On August 1, 2013, The American woman Knight stood on the witness stand to testify in court, calmly recounting her experience of being dark, and when she passed by Castro in the dock, she stopped and stared at him: "The 11 years of my life that you took away were spent in hell, and now your hell has just begun, and you will never turn over in hell." ”
A month later, on September 3, Castro, the chief offender in the Cleveland sex slavery case who shocked the United States and was sentenced to 1,000 years in prison without parole, was found hanging his head from a sheet at a correctional center in the village of Olynt.
Was Castro killed by his fellow inmates because of the indignation of the pedestrians he had committed, or did he suddenly wake up, repent, and die to apologize?
When the official announcement of the results of the investigation, the sky was rolling, and Castro was accidentally killed while seeking stimulation and performing rare sexual perversion.
Who is this guy and what does he do? I can actually play myself to death, which is still playing with a bird.
See the light of day again
It all started four months ago, when on May 6, 2013, the U.S. police received a frantic call from a woman calling the police: "Help! I'm Amanda Bailey... I was kidnapped, I was missing for 10 years, I'm here, now I'm free. ”
Just half an hour before June 3, Charles Ramsay, a black American, eats a hamburger in his mouth, sings RAP, moves in unison, draws a dragon with me on the left, draws a rainbow on the right, and walks... When Singing about the Monkey Monkey, he heard a woman's cry for help from the neighbor Castro's home.
The United States could not help guns, and there was a possibility of corpses on the street at any time, but in the end Charles's curiosity overcame his fear, and he couldn't help but lean up and look inside through the window, and he couldn't see anyone, only to see a hand outstretched in the small door of the room door inside the house and clapping and waving to him.
Charles's first feeling was strange, this strange design with a small door on the door was only seen on television, usually to bring water and food to the imprisoned...
"Charles, I'm Amanda, who was illegally detained for 10 years, save me." The woman who could not see his face shouted at him.
The other party clearly called out his name, Charles no longer hesitated, smashed the glass window and turned it in, let the woman inside retreat, and did not kick open a few times in a row of "Foshan Shadowless Feet".
Finally he found a stick and pried and kicked, kicking a hole under the door, and inside it crawled the woman named Amanda and her daughter.
The first feeling is not recognized, but the first thing for now is to get out of here. Ramsey noticed that alarms were installed on both the front and back doors of the house and vigilantly led Bailey out the window. Amanda said incoherently, "Can you help me call 911?" ”
Charles nodded and took Amanda and the little girl back to his home, as U.S. digital currencies have been slow to develop, not to mention that in 2013, Ramsey went out to buy a hamburger and left his phone at home.
Ramsey asks Amanda to make the call herself because she is the person in question, but Amanda is confused when she holds the phone. "Where's the keyboard?" She turned her phone over to find it.
Ramsey really realized that the woman in front of him had really been detained for 10 years and could not use a mobile phone, and he also realized that the stakes were high, and with the heart of overnight fame, he hurried to call in place of Amanda.
Soon the police arrived at the scene, "there were two people inside," Amanda told the police in tears, before she felt truly safe.
The police rushed into the room, which was exactly like a prison, the front and back doors were equipped with sirens, the doors were hung with heavy chains, and the windows on the second floor were sealed by solid wood, and they were opaque, even if the sun could not shine on a sunny day.
Behind the door that Ramsey kicked, two other locked rooms were found, and after knocking on two doors, two more women were rescued, Namely Michelle Knight, 32, and Gina de Jesus, 23, who were held in solitary confinement.
The house contained plenty of tape, ropes and chains to tie up the three abducted women in case they escaped.
The sudden appearance of the police made Michel Knight and Gina De Jesus. Confused and in disbelief, they cried until they were carried into the police car, and the four of them were immediately taken to the ambulance.
The two-story building where the three girls are imprisoned, located in a living quarter, surrounded by neighbors, streets, people coming and going, castro in broad daylight actually imprisoned 3 women in his home for 10 years, no one found out, this is simply appalling. How did this guy do it?
Castro is a Puerto Rican immigrant who was once famous for overriding the Chinese soccer team at the 2002 World Cup, and this time again for the Cleveland sex slavery case.
As a child, Castro's parents divorced and his mother took him to immigrate to the United States and settle in Cleveland.
In the eyes of the neighbors, although Castro looks like a kick into the pile of people and can no longer pull out the kind, but amiable, often with the neighbors to barbecue, eat ribs, play for everyone to play.
