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WOMAN: I just want people to know
that she's still missing.

And, if anybody out there has
a heart and they know anything

that happened to Amanda,

just please pick up the phone
and call the police department.

I saved a lot of things.

And I'm not sure why.

I can't believe that I'm sitting
here talking about it.

Oh, God, I shouldn't say this.

NEWSREADER: Amanda disappeared on
her way home after leaving her job

at Burger King
on West 100th, 10th and Lorraine,

a day before her 17th birthday.

I just need to know.
It's killing me.

I need to find out what happened
with my daughter.

That story, sure,

it was probably the most important
story of my whole career.

Welcome back, everyone. Cleveland
Police are asking for your help

to find a missing 14-year-old girl.

Her name is Georgina DeJesus.

She's been missing since after
school yesterday.

I wanted to know what kind of evil
would do something like this.

Can I tell this story?
I don't think I should.

Cleveland Police detectives
and now 15 FBI agents

aggressively working
this mysterious disappearance.

Amanda Berry vanished,
seemingly into thin air.

It's a life and death thing.

Whoever got 'em,
let these two children go home.

I had no idea
that evil could be so...

..close.

Mark. My name's Bill Safos.

I was a television reporter for

many, many years.
33 years, maybe.

When my family emigrated to the US
from Greece, I was the youngest.

We bought our first TV.

I remember, you know, my brother
and I were so excited.

And my brother wanted cartoons and
things that kids watch.

But then I got used to watching
the news and trying to figure out

what they were saying and I learned
to speak English and I translated.

I told my dad what was happening.

Back then, Ohio State had a great
journalism programme,

and that's where I wanted to go

and I ended up getting a job at
the NBC station there in Columbus.

Take a look at Court Street today.
Things pretty much back to normal.

You can see most of the shops are
open,

everything as a matter of fact is
open.

'You know, I never wanted to sit in
the TV station all day long.'

They toppled buildings and destroyed
lives

and, at the same time, they
strengthened the American spirit.

We have, joining us...

'I wanted to go out and meet people
and do different things every day.'

I just loved doing it.

Until...

..the day I met Louwana Miller.

I remember sitting in the newsroom
and I saw these people, you know,

we'd get a lot of people
coming into the TV station.

So there's people coming and going
all day long.

But some, for some reason, they
caught my eye.

And I said,
"Hey, who are those people?

What's their deal?"
And the receptionist is, like,

"Oh, it's a mom whose daughter is
missing."

And right away,
within the first few minutes,

I knew it was the real deal.

That when Louwana's daughter,
Amanda, didn't come home,

that something was wrong.

Somebody has this kid
and we gotta do something now.

Amanda worked at Burger King.

And Louwana told me
Amanda never liked to walk home.

It isn't the best
of neighbourhoods,

so Louwana said she always got a
ride home

or we would tell her to wait.

But that night,
they were on the phone together

and Amanda says, "I have a ride."

She kept saying, "Amanda would have
never got in a car with a stranger.

That was her big thing.

"She would have never got in a car
with a stranger."

And I know she didn't run away,

because she had
a good life at home.

I can't see nothing.

You have to do this.

I don't know how to do it.

Just in case?

He's waiting too.

Yeah. (LAUGHS) Take it back.

(LAUGHS) What?

(INDISTINCT CHATTER CONTINUES)

I was 12 years old, it was 2003,

when she came up missing.

I looked up to her.

In school, she was, like,
as far as I know,

she was a straight A student.

And she would tutor me sometimes,

you know, with math and stuff
like that.

I would always hang out in her
bedroom

and play Super Nintendo in
her Play Station.

She loved to write music and R&B,
and she loved shoes.

She loved, like, name brand stuff,

like, you know,
just anything name brand.

I just keep hoping that

she's out there somewhere

and she'll come home.

Amanda Berry's mother has
spent days wandering about

and searching for
her 17-year-old daughter.

Trying to hang in there.

She held my feet to the fire.
She wanted it in every newscast.

"I wanna see Mandy on the news,
I want her picture...

I want people to, you know...
Cos somebody saw something.

Somebody knows something,
so put her picture on TV.

Help me. Please, help me."

I want my daughter home, man,

and if she can't come home,

I just wanna know where she's at.

Most people thought she ran away...

..even the police officer that came
that night.

So, it took a while
before they, you know,

"Hey, maybe something happened
here."

This wasn't your typical missing
person case.

There was no crime scene,
there was no witnesses.

So detectives went out and started,
well, they talked to the family,

talked to the people
at Burger King.

They talked to friends,
schoolmates,

and just tried to get as much
information as they could.

There were a lot of tips that you
have to disprove and run 'em down.

There was just nothing to 'em.

Louwana Miller sits by the phone.

It rings often,
but it's never the call she wants.

But tonight, Cleveland FBI says
a phone call to Amanda's mother

one week after her daughter's
disappearance may hold the key.

I get a phone call and it's an
unknown male

who just says that Mandy's with him
and she's all right.

So I just kept him on the phone
for as long as I could,

to see if I could hear maybe
my daughter in the background.

And then what? Then he hangs up.

When the phone call happened,

Louwana called me
and told me about it.

She's, like,
"You're not gonna believe this.

I got a phone call," she said,
"from the guy that has Mandy."

He told me not to worry about her
and she's fine.

But he called me
from her cell phone.

I remember telling her,
"Well, that's great,

because the FBI's gonna be able
to figure out where he is."

They can track that stuff.

FBI got the Chronicle people
involved

and were using equipment
that I didn't know existed.

We believed that call bounced off
one particular tower.

So what we did was, we went for
that tower

and we drew a slice of the pie,
like this.

And went and knocked at every door,
interviewed every person,

searched every vacant cemetery.

It gave me hope that,
you know what? She's alive.

She's in a house, an apartment or
location somewhere,

and that there's a chance that we
will find her.

When Louwana found out the tower
that that cell phone call hit,

she was...obsessed.

We went there, saw the tower,
we were in that neighbourhood.

Louwana told me,
"I feel my daughter, Bill.

I know she's alive
and she's somewhere close to me."

And she was so right.
She was so right.

And it's so crazy
that we were so close.

(LATIN DANCE MUSIC)

(HORN HONKS)
MAN: Hey!

