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May 8, 2013, 1:02 PM
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Three women who were missing for up to a decade are found.
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Missing Women Found
Elida Caraballo
Elida Caraballo talks about the abuse her late sister, Grimilda Figueroa, suffered at the hands of her common law husband, Ariel Castro, during an interview at her home in Cleveland Thursday, May 9, 2013. Castro has been charged with kidnapping and rape for holding three women captive for a decade in his Cleveland home. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)
AP Photo/Mark Duncan
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This image provided by the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's office shows the Cuyahoga County Corrections Center booking photo of Ariel Castro, 52, after he was ordered to be held on $8 million bail Thursday, May 9, 2013, in Cleveland. Castro, a former school bus driver, is accused of imprisoning three young women and beating them repeatedly over a decade in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Cuyahoga County)
AP Photo/Cuyahoga County
Law enforcement officials gather evidence at the crime scene where three women were held captive in Cleveland, Ohio, Thursday, May 9, 2013. Ariel Castro, a 52-year-old former school bus driver, is being held on $8 million bail under a suicide watch in jail, where he is charged with rape and kidnapping for allegedly abducting three women and holding them captive in his home for a decade. (AP Photo/David Duprey)
AP Photo/David Duprey
Law enforcement officials gather evidence at the crime scene where three women were held captive in Cleveland, Ohio, Thursday, May 9, 2013. Ariel Castro, a 52-year-old former school bus driver, is being held on $8 million bail under a suicide watch in jail, where he is charged with rape and kidnapping for allegedly abducting three women and holding them captive in his home for a decade. (AP Photo/David Duprey)
AP Photo/David Duprey
A welcome home sign is posted at a restaurant near a crime scene where three women were held captive for a decade in Cleveland, Ohio, Thursday, May 9, 2013. Castro, a 52-year-old former school bus driver, is charged with rape and kidnapping for allegedly abducting three women and holding them captive in his home. (AP Photo/David Duprey)
AP Photo/David Duprey
Elida Caraballo
Elida Caraballo, right, talks about the abuse her late sister, Grimilda Figueroa, suffered at the hands of her common law husband, Ariel Castro, during an interview with her husband, Frank, at their home in Cleveland Thursday, May 9, 2013. Castro has been charged with kidnapping and rape for holding three women captive for a decade in his Cleveland home. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)
AP Photo/Mark Duncan
Elida Caraballo
Elida Caraballo talks about the abuse her late sister, Grimilda Figueroa, suffered at the hands of her common law husband, Ariel Castro, during an interview at her home in Cleveland Thursday, May 9, 2013. Castro has been charged with kidnapping and rape for holding three women captive for a decade in his Cleveland home. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)
AP Photo/Mark Duncan
Missing Women Castros Ex Relatives
In this undated photo provided by Elida Caraballo, her sister, Grimilda Figueroa, is shown with two of her children, Ryan, left, and Rosie. Figueroa, who died last year, was the common law wife of Ariel Castro, accused of kidnapping and holding three women captive for a decade in his Cleveland home. (AP Photo/Elida Caraballo)
AP Photo/Elida Caraballo
Residents listen to speeches before releasing balloons in support of the three women found in a house on Seymour Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio, Thursday, May 9, 2013. Prosecutors said Thursday they may seek the death penalty against Ariel Castro, the man accused of imprisoning three women at his home for a decade, as police charged that he impregnated one of his captives at least five times and made her miscarry by starving her and punching her in the belly. (AP Photo/David Duprey)
AP Photo/David Duprey
Residents listen to speeches before releasing balloons in support of the three women found in a house on Seymour Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio, Thursday, May 9, 2013. Prosecutors said Thursday they may seek the death penalty against Ariel Castro, the man accused of imprisoning three women at his home for a decade, as police charged that he impregnated one of his captives at least five times and made her miscarry by starving her and punching her in the belly. (AP Photo/David Duprey)
