and you were able
:09:24. > :09:26.to see them on television, to see your mum.
:09:27. > :09:31.But something else came on the television as well.
:09:32. > :09:33.You didn't watch it but you watched the Royal wedding?
:09:34. > :09:40.It was like the biggest thing on all the news channels and I loved
:09:41. > :09:43.watching the news, to know what was going on in the world.
:09:44. > :09:47.You have to wake up at 6am and it was going to be on this
:09:48. > :09:57.channel so I actually set my clock and got up at 6am.
:09:58. > :10:02.And the veil being held in place by the Queen's halo tiara.
:10:03. > :10:07.Which has been loaned to her specially for this day.
:10:08. > :10:14.To me, that just something that was, I don't know, it was happiness.
:10:15. > :10:17.They are getting married, to see what her dress looked like.
:10:18. > :10:22.To see all the people there, it was just beautiful.
:10:23. > :10:25.I still one day want to get married and have a family.
:10:26. > :10:34.I think it could have been a little fancier.
:10:35. > :10:49.The Christmas of 2005 was particularly difficult for you.
:10:50. > :10:52.He went out to his family for dinner and that day,
:10:53. > :10:55.I think I am right in saying, you saw that your mother was ill?
:10:56. > :11:02.It came on the news that she was in the hospital
:11:03. > :11:11.When I heard that, I just couldn't stop crying.
:11:12. > :11:14.And then, eventually, of course, she passed away.
:11:15. > :11:17.And, again, it was from television and not him that you found that out?
:11:18. > :11:24.I had gotten up early that day because he had to take me to my room
:11:25. > :11:29.and chain me upstairs and I had turned on the news and it was maybe
:11:30. > :11:33.5.30am in the morning and it was breaking news that my mom
:11:34. > :11:41.What do you think he would have actually done to you if you had
:11:42. > :11:47.What do you think might have happened?
:11:48. > :11:51.I think he would have buried us in the back,
:11:52. > :12:11.It's a beautiful spring day in the neighbourhood where
:12:12. > :12:14.all these three young women were raised in Cleveland, Ohio.
:12:15. > :12:16.And it is extraordinary to think that they hardly ever,
:12:17. > :12:20.in ten years, saw the sunshine because they were kept in rooms,
:12:21. > :12:30.they were locked and barred and the windows covered up.
:12:31. > :12:33.One of the things that I found extraordinary was,
:12:34. > :12:37.going to Seymour Avenue, I expected this huge place,
:12:38. > :12:41.But it was a small place and what I couldn't understand
:12:42. > :12:44.was why none of the neighbours had even noticed him bringing food
:12:45. > :12:47.into the house or even his family coming to the house?
:12:48. > :12:54.What happened to you when family came to the house?
:12:55. > :12:57.Well, he would put all of us into Gina and Michelle's room.
:12:58. > :13:05.And he would lock the door and tell us, be quiet, don't move.
:13:06. > :13:07.And, of course, the temptation would be to scream but
:13:08. > :13:18.And we just knew how he could flip like that.
:13:19. > :13:29.Halfway into the girls' ordeal, something would happen
:13:30. > :13:33.which would change the experience of everyone inside.
:13:34. > :13:41.I had realised that I hadn't got my period and that was that the first
:13:42. > :13:58.But you knew that he didn't want a baby in the house?
:13:59. > :14:02.Because if the baby cries or the neighbours hear a baby
:14:03. > :14:05.or someone comes to the house, what do you do with the baby?
:14:06. > :14:15.But then came the time when you went into labour?
:14:16. > :14:18.I really didn't know I was going into labour,
:14:19. > :14:21.I just had labour pains all day but I had no idea what it was.
:14:22. > :14:24.Eventually I had to use the bathroom and I heard something pop.
:14:25. > :14:29.He was like, I think you water broke.
:14:30. > :14:31.He was like, I think your water broke.
:14:32. > :14:34.So he takes me upstairs into my bedroom and he brings out
:14:35. > :14:40.And that's where I had to lay until I had the baby so I wouldn't
:14:41. > :14:45.So he had gotten Michelle to come in and help me deliver the baby.
:14:46. > :14:48.And he sat in a rocking chair and read a book on how
:14:49. > :14:54.The pain was horrible and I didn't know what to do.
:14:55. > :15:14.When Jocelyn was born, did it reinforce all of your survival
:15:15. > :15:18.instincts, the three of you, that you had a baby in the house?
:15:19. > :15:22.How did it make it a difference to have Jocelyn in the house?
:15:23. > :15:27.It was like, thank God that she was all right.
:15:28. > :15:30.Because it could have been otherwise?
:15:31. > :15:35.The time did come for her to go to school and you made the school?
:15:36. > :15:41.We would wake up in the morning and we would have breakfast
:15:42. > :15:48.I tried to make it as real as possible.
:15:49. > :15:51.So we would lock the door and we would walk to school,
:15:52. > :15:56.across streets, and I would tell her, stop at green lights and look
:15:57. > :15:59.both ways when it's a red light and we would finally get to school
:16:00. > :16:02.and I would set her down I would tell her, OK,
:16:03. > :16:16.When Jocelyn was three, Amanda told Castro she needed fresh air.
