May 6, 2013, the gritty heartland city of cleveland witnessed a miracle. Help me, im amanda berry. Ive been kidnapped, and ive been missing for ten years. And im im here. Im free now. Amanda berry is abducted the day before her 17th birthday. Amanda told the police, i aint just the only one. Its some more girls up in that house. Gina dejesus returns here. She is indeed home. Gina dejesus was walking home from school, and that was the last time that she was ever seen. Michelle knight was never on our radar at all. Police arrested who owns the home is their abductor, it turns out, was a deranged School Bus Driver, ariel castro. Throughout their captivity these women held on to one thing, one thing that kept them going, and that was that their families would not give up on them. And ten years later, it was that faith that finally brought them home. Now we want the world to know. We survived. We love life. We were stronger than ariel castro. Reporter could you have imagined that you would be sitting here and saying that knowing all the things that youve gone through in your life . Oh, my gosh, not really. I didnt know i was going to actually make it. Cleveland was your typical American Industrial city. It was struggling to find itself in a new economy. Well, it struggles from the bad image of the mistake on the lake. Theres a lot of poverty in the city. A lot of heart. You see people on their porches and kids playing in the street. The west side, middle to lower class folks working at the factories, in the mills, were raising their families. Hard working people. Decent, do the right thing, help you if they can. From a Law Enforcement perspective, its never a dull moment. Always something. There were drugs, robberies, shootings, gang activity. Very inner city. But at the same time, it was full of great families. It was full of hope. Growing up in cleveland, i love the area. It was very beautiful, but i hated my home life. Michelle had a terrible childhood. For a time, her family lived in the car. They were itinerant. Big house, but with very little in it. Like, we didnt have a couch to sit on. We didnt have a stove. Just to give us a hot, warm meal, i had to cook on a space heater. It takes four hours for a hot dog to cook. Did you feel like you had to be protective of your siblings . Yes. And almost kind of like raise your siblings in a way . I basically was their mom. She is a very good loving sister. She has always been there to help us. Thats just the truth. In a really weird twist of fate, we had interviewed michelle for a story that she helped deliver the baby. This is 7 pounds, 6 ounce Marcus Anthony knight. First, she let off a big scream, ow and then, here comes the water, and then here comes, got to go get somebody, because there wasnt no stopping that baby coming out. Tell me about your childhood. I had a lot of things that went on in my life that was very traumatic, like sexual abuse, emotional abuse. You name it, i went through it. She felt neglected. R. Male relative sexually abused ghis, she s i got to the point where i was done with the abuse. I just needed a new outlook out of life. So the first thing i said, im more safer on the streets than i am living in my own home. So i basically ran away. Ran away at that tender age. It was pretty cold during that time. I didnt really know where my next meal was going to come from or what was going to happen next. What did this 14yearold child do . She slept under a park bench. Then her home was a trash bin. I lived in a garbage can. I took a blanket from somebodys back porch, cuddled up with it. It was very cozy. Shes 42, so she could crawl into the garbage bin and not be seen and protected from the elements. There was a bridge where i can hear cars going past. The vibrations just, you know, helped me be calm. My god is awesome come on, somebody lift your voice. Awesome if you know hes been good when you were homeless, there was a baptist church. Yes. I end up, like, going there just because i heard beautiful music and i was a little bit embarrassed because i didnt smell too pretty. I was, like, very dirty. And i stood in the back singing along with every hymn that they were singing. What was one of your favorite hymn songs . Oh, my gosh. God is in my heart and in my soul and he will never disappear. You needed to hold on to that, didnt you . Yes. Early morning, the hungry and homeless feeding is about to do its thing. They would have a meal Service Every day at 2 00. So i would go for lunch to the church. Unfortunately, one of my family members had recognized me and called my dad. Her father came and picked her up, and then she went back to high school. Oh, my, it was horrible. Going to school, i was always bullied. Just got shoved into lockers, got shoved downstairs, got told i was ugly, that i was unimportant, that i didnt belong. Did you have anybody you could reach out to . It was very hard to make friends. I was that girl that sit in the back of the class, the outcast. She was approached by a older boy at school. He kind of charmed her, they started having sex, and she realized she was pregnant. I wanted to be the best mom. I wanted to be better than my mom. What were those early years like for you and your son joey . It was difficult because i didnt have very much money. She goes to look for a job to better her life and leaves her child in the hands of her mother. Her mothers boyfriend was drunk, and he grabbed joey by the leg and fractured his knee. Michelle took joey to the hospital, and social services put joey in foster care. In her efforts to try to get her child back, she was on her way to a Case Management meeting. 