“That was the last we heard of anything,” Serrano said. But Castro never used Berry’s phone again. “We spent about a week, around the clock, in that area, hoping that this phone would be used again,” FBI agent Tim Kolonik said. With that information, they were able to narrow down that her phone had been used within a thirty to forty block area. In 2003, the FBI was just starting to develop technology that could track a cell phone’s location if it was turned on. “He called and said, ‘I have Mandy,’ which, nobody called her Mandy but who knew her,” said Beth Serrano, Berry’s sister. “Going to sleep at night, you know, if you wanted to toss on to your back, you couldn’t do that, you would have to take the whole chain and move it to the front of your stomach so that you're not laying on the big lock on your back.” One week after Amanda Berry’s abduction, Castro calls her familyīerry was missing for a week when her family received a late-night call from Castro, who taunted them using Berry’s cell phone. “It was really hard, you know, because in the beginning, the chain was around my stomach,” Berry said. On the fourth day of her abduction, April 24, 2003, Berry said Castro moved her to an upstairs bedroom and chained her to a radiator. As long as you fight, I’m going to fight,’” Berry said. And I said, ‘You know what, I’m going to make it home to you. I didn’t think that I was going to ever make it home.” April 24, 2003: Day 4 of Amanda Berry’s CaptivityĪs news of her abduction made headlines, Berry watched her mother and sister on the TV in the basement. “I was so scared that I was going to die. “I just started screaming and crying… ‘Somebody please help me,’ you know. And I’ll take you home.’”īerry said Castro chained her to a pole, shut off the lights and left her in the dark with a television on. “He put a helmet over my head, and he said, ‘Just be quiet and don’t make any noise. “He took me to the basement and he taped my wrists and he taped my ankles and he put on a belt around my ankles over the tape,” Berry said. And from there I knew, like, this was not going to be good.” “And he took me in there, and he told me to pull down my pants. “He took me to the next bedroom, and it was just really dark in there, and he didn’t turn on the lights, and there was a little, like, a little room off of the bigger bedroom, kind of a big closet,” Berry said. Berry’s memories of what happened next are still raw. She later learned that the woman was Michelle Knight, who was abducted by Castro at 21 and had been held by him for almost a year. You need to check the availability of the drama series on Netfix in your respective regions.ĭon’t miss out on ET Prime stories! Get your daily dose of business updates on WhatsApp.Castro took Berry upstairs and showed her something strange: a mystery woman sleeping in a bedroom in front of a television set. However, it is not available to watch on Netflix UK at present. The crime drama was recently added to Netflix, where you can watch it without any additional cost (if you have already subscribed). Within one month, Castro committed suicide in the prison cell. Then, Castro was arrested and charged of sentenced to life imprisonment. In 2013, Berry managed to inform Castro's neighbours, which led her to escape and inform the police. Knight told the police that she gave birth to a daughter in 2006. Castro's third victim was Georgina Lynn DeJesus, aged 14, who disappeared on 2 April 2004.Ĭastro was physically, emotionally, and sexually abused all these women as he confined them in locked bedrooms. The first victim Michelle Knight was abducted on 23 August 2002, whereas the second victim Amanda Marie Berry went missing on 21 April 2003, just the day before her 17th birthday. Castro was 52 during the time of his arrest. Ariel Castro, a resident of 2207 Seymour Avenue, abducted his victims – three women by offering them a ride, luring them inside, and then restraining them in his basement.
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