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Getting harder and harder to find. relatives say ariel was raised by his mother and didn t get along with his father. he dropped out of school in the tenth grade. ariel taught himself to play bass, and he joined a band, playing salsa and merengue in clubs around town. he was popular with band mates. that s where bianca cruz met him as a child. i remember going to concerts and spending time with the band backstage. friends saw two very different ariel castros, the one who came alive on stage, and the other shy and caring offstage. it was always him playing with hi hair, him being super nice to me. you wouldn t picture, you wouldn t imagine he d do something like this. reporter: but he could be incredibly violent. in 2005, castro was accused of savagely beating his wife, breaking her ribs, her nose, dislocating her shoulders, and triggering a blood clot on the brain, all the while threatening to kill her and her daughter. ....
House of horrors. here ariel s uncle tells me the castro family story. he was a sweet person. reporter: astrowas born in a small rural town in puerto rico. his family came to cleveland when he was 6. he grew up on the city s near west side, a working class neighborhood where work was getting harder and harder to find. relatives say ariel was raised by his mother and didn t get along with his father. he dropped out of school in the tenth grade. ariel taught himself to play bass, and he joined a band, playing salsa and merengue in clubs around town. he was popular with bhand maand. that s where bianca cruz met him as a child. i remember going to concerts and spending time with the band backstage. friends saw two very different ariel castros, the one who came alive on stage, and the other shy and caring offstage. it was always him playing with hi hair, him being super nice to me. ....
Neighborhood where work was getting harder and harder to find. relatives say ariel was raised by his mother and didn t get along with his father. he dropped out of school in the tenth grade. ariel taught himself to play bass, and he joined a band, playing salsa and merengue in clubs around town. he was popular with band mates. that s where bianca cruz met him as a child. i remember going to concerts and spending time with the band backstage. friends saw two very different ariel castros, the one who came alive on stage, and the other shy and caring offstage. it was always him playing with my hair, him being super nice to me. you wouldn t picture, you wouldn t imagine he d do something like this. reporter: but he could be incredibly violent. in 2005, castro was accused of savagely beating his wife, breaking her ribs, her nose, dislocating her shoulders, and triggering a blood clot on the brain, all the while threatening to kill her and her daughter. ....