He played music well, was a bassist in an unknown band, used to sing in a bar, and finally applied to a school as a school bus driver because he was obscure and difficult to make a living.
But in work and family, this guy is another face, can be described as "not crazy and not a demon", driving a school bus likes to play drift, suddenly turning around, completely self-centered, twice halfway down a car of people to run to dinner, was dismissed by the school.
Castro can solve his wife with his fists, absolutely will not say much, treat his wife as a sandbag, beat his wife with multiple fractures of nose, ribs, and arms, beat himself into prison, and beat his current wife into an ex-wife.
Fearing his harassment, his ex-wife ran far away with her children, forcing Castro to be associated with his left and right brothers from then on, which may have been one of the reasons for his later sexual perversion.
Lonely for a long time, sperm on the brain, let Castro thinking backwards, who said too familiar is not good to start, I have to start from acquaintances, because strangers are too defensive, not easy to approach.
Find acquaintances to get started
On August 23, 2002, Castro was driving out of the house when he saw Michelle Knight, then 21, walking alone down the empty street, looking for a neighborhood court, and in which building she had fallen to, she was lost.
Castro knew this woman, rebellious and mischievous, dropped out of high school at home, had children out of wedlock, had a son, and lived on a shoestring. Her parents lived with her mom after her divorce, but her mom didn't care about her at all, and mom's new boyfriend was grumpy and beat her up in the house one day when he was drunk, and her son fell out of his crib and broke his leg.
In the United States, child injuries are not a household affair, and she has no fixed income, and guardianship is disqualified, which has opened a battle with government agencies and court.
Castro stopped the car and asked if she needed a ride, and Michelle Knight confided in Castro in frustration: "I'm going to court, the court on son custody." ”
Castro deliberately said: "You look very haggard now, you should make yourself look clean, mental, and make a good impression on the judge." ”
So he invited MichelLe Knight to his house to clean, promised to help, sent her to the court, and when the family urged her to give up, Castro's words were like a pot of hot tea that warmed Michelle Knight's heart, and she went unguarded and gladly went.
Castro turned around and drove the car into his garage, and immediately revealed his original form, controlled Michel Knight, and tied her up, this bundle is not simply tied hands and feet, wrapped around the whole body with a rope, like a fish in a net, unable to move at all, only occasionally squirming with difficulty.
Castro uses the method of taming falcons in the book to try to force Michel Knight to submit and obey by starvation and violence. Nate was not given any food or drink for three days, and she was dying of hunger, so when she opened her mouth to plead, she intensified the beating and forcibly had sex with the victim. At this moment, Knight has no ability to resist at all, and can only be slaughtered and ravaged.
Sadly, after the disappearance of Michel Knight, not only the police but also her family believe that she is an adult, there will be no danger, should know that she will lose custody of her son, deliberately angry and play missing, people live to this is also a failure.
The police believe that Michelle Knight is completely fooling around and wasting taxpayers' money, so they have not invested much police force to investigate the disappearance. Michel Knight's disappearance was like a breeze across the lake, causing almost negligible ripples that emboldened Castro.
Half a year later, the freshness passed, and there was no wind and grass low Castro confidence burst, once again ready to move, ready to find another, two women to serve a husband, enjoy the joy of the people.
With the luck and the misstep last time, this time he did his homework and set his sights on the younger and slightly rebellious Amanda Mary Bailey.
Amanda's family and Castro are in the same neighborhood, it is a period of rebellion, and on the eve of her 17th birthday, she hopes to celebrate it, but her parents do not agree to make a big fuss, and even tell her: "Your birthday expenses have to be borne by yourself." ”
On April 21, 2003, Amanda, who was forced by her family to serve dishes at the Burger King store the day before her birthday, was busy until 8 p.m. to find a ride home.
Castro showed up at the right time, and as soon as She got into the car, Amanda received a call from her mother asking why she had been delayed in returning home, and then the mother and daughter quarreled on the phone. After hanging up the phone, Amanda convulsed and cried: "Tomorrow is my birthday, my mother is still cursing me tonight..."
Castro gently comforted and told Amanda that he was going to give her a birthday present, so he coaxed this unruly little girl home, telling her that the gift was behind the door, Amanda pushed open the door and saw a Michelle Knight who had been tied into a rice dumpling and beaten into a pig's head, and the flower was discolored, and before she could scream, she was covered by a strong Castro.