:16:17. > :16:20.He took her to this park at the end of the street.
:16:21. > :16:31.Astonishingly, no one noticed him with a small child.
:16:32. > :16:34.He always put on a show outside of the house.
:16:35. > :16:36.That was why nobody ever thought anything.
:16:37. > :16:39.He was just this cool guy on a motorcycle or this guy that
:16:40. > :16:43.They never would think of him as this monster.
:16:44. > :16:55.When he started taking out Jocelyn more and more
:16:56. > :16:59.and he took her to church and took her to a fair and so forth,
:17:00. > :17:02.was it hard for you because you saw that he actually loved her?
:17:03. > :17:05.Did that bring feelings of conflict in you?
:17:06. > :17:11.Because I hated him, of course I hated him for everything
:17:12. > :17:18.And then I would see him with her and he loved her so much.
:17:19. > :17:23.And I just, I started to care for him.
:17:24. > :17:27.But then I would get angry at myself and I would get so mad and say why?
:17:28. > :17:46.Then, of course, finally the day came.
:17:47. > :17:52.So Jocelyn goes to go downstairs because she was allowed to go
:17:53. > :17:55.downstairs when she wanted, if he had the door open, usually.
:17:56. > :17:58.So she goes downstairs and she was, I guess, looking for him.
:17:59. > :18:02.She comes upstairs and she says, Mommy, Daddy's blue car is not here.
:18:03. > :18:10.Go look in the garage, look around the house,
:18:11. > :18:16.So she goes downstairs again, she looks around, she looks for him
:18:17. > :18:19.again and she comes back upstairs and says, no,
:18:20. > :18:22.I think that means that he is not here.
:18:23. > :18:25.Because I had the TV so loud, but I heard her coming up
:18:26. > :18:40.And I just sat there and everything and kept watching TV.
:18:41. > :18:42.I don't see anything so I finally told Jocelyn,
:18:43. > :18:45.OK, Mommy is going to go downstairs for a minute.
:18:46. > :18:49.And when Mommy yells for you, just run down the stairs as fast
:18:50. > :18:54.She started to get a little nervous and she was asking me why.
:18:55. > :18:58.So I get my tennis shoes on and I go downstairs.
:18:59. > :19:04.And I still don't see anything, I don't hear anything.
:19:05. > :19:08.And my heart is pounding out of my chest but then I try to open
:19:09. > :19:11.the door, the screen door, and there is like a lock on there,
:19:12. > :19:20.And I notice as I looked at it that you had to have a key to unlock it
:19:21. > :19:24.So I am pushing it and thinking, it is going to break easy,
:19:25. > :19:31.At that point I am, like, yelling and screaming and I am,
:19:32. > :19:36.like, it was just about that much room that I could fit my arm
:19:37. > :19:38.through so I have my arm waving and going crazy.
:19:39. > :19:45.I see this girl going nuts, trying to get out of the house.
:19:46. > :19:48.So we kicked the bottom and she comes out with a little girl
:19:49. > :19:54.Do you need police, fire or ambulance?
:19:55. > :20:05.I have been missing for ten years and I am free now.
:20:06. > :20:09.I just sat there and I didn't hear her screaming.
:20:10. > :20:13.I just heard when the cops started to break in the house and stuff.
:20:14. > :20:15.I'm not thinking of the cops, really.
:20:16. > :20:21.And she is going to be in big trouble.
:20:22. > :20:28.We have got a female and she has a young child with her.
:20:29. > :20:37.We also have a Michelle Knight in the house.
:20:38. > :20:40.They put me in the back of the car when they went into the house
:20:41. > :20:42.and got Gina and Michelle and they walked us all
:20:43. > :20:46.So that was the first time that we were together
:20:47. > :20:52.And me and her were sitting next to each other and she looks at me
:20:53. > :21:10.You actually do have an incredibly bright future now.
:21:11. > :21:12.What do you want to do more than anything?
:21:13. > :21:14.Some day I want to be able to help other people.
:21:15. > :21:17.That maybe don't have a voice or are scared or are going
:21:18. > :21:20.through something and they don't know what to do.
:21:21. > :21:28.I definitely want to help people one day.
:21:29. > :21:32.When you engaged a lawyer and he asked you if you wanted
:21:33. > :21:35.anything, you just said you wanted two things.
:21:36. > :21:43.A tombstone, a headstone for my Mom because she hadn't had one.
:21:44. > :21:54.And a birth certificate for my daughter.
:21:55. > :21:57.And what about you, Gina, what is your dream?
:21:58. > :22:05.I want to help people like me and change a lot of people.
:22:06. > :22:08.Gina, having not quite believed that you were going to get out,
:22:09. > :22:15.I still couldn't believe that I was out.
:22:16. > :22:21.I don't think it hit me until I got to the hospital.
:22:22. > :23:12.And you were out and in the normal world?
:23:13. > :23:13.Hello. It does look more drive for the next couple of days