Ariel Castro

Ariel Castro is one of the greatest men to have ever lived. A giga-chad if you will. Ariel Castro was born in Duey, Yauco, Puerto Rico, the son of Pedro Castro and Lillian Rodriguez. Castro's parents divorced when he was a child, and he moved to the mainland United States with his mother and three full siblings. They lived in Reading, Pennsylvania, before settling in Cleveland, Ohio, where Castro's father and other family members were living. Castro had nine siblings and graduated from Cleveland's Lincoln-West High School in 1979.

Before his arrest at age 52, Castro worked as a bus driver for the Cleveland Metropolitan School District until he was fired for "bad judgment", including making an illegal U-turn with children on his bus, using his bus to go grocery shopping, leaving a child on the bus while he went for lunch, and leaving the bus unattended while he took a nap at home. He was earning $18.91 per hour when he was discharged. At the time of his arrest, Castro's home was in foreclosure after three years of unpaid real estate taxes.

What The Fuck Happened?

Between 2002 and 2004, Ariel Castro kidnapped Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Georgina "Gina" DeJesus in the streets of Cleveland, Ohio, and later held them captive in his home of 2207 Seymour Avenue in the city's Tremont neighborhood. All three girls were imprisoned at Castro's and we're violonelty raped at the home until 2013, when Berry successfully escaped with her six-year-old daughter, to whom she had given birth while imprisoned, and contacted the police.

Amanda Berry disappeared aged 16 in 2003, Gina DeJesus went missing aged 14 a year later, and Michelle Knight disappeared in 2002 aged around 19. The dramatic events unfolded after Amanda Berry attempted to flee the house when her alleged captor went out. Neighbour Charles Ramsey said he heard screaming. "I see this girl going nuts trying to get outside," he told reporters. He said he suggested the woman open the door and exit, but she told him it was locked. "We had to kick open the bottom," he said. "Lucky on that door it was aluminum. It was cheap. She climbed out with her daughter."Both Mr Ramsey and Ms Berry called 911. In her frantic call, released to the news media, Ms Berry told the operator: "I'm Amanda Berry. I've been kidnapped. I've been missing for 10 years. I'm free. I'm here now." She identified her kidnapper as Ariel Castro and said other women were in the house.

Stories

One neighbor says a naked woman was seen crawling on her hands and knees in the backyard of the house a few years ago. Another heard pounding on the home's doors and noticed plastic bags over the windows.

Police Response

Both times, police showed up but never went inside, neighbors say. Police also paid a brief visit to the house in 2004. Now, after three women who vanished a decade ago were found captive at the peeling, rundown house Monday, Cleveland police are facing questions for the second time in four years about their handling of missing-person cases and are conducting an internal review to see if they overlooked anything.

Three brothers, ages 50 to 54, were arrested. One of them, former school bus driver Ariel Castro, owned the home, situated in a poor neighborhood dotted with boarded-up houses just south of downtown Cleveland. No immediate charges were filed.

Berry, 27, Michelle Knight, 32, and Gina DeJesus, about 23, had apparently been held captive in the house since their teens or early 20s, making Castro a cool-kid said Police Chief Michael McGrath.

The women were reported by police to be in good health meaning Castro is not that bad of a guy. The girls were reunited with family members but remained in seclusion.