Showing posts with label Cleveland Kidnapping Case. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cleveland Kidnapping Case. Show all posts

Saturday, May 23, 2015

Cleveland Ex-Cop Walks In The Murder Of Unarmed Suspects!

Cop walks in murder of two unarmed suspects.

Yeah, they've fled when an officer spotted them in East Cleveland. Yeah, they led a lot of officers on a high speed pursuit across the Cleveland streets. Yeah, they were boxed in. But when the Cleveland Police, Cuyahoga County Sheriff deuties and East Cleveland Police opened fire on them, it was deadly. It was over 130 rounds being fired into the vehicle.

The whole ordeal happened in November 2012. One of the officers even jumped onto the vehicle to continue firing. Well today, that officer was acquitted of involuntary manslaughter of Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams.

The officer Michael Brelo can leave the courtroom a free man. If he was convicted of this charge, he would have spent a quarter in the iron college.

The U.S. Justice Department is already poking holes into the way Cleveland Police handle officer involved shootings. The Tamir Rice shooting and the lack of interest in the Cleveland Kidnapping Case has the police department under the radar for a major overhaul.
MICHAEL BRELO CAR
The vehicle took over 130 rounds into it.
We're not saying that the Cleveland officer's actions were not justified. What the problem was that he didn't use proper judgement when pulling the service weapon. The vehicle was sputtering and a popping sound from the vehicle spooked the cops into believing they were being fired on.

For the amount of shells raining on that vehicle, you can say that was considered excessive force.

Russell was picking up Williams a known prostitute in the area. Williams was a drug user and was charged with misdemeanors ranging from prostitution to petty theft.

Russell was spotted by officers. He was trying to avoid getting caught. He had driving privileges revoked and had minor criminal theft charges. Russell didn't want to be caught.
Free man. Michael Brelo got off an involuntary manslaughter charge.
This incident adds to the list of incidents in which White police officers have used their service weapons in the shooting of unarmed Black suspects. These events show that despite all the talks about drugs, criminal gangs, and the need to talk to the law, the Black community believes that they may end up to a corpse if they bother.

No one is saying being the police are bad people. They do a dangerous job and most of the time it's a thankless job. They risk their lives 24/7 and the need for them is essential. But one too many believe that the police are enforcing more than protecting. I mean the distrust is extremely high.

Some officers only see residents as criminals and not victims. They don't want to protect the residents. They want to lock them up because they had a string of misfortune.

Who could judge them?

These days a cop is careful about interactions with people of color. They don't want to become overnight celebrities because of a person and their cell phones.

World News Today send our condolences to Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams.



Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus Remind The Public That There's Missing People Out There!

ABC interviews Cleveland kidnapping survivors Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus.

ABC scored the interviews of Cleveland kidnapping survivors Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus.

They reflect on the two year anniversary of their rescue from the grips of Ariel Castro, a former bus driver who kidnapped them and Michelle Knight. He held the three women in his Seymour Avenue home for 10 years.

The Cleveland Police are already under fire for the Tamir Rice shooting and the shooting of two fleeing suspects. The lack of interest in the kidnappings of these three women also drew ire.

The Anthony Sowell controversy, driven the local junk food media to the notion that these three women were killed by this serial rapist.

In May 2013, the news broke that three women escaped a home. Amanda Berry broke out of a broken door with her daughter. She would escape and tell the world that she and two other women were held captive for years.

Now trying to readjust to life, these three women became international celebrities.

Amanda and Gina releases a book today. The book titled Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland.

The book reflects on their lives being held captive by a sexually crazed manic who eluded authorities for years. A man who hid Amanda, Gina and Michelle in a well hidden home.

A man who fathered a child with Amanda and beat the crap out of Gina and Michelle when they couldn't bore his children.

Castro got sent to the iron college for LIFE. But he managed to end his life within 90 days by hanging himself by the bed sheets.

Amanda and Gina remain close. Michelle rarely talks to them and has distanced herself from them.
Michelle Knight rarely speaks to Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus since the incident.
Last year, Michelle's book Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings was released last year.

Michelle has made appearances on ABC, Dr. Phil and Inside Edition.

They both ask the media not to ignore the other missing people who don't get the attention.

Robin Roberts will score this interview and help ABC win another night.

The night when Bruce Jenner came out as a transgender woman helped ABC score 17.3 million viewers and became the talk of the nation.

We here at Journal de la Reyna wish Amanda, Gina and Michelle the very best.

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Lifetime Revisits The Cleveland Kidnapping Case!

Lifetime greenlights movie based off the Cleveland kidnapping case.