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

(MUSIC CONTINUES)

I grew up around here as a kid,

pretty much my whole life,
until when I graduated.

My high school was right down the
street there.

And this was
a very, very tight-knit

predominantly Puerto Rican
neighbourhood.

So everyone pretty much knew each
other,

everybody hung out with each other.
The families all knew each other.

And it was a great place
to grow up in.

We all pretty much had each other
here.

The Castro family was one of the
first families

to come from Puerto Rico into
Cleveland.

They were well-known.

Cessi Castro, I have nothing
but the utmost respect for him.

He was
almost like a father to my father.

And I literally grew up

in that store that he owned.

So this is Cessi's store,
was Cessi's store.

That's where we would meet for
our Christmas parties.

We'd go back there, play music and
everybody hung out with each other.

Cessi Castro was Ariel Castro's
uncle.

Ariel Castro lived
literally down the street.

I mean, from the corner store
to where his house was,

I think it's half a block.

I'm sitting on this front porch
every day and I'm looking.

Puerto Rican dude
across the street.

I said, I said, "Look, sit right
here, let me talk to you."

"This dude next door,
what's his name?"

"Ariel."
"Why is his house boarded up?"

I don't see no
air conditioning unit.

it's gotta be stifling
in that house.

I'm outside dying right now, right.

He's like, "He's Puerto Rican."
"Well, you're Puerto Rican."

I go, "I see your mother
got Central Air.

Why is that house boarded up?"
"You ask too many questions."

"Is that right?"

I want to know
why he lived that way.

It was something about him that
captivated me,

but I couldn't put my
finger on it.

Tattered fliers are
all that's left to remind us

that Amanda Berry vanished
almost six months ago.

I just want people to know that
she's still missing.

If anybody out there has a heart,

and they know anything

that happened to Amanda,

just please pick up the phone
and call the police department.

Louwana was just very upset.

I mean, she would see on the news
a dog missing

and she got very upset that

the dog got that much time
on the news and Amanda didn't.

I'll never forget that.

She even called up
all the stations.

She did everything. She was very
upset with that.

I told them that I would fight

and try and put Mandy's picture
on the air as much as I can.

But if she didn't see her daughter's
picture on the 11 o'clock news,

at 11:30, my phone was ringing
and she'd be like,

"Bill, why wasn't Mandy's picture
on the news?"

And she would, like, scream and yell

but, in the middle of all this
sobbing,

crying, it was just like... (SIGHS)

So, I let her, for the next,
you know, three hours,

you know, I'd put the phone on my
pillow

and eventually I would fall asleep
and she'd still be screaming at me.

But, um, and then I'd wake up, you
know,

to go to work at 3:00am to do the
morning show

and she'd still be on the phone.

I'd be like, "OK, I gotta get to
work."

If anybody knows anything about my
daughter...

..I wish somebody would come
forward,

cos somebody out there knows
something.

After the story and the case started
to get cold,

Louwana, like any parent who never
got to see their kid again

would get frustrated and worried

and think that police and
the FBI aren't doing enough.

So, Louwana arranged for the FBI
to come to her house.

I was in the living room
when he got there and I'm like,

"Oh, my God, Louwana, I'm leaving.

I'll call you.
Call me when he leaves."

"No, Bill, you're not leaving."

And her friend was there too and
they pushed me in the bedroom

and she's like, "Lay on the floor."

And then she took the
bedspread from the bed

and just kind of like covered me up.

And the two of 'em went onto the
living room and this FBI agent's,

you know, discussing all kinds of
things that definitely are
interesting.

I wish I had a notepad.

But they must have had a list there
and they were going down,

talking about people of interest.

You know, who might end up being
suspects, or whatever.

Well, next thing I know, her friend
brought it into me and was like,

"Here." I'm like, "You guys did not
just take that from an FBI agent!"

And I'm like, "Oh, my God, they're
gonna get me in trouble

for interfering with this guy's
official business."

And, um... But, of course,
I was like, I'm like, looking.

And that's the list that Louwana and
I started looking at

and those are the people we started
spying on,

doing our own surveillance.

There were all sorts of people,

there were sex offenders in the
neighbourhood, drug dealers...

After going through that whole list,
she wasn't satisfied,

but she wasn't as upset that they
weren't finding anything,

because we weren't finding
anything either.

Thank you all very much for being
here. I appreciate it.

She was determined to get her
daughter home. No, she didn't care.

She thought they weren't gonna do
it, she was gonna do it herself.

And, um...

If she wasn't gonna do it herself,
she was gonna make me do it.

But, uh, and somehow, I listened to
her,

because it was the right
thing to do.

Not the right thing here, but the
right thing here, it was. It was.

She could rely on him
for everything, always.

And so, she goes, "Let's go shop."
And I said, "OK", I said,

"What do you wanna do?" She goes,

"I wanna buy Bill
a nice shirt and tie."

She's like, "It's a blue shirt and
a tie and I want you to wear it,

the day Mandy comes home."

And I said, "OK."

(NEWS JINGLE)

Welcome back, everyone.

Cleveland Police are asking for
your help tonight,

to find a missing 14-year-old girl.

Here is her picture.
Her name is Georgina DeJesus.

The teen's family says she's been
missing

since after school yesterday
and does not...

I was shocked, it was another girl,
the same neighbourhood,

the same body type,
it just seemed like the same story.

But exactly almost to the day,
a year later.

She does not have
a history of running away.

She goes by the name Gina.

Please call Cleveland Police,
if you've seen her.

Right away, I just got
this horrible feeling that...

..this might be related to Amanda.

It started out as a beautiful day
for me, you know, same routine.

I woke up, I gave her a hug and a
kiss, told her I loved her,

she left with her father that
took her to school in the morning.

At 2:30, three o'clock,
she didn't come home.

So I was, "Wait a minute, let me
give her 30 minutes,

cos maybe she stopped.

She's probably joking around with
the other kids and that,"

which would be a normal routine for
her.

But, when I noticed 30 minutes went
by,

that's when I got really worried,

because she should have had been
home.

My mom was like, "There's something
going on."

"Mom, what are you talking about?"
She's like, "Gina isn't home yet."

I'm like, "She probably went to
her friend's house."

"No, it's too late,
I've called her friends.

No-one has seen her.

Mayra, something's wrong."