AP Photo/David Duprey
Keith Sulzer
City of Cleveland Police Commander Kieth Sulzer speaks during a community meeting in the neighborhood near the crime scene where three women were found in Cleveland, Ohio, Thursday, May 9, 2013. Prosecutors said Thursday they may seek the death penalty against Ariel Castro, the man accused of imprisoning three women at his home for a decade, as police charged that he impregnated one of his captives at least five times and made her miscarry by starving her and punching her in the belly. (AP Photo/David Duprey)
AP Photo/David Duprey
Ariel Castro, Kathleen DeMetz
Defense attorney Kathleen DeMetz, left, addresses the court as Ariel Castro signs papers in Cleveland Municipal court Thursday, May 9, 2013, in Cleveland. Castro was charged with four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape after three women missing for about a decade and one of their young daughters were found alive at his home earlier in the week. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
AP Photo/Tony Dejak
Ariel Castro, Kathleen DeMetz
Ariel Castro, left, appears in Cleveland Municipal court alongside defense attorney Kathleen DeMetz Thursday, May 9, 2013, in Cleveland. Castro was charged with four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape after three women missing for about a decade and one of their young daughters were found alive at his home earlier in the week. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
AP Photo/Tony Dejak
Ariel Castro
Ariel Castro, left, talks with public defender Kathleen DeMetz during his arraignment in Cleveland Municipal court Thursday, May 9, 2013, in Cleveland. Ariel Castro was charged with four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape. Ariel Castro was charged while his brothers, Pedro and Onil Castro, were held but faced no immediate charges. (AP Photo/David Duprey)
AP Photo/David Duprey
Ariel Castro
Ariel Castro looks down during his arraignment in Cleveland Municipal court Thursday, May 9, 2013, in Cleveland. Ariel Castro was charged with four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape. Ariel Castro was charged while his brothers, Pedro and Onil Castro, were held but faced no immediate charges. (AP Photo/David Duprey)
AP Photo/David Duprey
Ariel Castro
Ariel Castro, left, talks with public defender Kathleen DeMetz during his arraignment in Cleveland Municipal court Thursday, May 9, 2013, in Cleveland. Ariel Castro was charged with four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape. Ariel Castro was charged while his brothers, Pedro and Onil Castro, were held but faced no immediate charges. (AP Photo/David Duprey)
AP Photo/David Duprey
Hannah Berry, Harley Berry, Christina Milton, Curtis Berry
Curtis Berry, second from right, watches a televised report of the rescue of his niece, Amanda Berry, in Elizabethton, Tenn., on Wednesday, May 8, 2013. Amanda Berry is one of three women who were rescued from a Cleveland home on Monday after they went missing separately about a decade ago, when they were in their teens or early 20s. Amanda Berry's cousins, Christina Milton, 8, left; Harley Berry, 9, third from right; and Hannah Berry, 8, right; also watch. (AP Photo/Patrick Murphey-Racey)
AP Photo/Patrick Murphey-Racey
Missing Women Found
Ismail Figueroa, whose daughter was with Ariel Castro for years and had four children with him, explains why he wasn't surprised by Castro's arrest this week on suspicion of imprisoning three women in his house for a decade, on Wednesday, May 8, 2013, in Cleveland. Figueroa, 75, says Castro regularly locked his daughter inside an apartment when they were first together years ago and wouldn't let her leave. (AP Photo/Andrew Welsh-Huggins)
AP Photo/Andrew Welsh-Huggins
Missing Women Found
Angel Villanueva discusses the difficulty his late sister-in-law, Grimilda Figueroa, had leaving the father of her children and why he wasn't surprised to hear of the arrest this week of the man, Ariel Castro, on charges of imprisoning three women in his house for a decade, on Wednesday, May 8, 2013, in Cleveland. Villanueva, 47, said Castro wouldn't let anyone visit Grimilda and wouldn't let her go anywhere without him. (AP Photo/Andrew Welsh-Huggins)
AP Photo/Andrew Welsh-Huggins