In May 2013, Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight escaped the horrors of a West Cleveland home. The three women were kidnapped by Ariel Castro, a retired bus driver.

He held them captive for nearly 10 years and used them as his sexual fetishes. He would rape and physically abuse the young girls. He would bore a child with Amanda.

The day that Castro dropped his guard, Amanda broke out and warned the neighbors about him.

He was arrested and sentenced to LIFE in the iron college. A few months into his time he hung himself. This tragedy affected these three women. Now as they try to adjust to life, Lifetime is spotlighting this case in a movie.

The Lifetime Movie Network released the trailer for the TV movie Cleveland Abduction.

It's told through the prospective of Michelle Knight. Knight who would later write a memoir of her survival and Lifetime bought the rights to the novel.

The film stars Raymond Cruz ("Breaking Bad") as Ariel Castro and Taryn Manning ("8 Mile," "Orange Is the New Black") as Michelle Knight. The film also stars Pam Grier and Joe Morton.

The movie release will be on April 25.

Also, Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus will release their book in late April.

The Cleveland Police, the Cuyahoga County Sheriff and the FBI all are trying to sort out what mistakes were made. The Cleveland Police is already facing heavy scrutiny for the shooting of Tamir Rice, the Anthony Sowell situation and of course numerous accusations of police brutality.

This is a British documentary spotlighting the Cleveland kidnapping case.

Tuesday, May 06, 2014

We Will Survive The Challenges Ahead!

Ohio Governor John Kasich leads the applause for Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight after they received a courage award from the state in February
Ohio Republican governor John Kasich cheers on the Cleveland kidnapping survivors, Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight (now Lily Rose Lee).

Michelle Knight, Gina DeJesus and Amanda Berry had overcome the odds.

A year ago in Cleveland on a quiet street, the yells of a young woman. Local neighbors were startled by a young woman and her child pleading for them to call the police. The young woman would tell the tales of being held captive in the house and tells the world that she's Amanda Berry.

Amanda Berry was kidnapped in 2003. She was leaving her job at Burger King when out of nowhere she would disappear. Her disappearance sparked national coverage.

She would tell the neighbors that two other women were in the home of this crazy man named Ariel Castro.

The other women were Michelle Knight, a young mother who ran away and Gina DeJesus, then a teenager who was walking home from school and was abducted in 2004.

Three women were held captive in a Cleveland area home. They spent nearly a decade in an old Seymour Avenue home being enslaved by Castro.

Castro, a former school bus driver and local musician held these women against their will. He would torture them, rape them and cause them miscarriages.

Castro would rape Amanda and father a child by her. He would beat Gina and Michelle when they couldn't bore his children. They would sit in a separate room in a well secured home.

Castro was a divorced father of four. He divorced his wife after he abused her. According to the law, Castro would have a sexual fetish. The man would troll the stroll for hookers and occasionally meet women on social networks. Castro feared rejection.

Castro groomed a distraught Michelle after she lost custody of her son. She would be the first victim of the horrors.

On May 6, Castro and his brothers would leave to take care of an errand. Amanda would find a portion of his home that had a broken door. She would use that broken door to escape.

Cleveland Police, the FBI and Cuyahoga County Sheriff would gather around the Seymour Avenue home grabbing evidence and reveal to the junk food media about this home being a "place of horrors".

Deep inside Castro's home was hidden rooms. Those hidden rooms and his basement were padlocked.

Castro's four grown children would be advised not to stroll around his home too much. He would regularly attend church, have relationships with women and troll for hookers. When he was done, he would go back home and have his three.

Castro's arrest ended the horror. When interviewed by the law, he would tell them that he "let his guard down" and he was thankful for allowing the law to catch him. When he was to go to trial, he wanted to plea not guilty knowing that if he was found guilty he would be given the gas chamber. So he copped a plea. That plea meant for him to give up his home, his assets would go to the victims, he would have no contact with his family or the victims, and he would spend the rest of his life in the iron college with no parole.

He took the deal. And off he goes to Orient Lockup. After a few months in the iron college, Castro would hang himself. The law knew he was suicidal, but somehow two correction guards got the pinkslip after Castro put the blankets around a bar and let his neck slide between them.

As a year passes by, I've read that the three women were award a victim's compensation and are trying to adjust to their lives.

They still live in the Cleveland area. Michelle Knight, 33 year old has distanced herself from the events. She no longer talks to Amanda Berry or Gina DeJesus. She would change her name to Lily Rose Lee, got tattooed and pierced. She reunited with her family and her son. She is attending a cooking school.

