brother, so i didn t know why i wasn t allowed to go with him, but he was somebody that i trusted all of my life, and when he had abducted me, he told me that he was just going to hold me captive until the police stopped looking for me, and then i would still be abducted, but i wouldn t have to be in this underground dungeon any longer. i had no idea when it was going to end. megyn: how did you get out? how did it end? i think it was a combination of me manipulating him, asking him questions about what my future was going to hold, kids, getting married, work, things like that. also, the police had suspicion
the son today said that this is beyond comprehension, that he is stunned. on his facebook page on may 2nd, aeria aerial castro wrote,d i m quoting. miracles really do happen, god is good. he added a smiley face. one more footnote, megyn. the basement that these women were allegedly held in, 470 square feet. the house, four bedrooms, one bath. megyn: oh, good god. trace, thank you. joining me with more is judge andrew napolitano. he s our fox news senior judicial analyst. people are from u frustrate ando blame people. the three men to blame are on the screen in those ridiculous mug shots, according to police. there s a question about whether the police and the state of ohio, division of child and family services, perhaps, dropped the ball here because now there are reports according to the associated press that the police were called not just the two times they told us about to
some have terrible endings, and some have more hopeful ones. eric shawn joins us now with a look at a few other recent cases where the victims did manage to escape with their lives. eric? hi, megyn. well, the message today is never give up hope. that s what is being said about these type of long term abductions from one young victim who went through it for nearly two decades. she s j.c. did yoduguard. she was snatched in california when she was 11 years old and was missing for 18 years. she said today the three cleveland women in this case, quote, these individuals need the opportunity to heal and connect back into the world. this isn t who they are. it is only what happened to them. the human spirit is incredibly resilient. more than ever this reaffirms we should never give up hope. back in 1991 she was kidnapped as she stood at a bus stop. her captor was sentenced to 431 years in prison. another on one of the most well
been several instances during the course of my presidency where i said i was going to do something, and it ended up getting done, and there were times when there were folks on the sidelines wondering why hasn t it happened yet and what s going on and why didn t it go on tomorrow, but in the end, whether it s bin laden or qaddafi, if we say we re taking a position, i would think at this point the international community has a pretty good sense that we typically follow through on our commitments. megyn: interesting. president obama there speaking of his own statement that if they use chemical weapons in syria on their own people, that would be a red line, and there would be consequences and saying there you should believe the president, take the president at his word, but saying at this point it s only a, quote, perceived crossing of a red line, and i don t make decisions based on perceive, adding we ve done that in the past. he also said with respect to syria he understands the desire
known victims is elizabeth smart. she was 14 when she was taken from her home in an after afflut made in salt lake city. she was held ca captive for nine months by a drifter and a girlfriend who were then convicted. elizabeth has also spoken out and written a book about it. there s the case of katie beers. she was 9 years old back in 1992 when she was snatched by a family friend named john es poty so. katie was missing for 17 days. he stashed her in a specially built underground bunker that he built for the purpose of holding katie. he was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison. katie beers is now 30 years old. she s the mother of two. she recently wrote a book about her experience and she ll talk to you, megyn, in just a moment. turns out the national center for missing and exploited children said 2000 children are missing every day. more than 99% return safely. most, they say, are runaways, wand off by mistake or taken by a relative in a domestic