I drove back to the school, I must
have searched

for at least a good hour.

Didn't see nothing.
Nobody's around.

Got back in the car, went back to
the house.

Right there and then I started
feeling Gina's in a lot of trouble.

Another emotional day, as a family
hopes for the safe return of

their 14-year-old daughter.

Searching for Gina, after she
disappears without a trace.

You know, she left school, she
walked to her friend,

they wanted to have a sleepover,

at least get together after school,
they went to a pay phone.

The friend left.

And Gina was last seen walking
eastbound on Lorraine.

That's what we knew.

We went over the area, there's
cameras everywhere.

Closed down all four streets

of that whole area on Fitz and
Lorraine,

which is kind of a big, busy area.

And then let the dog do his thing,

and the dog went to the pay phone
in the exact location,

where we knew she last was
and nothing after that.

Hundreds of people,
including Gina's family,

met at this phone booth on
West 105th and Lorraine Avenue,

for a candlelight vigil and prayer.

This is the last place Gina
was seen on Friday.

Her friend, Arlene Castro, was with
her before they parted ways.

The last thing she said to me was,
"You owe me 50 cents."

Felix, her father, got the rest of
my children together

and two of my nephews, part of his
family.

They were literally looking into
dumpsters for my daughter.

Didn't sleep, didn't eat.

I wasn't thinking of none of that.

My days went where I wanted to get
and find my daughter.

I wanted my daughter home.

Oh!

(LAUGHS)

Oh, yeah.

I think
I didn't do my job very well.

This is for who?

As a protector,

I put it on my fault that
this happened to my child.

I felt that I, right there
and then, that I have failed.

I'm sitting in the editorial
meetings and somebody said,

"Oh, there's another missing girl.
Who wants to cover it?"

This one is on the west
side of Cleveland.

They gave a little bit
of background on it

and then they said
her name was "Gina DeJesus".

"Hm, that sounds Puerto Rican." So
I say, "Hey, I'll take the story,"

because I felt that me being
Puerto Rican would maybe help them

feel a little bit more comfortable.

So I went over, and Nancy does
the interview and she goes,

"My daughter did not run away."

I said, "What? Are you sure?"

She goes, "Yeah. Why would she run
away?" She had no issues with us.

There's no way
my daughter ran away."

In my heart, I know she's still out
there and, in my heart,

I think, maybe, going with
the mother's intuition...

..I couldn't feel her being gone.

I would tell Nancy, like,
"Are you sure she's not dead?"

She goes, "Nope, my daughter's not
dead. I know my daughter's alive.

I would feel it
if my daughter was dead.

Somebody has her.
Somebody has her."

And we still have the hope that she
is gonna walk through our door.

If by chance, if she can see this,
I just tell her,

just to keep her faith

and that we will find her
and she will be coming home.

I watched the news
to see my parents on there.

My name is Janet DeJesus.

My mom and dad's named Nancy and
Felix.

It helped, seeing my parents on TV,

so I would cry sometimes

and then I'd be like,

"They're still out there."

It gave me hope and I think
that's what really kept me going.

That day,
I'd get up like a normal day.

School was let out at, like, 2:30,
and I had my bus money,

but sometimes I liked to just walk
home with my friends.

And I was like,
"You wanna come over and hang out?"

She's like,
"I have to call my mom."

So I gave her 50 cents to call
her mom

and she asked her mom
and she said no.

And she went one way,
I went the opposite way.

Her dad was, I guess, watching us

and he looked up and asked me
if I'd seen his daughter.

He asked me if I'd help him
find her and I said, "OK."

I finally got a little nervous, cos
he didn't turn around,

but then he said, he needed
to get something from his house.

I was like, "OK." And I was like,
I guess in my own way,

tried to convince myself that, "No,
I know him, he's my friend's dad.

He knows my parents."

So I didn't really
think nothing of it.

Well, he asked me to help him bring
out the speaker

and he just closed the door.

Turned out to be the basement and
he told me that I couldn't go home.

My own thing was to try to get out
of the house

and get back home to my parents.

And I was trying to figure out how
to like, undo the lock,

but I couldn't, because my hands
was tied and my mouth was taped.

I don't wanna talk about
what he did to me.

I don't wanna go there.

Tomorrow night at 9:00pm,

the entire nation will get a chance
to join the hunt for Gina DeJesus.

The 14-year-old's disappearance
will be featured on

Fox's America's Most Wanted.

Meanwhile, local law enforcement
authorities and the FBI

continue to search for signs of
the teen.

It was bad,
but it went from bad to worse,

because you're also dealing...

You're only human and you're also
dealing with your own community

and, you know, when you go
to church or go to the store,

you see that sign up and you're
like,

"What happened? What's going on?"

So it... Not only as a policeman,
you have to do your job,

but now you're dealing with
somebody from your community.

Literally, I mean,
I knew her father Felix many years

and, um...

Yeah, it takes more of a toll on
you as a person from the community.

It doesn't mean another policeman
from another city doesn't care,

what I'm saying is you're dealing
with somebody from your community.

From your nationality. Your people.

And it takes major... It takes a
major toll on you,

mentally and physically.

At first, I didn't make the
connection

between the two missing girls,

and it was Bill who made the
connection between Amanda and Gina.

He goes, "Lydia, I'm telling you
now,

these two cases are connected."

I said, "How do you know?" He goes,
"I don't know, it's just a feeling.

I just think they're connected."

I kept asking the police,
"Did you connect the cases?"

I kept asking the FBI,
"Are the cases connected?"

"No, no, we can't connect them.

You know, we can't connect them
officially."

I thought, well, we gotta, you
know...

"If the police aren't gonna connect
the stories and talk about

the similarities, we have to point
them out."

I said, "I think we should introduce
the two families.

I think they would like to meet."

Oh, my God, I don't know what to
say to you,

because I've waited for a whole
year.

I just hope you don't have to wait
as long as me, man.

So we all met at Louwana's house and
sat down and put our heads together

and tried to come up with

some kind of lead or suspect.

And one of the ways that
I thought of was

that we check all the employees at
that middle school

that Amanda had went to and
that Gina was still going to.

So we asked the schools for all the
personnel files

of the teaching and
non-teaching staff there.

And one of the people
was a janitor at that school.

He was a convicted rapist, who had
served his time, got out.

