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>> there she is. >> worst and best crime story. the escape of three women in cleveland after years of being secretly held captive and tormented in the home of air yell castro. >> i'm glad they got the guy. but the victim will never be the same. what a terrible story. >> castro killed himself and the house was torn down. not soon enough for many. >> i think people want to go there and stomp on the dirt. hannah is a 16-year-old girl who lost her mother and brother. we don't know what she endured before her rescue. >> shocking too, were all the manhunts. the fatal shootings at the u.s. capitol in malls. >> all of these stories are united by one common principal which is we need to fix our mental health system. happy, healthy people don't shoot up a school. healthy people don't shoot up a
the media for their support and encouragement over the years. and at this time our family would request privacy. so my sister and niece and i can have time to recover. we appreciate all you have done for us throughout the past ten years. please respect our privacy until we are ready to make our statements. and thank you. >> the statement from the sister of amanda. the three suspects in the case, they are being questioned by federal authorities. they will be charged later today. pedro, ar yell and castro brothers. they held three girls inside air yell castro's home. her young daughter born in captivity, she's six years old. the police chief says authorities have found ropes and chains inside ariel castro's home. officials believe they were used to restrain the three women.
it was my producer who spoke with him in spanish because he does not speak english. i was there. and she translated it for us. this is the father of gromalda we're told at one point married to ariel castro. but these court papers have been coming out, court papers showing a complaint by her of physical abuse. now, these were eventually dropped or dismissed. and it's not exactly clear why that happened, but there was detail about abuses she suffered. so we wanted to talk to her family because she has since passed away. and the father of grimalda told us that ariel castro used to beat up his daughter, beat up -- beat her up. he said that castro once threw her down the stairs and that her arm was broken. he also talked about a head injury that she sustained as a result of castro's physical
they say no human remains were found. cnn has learned that ariel castro was accused in 2005 of beating his then-wife. court documents say his wife suffered several significant injuries including a blood clot on her brain. documents also say castro repeatedly threatened to kill her and her daughter. the neighbor who helped the three women escape by knocking down the suspect's door gave an exclusive interview. charles ramsey recounted the ordeal to anderson cooper in detail. listen to this. >> you moved in about a year ago. you'd seen ariel castro around, right? >> when i moved here only because he was my neighbor, you know what i mean? >> right. what was he like? >> cool. he wasn't no freak of nature. he was like me and you because he talked about the same thing you talk about. he talk about you. you know what i mean? regular stuff, bro. >> so yesterday, what happened?
abuse. the way that this father described castro, wolf, is as a violent man. so i think, you know, that sheds a little bit more light on this. also interesting, apparently the father and his wife used to share a home with castro and figero when they were married and castro would not allow him to come up to the second floor apartment. he also said when they moved to the home on seymour avenue, the house where the three girls were found, he said castro would not let any of the family members go inside the home or even go inside the front door, which is very suspicious, very questionable. but, again, we're hearing this from the father of grimaldo who we are told married at one time and then divorced from ariel castro. >> we're getting a lot more information on these three suspects, ariel castro, pedro