Gina DeJesus, 24 and Amanda Berry, 27 are going to be Washington, DC this week to meet with the National Center of Missing and Exploited Children. They will accept an award for their bravery and speak to national speakers including Elizabeth Smart, a survivor of a kidnapping in the 1990s.

Amanda and Michelle are mothers of children.

We here at Journal de la Reyna wish those three young women the very best. Personally, I wish each woman well. They've survived a madman's horror. They are truly loved and blessed.

We love you Michelle (Lily), Amanda and Gina! We hope that you can move forward in your lives.

Saturday, November 09, 2013

Find Us!

Missing adults and children.

The Huffington Post gets a GIF of all the missing adults and children that the junk food media refuses to cover.

It's kind of unique that many Americans aren't hearing stories about these people.

Everyone I've known has heard of Natalee Holloway, JonBenet Ramsey, Elizabeth Smart and other tabloid based stories about the alleged perpetrator.

You've heard stories about Philip Dane Kasparites, Joseph Dominic Lugo, Edward Moore, Tenisha Moss, Juliet Riffey, Kimberly Sanborn, Robert Lee Taylor, Nicole Waller, Brittany Walls, and George "Skip" Zelaya.

We here at Journal de la Reyna wish safe return for all who are missing.


Sunday, September 08, 2013

Nelly And The Bee!

Nelly gets the Honey Nut Cheerios endorsement.

Nelly is being used in the Honey Nut Cheerios commercial.

General Mills teams up with the St. Louis rapper to make the character Buzz, a pop star.

Will Bill-O complain about it?

What do you think of him being an endorsement of product?

Anyway, the rapper took his popular single "Ride Wit Me" and turn it into "Must Be The Honey".

The last controversial thing Nelly had done was the swipe between the butt cheeks of a woman during his filming of music video Tip Drill.

Nelly's newest album M.O. is coming out in September. The album has production from Mike Will Made It, Da Internz, Pharrell (The Neptunes), and Dr. Dre.

The features include Akon, Chris Brown, The St. Lunatics (Nelly's group) and Nicki Minaj.

Nelly appears on Universal Republic Records. He is affiliated with Derrty Entertainment and Fo'Reel Records.

Wednesday, September 04, 2013

Ariel Castro Commits Suicide In The Iron College!

Inmate Photo
Convicted rapist killed himself in the iron college.

Breaking out of Columbus, Ohio. Overnight, the Cleveland kidnapper and rapist Ariel Castro puts the bed sheets over a rail and hung himself. This scumbag decided he didn't want to be a wife to some guy named Jim.

Castro was convicted of raping and kidnapping Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight and held the women for 10 years in his home. He was sentenced to life at the iron college.

Amanda Berry and her child managed to escape the situation and tipped the police off to the man.

Castro fathered a child with Berry.

Castro abused and raped the woman causing them to have miscarriages.

When he was arrested, he apparently left a suicide note in his home in case he was to be caught. The Cuyahoga County Jail had him on suicide watch at the time.

He was at the Orient Lockup near Columbus when the guards found him unresponsive. They rush him to the Ohio State University Hospital where the pronounced him dead,

He died at 10:00pm. Tuesday.

As he was convicted of his charges, he faced the victim Michelle Knight.

"I cried every night. I was so alone. I worried what would happen to me and the other girls every day," Knight, 32, said, as she addressed her abductor head-on during his sentencing. "I will live on. You will die a little every day."

Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight in April 2013.

He was told that he would have to forfeit his properties and lose his home. It's since been demolished and the neighbors hope Cleveland will make a memorial park.

The women's representatives haven't spoken about the issue.

But the nightmare is over for the three. Back in 2003 and 2004, Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus were kidnapped and the local junk food media was covering it. Their stories were pushed aside for the more sensational stories. Natalee Holloway, the Alabama teenager who was missing in Aruba got a lot of attention.

It propelled ambulance chasers Nancy Grace, Greta Van Susteren, Geraldo Rivera and Rita Cosby into the spotlight.

Again, we here at Journal de la Reyna send our prayers to Michelle Knight, Gina DeJesus, and Amanda Berry. The young women and Amanda's young child suffered horrible fate by the hands of this monster.

This monster should have gotten the gas chamber. I guess a bed sheet is good enough for me.

Hopefully, they use his organs will be donated to the hospitals.

Thursday, August 01, 2013

Face Off!

Michelle Knight watches her captor Ariel Castro get his dues. This man will spend the rest of his life in the iron college with no chance of parole.