And I remember, I was like,

"Oh, my God!
How did this rapist get a job?"

And could he have anything
to do with their disappearance?

He knew that we wanted to question
him, so he ran away from us.

He ended up getting in his car and
speeding away.

Oh, God, I shouldn't say this.

He ended up going home and he ended
up killing himself, committing...

I mean, he shouldn't
have taken his own life.

All we wanted to do was ask him
questions.

He already paid his debt to society.

It wasn't his mistake that Cleveland
Schools hired him,

they shouldn't have, they should
have done the background checks.

But we were so close.

It wasn't that former employee,
but it was a former employee.

My name's Ignacio Miranda.

I was a band director for
the group, Sinte.

I'm working at the library,
cleaning, you know,

and actually doing a lot of
the yard work outside.

I see a school bus pull up.

I see a man get out, comes over.

And he says, "Hey, I hear you're
looking for a bass player.

My name's Ariel Castro."

I talked to him for a little while
and ended up going to his house

shortly after, just to see what he
could do.

He lived along on Seymour.

I got to listen to him play.
I said,

"Well, he's actually a really good
musician, he can really play."

You know, we were following each
other, we didn't really need

the sheet music, we didn't need
any of it, we were just playing.

Then I wanted to go to the restroom
before I made it home and I said,

"Hey, is it OK if I use your
restroom?"

And he says, "Didn't your mom train
you any better?

You're not supposed to go somebody
else's house

and ask them to use their restroom.

I'm like, "OK, whatever, dude."
And I walked off.

Still, we proceeded to have him in
our band.

We played around different, west
side of Cleveland, you know,

Belindas Nightclub was one we used
to play.

Once we started getting a little
bit more people wanting us to play,

we got offered a gig at Pittsburgh
and he said, "No, I'm not doing it.

You guys figure it out, but I'm not
going."

He was willing to go a half hour
away, or an hour away,

but he couldn't go
any further than that.

Amanda Berry disappeared the night
before she would have turned 17

and, in a poignant tribute, her
family is marking her 18th birthday

with a solemn vigil
and a plea for help.

It's been so long,
I can't take it any more.

All I need is an answer.

You know, the knowing's not the
hardest part.

Not knowing is the hardest part.

Louwana Miller, very beautiful
woman,

and suffered so much of
not knowing about her daughter.

You know, so we share that mutual
feeling, you know,

on, we knew
our daughter was out there.

Her family's pain is shared by the
parents of Gina DeJesus,

the 14-year-old Cleveland girl who
disappeared five blocks from

the spot Amanda Berry
was last seen.

Gina's father is convinced
that both girls were abducted.

Now, whoever's got them,
let them go, please.

Wherever you got 'em,
let these two children go home.

CROWD: Amanda and Gina!

Now!

I felt for everyone that was on
the TV looking for Gina and Amanda.

My name is Michelle Knight

and I was abducted before Gina and
Amanda.

Nobody was looking for me.

Who do we want? CROWD: Gina!

When do we want her? Now!

I was in the house two years
before Gina.

No-one interviewed or arrested has
been connected to this case.

Nobody ever deserves to go through

something like what
we went through, ever.

Not even our worstest enemy.

The years of living in his house

was filled with torture, rape
and verbal abuse.

His whole persona was terrifying.

He turned into Jekyll and Hyde,
like, he was nice one moment,

then he just turned into
this horrible monster.

That particular day, I needed
to go to an appointment.

Unfortunately, they did not give me
the correct address.

I ended up going to
two wrong places.

So, I was asking the store manager,
"Do you know where this place is?"

And the person that was walking in
the store,

he overheard the conversation and
said,

"Hey, I know where that's at."

So, quickly, I recognised him and
I'm like, "Oh, you're Emily's dad."

She was a friend at the time.

So I got in the car, it was an old
truck,

very ugly reddish-orange.

Didn't really think nothing of it.

We started talking about his
daughter and I remember saying,

"You're going the wrong way."

He said,
"Oh, I gotta stop at my house."

I was in his backyard and he was
just talking about his daughter

and then, for some reason,
we got onto puppies.

He asked me
would I like to give one to my son?

And I said, "Oh, that would be
wonderful."

As I got out of the car,
he said, "I gotta lock the gate."

I was like, "OK." And then I was
like,

"Hey, why did you lock the gate?"

He was like,
"It's a bad neighbourhood."

So I was like, "OK, OK."

The area that we came through was
the kitchen.

As we walked up the stairs,

I didn't hear no sounds of puppies.

So I got a little bit more scared.

As we got fully up there, he shoved
me into a room and shut the door.

And said,
"You'll never see home again."

I panicked, I just dropped to the
floor, begging him to let me go.

And as he was looking through my
stuff,

he started ripping pictures up, he
started cutting my ID up,

he asked me,
did I have a cell phone on me?

He even, like, took off my clothes.

He took an extension cord

and he wrapped it around my arms
and my legs...

..and stuffed a sock in my mouth.

And put the extension cord around
my neck

and then I was hanging

from a rod
that went across the room.

I was literally hanging there, my
legs, my feet, my arms,

all parts of my body just went
completely numb.

I couldn't move.

I was like, frozen.

I was like, I don't even know what
was going on.

All I know is like, I was crying.

I was thinking of my son.

That's the only thing that was
keeping me holding on,

cos I didn't know how to keep
hanging on at that point,

I just wanted to go.

I just wanted to leave earth.

Every day, I would ask so many
questions.

"Don't ask us anything about
Ariel's house any more."

I just got a gut feeling.
"That don't get you nowhere,

you need credible evidence."
"I know, I just got a feeling."

In my heart, I was having panic
attacks and didn't know why.

Over this little short Puerto Rican
dude.

So I watched him, got nothing.

Watched him, got nothing.
Watched him. He'd do normal shit.

Drive the school bus, he hangs with
children.

I see people letting him watch
their children.

This is normal, listening to rock
and roll, listening to the Beatles,

he's gotta be normal listening to
the Beatles, right? There you go.

I here all morning, right?

OK, so he's normal.

We had a, I guess, what they'd
consider a long conversation,

over some pizza and some soda...

..about his childhood.

He did have a horrible childhood.

But it's like I told him,

"Just because you have
a horrible childhood

doesn't mean you have the right
to continue the abuse."

