more from anderson cooper s exclusive interview with charles amry i m sorry, i just told you that. that s coming up at the bottom of the hour for you. michele knight was 21 years old in august of 2002 when she was reported missing. as i mentioned i had the chance to sit down with members of knight s family to get their reaction to the news that she had been found alive. her brother freddy knight says when he heard michele was found he rushed to the hospital where they were finally reunited. freddy says he didn t know what had happened to michele. i did not know my sister was kidnapped. i did not know that. how did you not know she was kidnapped? my mom never tells me anything. and my mom my mother doesn t tell me anything. she wouldn t tell me who my dad was. when i asked, i m going to help my sister out as much as she can when she gets out of the hospital, i want to help her. i m going to show her places that she doesn t remember, you know, relearn how to use a computer. i m
the big mystery in ohio is this. how could three women be held against their will in a suburb for all that time? early indications are they were brutalized and complete explanations of what happened will soon be forthcoming. obviously the crime is heinous and will reinforce the perception that although america is a free country, we are also a dangerous nation. the reentle is that kidnapping is ultra rare but there are some very bad people walking the streets of the u.s.a. the crime in ohio just another cautionary tale. and that s the memo. now for the top story tonight. what is going on with the investigation into the three alleged kidnappers. here now fox anchor bill hemmer has been covering this story all day. let s begin with the girls. all right in the three of them, the ages when they were kidnapped? michelle knight was 18. bill: okay. amanda berry was august of 2002. that takes you back about 11 years. amanda berry was 16. she was abducted 8 months after the first one
philadelphia free library. newfound woman for three young woman who were held captainive and kidnapped in a cleveland home. the three vanished between august of 2002 and april of 2004 in separate incidents. they were between 14 and 20 years old. on monday, after years of being locked away from family and friends, berry broke free and held by a neighbor who heard her cries and kicked open the front door to her. investigators are looking back to see how the victims could have been held so long without being detected. nbc s ron allen reports. the three brothers are aerial castro, 52 and pedro, 54 and o neill 50. it is aerial who neighbors knew best as the school bus driver and gave kids ride in an altering vehicle on the streets of this blue collar hispanics neighborhood. the three women who each
the story that everybody is talking about this morning, three young women, missing now for a decade. their families never giving up hope that somehow they would be found alive. last night the hopes, prayers, answered. unbelievable. it is unbelievable. so many questions. we want to show you something. all went missing in the same area of cleveland. michele knight the first to disappear, this happened august of 2002. she was last seen at west 106th street and loraine avenue. a bit of a map for you. amanda berry disappeared april 2003 last seen west 110th and loraine avenue. and gina dejesus disappeared april 2004, last seen at west 105th and loraine avenue. all of this not that far from the house, about four, five kill
good evening, everyone. i m erin burnett. out front tonight, inside the house of horrors. the fbi began searching the home and the property of 52-year-old ariel castro today as investigators tried to determine how three women were allegedly held captive there for almost a decade. each of them living there unnoticed to neighbors, just miles from where they disappeared. we re going to take a closer look at this neighborhood later in the show and give you a real sense of what it s like there. michelle knight went missing in august of 2002. at the time she was 20 or 21 years old. amanda berry disappeared then in april 2003 when she was 16. and gina dejesus vanished in april 2004 at the age of 14. all three reuniting with families tonight after their dramatic rescue unfolded yesterday. coming up, we re going to talk to one of those family members, who saw her niece for the first time in nine years. meanwhile, investigators are focusing on the owner of the home where the women were found.