Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings

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Meyer, Tom (May 9, 2013). "Investigator: Amanda Berry delivered baby in plastic pool". WKYC. Archived from the original on June 15, 2013 . Retrieved May 14, 2013. Michelle Knight -- now known as Lily Rose Lee -- captured the world's attention in May 2013, when she and two fellow kidnapping victims were found and freed after being held for more than a decade by notorious Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro. FOX 8 News Cleveland (April 25, 2019), Amanda Berry and Charles Ramsey reunited for the first time , retrieved April 26, 2019 {{ citation}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ( link) Knight dropped out of school after becoming pregnant. She had a son, whom she named Joey. When the boy was a toddler, an injury — possibly caused by an abusive boyfriend of her mother's — led to his being taken away from Knight and placed in foster care. Kidnapping and Captivity A horrifying story rapidly unfolded. Ariel Castro, a local school bus driver, had separately lured Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight to his home, where he kept them chained. In the decade that followed, the three were raped, psychologically abused, and threatened with death. Berry had a daughter—Jocelyn—by their captor.

Knight has a cold but is doing her best in the studio. As she sings, I chat with Peggy Foley Jones, her lawyer. Jones is a former judge whose own sister was raped and murdered in her early 30s, decades ago. She thinks this is why she took on Knight's case. Since then, she has become much more than a lawyer to her. Jones says Knight has changed hugely in the past months – last summer, you could hardly get a smile out of her – but she can see problems ahead, and worries that Knight is getting involved with the wrong people. "Since Michelle came out of the house, it's been a whirlwind for her. I worry what her life will be like after this. She's pretty much a celebrity now, and when the book's over, she might well not be." Knight with her friend Mitchell, recording a charity single. Photograph: Christopher Lane for the Guardian Hui, Ann (May 9, 2013). "Who are the Castro brothers?". The Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on May 10, 2013 . Retrieved May 13, 2013.

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a b Caniglia, John (July 9, 2013). "New video: Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight, Cleveland's 3 missing women, thank you for your support". The Plain Dealer. Archived from the original on July 10, 2013 . Retrieved July 9, 2013. a b "Cleveland rescue: The mystery of 2207 Seymour Avenue". BBC. May 10, 2013. Archived from the original on May 10, 2013 . Retrieved May 14, 2013. Some of Castro's family members disowned him and denounced his actions and apologized to the victims and their families. [140] [141] [142] [143] [144] [145] [146]

Yen.com.gh recently published Paula Dietz's biography. Many people are familiar with the BTK murderer, Dennis Rader. However, the story of his ex-wife Paula Dietz goes untold. Mahoney, Jill (May 10, 2013). "Death penalty possible for alleged Cleveland kidnapper, prosecutor says". The Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on June 15, 2013 . Retrieved May 14, 2013. Alcindor, Yamiche; Leger, Donna Leinwand; Johnson, Kevin (May 7, 2013). "Reports of sex abuse, beatings inside Cleveland house". USA Today. Archived from the original on May 12, 2013 . Retrieved May 13, 2013.Michelle Knight needs "facial reconstruction" after Cleveland rescue, grandmother says". CBS News. May 10, 2013. Archived from the original on May 16, 2013 . Retrieved May 13, 2013. She lost a lot. The constant beatings, starvation, the multiple forced miscarriages that now prevent her from bearing children, the rapes at all hours of the day, her sense of self, 11 years of her life and the loss of her son. She endured so much and, as readers, we only catch a glimpse. No one can ever begin to understand what she went through. No one.

Loving and studying everything criminology, this memoir just blew my mind completely out of the water. I gave this book a high rating, not because it was a great literary work or because it was such a good story, but because Michelle Knight was an incredible young woman. This was a horrible story and at times a very difficult book to read and yet as in the stories of Louis Zamperini (Unbroken), and Amanda Lindhout, (A House in the Sky), Michelle showed amazing fortitude, hope, courage, love and forgiveness. I would like to think I could survive great hardship if need be, yet I know at my best I couldn't come close to enduring what these people did and then live to forgive the offenders. One year later: Amanda Berry's mission to find the missing". fox8.com. February 6, 2018 . Retrieved March 5, 2019. The next day we head to Cleveland's Magnetic North Studio, where Knight is recording a charity single with her 16-year-old friend, Mitchell. The taxi driver, Will, like every cabbie I meet in Cleveland, is keen to talk about Castro and his captives. He tells me that he was friends with the father of Gina DeJesus and would regularly go out looking for her. He passed Castro's house every day. "I didn't have a clue. Can you imagine? Every day I drove past." He is beating himself up about it. "You know, Castro was in a band. I actually went to see them play." It comes out like a confession. "They were pretty good. He played bass guitar." You sense the city shares a kind of collective guilt. On July 12, a Cuyahoga County grand jury returned a true bill of indictment for the remainder of the period after February 2007. It brought the total to 977 counts: 512 counts of kidnapping, 446 of rape, seven of gross sexual imposition, six of felonious assault, three of child endangerment, two of aggravated murder, and one of possession of criminal tools. [113] On July 17, Castro pleaded not guilty to the expanded indictment. [114] He faced death by lethal injection if convicted on all of the charges.

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Michelle was a young single mother when she was kidnapped by a local school bus driver named Ariel Castro. For more than a decade afterward, she endured unimaginable torture at the hand of her abductor. In 2003 Amanda Berry joined her in captivity, followed by Gina DeJesus in 2004. Their escape on May 6, 2013, made headlines around the world. Sheeran, Thomas; Coyne, John (May 7, 2013). "Police Facing Questions in 3 Women's Ohio Rescue". Associated Press. Archived from the original on May 15, 2013 . Retrieved May 13, 2013.