I was trying everything in my power
to change his heart,

change his mind.

And people need help.

And he definitely needed.

Oh, he comes in with a gun and then
he's like, "Wanna play a game?"

"We're gonna play Russian
Roulette." And I said, "Sure."

I was 14, I didn't even know what
Russian Roulette was.

Michelle was like, "No, I don't
wanna play that."

So, then, so it's just me
and him playing.

I just wanted to turn
the gun to him and say goodbye.

But, I was too scared.

And I really didn't think there
were bullets in the gun.

But then he showed us that there
was a bullet in there.

He spinned it and then he was like,
"Put it to your head

and then pull the trigger and,
if you die, then you die."

So then, I said, "OK." I'm
thinking, "What do I got to lose?"

The bullet wasn't there,
so I got really lucky.

So, and then he gave me the gun,
then he's like, um,

"If you pull the trigger,
that means you hate me.

If you don't pull the trigger,
that means you don't hate me."

She took the gun
and she went to pull it.

And was like,
"Are you sure you wanna do this?

Are you positive."

I was like, "Oh, go ahead."

I sat back
and I just let it happen.

So I pulled the trigger hoping
that the bullet was there.

And it wasn't.

So, I guess I let him know that
I really didn't like him.

Maybe I thought I could help
because they thought

their daughters were alive,
so that's why I was...

..so dead set on doing
what I was doing.

It's like nobody cares any more

she's been gone so long.

But I ain't gonna stop.

Louwana wanted to meet
that psychic, Sylvia Browne.

She thought that Sylvia could help.

I'm just like, "That is BS."

It was not what I wanted to do,
but eventually I'm like, "Fine."

My management helped arrange

for Louwana to be a guest
and meet Sylvia.

What is this gift and why do you
have it and he don't?

Is this...? What... What is
psychic? I don't know what it is.

What do you believe it is?
I believe that it comes from God.

I am because I am.

And finally it came time

and Sylvia turned to her and said...

"I'm sorry. Your daughter's dead.

She's in water." Bam, bam!

And the camera goes real close to
Louwana and I'm like...

I almost like jumped up
and started screaming.

I just hate that she's not alive,
honey.

I'm like, "What?

Crap.

How can you say that to her?

You don't know that her daughter is
in the water.

You don't know that her daughter
is...

For years this woman has believed in
her heart, in her soul

that her daughter is alive

and you just come up with
this freaking bullshit."

She was so crushed.

It...stomped on her soul.

Her sp... Her spirit, her hope.

It's so dark these times.

Right, right.

I gotta do it. This is our America.

She was upset for a long time.

I was trying to comfort her
in every way.

Hanging off of you, man.

But she just was not feeling good.

She wasn't eating right.

But it was Amanda's disappearance,
but physically she was sick.

Her family called me up and said,

"Hey, Bill... Louwana's real sick.

You've become part of our family,
Bill,

and we want you there with us."

And when I walked in that hospital
room and saw her,

I mean I was just like... It took...

(SIGHS) It was just so sad.

I went over and grabbed her hand,
I said, You're gonna be fine.

You're gonna be fine."
She started to squeeze my hand.

I said, "I know what you wanna
tell me.

To make sure Mandy's picture is on
the news all the time and trust me,

I'm gonna do that but you're gonna
have to get better and help me.

So get better and get out,
in a couple of days and help me.

Remind me, no, we'll do this
together.

We'll bring Mandy home."

It was so sad that she was going to
leave this earth

without knowing where her daughter
was.

It was so unfair. Nobody should
ever have to go through that.

I just couldn't help her
get her kid home and it bugs me.

(WEEPS)

I was the actual one that let her
know that her mom had passed away.

It was very hard to process
and I really felt for her.

I tried my best to do what I could
inside of a house

that nobody should've ever been in.

As the days gone past of being in
the house,

I had ended up getting
pregnant about five times.

They were all aborted in abusive
ways.

Some starved.

Some, I was beat.

I was thrown downstairs.

I was also hit with a barbell more
than once.

He told me that we could never have
a kid here, it would be too loud.

So my question was to him,
"Why get a girl pregnant

if you're gonna make
them suffer horrendous abuse?"

I end up getting hit more because
I guess I was too mouthy for him.

So I basically told him,

"This will be the last time you
abort a child

cos I won't let it happen."

Amanda got pregnant as well.

I was scared for that child.

I was scared for her.

I was scared that she might not
make it, we're not in a hospital.

Anything could go wrong.

Anything.

He told me before anything,

if the child got hurt or sick or
anything

for that matter during the process
of delivery,

that he would kill me.

And I believed him. I believed
that he would actually do it.

When the baby came out,
it didn't make a sound.

You have to clear the lungs.

So I had to smack it out, from the
back,

like, up above her upper back.

I had to go like this so she can
cough it out,

so she can finally start to go,
"Aaargh!"

And then she started crying and
that was the amazing part about it

is that I was able to deliver,

help deliver a baby
and it was a miracle.

Give me a second,
I gotta take a break.

I'm so glad that she was able to
have her

and that she came out very
wonderful, with all ten toes

and all ten fingers and
a very gorgeous little smile.

Amanda had a baby and she had...

Uh, it definitely did kind
of change a little bit for us.

When the baby was born, that's when
he decided

to permanently take the chains off
and padlock our doors.

There was an emotional chain.

Where he had scared us so much
that I feared running.

He always used each other against
us.

Like, for instance, he would say,

"Well if you try to run, I'll kill
her."

Or, "If you try to do this, I'll
kill you."

He would use things like that
against us

so we would be afraid to run.

I remember one time he told me
that, if I tried anything,

he would hang me from my ankles so
the blood could rush to my head,

so I didn't try anything,
but I always wanted to escape,

but I just couldn't get out.

(SIGHS)

Yeah.

This is an FBI sketch of what they
thought the person of interest

in Gina's disappearance looked like
and it's...

..it's haunting how close it
ended up being of him at that age.

The FBI released
this composite sketch.

They said a man driving
a light-coloured small car

was wanted in connection
with Gina's disappearance.

The first thing that came to my
mind, I said...

.."I think I know this person."

I kept wondering where I'd met this
person,

cos I...

He looks familiar.

And I showed it to my two oldest
brothers and they like,

"We know that person. Whoever this
is, we've seen him somewhere.

