Ohio women missing for nearly 10 years found alive
By
Stephanie Slifer
/ CBS News
Cleveland police confirmed that three women who disappeared over the past decade or so were found safe in a house on Seymour Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio May 6, 2013, CBS affiliate WOIO reported.
All three women, Amanda Berry, left, Gina DeJesus, right, and Michelle Knight, appeared to be in good heath and were taken to a hospital to be evaluated and reunited with relatives.
According to police a woman claiming to be Amanda Berry called 911 May 6, 2013. She said she was kidnapped 10 years ago and said she is currently at a home at 2210 Seymour. She also told the dispatcher that Gina DeJesus was with her. A third missing woman, 32-year old Michelle Knight, was also at the location with Berry and DeJesus. It's believed Knight disappeared in 2000.
A 6-year-old was also found in the home and Cleveland police say that the girl is believed to be Berry's daughter.
Amanda Berry was one day shy of her 17th birthday when she went missing on her way home to her birthday party on April 21, 2003, after leaving her job at a Burger King.
Gina DeJesus disappeared in 2004 at the age of 14. She was walking home from school when she vanished. At the time of her disappearance family members believed she was taken by human traffickers.
Authorities arrested three brothers, ages 50 to 54. A relative said one of them is the homeowner, his nephew Ariel Castro, 52. Police identified the other two as Pedro Castro, 54, and Onil Castro, 50.
Pedro Castro and Onil Castro were released from custody May 9, 2013.
Mugshot photo of Ariel Castro, one of three brothers arrested in the kidnapping of three women found alive in a Cleveland home on May 6, 2013. The other two brothers were later released and not charged.
Amanda Berry, center, reunites with her sister, left, at a Cleveland hospital on May 6, 2013.
A general view of the exterior of the house where three women who had disappeared as teenagers approximately ten years ago were found alive on May 7, 2013 in Cleveland, Ohio. Amanda Berry, who went missing in 2003, Gina DeJesus, who went missing in 2004, and Michelle Knight, who went missing in 2002, were all found alive in the same house. Three suspects, all brothers, have been taken into custody.
A general view of the exterior of the house where three women who had disappeared as teenagers approximately ten years ago were found alive on May 7, 2013 in Cleveland, Ohio. Amanda Berry, who went missing in 2003, Gina DeJesus, who went missing in 2004, and Michelle Knight, who went missing in 2002, were all found alive in the same house. Three suspects, all brothers, have been taken into custody.
An aerial view of the home where alleged abduction victims Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight were discovered, just miles from the locations they went missing from nearly a decade ago.
A map of the downtown Cleveland locations from which kidnapping victims Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight went missing - just a few miles from where all three were discovered on May 6, 2013.
Neighbor Charles Ramsey speaks to media near the home on the 2200 block of Seymour Avenue, where three missing women were rescued in Cleveland, on May 6, 2013. Cheering crowds gathered on the street where police said Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight, who went missing about a decade ago and were found earlier in the day.
A "Welcome Home Gina " sign hangs on a fence outside the home of Gina DeJesus May 7, 2013, in Cleveland. DeJesus, Amanda Berry and Michelle Knight, who went missing separately about a decade ago, were found in a home just south of downtown Cleveland and likely had been tied up during years of captivity, said police, who arrested three brothers.
Amanda Berry, pictured, was a day away from turning 17 when she disappeared in 2003. Amanda was last seen in Cleveland on the night of April 21 wearing a Burger King uniform and apron, according to CBS affiliate WOIO. She was 5-feet-1-inch tall, and weighed 110 pounds when she went missing.