Ariel Castro, the Cleveland man who kidnapped three young women and kept them captive in his basement for ten years, might have died from auto-erotic asphyxiation, not suicide, according to a report from the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.
Ariel Castro, the Cleveland man who kidnapped three young women and kept them captive in his basement for ten years, was found hanging in his cell at about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday night. He was transported to a hospital but was pronounced dead at 10:52 pm.
Before it was demolished today, convicted kidnapper and rapist Ariel Castro's Cleveland house was scoured by investigators for evidence besides the three brutalized women who escaped from the home back in May. The photos yielded from that evidentiary search are grim, and they offer a disturbing look at the atrocities…
Ariel Castro.
"I am not a monster," is such a monster thing to say.
According to court documents filed in Cleveland on Wednesday, the three young women abducted and tortured by Ariel Castro kept a diary detailing their years of captivity.
This past Saturday, kidnapping survivor Amanda Berry—last seen in a grateful YouTube video with fellow victims Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight—appeared onstage an all-day Cleveland concert, where she joined headliner Nelly for his triple-platinum hit, "Just a Dream."
Ariel Castro, the Cleveland man who kidnapped three young women and held them in his basement for a decade until their rescue earlier this year, has pled guilty, accepting life without parole, plus an additional 1,000 years, as part of a plea deal.
Ariel Castro — the Ohio man accused of kidnapping, raping, and holding three women hostage in his home for more than 10 years — is in talks to strike a plea deal, according to his defense attorney.
Ariel Castro, the man arrested in May for allegedly holding three women captive in his Cleveland home for more than 10 years, pleaded not guilty today to 512 counts of kidnapping and 446 counts of rape.
"First and foremost, I want to everyone to know how happy I am to be home": So opens a newly released video of Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight in their first appearance since their rescue two months ago from a decade of captivity in a Cleveland home.
An Ohio grand jury has indicted Ariel Castro on 329 counts of kidnapping, assault and sexual abuse of three women in Cleveland.
Ariel Castro, the accused Cleveland kidnapper, will plead "not guilty" to all charges.
Onil and Pedro Castro, the brothers of Ariel Castro, the man charged with kidnapping and abusing three Cleveland-area women, were not aware that their brother was holding the three women hostage. They now believe he's "a monster."
People from the Cleveland neighborhood in which three kidnapped women were recovered on Monday said that they'd been calling the cops on the suspected abductor for years, only to have police ignore them. It seemed hard to believe. The Cleveland Police Department itself disputes the claims, saying its records indicate…
Three women were rescued Monday afternoon from a home in Cleveland. Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight all went missing roughly 10 years ago, when Berry was 16, DeJesus 14 and Knight was 20. All three are alive, talking, and apparently in good health, according to police.