But we can't put our finger on it."

We have over 3,000 people
in the City of Cleveland

searching for whoever
took my daughter.

The father of Gina DeJesus,
missing now for four years,

says he won't rest until
both girls are found.

It's been four years for my family.

Now it's five years for theirs.

Please help both of our families.

It was hard watching my dad.

Listening to him crying in the
middle of the night

when no-one was up or he
assumed we were not up

and it would just hurt because my
dad sacrificed everything for us.

Where is Gina?

(INDISTINCT CHANTING)

As the years went on, the newsroom
didn't want it any more.

They're like, "Oh, no,
I don't wanna hear anything else

about those runaway girls. We don't
need to cover them any more."

And then, you know, Nancy would
call and say,

"Hey, you know, we're having this
today. Can you stop by?"

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

So I'd go and talk to the producer
and I said,

"Look, I'm gonna give you the story
and then some.

But please, please fit in something
to talk about the missing girls."

Keeping Gina's memory alive is all
they can do.

Tips are still coming, and as long
as we can take it to the media

and shows, my daughter...

People do call.

I just don't think that there was
as much interest on it

as there was for the families,
myself and Bill,

because we believed them.

The two cousins that were around
Gina's age,

that she grew up with,
they were growing up.

They were becoming junior high
school students,

high school students and those were
definitely hard times for me

because it was like
Gina would be doing this.

Sometimes I didn't sleep,
and I would just stay up and just,

just think of my family
and what they were doing...

..and did they have a good day,
you know?

Sometimes I was mad at the world
cos I was stuck.

Almost exactly a year after Amanda
disappeared,

Gina DeJesus vanished
five short blocks away.

Over the years, their families have
become one.

After eight years,
the crowd has dwindled.

In the beginning when I was first
kidnapped,

they were on the news, like,
all the time.

So I was like, "Yeah,"
all the time.

And then, like, after, like,
years went by,

it was just the anniversary.

So that's like once a year
I'd get to see my family.

And tomorrow marks Amanda Berry's
25th birthday. The FBI...

He made us have a different name
cos he didn't want the child,

Jocelyn, to know who we really are,

because not only
was we able to see the news,

she was able to see the news
as well.

So, as she started getting older,

she started talking,
she started noticing things.

I thought it was
his grand-daughter.

Wherever they'd go, he'd always got
his hand, she never walks alone.

He bought her one of those little
tight things,

she's got a Barbie key, you know?

He's walk on the side of her,
he spoiled that girl rotten.

So, in my head, he's a good
grandparent.

Well, that's his daughter.

But who knew that?

In 2012, we received a letter from
an individual named Robert Wolford.

He was incarcerated in a prison,
a state prison, in Southern Ohio.

In the letter, the individual had
stated that he was responsible

for the disappearance of Amanda

to include being responsible for
killing Amanda.

Using a cadaver dog two police
officers and an FBI evidence team

search and sift dirt
in a vacant lot.

There was some credibility to the
location.

A couple of days after Amanda had
gone missing,

her mother received a
phone call from her cell phone.

What was interesting to us about
Wolford was

the area that he had
claimed that he had buried Amanda

fell within that cell phone range.

For two long days,
Cleveland Police, FBI agents

and city workers worked
nearly around the clock

looking for possible remains
of Amanda Berry.

By 2:30 this afternoon,
heavy equipment used

to dig up this empty lot left.

Police cleared out,
the search was over.

There were negative results
for any human remains

and that's when he admitted to us
that he made the whole story up.

He wanted to get out of the jail
that he was in for a little bit

and by coming up with the story and
saying that he was involved,

that was a way for him to do it.

As remote as it is, there's still
hope for the family.

Maybe somewhere this girl's still
alive.

The messed up part about it
is that they were so close.

So close and we couldn't do
anything.

We couldn't let 'em know we were
here.

We couldn't scream.

So close but so far away.

And he laughed.

He laughed about it.

And he said,
"You're never gonna get found.

They're this close,
and they still haven't found you."

I just was sitting there drawing.

Me and Gina was talking
and I turned to her and said,

"Hey, what if today
is the day that we go home?

Wouldn't that be amazing?"
And she said, "Yeah that would be."

I would say I heard, like...

..Amanda whispering to Jocelyn.

She went downstairs, came back up
and said, "I can't find Daddy."

So I looked at Michelle, I said,
"We could go."

(LAUGHS) Like our doors were
open and unlocked.

I heard Jocelyn coming up the
stairs,

saying Daddy wasn't here,
but I thought she was just joking.

Then I noticed that both of 'em
went back downstairs together

so I figured
maybe he just called her down there

and they're just gonna have a
conversation.

I went to watch TV again

and the next thing I heard like
booming noises.

I'm at home and I heard this
banging, bang, bang, bang, bang.

And I look out my window and I see
my neighbours

in the middle of the street
but they're not looking at me,

they're looking at the house next
door, not my door.

I come outside, "What you looking
at?" Bang, bang, bang.

"Oh, there's that...
What is going on? What is that?"

They said, "It's some girl,
she wanna get outta the house."

"Then, did you help her?"

"We're not gonna get involved with
that, we don't know her." Argh!

I go off my porch,
"What is the problem?"

"I need to get outta here."
"Then get out!"

"I can't, he's got the door locked
-" or "chained up", rather.

I said, "Oh, God." All right.

So I got a Big, a Big Mac in my
hand, just like McDonald's.

So I've got a debate.

Help the girl I don't know,
$4 hamburger I just bought.

I know the hamburger. I don't know
you. All right, here we go.

Put the hamburger down.
Destroyed the door.

She comes out, she comes out
with a little girl.

I said, "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
whoa. I'm not with the kidnap.

What's the little girl?" Cos in my
head that Ariel's grand-daughter.

"Who are you?"

I'm stopping her from pulling her
own daughter out of her house.

She's like, "This is my kid!"

I said, "How? Who are you?"

She's said, "I'm Amanda Berry."
It's not registering yet, whatever.

"OK, well here.
You call the police."

I need them now.

'This is 23.'

Our dispatcher said that she had
a female on the line

stating that she was Amanda Berry
and that she was free,

that she had been kidnapped for
ten years and she needed help.

We immediately turned on the lights
and sirens

and we headed towards Seymour.