Pastor Larry Harris, center, leads a prayer vigil near the home where three women held captive for a decade, in Cleveland, Ohio, Wednesday, May 8, 2013. The miraculous rescue of three missing women held captive for about a decade at a run-down Cleveland house has given hope to many families whose loved ones have vanished. Yet hope, when searching for a long-lost child, can be a dangerous thing. (AP Photo/David Duprey)
AP Photo/David Duprey
Gina DeJesus
Gina DeJesus, one of three women held captive for about a decade at a run-down Cleveland house, gives a thumbs-up as she is escorted toward her home Wednesday, May 8, 2013, in Cleveland. The miraculous rescue of the three missing women has given hope to many families whose loved ones have vanished. Yet hope, when searching for a long-lost child, can be a dangerous thing. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
AP Photo/Tony Dejak
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Beth Serrano, sister of Amanda Berry, speaks to the media after the arrival of Berry at Serrano's home Wednesday, May 8, 2013, in Cleveland. Berry, 27, Michelle Knight, 32, and Gina DeJesus, about 23, had apparently been held captive in the house since their teens or early 20s, police said.(AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
AP Photo/Tony Dejak
Beth Serrano
Beth Serrano, sister of Amanda Berry, speaks to the media after the arrival of Berry at Serrano's home Wednesday, May 8, 2013, in Cleveland. Berry, 27, Michelle Knight, 32, and Gina DeJesus, had apparently been held captive in the house since their teens or early 20s, police said.(AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
AP Photo/Tony Dejak
Residents on Seymour Street take photos from a second floor window during a prayer vigil near the home where three women were found in Cleveland Wednesday, May 8, 2013. A 911 call led police to a house near downtown Cleveland where the women, who disappeared over several years, were found. (AP Photo/David Duprey)
AP Photo/David Duprey
Missing Women Found
People hug after Gina DeJesus returned home Wednesday, May 8, 2013, in Cleveland. The three women held captive for about a decade at a run-down Cleveland house were apparently bound with ropes and chains, police said Wednesday, while charges were expected by the end of the day against the three brothers under arrest. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
AP Photo/Tony Dejak
Missing Women Found
Spectators watch as Gina DeJesus arrives home Wednesday, May 8, 2013, in Cleveland. The three women held captive for about a decade at a run-down Cleveland house were apparently bound with ropes and chains, police said Wednesday, while charges were expected by the end of the day against the three brothers under arrest. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
AP Photo/Tony Dejak
Missing Women Found
Neighborhood residents crowd the streets for the arrival of Gina DeJesus Wednesday, May 8, 2013, in Cleveland. DeJesus was one of three women held captive for about a decade at a run-down Cleveland house. Kidnapping and rape charges were filed Wednesday against the man arrested after the women missing were found alive at his home. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
AP Photo/Tony Dejak
Nancy Ruiz
Nancy Ruiz, mother of Gina, speaks to the media after bringing her daughter home Wednesday, May 8, 2013, in Cleveland. DeJesus was one of three women held captive for about a decade at a run-down Cleveland house. Kidnapping and rape charges were filed Wednesday against the man arrested after the missing women were found alive at his home. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
AP Photo/Tony Dejak
John Berry
John Berry poses with a photo of his daughter, Amanda Berry, outside his home in Elizabethton, Tenn., on Wednesday, May 8, 2013. Amanda Berry is one of three women who were rescued from a Cleveland home on Monday after they went missing separately about a decade ago, when they were in their teens or early 20s. (AP Photo/Patrick Murphey-Racey)
AP Photo/Patrick Murphey-Racey
Victor Perez
Cleveland prosecutor Victor Perez speaks during a news conference at Public Hall in Cleveland, Ohio, Wednesday, May 8, 2013. Authorities filed rape and kidnapping charges Wednesday against a man after three women missing for about a decade were found alive at his home. (AP Photo/David Duprey)
AP Photo/David Duprey
Edward Tomba
