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Cleveland kidnap survivors recall decade of hellish imprisonment

They leaned on each other. Two of the three Cleveland women who were kidnapped and held as sex slaves helped each other “stay positive” to survive life with their twisted...

Michelle Knight: I hid from rescuers

The woman who suffered the longest in Cleveland’s house of horrors was so mentally fragile, she panicked and hid when cops finally came to the door, she writes in a...

Ariel Castro allowed Cleveland captives to escape: attorney

CLEVELAND — Ariel Castro intentionally left doors unlocked at his house in the months before three women escaped after nearly a decade of captivity because he knew the end was...

Cleveland house of horrors survivors reunite

MEDINA, Ohio — The three women who survived a decade-long captivity in a Cleveland house before being freed received Gov. John Kasich's annual courage awards on Monday night. Kasich called...

'Cleveland hero' Charles Ramsey gets book deal

CLEVELAND — The man who famously put aside his Big Mac to help rescue three women held captive in a Cleveland house over a decade has signed a contract to...

'Major tension' between Cleveland kidnap survivors over tell-alls

The three Cleveland women who were kidnapped and held captive for years by Ariel Castro are now at odds with competing tell-all books. Michelle Knight is working on a memoir...

UK cops free 3 women held captive for 30 years

Three "highly traumatized" women have been rescued from a London house after being held as slaves for as long as 30 years, police say. Police have arrested a 67-year-old man...

Cleveland kidnap survivor shares story

CLEVELAND — One of three women who escaped from a ramshackle Cleveland home after more than a decade in captivity is about to share her story. Michelle Knight will appear...

Ohio kidnapping survivors to pen book

NEW YORK -- Two of the three women held captive for a decade in a Cleveland house are collaborating with a Pulitzer Prize-winning team of Washington Post reporters for a...

Kidnap fiend used window to hang self

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Cleveland kidnapper and rapist Ariel Castro committed suicide by hanging himself with a sheet attached to a window hinge in his prison cell, coroner's investigative notes show....

Castro told Berry's mom she 'was OK'

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A report says that Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro called the mother of one of his victims while she was in captivity and told her she was OK....

Prosecutor slams Castro after fiend's suicide

Kidnapper 'couldn't take' what he dished out for decade

'I'm not a monster ... there was harmony in that home': Ariel Castro blames sex addiction for hideous crimes in stomach-turning statement to victims

The disgusting former Cleveland bus driver who held three women in a captive, rape-filled hell for more than a decade blamed a sexual addiction for his evil transgressions, and insisted...