Status Updates From The Lost Girls: The True St...

People are trying to paint me as a monster, and I'm not a monster. I'm sick.

I believe I am addicted to porn to the point that it really makes me impulsive. I'm not trying to make excuses here, 'cause I know . . . that I will be put away....

Just before walking in through the courtroom doors, Castro, handcuffed, shackled and dressed in a bright orange prison jumpsuit, had a smirk on his face. Then as soon as the courtroom opened, he lowered his head and shut his eyes, as bailiffs....

In 1968, Pedro Castro left Puerto Rico with Gladys and their children to settle down in Cleveland, Ohio, where he already had family.

In 1970, Lillian Rodriguez moved her family to Cleveland, as well, settling down at 2346 Scranton Road.

Today the situation's turned, Your Honor. Mr. Castro stands before you captive, in captivity, a prisoner. The women are free to resume their lives that were interrupted . . . with the promise and hope that justice will be served.

Her bedroom door was not locked, as it usually was, so she opened it and went downstairs. Then she tried the front door, which to her amazement was unlocked.

Daddy told me to come up here and stay.

In his own demented mind, he loved all of us because he thought we were all family. That goes back to his fake world where he wanted a family and he didn't have it. He always complained how his family had . . . abandoned him.

At around the same time, Amanda Berry became pregnant with Ariel Castro's baby. She started suffering morning sickness and throwing up in her room.

That night, Castro told Michelle that he thought Amanda could be pregnant.

She became very uncomfortable and told him she wanted to leave. Castro said she could, but it would have to be through a different door than the one through which they had entered.
He then tricked her into his basement, where he attacked her.

It's just getting harder and harder to know that your daughter fell off the face of the earth and nobody...

You see that? At least someone's looking for her. But who's looking for you? Not a soul. That's because you don't mean nothin' to nobody.

Amanda too noticed when his van drove past her, thinking she recognized a girl she knew in the front seat.
After pulling into a driveway a few houses ahead and letting Arlene out of the van, Castro made a U-turn and drove back along West 110th Street.

Soon after he moved in, Ariel Castro acquired a creepy life-size mannequin with slanted eyes, which he clothed in a long dress as a black wig. He delighted in placing it in the backseat of his sports car....

On December 11, 1990, he filled out an application to become a school bus driver for the Cleveland Board of Education. 🚌