August brings us the dog days of summer. One dog is getting his place in the pound.

Asshole Ariel Castro will be sentenced to the iron college for the rest of his life. The Cleveland kidnapper has finally got a chance to face one of his victims. The victim Michelle Knight was in the courtroom and she held back tears as she heard the man who held her captive and brought upon her a miscarriage tell the nation that he's no "monster".

Knight wrote in a statement to the public:
I would like to tell you what 11 years was like for me. I missed my son every day. I wondered if i was ever going to see him again. He was only two and a half years old when I was taken. I look inside my heart and I see my son. I cried every night. I was so alone. I worried about what would happen to me and the other girls every day. Days never got shorter. Days turned into nights, nights turned into days. The years turned into eternity. I knew nobody cared about me. He told me that my family didn't care.
Ariel Castro, I remember all the times that you came home talking about what everyone else did wrong and act like you weren't doing the same. You took 11 years of my life away and I have got it back. I spent 11 years in hell. Now your hell is just beginning. I will overcome all this that happened but you will face hell for eternity. From this moment on, I won't let you define me or affect who I am. I will live on, you will die a little every day as you think about the 11 years and atrocities you inflicted on us. What does God think of you hypocritically going to church every Sunday, coming home to torture us?
In May 2013, one of the three women held captive freed herself from the Cleveland home and told neighbors that she and two others were held by the former school bus driver.

Amanda Berry was the victim turned hero in this situation. She and her daughter are trying to cope with the instant celebrity. After all she, Knight and Gina DeJesus suffered a traumatic situation while being in the captivity of that horrible human being.

Castro decided to take the plea deal. He decided instead of facing a trial in which he could have gotten the gas chamber, Castro decided to take the guilty plea. That guilty plea advocated the fullest punishment the judge could give.

He will spend the rest of his life in the iron college plus 1,000 years. And on top of that he has no chance of ever seeing freedom outside the iron bars.

Isn't it funny, the captor says that he wasn't responsible for their situation. He's no monster, he says.

Blaming his addiction to prostitutes, porn and cute girls has driven him to the situation.
Head down as the court hands him fate. Ariel Castro now will see what it's like to be imprisoned.
I mean I'm not perfect and all but blaming the victim or a fetish is so like a coward.

Hopefully he'll find comfort in being an anal lover. He can find all the sex in the iron college. He'll never see a woman ever again. Well maybe he'll find him a transgender prisoner who looks like a woman but kill like a man.

He may end up being the woman in a prison marriage.

Yeah, I hope the next thing we'll hear about Castro is that he's dead and gone. Never to walk this earth again!

Yeah, I'm callous about this man. He's not normal. He's a horrible human pile of excrement. Fuck him and the Cleveland Police dispatcher who ignored the pleas of Amanda Berry.

Yeah lock this fool up!

Monday, July 29, 2013

Nelly Thanked Ohio Kidnapped Victim Amanda Berry For Her Courage!

Nelly (left) brings on kidnapped victim turned hero Amanda Berry (center, left) to the stage at a concert in Cleveland, Ohio.
Wondering if Bill-O would attack a rapper performing for the Cleveland kidnapping victim?

Amanda Berry appears at a Cleveland concert and gets a heartfelt welcome from rapper Nelly.

After a horrible ordeal in which she, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight were held captive by convicted rapist and murderer Ariel Castro. Under custody, Berry bore a child from him.

Castro was sentenced to LIFE in the iron college with no chance of ever getting out.

While she didn't speak, her appearance wowed the crowd.
A hero's welcome for Amanda Berry by rapper Nelly.
The funds that Castro had earned will either go to a victim's compensation fund and the demolition of his home.

Cleveland, Ohio is the city that rocks! Today I salute Nelly for being a stand up guy. Especially giving a victim an opportunity to have the chance to live a "normal life."

Again, we here at Journal de la Reyna send our prayers to Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight. We wish them well on their long journey to recovery. They finally can close the door on this ugly chapter in their lives.

Ariel Castro can finally find some comfort in at least knowing that he'll never be alone, ever again. After all he'll share a bunk with an inmate who may not take kindly to child molesters and rapists.

Nelly appears on Universal Republic Records. He is affiliated with Derrty Records/Fo'Reel Entertainment.

Saturday, July 27, 2013

Ariel Castro Is A Going To Be A Permanent Resident In The Iron College!

Head down as he prepares for life in the iron college.

Ariel Castro escapes the gas chamber. But for the man who held three women captive in their early teens, his days of freedom are over. He's going to be heading to the iron college.

