Amanda Berry, Michelle Knight and Gina DeJesus found in Cleveland

[Prick]

Can't believe no one noticed they were being kept captive for 10 years.

This live blog has closed. You can read a summary of the main events below and there is a full news story here. Further down this page, all developments can be read in chronological order.
• Three women who have been missing for the last decade have been found alive at a home in Cleveland, Ohio. Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight and an unnamed fourth person are recovering in hospital.
• Three men aged 50, 52, and 54 have been arrested. One of the men lived in the house. In a 911 call made after she escaped Berry identified herself and said she had been missing for 10 years.
• Police said a six-year-old was found in the home as well as the three missing women. Police raided the property after a neighbour, Charles Ramsey, heard Berry's shouts and freed her and a young girl.
• Berry went missing aged 16 on 21 April 2003, after she called her sister to say she was getting a ride home from her job at a Burger King. DeJesus went missing at age 14 on her way home from school about a year later. Knight went missing in 2002 and is 32 now.

https://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/07/missing-women-found-cleveland-ohio-live

 

[Ipost]

What will happen to the three men.

Slow death is a recommendation.

 

[Cardinal Fang]

• Police said a six-year-old was found in the home as well as the three missing women.

News reports say the police are now speculating that the 6 year old is Amanda Berry's daughter from her captor.:grrrrrr:

 

[-b]

I have no words...all I feel is anger, .....They will get life...
plus the father can sue for visitation rights....:no:
It a type of slavery......

 

[meist]

What will happen to the three men.

Slow death is a recommendation.

HELL NO!
I want them to live a very long life of being gang-assed raped and tortured!

:grrrrrr:

 

[Transient]

3 Cheers for Charles Ramsey for not being afraid to get involved! Praise-BowingPraise-BowingPraise-Bowing

What an unimaginable horror those strong women have endured. There will be three happy family reunions today!

 

[George Costanza]

I would not want to hear the horror stories that will come out of this one.

 

[Maurice Boscorelli]

3 Cheers for Charles Ramsey for not being afraid to get involved! Praise-BowingPraise-BowingPraise-Bowing!

And for giving one of the best interviews I have heard in a long time.

His mention that he knew something was wrong when a white girl ran into a black mans arms was priceless.

As for the vermin that perpetrated this atrocity. Life imprisonment with no chance of parole sounds right to me.

 

[Beef Jerky]

And for giving one of the best interviews I have heard in a long time.

 

[BEER]

3 Cheers for Charles Ramsey for not being afraid to get involved! Praise-BowingPraise-BowingPraise-Bowing

What an unimaginable horror those strong women have endured. There will be three happy family reunions today!

+ 1

 

[DannyDeVito]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/05/07/ohio-missing-girls-transcript-911-call.html

Read a transcript of Amanda Berry's phone call to 911. The led police to a house near downtown Cleveland where Berry and two other women who went missing a decade ago were found on Monday.

• Listen to the call
• Read the latest on the case

Caller: Help me. I'm Amanda Berry.
Dispatcher: You need police, fire, ambulance?
Caller: I need police.
Dispatcher: OK, and what's going on there?
Caller: I've been kidnapped and I've been missing for 10 years, and I'm, I'm here, I'm free now.
Dispatcher: OK, and what's your address?
Caller: 2207 Seymour Avenue.
Dispatcher: 2207 Seymour. Looks like you're calling me from 2210.
Caller: Huh?
Dispatcher: Looks like you're calling me from 2210.
Caller: I can't hear you.
Dispatcher: Looks like you're calling me from 2210 Seymour.
Caller: I'm across the street; I'm using the phone.
Dispatcher: OK, stay there with those neighbors. Talk to police when they get there.
Caller: (Crying)
Dispatcher: OK, talk to police when they get there.
Caller: OK. Hello?
Dispatcher: OK, talk to the police when they get there.
Caller: OK (unintelligible).
Dispatcher: We're going to send them as soon as we get a car open.
Caller: No, I need them now before he gets back.
Dispatcher: All right; we're sending them, OK?
Caller: OK, I mean, like ...
Dispatcher: Who's the guy you're trying -- who's the guy who went out?
Caller: Um, his name is Ariel Castro.
Dispatcher: OK. How old is he?
Caller: He's like 52.
Dispatcher: And, uh -
Caller: I'm Amanda Berry. I've been on the news for the last 10 years.
Dispatcher: I got, I got that, dear. (Unintelligible) And, you say, what was his name again?
Caller: Uh, Ariel Castro.
Dispatcher: And is he white, black or Hispanic?
Caller: Uh, Hispanic.
Dispatcher: What's he wearing?
Caller (agitated): I don't know, 'cause he's not here right now. That's why I ran away.
Dispatcher: When he left, what was he wearing?
Caller: Who knows (unintelligible).
Dispatcher: The police are on their way; talk to them when they get there.
Caller: Huh? I - OK.
Dispatcher: I told you they're on their way; talk to them when they get there, OK.
Caller: All right, OK. Bye.

