talked to neighbors in that neighborhood. reporter: you see ariel castro s home behind me, boarded up, guarded by a fence. people from all over coming by to take a look at it. we spoke to just to come see the house in person and take pictures. while it s become a bit of a tourist hot spot, it s also a haunting reminder for neighbors. reporter: anthony lives two doors down from the home where a decade-long secret came to a dra thematic end. is it sort of a creepy feeling to think they were just two doors down? with the the boogeyman. reporter: he s talking about areal castro. now neighbors say they are just trying to adjust to their new normal. if we were to spend a day with you, after what happened right next door, what would it be like?
under their neighbor s noses. this morning they re about to get financial help. pamela brown joins us now live from cleveland. pamela, tell us what s happening right now. well, john, just a few weeks after the arrest of ariel castro, neighbors of the accused rapist and kidnapper are trying to put a disturbing past behind them. but the home behind me, castro s home, all boarded up, guarded by a fence, is a haunting reminder. anthony westry lives just two doors down from the home where a decade-long secret came to a very dramatic end. is it sort of a creepy feeling to think for all these years they are just two doors down? with the boogeyman. reporter: he s talking about ariel castro, the man accused of kidnapping gina dejesus, michelle knight and amanda berry and holding them captive for years. now neighbors like westry say they re just trying to adjust to their new normal. if we were to spend a day with you, after what happened right next door, what would it be
this is world news now with john muller and diana perez. good morning. we begin this half-hour in cleveland where the man suspected of holding the three young women captive is to be formally charged. ariel castro faces multiple counts of kidnapping and rape. police will not go into detail about what happened inside the house. we are learning much more about the suspect. here s abc s alex perez. reporter: this is what the house where ariel castro allegedly held three women hostage, looked like in 2009. boarded up, shades drawn. learning more about what happened during the time the women were missing and the double life their alleged captor led. look closely at the video from 2008 when all three girls were missi missing, the startling police dash cam video shows castro riding into a gas station. he gets off his motorcycle and is approached by an officer. see your driver s license. excuse me? see your driver s license, please. what s wrong? you don t have a helmet on.
good morning. we begin this half-hour in cleveland where the man suspected of holding the three young women captive is to be formally charged. ariel castro faces multiple counts of kidnapping and rape. police will not go into detail about what happened inside the house. we are learning much more about the suspect. here s abc s alex perez. reporter: this is what the house where ariel castro allegedly held three women hostage, looked like in 2009. boarded up, shades drawn. learning more about what happened during the time the women were missing and the double life their alleged captor led. look closely at the video from 2008 when all three girls were missing, the startling police dash cam video shows castro riding into a gas station. he gets off his motorcycle and is approached by an officer. see your driver s license. excuse me? see your driver s license, please. what s wrong? you don t have a helmet on. you don t have a license to operate it. you re subjecting yourself to
conspiracies don t work, because the longer you have, the more somebody will talk, i am left speechless. this is one of the most infuriating stories i ve seen this is incompetent, as it appears prima facie to be really incompetent police work. three individuals, three kids missing in a discrete area. what the hell happened with the cold case on this? i mean, i think this department, with all due respect to clint van zandt, who was saying perhaps people didn t call. that s baloney. i ll bell you ll find a whole trail. the question here is the competent of the police department. they should not be let off the hook. by the way, if you have police doing proper policing, who would see this strange, boarded up, lights on, what s going on house? after ten years, no police officer in cleveland says, what is it with that house? after 2009, when there was a specific man dade to improve their missing persons department. craig, bev we let you go, you