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Tell me about that day. Oh, my. It was a really hot day. She is going to court because shes fighting desperately to get her little boy joey back. I was so super excited to get to the appointment, and then i couldnt find the place. I was trying so desperately to get ahold of them. I tried to call them on a pay phone, it didnt work. So i felt like theres no way i was going to make it. She was pretty desperate, so she walked over to a Family Dollar store to ask the clerk where this address was. And then my best friends father comes into the store. So you recognized him. Yes. She didnt know him personally, but when ariel castro approached her, she knew who he was. Hed get you to the point with the custody hearing. And he said, i know where its at. I can take you straight to it. Itll only take me five minutes. And im like, okay, im gonna make it. This is going to happen. So i got into his car. We started driving down a road. We started talking about how his daughter was at home. And i was like, it would be super nice to see her. As we were going into the house, he says, oh, by the way, we have puppies. I got closer and closer to the door, and thats when he shoved me in the room and he said, youre not going to leave for a long time. And then he starts undressing himself. What is possibly going through your mind at this point . The first thing that i did is i dropped to the floor. Begging him to let me go. Begging him, saying, i need to get to my son. This cant happen. At that moment you knew this was something and he ripped up my sons picture right in front of me. The only picture i had. And said, youll never see him. And that hurted so bad. The knife felt like it was going deeper and deeper into my chest. He claps his hand over her mouth and tells her, dont scream or ill kill you. And then he proceeds to tie her up. Then he masturbates in front of her. Couldnt move. Couldnt do anything. The extension cord was wrapped around my legs, then wrapped around my arms, and then wrapped around my neck. And then to muffle my sound of my scream, he had shoved a sock into my mouth. You go from upstairs to the basement. How long were you there in the basement . I couldnt tell what time of day it was because i was hooked to a pole in the middle of the floor with a Motorcycle Helmet on my head, so i couldnt move. He does bring her food occasionally, and he routinely rapes her in the basement, three, four times a day. He would often leave a radio on really, really loud so that even if she started screaming, you couldnt hear it anyway because its just there was music playing. How were you able to withstand that kind of abuse . It was difficult. I had to go blank. Any time he was doing anything to me, i had to put myself in a different place. Ariel castro, once again hes prowling around looking for young women. How bold is that . How did that day begin . Well, my mom had came to the door, and she came to give me a kiss and just tell me to have a good day. And i got up, got ready for work. Amanda berry. It was the eve of her 17th birthday. She was working at burger king. I almost called off of work that day because the next day was my birthday. You know, what if . What if i wouldve called off that day . What kind of teenager were you then . I was pretty much a homebody. I stayed home a lot. Did my schoolwork. What did you want to be when you grew up . I was into fashion. The shoes had to match the shirt, and the shoelaces had to match the outfit, you know . Amanda had been walking home from burger king. Suddenly, a red car pulls up. The driver, its a familiar face. And he asked, do you need a ride home . I said yes. And amanda realized that this was ariel castro, she knew his daughter, they had all gone to school together. You know, its a friends dad. And hes like, well, shes at my house. Would you like to go see her . 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It was a veritable house of horror from the basement all the way up to the second floor. Amanda, michelle, chained up in separate bedrooms. This nondescript house played a huge role in the fact that it could help ariel castro in keeping a human prison going. It was all boarded up. The closet doors were nailed to the front windows. So everything was dark. The bolts that held those doors on the wall were sheared off, there was no way they could get at them. And those were even behind plexiglas. Ariel castro is a really clever man. He had a house. He dressed well. He worked driving a school bus for the city. Everybody knew ariel castro. Everybody knew the School Bus Driver on the street. He would grill outside. On the fourth of july he would have fireworks. He was friendly, he was outgoing, he was a musician, he played in bands. He was the greatest bass player. Ariel would hear a song and play it like it was on the record. It was actually that simple for ariel. 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We searched 200 homes, and we expanded the grid and expanded the search to the other side of the state. As remote as it is, theres still hope for the family. You know, every day is hard to see her not walk through that door or not say good morning. My hopes are in there. Theyre trying to stay as strong as can be. But with no answers and not a lead, not a clue, not nothing, thats whats hard because you dont know. The news comes at like 5 00, 5 30 now, so day after day i watched a lot of tv. The holidays are coming and going, and my baby aint home. And im like that kept me going. And i said, you know what . Im gonna make it home to you. As long as you fight, im going to fight. Youre chained to a radiator, only have, what, about five feet . That was your world. Can you describe what it was like . Going to sleep at night, you wanted