 

[OT]

Couldn't catch their names.

 

[Willy]

A fourth woman could be connected to the shocking, the FBI confirms.

Ashley Summers was a 14-year-old girl who disappeared from the same area where Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight were abducted.

Those three women were rescued on Monday about 10 years after they disappeared in a case that send shock waves around the world.

Knight was abducted in 2002, Berry in 2003 and DeJesus in 2004.

Berry went missing from the area of 110th St. and Lorain Ave. after her shift at a Burger King.

DeJesus went missing at 105th St. and Lorain Ave.

Knight was last seen at 106th St. and Lorain.

Summers went missing in 2007 from 96th St. and Madison Ave.

Here’s a map showing how close the locations of the disappearances were to the house at 2207 Seymour Ave., where the victims were held captive.

Summers was last seen on July 9, 2007.

FBI spokesperson Vicki Anderson told the Toronto Star that the disappearance of Summers has “similarities” that the FBI is investigating.

More from thestar.com:

Cleveland kidnappings: Joy and anger after kidnapped women rescued

Cleveland kidnappings suspect Ariel Castro comforted missing girl’s mom, helped search

McDonald’s reaches out to Charles Ramsey after Cleveland rescue

Ropes, chains in home where missing women found, say police

However, she said the FBI has no proof that the cases are related.

“We continue to look for Ashley,” she said. “She was a young girl too who went missing and it was from the same area.”

However, she says the FBI is holding out hope that this sensational rescue on Monday will spark more tips to the FBI.

“As we go through this process, Ashley has been in all the investigators’ minds and they are keeping their minds open. Maybe this will generate some tips for us.”

The tips are being logged and the FBI is now looking at new leads.

“We’re asking for anything regarding Ashley,” she said. “Our phones have been ringing quite a bit around here.”

“They will be asked if they have any information on Ashley,” the FBI spokesperson said.

However, the FBI is going slow with the interview process.

Since the women were abducted as teens and held captive for about 10 years, it’s not known yet what condition their mental health is in.

“We are very concerned for their mental well-being. They are being interviewed by someone that specializes in interviewing children, even though they are adults,” Anderson said.

Summers lived with her great-uncle, but she left after an argument, taking all her clothes with her.

However, she called her mother a month later and said she was OK and not to worry.

In November of that year, Ashley’s step-grandmother believes she saw Ashley in a car. Her hair had been cut and was dyed blond.

The car disappeared before the step-grandmother could turn the car she was driving around.

In October, 2009 the featured the stories of the missing Cleveland girls, including Summers.

The FBI also hopes the three women rescued from the west Cleveland house may have some answers.

 

[Trolling]

Get this, the marketing folks at Mickey-D’s noticed that Charles Ramsey mentioned that he was eating some McDonalds on two separate occasions as the story unfolds regarding the kidnapping and rape of 3 women in the Cleveland area.

The fast food giant has shamelessly made it known that they will be reaching out to Mr Ramsey soon. Umm, trying to grab a piece of the publicity are they?

Is it just me, or did anyone else notice that McDonalds has been mentioned repeatedly in this story, but with a more negative connotation? Think about it, the 3 girls that were kidnapped were reportedly suffering from malnutrition. It has already been reported that between the 3 of them, they suffered at least 5 miscarriages due to malnutrition.

It has also been reported by neighbors that Ariel Castro (one of the accused kidnappers) would often come home during the middle of the day with a large bag of McDonalds food and go into the house and then come out later and go back to work.

If the kidnappers fed the women a lot of McDonalds and the women were suffering from malnutrition…hmmm, what can one deduce from this? Just sayin.

 

[God]

REMIX..We new this was going to come out soon.

 

[Stan Lee]

[h=2]Charles Ramsey: Amanda Berry’s rescuer did jail time[/h]
LOS ANGELES-Charles Ramsey, the Cleveland dishwasher who became an overnight sensation for his street-wise poise under the media spotlight after helping ordeal, has won a shout-out from McDonald’s and legions of fans on social media.

Ariel Castro appears in court

Ramsey responded to cries from Amanda Berry and helped get her away from a neighbour’s house on Monday. He also got on the phone with emergency responders, actions that police say led to the rescue of two other women and a child from the home and could earn Ramsey reward money.

Ramsey, 43, has had brushes with the law in the past.

In 1993, he was convicted of receiving stolen property and received a one-year prison sentence, said JoEllen Smith, spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Corrections. In 2003, he was convicted of domestic violence, for which he served a nine-month sentence, she said.