In the same way, Castro is still a process of binding, starving, beating and then raping. After Amanda disappeared, the police actually believed that she had disappeared deliberately after a conflict with her family, believing that she would return in two days.
I really don't know what the Cleveland police think, as long as they are missing, they are classified as intentional disappearances, and they do not need to be registered. Michelle Knight even went missing fifteen months later, when the FBI actually removed her disappearance from the national case database, and the FBI's divine operation was really incomprehensible.
The last kidnapped by Castro, Gina De Jesus, a classmate of Castro's daughters, was 14 years old when she was kidnapped in 2004.
By then Castro had divorced his wife, his son Anthony had reached adulthood, and his daughter Arlene lived with her mother. On April 2, 2004, on that night, Castro went to visit his daughter on a whim, but was mercilessly blasted out by his ex-wife: "Roll, you still have a face, do you know how long you haven't paid your daughter's child support?" ”
This scene happened to be seen by Castro's daughter Arlene's friend Gina, the two children played together after school, when they came back it was late, Gina wanted to spend the night and leave the next day, but Castro's ex-wife Fei JueRoya was in a very bad mood and directly rejected her.
Gina was helpless and had to go downstairs and leave. Castro did not leave immediately, after smoking a smouldering cigarette in the car, he started the car to go home, and when he saw Gina alone on the street, his dirty heart suddenly emerged.
Castro invited Gina to the car to take her home, Gina knew that this was a bad uncle, and was unprepared for her girlfriend's father, so that halfway through the car, Castro bundled into rice dumplings and stuffed into the trunk to take home.
The three deficiencies were all together, and Castro did not continue to find someone to "buy a horse", because the house was so big.
After Gina disappeared, her family launched a public patrol to mobilize everyone to look for her, for some purpose, Castro himself ran to participate twice, waving the flag, perhaps seeing the helplessness and imitation of the victim's family He will be inexplicably excited.
Castro's son, Anthony, who was a trainee journalist at the time, focused on the case and interviewed Castro, unaware that the kidnapped girl was in the basement of his father's house, and Castro talked to the camera: "We will always know the people around us."
Anthony also told his father Castro about Bailey: "I think that girl is dead. Castro's reaction at the time was "are you sure?" ”
Taming sex slaves
In order to prevent the three women from trying to escape, and he could not always be at home, Castro played the Chinese art of war and the Thirty-Six Schemes, and the soldiers were devious, avoiding the truth, deliberately leaving a large amount of food, telling them that I was going to go out and pretend to forget to lock the door when I left.
Lure the girls out of the door in search of life, but if anyone dared to shout for help or open the door to come out, Castro would suddenly appear, kill them with a killing stick, beat them to bed, and every girl was deceived and beaten all over the body.
Castro also scored the 3 women he imprisoned, using modern management methods, who performed well will be given extra points, and vice versa. The bonus was for 3 girls to move around the backyard of the house during the day, dressing up each time, wearing wigs and sunglasses, and only staying for half an hour.
The deduction is torture with sexual tools, chained for weeks, locked in cages, closed in dark houses, suffocated and beaten as commonplace.
Over time, these 3 women were dominated by fear, and they were terrified all day long, obeying him and not daring to cross the thunder pool for half a step.
Castro will also celebrate the girls' birthdays, which are their respective "kidnapping days", and Castro will send cakes to "celebrate".
To intimidate them, Castro forced them to play Russian roulette, load a bullet in the gun, turn it around and shoot them in the head; he would also bring back small animals for the imprisoned women to raise for a while, and then shoot the critters in front of them, proving that he could take the lives of anyone in the room; he would tie up the three women and hang them on the wall in turn, displaying them like a personal item.
Castro's economic conditions are not good, supporting himself is a problem, and after the three women were imprisoned by him, the quality of life can only be described in tragic words, they can only eat one meal a day, and they can only take a bath twice a week.
To prevent them from escaping, Castro did not allow them to leave the captive rooms or go to the toilet, and the three of them had to use plastic toilets that were not cleaned regularly.
Castro had Nate, a single mother, conceived five times in ten years, and five forced abortions, causing Nate to lose her hearing in one ear, but he had a different attitude towards the pregnancy of another woman, Bailey.
On Christmas Day 2006, Castro forced Nate to deliver Bailey, threatening Nate: "If you don't keep your child alive, you're going to die too." For Bailey's daughter he was very fond of, took her to meet his parents, said that she was born of a new girlfriend, and let her play freely in the yard.
