today in a cleveland courtroom we heard the sentence. we watched this hearing. ariel castro getting life plus 1,000 years. and we watched one of his young victims, michelle knight, really just pour her heart out to this court. we ll have much more on that in a minute. first i just want to take you back to cleveland where it all began. i was there in may when the whole story broke that they were free. i actually walked to the three exact spots where these unsuspecting girls crossed paths with a sexual monster. here in cleveland, this is 10 106 street and lorraine avenue. this is the last time anyone saw michelle knight. the year was 2002. she was just 21 years old. fast forward one year. six blocks away, right here on lorraine avenue, amanda berry had just finished her evening shift here at work. this was the eve of her 17th birthday.
to see scott walk right through that door. hope is, you know, eternal. i m going to hope until i find him. throughout the program, we re going to be showing photos of missing kids and adults. if you see someone who catches your eye, you should call the center for national and exploited children at 1-800-843-5678. that s 1-800-the-lost with any information you may have. even if you re not sure, it s best just to call. john walsh is going to join us. one of the things that s so startling about these three missing women in cleveland is even though they disappeared in separate incidents, years apart, they all vanished on the same block on lorraine avenue. the home is just three miles away. could their discovery lead to the discovery of other missing people in cleveland? two other women went missing
though they were taken years apart, they all disappeared within three blocks of the home on lorraine avenue. could their discovery lead to the discovery of other missing people in cleveland. 1,100 people missing since 2006. 56 in this area alone. two other people went missing from the same area. christie atkins vanished in 1995 just four blocks away from the where the three cleveland women were found. christie was 15 years old at the time and was also pregnant. in the audience is linda summers, the step grandmother of ashley summers, who was 14 years old when she went missing in the same area in 2007 in cleveland. i m glad you re all here. when you heard the news about the three missing women in cleveland, what went through your mind? there was immediate hope that my sister was one of the three that they found. and how long did that hope last for? maybe an hour. we immediately went to the
blocks apart and what boggles my mind is that at least the two of them, gina dejesus and amanda berry, they were snatched in broad daylight. amanda was coming home from her job at burger king. gina dejesus was walking home from school so it was daytime and lorraine avenue, which is where they were, that s a very heavily traveled thoroughfare so yeah, that is certainly amazing. kevin, finally, the house of horrors as it s now being known is behind you. more and more details are coming out, not being completely confirmed yet, but we re hearing about chains and dungeons under the house, we re hearing about all sorts of despicable things, names apparently scrawled across walls and so on, plus this suggestion that the women between them may have had a series of pregnancies which may have been deliberately terminated by these brothers or at least one or two of them, with severe beatings. do we know anything about this in a factual sense? are we still waiting for confirmation?
could have happened in such a close area where almost all the people in that area would have known these girls or known their family? are you as amazed as the rest of us that they have been found right in the heart of the area where they were taken? yes, i am amazed at that. the fact that they probably have been here in this home for the entire ten years, and as you mentioned, it s not far from where each one disappeared. they each disappeared a year apart. they each disappeared within blocks apart and what boggles my mind is that at least the two of them, gina dejesus and amanda berry, they were snatched in broad daylight. amanda was coming home from her job at burger king. gina dejesus was walking home from school so it was daytime and lorraine avenue, which is where they were, that s a very heavily traveled thoroughfare so yeah, that is certainly amazing. kevin, finally, the house of horrors as it s now being known is behind you. more and more details are coming out, not being c