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>> for amanda's family, for gina's family, for michelle's family, prayers have finally been answered. the nightmare is over. >> police arrested ariel castro and charged him with 977 counts including kidnapping, rape and attempted murder. he was immediately booked into the cuyahoga county correction center. the very jail in which we met robert wolford. castro was eventually convicted and sentenced to life, plus 1,000 years in a state prison. one month later, he was found dead in his prison cell from an apparent suicide by hanging.
u.s. border patrol agents fired tear gas on migrants in mexico on sunday. this comes after migrants seeking asylum tried to enter from the port of entry from tijuana. and ukraine and organizing a war cabinet after it accused russia of firing on and seizing three of its vessels on sunday. russia says it had seized the ships saying ukrainian warships had trespassed into russian territorial waters. now back to "lock up." due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. while shooting our "extended stay" series inside achieved's cuyahoga county correction center, we met robert wolford. the circumstances surrounded him that he was brought back to the jail from prison because he had allegedly written a letter to authorities saying he had killed and buried a teenaged girl who had gone missing nine years earlier were intriguing.
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>> oh, it's a letter from my brother robert. hey, bro, how are you doing in here? i hope you're doing good in here. i know it sucks being in here and you never really got a chance to bond with me. >> now wolford had become pen pals with his estranged sister andrea, who was also in the jail. >> so "lockup" came and interviewed me a couple of times. they showed me your picture and i broke down. i honestly didn't know i would do that but for some reason it hit me hard when i seen your picture. >> rekindling his relationship with his sister might seem like good news. but in prison, robert had become a member of the white supremacist gang, the aryan brotherhood. and andrea was engaged to a co-defendant, sheldon hickman. >> we're family no matter what choices we make or how many times we mess up. >> a white supremacist has a sister who's engaged to a black man. in the prison world, that is not acceptable. >> did you know your brother was in the aryan brotherhood? >> no.
>> i gave him some drugs. he told me to pay me back later so i trusted him. i come back to get the money, didn't have it, told me he ain't paying me. we get into a fight. when i seen him reaching, that's when i reached. got the weapon, killed him. i shot him right here in the stomach, in the side, i stabbed him seven times. i just went crazy on him. >> but that had nothing to do with why wolford had been brought back to the jail shortly before we arrived to shoot our "extended stay" series there. >> inmate wolford is here on a hey-profile case concerning the murder of a young female some years ago. >> the cuyahoga county prosecutor's office says wolford wrote them a letter concerning the disappearance of a 16-year-old cleveland girl nine years earlier. >> i'm writing this letter because i have a confession i've held the past nine years. i killed a girl amanda. we were seeing each other the same time she and her boyfriend had been dating. i waited for her and i killed her. i used a rag with gas.
he ain't going to have the gang behind his back to be there for him or anything anymore. >> though the robert wolford story evolved from one of a false report about a long missing girl to one of choosing his blood family over his gang family, there was still one chapter yet to be written. whatever did become of that missing 16-year-old girl named amanda? >> months after we left the cleveland jail, we were filming in tulsa county jail and suddenly this huge story broke. and this teenage girl, who had been the focus of robert wolford's story at the beginning, suddenly became international news. >> good evening. it came down to a frantic 911 call. that was the start of it. soon after the world would learn three women missing and feared dead had been inside a cleveland, ohio, home for as long as a decade and were now free. >> this teenage girl that robert had talked about so much,
he was much more lighthearted and much more of a jokester. >> what you want? what you want? >> bobby the white boy. give me some that, boy. >> you know. >> y'all know how to do it. >> soon, this new angle to the wolford story was about to expand even further because robert and bobby were not alone. >> well, they got my brother robert here, they got my sister andrea here. >> turns out bobby and robert's sister andrea is also in the same jail. >> it's weird how [ bleep ] happens. i mean -- >> robert wolford is my brother from my dad's side. we have the same dad but we have different moms. me and bobby have the same mom and the same dad. >> unlike her older brothers who had been in and out of jail over the years, this was 19-year-old andrea's first time in jail. >> there's times where you have your down days and there's other times where you are just like, well, you can't do nothing about it.
inmate had written the letter it seemed like a plausible situation. >> authorities say wolford had a motivation for changing his story and claiming he had nothing to do with the letter. their unsuccessful search resulted in a new criminal charge for him. >> they say i obstructed the fbi's and cleveland police investigations. >> wolford was charged with obstruction of justice. he pled not guilty but would remain in the jail until the case was resolved. if found guilty he could have several more years added to the 26 he's already serving. >> i got a saying for them. if the glove don't fit, you must acquit. going to trial. going to trial. that's o.j. >> i think we all know it's o.j. >> that's o.j. let's go to trial. >> while wolford denied any knowledge of what happened to the missing girl named amanda, he did say they were friends prior to her disappearance nine
all the way down. >> when we travel to cleveland, ohio, to shoot "lockup: extended stay" at the cuyahoga county corrections center, we met one inmate who didn't fit that mold. he was also segregated from everybody else. >> i can't be in a block with nobody, i got to be in a cell by myself all day. >> why? >> because i'm high profile, i got to be separated from everybody else. >> inmate wolford we have in admin seg, administration segregation status, due to his high-profile case and he has chronic problems adjusting to general populations. >> because all the people i probably fought and the things i got into since i've been here. it's hard to place me. >> robert wolford's reputation at the jail dates back to six years earlier when he was here on a murder charge. he eventually pled guilty to a lesser charge of involuntary manslaughter and was sent to prison to serve a 26-year sentence. the victim was a homeless man.
>> she's never even gotten in trouble a day in her life. she's never even been in the back of a cop car before that i know of. >> but andrea wolford was facing very serious charges. several counts of child endangerment. they came about because her fiance allegedly harmed some children they were babysitting. specifically, he is alleged to have struck two of the children five times each with a cloth belt, leaving bruises on their thighs and buttocks. a few weeks after we concluded our "extended stay "shoot in cleveland, andrea would be completely exonerated, found not guilty on all charges and released. but for now she was struggling to deal with the hardships of incarceration. >> i've cried about ten times since i've been here. a lot of fact due to missing the family. haven't been out there. i'm my grandmother's caregiver. haven't been able to be there to take care of her. >> andrea was different from