A court document from the 2003 case posted on the news website The Smoking Gun said Ramsey was arrested in Cleveland after assaulting his wife and that he had prior domestic violence convictions.

The woman, who is listed on Facebook as Rochelle Paschal and also by the last name Dukes, told The Smoking Gun she was now on an “okay basis” with Ramsey but that the abuse led her to file for divorce from him in 2003 while he was in prison.

Paschal did not respond to a Facebook message seeking comment, and she could not be reached by telephone.

On her Facebook page on Wednesday, Paschal wrote that people “do change and you shouldn’t hold the past against someone.” “The (main) thing is Charles Ramsey did a good deed and those girls are safe is that not the most important thing?” she wrote.

A voice-mail system for Ramsey was full on Wednesday and he could not be reached for comment. Mitchell Yelsky, who was Ramsey’s attorney in the 2003 case, said he remembered him as a “great guy to work for.”

“And now he’s Cleveland’s hero and he’s the hero of these three women and the child, so whatever he did in the past he’s redeemed for his heroic actions on Monday,” Yelsky said. He did not elaborate on details of the case.

Ramsey’s interview on Monday evening with local television reporters propelled him into the spotlight and was given the auto-tune treatment—when speech is digitally given a melody—with a backing music track, in a parody video that has been seen over 400,000 times on YouTube.

In the same interview, Ramsey mentioned he was eating a McDonald’s burger when he heard Berry’s screams, which led the restaurant chain to say in a tweet on Tuesday, “Way to go Charles Ramsey—we’ll be in touch.”

In interviews with ABC and CNN, Ramsey said he was not a hero. He told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Tuesday he was “having trouble sleeping” at the thought of having been a neighbour to Ariel Castro, who is accused of holding the three women and a child captive inside his house.

“See, up until yesterday, the only thing that kept me from losing sleep was the lack of money,” Ramsey said.

Ramsey was the first person cast into the spotlight, but another neighbour of Ariel Castro, Angel Cordero, said in television interviews that he was the first one, not Ramsey, to arrive at the door in response to Berry’s screams.

“I pulled the door but it was locked with a chain, so I tried to open the door but I couldn’t, so I had to give it a few kicks,” he told CNN in Spanish.

Hodge’s restaurant, where Ramsey works as a dishwasher, produced a printed T-shirt featuring his face and the words “Cleveland’s Hero,” with the proceeds dedicated to the three kidnapped women.

The interest in the shirt, sold over the restaurant’s website, caused the site to crash on Wednesday, said the owner, Scott Kuhn. Kuhn said Ramsey had worked there for 10 months, adding he was a “character and he can get you to laugh, and I love that.”

Ramsey’s father, Charles Ramsey, 75, said in a phone interview that his son in coming to the aid of Berry had acted out the values of helping others that he instilled in him.

“I’m very proud and I’m also not surprised,” the elder Ramsey said.

In the 1990s, Ramsey served in the Army for four years, his father said. Ramsey’s family declined to comment on his past arrests.

Robert Thompson, who lectures on pop culture at Syracuse University, said Ramsey’s sudden fame, while it might distract from the suffering of the three women, was unavoidable in the digital age.

McDonald’s received some criticism for its public support for Ramsey.

“The idea of kind of going after a breaking news, I don’t know, product endorsement while the news is still breaking, yeah I think there are a lot of people who would consider that kind of crass,” Thompson said.

Asked about such criticism, McDonald’s spokeswoman Danya Proud said in a statement that “out of respect for the victims involved, as well as Mr. Ramsey, both McDonald’s and the local franchisees will personally be reaching out to Mr. Ramsey directly as we said we would in our tweet.”

Officials were still discussing how to distribute the reward money for the missing women, Cleveland deputy police chief Ed Tomba told reporters on Wednesday.

“Mr. Ramsey deserves something, a lot of credit and he is a true key to this case,” Tomba said.

 

[Cardinal Fang]

This is truly sickening. The well known psychic Sylvia Browne was on the Montel Williams show in 2004 and she told one of the girl's mother that her daughter was dead.

"Browne announced the death of Amanda Berry in 2004, when she appeared on Williams' show to tell Berry's mother, Louwana Miller, that her daughter was "in heaven and on the other side" and that her last words were "goodbye, mom, I love you". Miller would die a year later, of heart failure."

https://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/07/sylvia-browne-amanda-berry-cleveland

 

[oldguyzer]

This is truly sickening. The well known psychic Sylvia Browne was on the Montel Williams show in 2004 and she told one of the girl's mother that her daughter was dead.

Wait...you're not implying <gasp> that psychics are not real??????

 

[Cardinal Fang]

I knew you were going to post that.

</psychic>

 

[Anto]

[h=1]Charles Ramsey: ‘Take That Reward and Give it to’ The Kidnap Victims[/h]
The dude is for real. Nice gesture.



Second interview.