cell, chilling police interrogation tapes have now been released. and what they show is a stunning confession from ariel castro hours after his arrest back in may. you know the story here. he was sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping and raping those three women for about a decade. and on the tape, first shown on nbc, castro says police could have caught him. but that they missed some obvious signs. castro mentioned one close call after he invited a girlfriend over one night. here he was. if police had broke the case right then and there. because they had surveillance cameras. she seen that i had a tv on in the upstairs room. okay. and she says, what is that? you have a tv on up there? and my heart started beating and i was like, okay, she s probably catching on to something. it was a close call? yeah. in one instance in the call,
a tv on upstairs and says, what s that all about? again, here s the exchange to detectives. she seen that i had a tv on in the upstairs room. okay. and she says, what is that? you have a tv on up there? and my heart started beating and i was, like, okay, she s probably catching on to something. it was a close call? yeah. unfortunately not close a call enough i guess. he wasn t found out. and, martin, you know, he hanged himself in prison and, of course, now we re hearing this isn t the first time he committed suicide, but it seems there was this bizarre conflict going on within himself. he had a suicide note in 2004 during the interrogation he was asked about suicidal thoughts, and, well, i guess, let me just play you that part and get your reaction to it. okay. what about the suicide, you still?
the basement with her daughter and kept her down there. mom would come up and clean, do the laundry, actually go shopping for them and they kept her down there in and then eventually moved her to an upstairs room where they actually locked the doors at night and venn actualeventually windows shut so they couldn t get out. how did she get away? reporter: back in october she was at a family dollar store, john, and stole a candy bar. police arrested her, then she started talking to them over the period of time and basically said people back at my house where i live, well they are mean to me. remember, she has a mental disability, so police took their time questioning her and eventually handed her over to fbi investigators. they started taking a look at it. they went back to the house, and that s when everything started to unravel. had she ever been reported
jordany callahan and jessica hunt invited her into this home and officially put her down in the basement and her daughter and kept her down there. mom would come up and clean and do the laundry and go shopping for her. shea kept her down there and moved her to an upstairs room where they locked the doors at night, and eventually nailed the windows shut so mom and her daughter couldn t get out. scott, how did she get away? reporter: well, back in october, she was at a family dollar store, john, and she stole a candy bar. police arrested her. then she started talking to them over a period of time and basically said that people back at my house where i live, well, they re mean to me. remember, she has a mental disability, so police took their time questioning her and eventually handed her over to fbi investigators.
shea kept her down there and moved her to an upstairs room where they locked the doors at night, and eventually nailed the windows shut so mom and her daughter couldn t get out. scott, how did she get away? reporter: well, back in october, she was at a family dollar store, john, and she stole a candy bar. police arrested her. then she started talking to them over a period of time and basically said that people back at my house where i live, well, they re mean to me. remember, she has a mental disability, so police took their time questioning her and eventually handed her over to fbi investigators. they started taking a look at it. they went back to the house and that s when everything started to unravel. had been she ever been reported missing? reporter: no, as far as we know, she wasn t reported missing. i believe her mom lives in ashland. occasionally she would go pack