In this way, Castro imprisoned three women as sex slaves for 10 years in the living quarters of his home at 2207 Saimore Avenue.
The main reason is not only his brutality, but also the god assist of the American police. In fact, in this process, Castro has not failed to show flaws.
According to police records, Castro's neighbor called the police at least twice, once when the neighbor saw a being forced to crawl on the ground in the backyard of the house many years ago, but the police obviously did not pay attention to the police, believing that it was legal for others to play performance art in their home and protected by privacy laws.
Another neighbor once heard someone in Castro's house banging the door, which lasted for a long time, and after calling the police, the police drove the police car to the front door and knocked politely, and when they saw that no one answered, they politely left.
Until 5:48 p.m. on May 6, 2013, Amanda, 27, had been imprisoned in Hell's House for 10 years and 15 days. On this day, Castro actually forgot to lock the door in the house when he went out, Amanda did not want to give up a glimmer of life, let her daughter go out first, did not see the movement after she regained her courage, carefully walked down the stairs, to confirm that the demon is indeed not at home, began to smash the door like crazy, crying for help.
After the incident came to light, the police arrested Castro and his two brothers because at first the police did not believe that this was something that one person could do, but the results of the investigation showed that Castro's two brothers really did not know.
Castro was charged with 977 counts in court, including kidnapping, sexual assault, forced abortion, aggravated violent injuries and murder, and illegal possession of weapons. Castro refused to plead guilty, demanding a not-guilty plea from his lawyer, only to relent immediately when he learned that he might be sentenced to death if he did not plead guilty.
On July 26, 2013, Castro pleaded guilty to 937 of the 977 charges in exchange for plea bargaining, and was sentenced to 1,000 years in prison without parole and waived his right to appeal.
Before the official sentencing, Castro made a nearly 20-minute statement, saying: "I am actually a good person, not a monster, just a sex addiction, I began to explore the true meaning of sex at a young age, I did not hurt anyone, I solved it by myself."
Castro claimed: "My sexual relationship with these three ladies was out of common will, there was no beating or coercion, they and I were not virgins when we first had sex, we were discussing the true meaning and progress of life together, nothing more." ”
Finally, he said: "I hope that they can see that during the time we are together, they will be mixed with each other, and there will be a lot of joy, and they will forgive me from the bottom of their hearts." ”
Then Castro's words turned and said: "I should not be blamed for this incident, why these women have to take strangers' cars, and why did the FBI not catch me early to avoid me getting deeper and deeper, it was the police who were too irresponsible to cause today's impact." ”
After the verdict was pronounced, Castro said his property would be given entirely to the women he kidnapped, including the houses. However, for this house, no one dares to live, and no one is willing to buy it, but many people have gone to visit, which has properly become a popular punch card, and in order to avoid becoming a symbol of the city's black memory and shame, the prosecutor made the decision to demolish it.
On August 7, 2013, Michel Knight arrived at the demolition site armed with a yellow balloon, and after the balloon was released, Gina De Jesus' aunt personally demolished the house using the equipment, and then completely erased the mark on Google Maps StreetScape.
Heroes of Hamburg
Castro's overnight fame was also achieved by rescue hero Charles Ramsay, a dishwasher at a restaurant. He was suspended for two weeks for confronting his boss and was worried about his inability to pay the month's rent.
Now he's a hero to save people, celebrities from all walks of life have called to pay tribute to him, and because of the number of phone calls, he only answered the Cabinet Secretary of then-President Barack Obama, Daniel M. Phone calls between C. Grey and singer Snoopy Dog.
In addition, he was invited to interviews by several well-known television stations, and during the interview, he joked: "If a white woman runs to a black man for help, it is definitely that she is forced to nowhere to go." Of course, I was happy to lend a helping hand, and when I heard someone next door shouting, I put down the McDonald's Big Mac burger in my hand and went to the neighbor's house to see what was going on. ”
His comments made the Big Mac burger a "hero burger" that sold out of stock. It is equivalent to advertising for McDonald's for free, so a number of McDonald's restaurants in Cleveland, Ohio, decided that in the future, Charles can eat hamburgers for free for life when he comes to the store.
After Castro was sentenced, the three victims felt truly safe and began to receive counseling to integrate into the long-lost human society, and a related foundation had raised $1.05 million for several people to start a new life, while castro played himself in prison.