Cleveland Deputy Chief of Police Edward Tomba speaks during a news conference at Public Hall in Cleveland, Ohio, Wednesday, May 8, 2013. Authorities filed rape and kidnapping charges Wednesday against a man after three women missing for about a decade were found alive at his home. (AP Photo/David Duprey)
AP Photo/David Duprey
John Berry
John Berry, father of Amanda Berry, talks while sitting in a car outside his home in Elizabethton, Tenn., on Wednesday, May 8, 2013. Amanda Berry is one of three women who were rescued from a Cleveland home on Monday after they went missing separately about a decade ago, when they were in their teens or early 20s. (AP Photo/Patrick Murphey-Racey)
AP Photo/Patrick Murphey-Racey
Christina Milton, Amanda Berry
Christina Milton, 8, left, shows a piece of artwork she made from a photo of her cousin, Amanda Berry, that she cut out of a missing person poster in Elizabethton, Tenn., on Wednesday, May 8, 2013. Another cousin, Haley Berry, 9, looks over her shoulder. Amanda Berry is one of three women who were rescued from a Cleveland home on Monday after they went missing separately about a decade ago, when they were in their teens or early 20s. (AP Photo/Patrick Murphey-Racey)
AP Photo/Patrick Murphey-Racey
Hannah Berry, Harley Berry
Hannah Berry, 8, right, works on a piece of artwork made from a photo of her cousin, Amanda Berry, that she cut out of a missing person poster, in Elizabethton, Tenn., on Wednesday, May 8, 2013. Another cousin, Harley Berry, 9, is at left. Amanda Berry is one of three women who were rescued from a Cleveland home on Monday after they went missing separately about a decade ago, when they were in their teens or early 20s. (AP Photo/Patrick Murphey-Racey)
AP Photo/Patrick Murphey-Racey
Curtis Berry
Curtis Berry watches televised coverage of the rescue of his niece, Amanda Berry, on Wednesday, May 8, 2013, in Elizabethton, Tenn. Amanda Berry is one of three women who were rescued from a Cleveland home on Monday after they went missing separately about a decade ago, when they were in their teens or early 20s. (AP Photo/Patrick Murphey-Racey)
AP Photo/Patrick Murphey-Racey
Hannah Berry, Harley Berry, Christina Milton, Curtis Berry
Curtis Berry, second from right, watches a televised report of the rescue of his niece, Amanda Berry, in Elizabethton, Tenn., on Wednesday, May 8, 2013. Amanda Berry is one of three women who were rescued from a Cleveland home on Monday after they went missing separately about a decade ago, when they were in their teens or early 20s. Amanda Berry's cousins, Christina Milton, 8, left; Harley Berry, 9, third from right; and Hannah Berry, 8, right; also watch. (AP Photo/Patrick Murphey-Racey)
AP Photo/Patrick Murphey-Racey
Missing Women Found
A collection of celebratory balloons and stuffed animals crowds the entrance to the home of the sister of Amanda Berry on Tuesday, May 7, 2013, one of three women found alive in a house a few miles away after disappearing years earlier, in a west side Cleveland, Ohio neighborhood. Many people who dropped off balloons said they didn't know Berry personally but wanted to celebrate her safe return. (AP Photo/Andrew Welsh-Huggins)
AP Photo/Andrew Welsh-Huggins
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Neighbor Charles Ramsey speaks to media near the home on the 2200 block of Seymour Avenue, where three missing women were rescued in Cleveland, on Monday, May 6, 2013. Cheering crowds gathered on the street where police said Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michele Knight, who went missing about a decade ago and were found earlier in the day. (AP Photo/The Plain Dealer, Scott Shaw) MANDATORY CREDIT CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER
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Satellite map shows where the three women went missing, where they were held captive and where they were rescued
Missing Women Found
Members of the FBI evidence response team carry out the front screen door from a house Tuesday, May 7, 2013, where three women were held, in Cleveland. Three women who disappeared a decade ago were found safe Monday, and police arrested three brothers accused of holding the victims against their will. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
AP Photo/Tony Dejak
Missing Women Found
An SUV is towed from a house Tuesday, May 7, 2013, where three women were held in Cleveland. Three women who disappeared in Cleveland a decade ago were found safe Monday, and police arrested three brothers accused of holding the victims against their will. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