As we were pulling up I see a young
lady

standing there holding a child.

My partner asked her,

"Is there anybody else in the
house?", you know,

and she said, "Yes, there's two
more girls in the house."

So we started charging towards the
house.

My door was unlocked, so I peeped
out of it a couple of times,

said, "You know what?
I'm just gonna go out it."

She kinda got excited.

I'm like, "That's probably not a
good idea.

I'm not even gonna try it,
cos it could be a trap.

I don't know what in his mind."

So I didn't do anything.

Then, next thing I know, I hear
footsteps coming up the stairs.

Then I hear, "Police! Police!"

And then when the person opened
the curtain and I seen the badge

I ran so fast

and jumped into their arms
and told 'em, "Never let me go.

Never let me go."

She said, "My name is Michelle
Knight. I'm 31 years old.

I've been here for 12 years.

You saved us."

I peeped my head out of the door.

They were saying they were police
officers

and they made me repeat my name
twice.

And I looked at her and I
immediately knew who it was.

I just couldn't believe it.

(SOBS) I told her, "We've been
looking for you for a long time."

And I'm like, "I know. I've been
watching the news." (LAUGHS)

At a point the radio.

One of my special memories is
sitting in the ambulance

looking at Jocelyn, Gina and Amanda
and Amanda reaching her hand out,

saying, "We're going home.
We're finally going home."

And I said, "Yes, we are."

(INDISTINCT CHATTER) It is a story
we've followed for ten years

and tonight we're following
breaking news.

Three women that had vanished have
been found alive.

Snatched the keys for the car,
then I went outside.

Here comes three cop cars.

They asked me,
"Where are you going?"

I said, "Well, I'm getting in the
vehicle.

The media said that they'd found
three girls on Seymour.

I'm going to drive down to there
to see if it was Gina."

She goes, "You're not going
nowhere.

That's why we came here to take
you."

I said, "Take me where?
To Seymour?"

She goes, "No, we gonna take you
to the hospital.

We've found your daughter."

I say, "What?"

We've seen
a lot of hugging, crying.

This is video from outside of this
hospital.

But when are these young women
going to be released?

They're just telling me,
"No comment."

They found Amanda and we get to
the hospital

and there she is, standing there.

And then we all start hugging for
what seemed like a half an hour.

We didn't even let go.

Then, when we let go, we look over
and there's everyone (LAUGHS).

It's real quiet
and they're all staring at us.

The police, the nurses,
the doctors, the FBI.

They're just all standing there,
just in awe.

I'm standing next to my dad and he
goes,

"Promise me you don't break down
and start crying."

I said, "How am I gonna promise
that?

I'm the sissy of all the group.
I'm gonna cry."

He's like, "You gotta be strong
for your sister."

I'm like, "OK, Dad, I'll try my
best, can't guarantee nothing."

Wow.

Nine years.

I lost it.

I couldn't believe
that I was hugging my daughter.

I was actually in my garden
when I got this phone call.

Like, "Dude, you're not gonna
believe it, the girls, the girls!

They were found!" I'm like, "What
are you talking about? Slow down!"

And, um... (LAUGHS)

..when he said Gina and Amanda,
those two names, I like flipped out.

And I called Bill, I said,
"Bill, is it true?"

He goes, "I'm at Amanda's house
right now. I gotta go. Bye."

I went, "Oh, my gosh!"

On 19 Action News, all over
breaking news,

right now the long awaited
homecomings begin for

the three missing Cleveland women
found alive.

Yeah, we definitely know that the
family

is going to be coming back here
this morning.

What I can tell you is I'm not sure
how long they will be staying

once they get here...

I was on the air live and Ramona
Robinson,

who I worked with at the NBC station
she goes,

"Remember that gift that Amanda's
mother bought you?"

She goes, "Yeah, remember she got
you a shirt and a tie

and she told you to wear it
on the day Mandy comes home."

And I can't believe she bought me
that and she was right again.

She knew that her daughter would
come home

and she knew she wanted me in a
clean shirt and clean tie

to tell the world
that her daughter was home.

I'm Bill Safos
at the home of Amanda Berry.

It was the moment
they had waited for.

Amanda's journey home

finally ending safely.

Louwana, if she was here,
she would have

run around and kissed everybody
and thank you and, you know...

She wouldn't have been able,

Louwana, to thank everybody enough,
cos that's how she was.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

She's home.

Let's now go to Lydia Esparra,

who is very close with the DeJesus
family.

Good afternoon and they are so
excited.

You can see behind me the balloons
are still here,

they're bringing chairs in the
house.

There's a sense of a party
atmosphere.

Everyone's so excited.

Well, I was happy to go to the
house,

to walk in the door for my first
time.

My mom kept saying on the
interviews,

"My daughter's gonna walk through
the front door."

Gina! Gina!

Gina! Gina! Gina!

I look at my mom and like tears
came down my face

and I was thinking,
"Oh, my God I'm finally home."

So there was, like, happy thoughts,
but I started crying.

Gina! Gina! Gina!

(CHEERING)

When Gina came home, I did
what I did when she was born.

When a baby is born, the first
thing you do is check the fingers,

check the toes, the legs,
arms, and that's what I did.

I was patting her down
and checking her.

Making sure everything was there,
I guess, I dunno.

(CHEERING)

My first reaction as I saw my
daughter...

..the only thing I did was grab her
and hug her. I didn't wanna let go.

We would like to thank everyone,

especially Lydia Esparra and Bill
Safos

from Channel 19 Action News.

And thank you, guys,
the both of you, because I know,

we started covering this story
together ten years ago.

The two of you,
unlike a lot of reporters

who move on to the next story,

the two of you kept in touch
with those families.

Kept telling their stories and
that's why

they were thanking you this
afternoon, so well deserved.

Thank you.
Oh, our pleasure, Ramona.

It was our pleasure.
They deserve all the credit.

Unfortunately that homecoming

wasn't there for Michelle.

And I felt so sorry, sad for her.

And the worst part for Michelle too
is she had to watch the TV

knowing that Gina's family and
Amanda's family,

they were looking for them.

And nobody was ever looking for
Michelle.

I felt like the person that had
a nameless face.

I felt like the forgotten one.

When someone says, "Oh, well your
mom was looking for you,

but it wasn't that extreme."

