Episode 1: The Monster of Cleveland: Ariel Castro

Ariel Castro, a true monster, held Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus captive in his Cleveland home for ten years. We begin telling this story with some background on the Monster himself... and we promise, we won't focus on him any more after this. We also begin to tell the story of the first victim, Michelle Knight.

Sources for this episode are:

Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings by Michelle Knight:https://amzn.to/3v0ah22

Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland by Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus: https://amzn.to/2QhvpSE

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Kidnapped For a Decade, a BBC Documentary