AP Photo/Tony Dejak
Missing Women Found
Members of the FBI evidence response team carry out evidence from a house Tuesday, May 7, 2013, where three women who vanished a decade ago were held, in Cleveland. The women were found safe Monday, and police arrested three brothers accused of holding the victims against their will. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
AP Photo/Tony Dejak
Missing Women Found
A truck is pulled out a driveway from a house Tuesday, May 7, 2013, where three women who vanished a decade ago were held, in Cleveland. The women were found safe Monday, and police arrested three brothers accused of holding the victims against their will. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
AP Photo/Tony Dejak
Missing Women Found
A member of the FBI evidence response team carries out evidence from a house Tuesday, May 7, 2013, where three women who vanished a decade ago were held, in Cleveland. The women were found safe Monday, and police arrested three brothers accused of holding the victims against their will. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
AP Photo/Tony Dejak
Missing Women Found
John Ryan the CEO for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, speaks about the missing women found in Cleveland at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children annual Hope Awards in Washington, Tuesday, May 7, 2013. Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight were rescued Monday from a Cleveland house. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
AP Photo/Cliff Owen
Missing Women Found
John Walsh, co-founder of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, speaks at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children annual Hope Awards in Washington, Tuesday, May 7, 2013, about the missing women found in Cleveland. Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight were rescued from a Cleveland home on May 6.. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
AP Photo/Cliff Owen
Elizabeth Smart
Elizabeth Smart looks on before an interview Tuesday, May 7, 2013, in Park City, Utah. Smart said she's elated to hear about three Cleveland women who escaped Monday after they disappeared a decade ago. Smart was kidnapped from her bedroom in Salt Lake City when she was 14. She was freed nine months later when she was found walking with her captor on a suburban street in March 2003. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
AP Photo/Rick Bowmer
Elizabeth Smart
Elizabeth Smart plays with her dog following an interview Tuesday, May 7, 2013, in Park City, Utah. Smart said she's elated to hear about three Cleveland women who escaped Monday after they disappeared a decade ago."I am so overjoyed, so happy to hear another happy ending," Smart said Tuesday on ABC's "Good Morning America", adding that the escape is proof families and victims should not give up hope. Smart was kidnapped from her bedroom in Salt Lake City when she was 14. She was freed nine months later when she was found walking with her captor on a suburban street in March 2003. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
AP Photo/Rick Bowmer
Jaycee Dugard
FILE - This Aug. 27, 2009 file family photo provided by Carl Probyn shows his stepdaughter, Jaycee Lee Dugard, who went missing in 1991. The California couple charged with kidnapping and raping Jaycee Dugard and holding her captive for 18 years are due back in court Thursday, April 7, 2011, as prosecutors and defense lawyers continue talks on a possible plea deal. Dugard was abducted in June 1991 on her way to school in South Lake Tahoe. Then 11, she was held for 18 years by Phillip and Nancy Garrido. She was raped repeatedly by Garrido and gave birth to two daughters. Dugard was freed after she and her two children appeared in public with Phillip Garrido and a police interrogation revealed her identity. Convicted of kidnapping and rape, Garrido was sentenced to 431 years in prison and his wife 36 years to life. (AP Photo/Carl Probyn, File)
AP Photo/Carl Probyn, File
Jaycee Dugard, Terry Probyn
Jaycee Dugard, who was abducted as a child and held for eighteen years, right, and her mother Terry Probyn appear with their Hope Award at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children annual Hope Awards in Washington, Tuesday, May 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
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