They told her to come back.

They told her to recheck and she
didn't do that.

So, therefore,
they closed the case.

And we dropped the ball, you know,
she was reported missing

in the first district but went
missing in the second district.

It was...

There was no contact follow-up
to the police.

We missed something.

My impressions of the house
when I walked through it

were that there was very little
outdoor or natural light.

The closet doors had been removed
from the closets,

screwed onto the wall to cover the
windows.

The things that were shocking to me
were the chains.

The chains that were used to keep
the girls in confinement.

Those items to me spoke volumes

when the amount of chains
that were removed from the house.

They were rusty, they were heavy.

Every day more news came out about
what happened

inside that house of horrors

and how she was kidnapped and that
it was a friend of theirs.

And that same friend of theirs,
Ariel Castro,

even played at my church in
Youngstown at a church festival.

I remember cos he would wear this
cap and I remember him there

and I'm like, "(BLEEP)! That guy
was at my church

while he was holding
these girls hostage."

I'm up here in the court room on
the third floor

where he will be brought
in before the Judge.

Ariel Castro is the man who
perpetrated these crimes,

kidnapping and raping
Amanda, Gina and Michelle.

He was the bus driver that took kids
to and from that middle school

that they both attended

so they knew him
and he knew the girls.

All rise.

Ariel Castro had a big personnel
file at that middle school.

We didn't get it because, when I did

the Freedom of Information Act
request they gave me all these files

to all the people
that worked in that middle school.

I didn't get Ariel Castro's file

because I didn't ask for
the former employees.

Ariel Castro.

Once you heard the name,
you knew who it was.

I mean, if you're from that area,
are-are you kidding me?

I'd seen him, I'd known him.

I... He'd ride down the street from
where I hung out a lot

and where I've been by
a million times.

(POLICE RADIO)

I had an arrest early in the
morning,

and while I'm getting the prints
and photos, I hear somebody say,

"(SPEAKS SPANISH)"

"How are you doing?
What's going on?"

And I turn over like this and there
he is.

And he's in a jail cell.

And he goes, "(SPEAKS SPANISH)"

"How are you doing?" And I said,
"I'm OK." I said, "How are you?"

And he goes, "Man, I really (BLEEP)
up this time, huh?"

And I said, "Yeah. How dare you do
this to these girls?

Ten years?!"

And I said, I said, "And Gina.

You've known Felix for how many
years?

We've known him for how many years?
How can you do this? I mean..."

He said, "I'm a victim too."

I said, "How the hell are you a
victim?"

"Well, you know, this happened to
me when I was back in Puerto Rico
when I was a kid.

I was violated too."

And I'm standing on the other side
of the cell and I said,

"God, thank you for these bars."

Because I'm trying to be a
policeman,

I'm trying to be somebody who knows
and I'm trying to be human.

It's all just...all this stuff in
my head just swirling around, like,

you know how many people'd like
to be 2' from this guy right now?

Millions.

(POLICE RADIO, INDISTINCT CHATTER)

I towed cars right in front of that
house with my partner.

And then when I find out where it's
at, I said, "Are you kidding me?"

I was on that street in front of
that house

and they're in there and
I can't do nothing about it.

Tell me that doesn't hurt.

(SOBS) All right...

Neighbours say they noticed
something was off

when the former school bus driver
became increasingly reclusive.

In the past 15 years,
police response...

It hit home when he got caught.

To know the person...

..that did this to your daughter...

Back in the day before this
happened to Gina,

I used to live two houses down
from where he lived then.

And we knew his daughter cos that's
the one that Gina was hanging with.

I mean...

This sick person.

How could you...?

I mean, I couldn't believe it.

I thought that it was important
for him to admit to us

during the interview that one,
he took the girls and then, two,

he was involved in some type of
sexual abuse of the girls over the
years.

Going in, I really wanted to be
non-confrontational.

Whether it's the truth or not,

I felt that it was important
for him just to keep talking.

So we're all sitting there behind
this glass, looking at each other,

like,
"He's not hiding any of this."

He's saying everything.

Incredible. I mean, so much climax.

So much anxiety.
So much everything building up.

And you expect this volcano to
sputter

because someone's gonna not really
talk.

And he just let it all out.

So what he admitted to was he took
them to his house

and then forcibly restrained them.

The other thing he admitted doing
there that, um,

he had, um, sexual encounters which
would constitute a sex offence.

Ultimately he was charged with
several hundred counts of

sexual assaults, physical abuses,
obviously the kidnapping,

abduction, and then he was charged
with murder,

for the terminations of pregnancies
for Michelle.

He should've, you know, just...

..spent those years in prison
like he should've.

Unfortunately, he decided to take
the coward's way out.

Within 30/31 days of him being in
prison,

he had hung himself in his cell.

How is that justice?

If it was up to me, I' have loved
to have seen him do 1,000 years

and pay every single day he woke up

for the nightmare
he put upon these three girls.

Despite being held like that,

these young girls became these
amazing women.

Despite the fact that this evil was
holding them back and basically

in cages, they still defied that
and became amazing women,

each with their
own inspiring, cool story.

You see her every day.

Please stop for just a second
and look at your TV.

You may know something that can
bring this missing person home.

Amanda Berry joined
our Fox 8 family.

Since then every time Amanda's
segment airs,

the tip line lights up.

I look up to her even more now.

She's doing the news,

she's raising her daughter.

Everything that she's gone through
that,

the resilience that she has had,

you know, that...it's just amazing.

This is my office for the Cleveland
Family Center For Missing Children
and Adults.

We help families navigate
the media.

We teach them to always do
interviews

cos what if they're missing loved
one has a TV?

It could give some hope to fight
to come back home to their parents.

I get to see what families go
through,

it was kinda like what my
mom and dad went through,

but it's like right there in front.

I just wanna help them.

I've been actually doing what they
call art to heal,

where you paint a picture that
expresses how you feel that day.

It can be anything. It can be
a pretty picture of the sea.

It can be a pretty picture of the
night-time.

My main focus in life is my
non-profit

and it travels around the world

helping women of abuse transition
their life.

And it's so sad that we had to

go through what we went through,

but it made us stronger.

It made us
more powerful

and I'm glad
that we're out

and we're alive now
and we're doing good.

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