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CLEVELAND (AP) In the years after his friend's daughter vanished while walking home from school, Ariel Castro handed out fliers with the 14-year-old's photo and performed music at a fundraiser held in her honor. ....
It s like a mask was suddenly ripped off, and the man that you knew, the father you knew, the brother you knew is exposed as well, as the young uncle referred to him, as the devil. it s a horrific shock if what they say is true. it s astounding to everyone in the family that they realize life had been a lie, which is why it s very easy for many of them to say we cut him off. he s not the brother we knew. he s not the person we knew. it s almost as though they can accept a death even though he s very much alive. absolutely extraordinary. martin, thank you very much indeed for that excellent report. dejesus has known ariel castro for 20 years. they played music together, and he s been at the castro house many times. tito dejesus joins me now. tito, i spoke to you earlier in the week. you give a fascinating insight into ariel castro, also saying, as everyone else has done, you never had a clue really about the kind of man he was. ....
People, and they re seeing you trying to take a woman to dance, and they say no. that s very humiliating, very embarrassing. so i learned after a couple times, to stop doing that. obviously, he didn t. tito, you knew ariel astro r f for 20 years. he was a base player. you are a pianist. you ve been to that house to unload instruments as recently as two years ago. you thought he lived alone. were there any clues, any strange noises happening, stuff you heard? when you think about it now with hindsight make more sense? when i went to his house two years ago, like i say, i sold him some appliances. i thought we were going to take it to the basement, down to the garage, and he told me, just leave the appliances in the driveway, and you can help me ....
With the small stuff and put it in the living room. i didn t think much about it at the time. i helped him with his stuff in the living room. i saw his instruments and everything. i really didn t look around the house because i wasn t looking for clues. but now that i think of it, why did he want me to leave the washer and dryer in the driveway, he will get it later. as i m thinking now, like possibly he didn t want me to go in the basement or in his garage for whatever the reasons were. all these things coming out right now is making me think a lot. finally, quickly, tito, if you don t mind. you ve obviously spoken to lots of your friends and fellow band mates the last few days. can anyone quite believe that ariel castro, this apparently nice, normal guy, has turned out to be allegedly this horrific monster? no, everybody s been shocked, shocked to the point where they really don t want to talk about it. they re surpriseded that i m talking about it, and they would tell me you sho ....
do you feel, tito, that that kind of persistent rejection with women may have played a part in all this behavioral deficiency that developed inside him? at first i never thought anything of it until i started hearing all the news, stuff about him, and thinking about it now, i m like it could be maybe he resented these women who they didn t want to dance with him for whatever the reasons were. it worked in my mind, maybe he started hating women. i don t know. but it could be part of it. i mean, i used to do, when i first started performing, you want to go dance? they say no to you, you re in front of a crowded room of people, and they re seeing you trying to take a woman to dance, and they say no. that s very humiliating, very embarrassing. so i learned after a couple times, to stop doing that. obviously, he didn t. tito, you knew ariel castro for 20 years. ....