Ariel Castro, the Cleveland native who kidnapped and sexually assaulted 3 now-women, was found hanging in his Orient, OH jail cell.

CLEVELAND – Demolition began just after 7 a.m. Wednesday to the Seymour Avenue house where Gina DeJesus, Amanda Berry and Michelle Knight were held captive for more than a decade, destroying the prison and fortress that Ariel Castro built. “This was one evil guy,” Cuyahoga County prosecutor Tim McGinty said at a news conference outside […]

  CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – In less than one hour, Ariel Castro’s Seymour Avenue house was reduced to a pile of rubble. As the last part of the house fell to the ground, a church on the corner of Seymour rang its bells to mark the demolition and healing for the survivors. Family members say the women […]

CLEVELAND – Photos of kidnapping survivors Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight show the progress they have made just in three months. Berry, DeJesus and Knight were found alive on May 6 in Ariel Castro’s Seymour Avenue house in Cleveland. Castro was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole […]

CLEVELAND – The defense attorney for admitted kidnapper Ariel Castro called Thursday’s sentencing hearing “gratuitous and unnecessary.” Attorney Craig Weintraub spoke with the media shortly after his client was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole plus a thousand years. He said Castro was not surprised by his sentence because of managed […]

  CLEVELAND — Cuyahoga County Sheriff Frank Bova says Ariel Castro will be transferred from Cleveland to the Lorain Correctional Institution Friday afternoon. The transfer comes one day after Castro was sentenced to life without parole plus 1,000 years in prison for abducting three women and holding them captive in his Seymour Avenue home for a […]

  CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Michelle Knight returned to Ariel Castro’s Seymour Avenue home on Friday morning. Knight arrived with a small group, and remained outside of the home. She also spoke with neighbors and thanked them for their help in the May 6 rescue. Amanda Berry and her father went to the house on Tuesday, and her father thanked […]

  CLEVELAND – After a day full photos and descriptions of life for three women held captive for a decade, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy McGinty proudly stated: “The nightmare on Seymour Avenue is over.” Ariel Castro, who pleaded guilty to 937 counts including rape and kidnapping, was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison without […]

CLEVELAND – Ariel Castro told a full courtroom at his sentencing that he is not a monster and that his house, with his victims, had harmony. He addressed the court for nearly 15 minutes before being officially sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole. In his often rambling account of his life and […]

CLEVELAND —  The Second District Community Relations Committee posted on its Facebook page this afternoon a handwritten thank you note that Cleveland Police Second District officers say is from Michelle Knight. She is one of three women rescued from a home on Seymour Avenue on May 6 after being held captive for more than a decade by […]

CLEVELAND – The hip-hop star who met Cleveland kidnapping victim, Amanda Berry, spoke to CNN about his encounter. Berry was invited on stage with Nelly at the annual music festival, Roverfest. She didn’t speak, but she smiled and waved to the crowd. “What stuck with me the most, first of all, that she had a […]

CLEVELAND  – Amanda Berry was sighted on stage with rapper Nelly Saturday at Roverfest in Voinovich Park in downtown Cleveland, just one day after her capturer Ariel Castro plead guilty to 937 charges. Concert goer Lisa Albertini tells NewsChannel5, “When Rover introduced them he made a comment about how she (Amanda Berry) has a lot […]