According to the Ohio prosecutors and the Cuyahoga County Sheriff, he's not EVER going to see an ounce of his freedom ever again. At age 54, Castro will spend the remaining portion of his life in the iron college.

He was the man who sparked international attention after one his captives escaped from his Cleveland, Ohio home. The woman along with a her daughter that he impregnant were held hostage along with two other women.

The former bus driver kidnapped Gina DeJesus around the time, Natalee Holloway disappeared sparking a national discussion on the coverage of missing people cases.

Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight were held hostage for ten years in that man's home.

In a plea deal, Castro gave up his right to a trial and accepted the judge's sentence of life in the iron college with no chance at parole. Basically, the judge said that he will never see the light of day ever.

The women speaking through their attorney have said they're satisfied with the decision and hope to get their lives back together.

This scumbag will now be in a place where many of the lifers are parents too. Some of them are likely going to make Castro their senorita.

Sunday, July 21, 2013

Cleveland Police Arrest Serial Killer!

Michael Madison is a registered sex offender. The 35-year old man is accused of killing three women in the nearby suburb of East Cleveland. The Ohio Bureau of Investigation, Cleveland Police and the FBI are aiding East Cleveland Police in finding more bodies and possible breaks to missing persons cases.

It's Sunday, and I woke up to find out something going on that deserve some major attention.

What the hell is wrong with Cleveland, Ohio?

Michael Madison was arrested yesterday after East Cleveland Police aided by the Cleveland Police and FBI discovered the bodies of three women. They are in process of searching for others.

This incident will stir the bubble of conservatives and white extremists. These racial extremists already assume that "ALL BLACK MEN ARE CRIMINALS AND SEX CRAZED ANIMALS".

This incident will give conservative agitators another attempt to paint this incident in relation to Trayvon Martin by saying this individual could be one of "OBAMA'S SONS".

Just a few months back, we were watching the developments in the Cleveland kidnapping of Amanda Berry,Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight. Each woman were held captive in the home of Ariel Castro for over 10 years. The woman were rescued and are recovering from their injuries.

About four years ago, we were covering Anthony Sowell, a former military officer and factory worker abducted and killed 11 women. The woman he killed were prostitutes and some runaways. In a span of ten years, the man had hid their bodies in home. So far in the past five years, he's killed 11, and they're probably more.
Cuyahoga County keeps records of sexual offenders.
But I guess Sowell's motives inspired another one. Now as Sowell is preparing for the gas chamber inside the iron college, Michael Mason wanted to top that.

The victims of Anthony Sowell are listed. We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to the those who were lost in the horrible tragedy.

  • Crystal Dozier 38       c. May 2007
  • Tishana Culver 31       c. June 2008
  • Leshanda Long 25       c. August 2008
  • Michelle Mason 45       c. October 2008
  • Tonia Carmichael 53       c. December 2008
  • Nancy Cobbs 43       c. April 2009
  • Amelda Hunter 47       c. April 2009
  • Telacia Fortson 31       c. June 2009
  • Janice Webb 49       c. June 2009
  • Kim Yvette Smith 44      c. July 2009
  • Diane Turner 38       c. September 2009
Now again we send our condolences to those who were killed by this madman. We will get more details as soon as it becomes available.


The Plain Dealer and Associated Press report that three bodies have been found wrapped in plastic bags in a Cleveland suburb and police will continue a search for possibly more victims Sunday, East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton said.

The bodies were found about 100 to 200 yards apart and a 35-year-old man was arrested and is a suspect in all three deaths, although he has not yet been charged, Norton said late Saturday.

The suspect is a registered sex offender and has served prison time, the mayor said. In police interviews, the man led them to believe he might have been influenced by convicted serial killer Anthony Sowell, Norton said in an interview with The Associated Press.
The victims of serial killer were discarded behind abandoned buildings.
"He said some things that led us to believe that in some way, shape, or form, Sowell might be an influence," the mayor said.

Sowell was found guilty in 2011 of killing 11 women and hiding their remains around his Cleveland home. He was sentenced to death and is in an Ohio prison.

Asked if the suspect has a fascination with the Sowell case, the mayor said: "We believe so."

Police Commander Mike Cardilli said a woman's body was found Friday in a garage and two other bodies were found Saturday -- one in a backyard and the other in the basement of a vacant house.

All three people are believed to have been killed in the last six to 10 days.

Police did not know the gender of the two bodies found Saturday and did not know the identities of any of the three victims. They were sent to the coroner's office.

Norton said the bodies were each in the fetal position, wrapped in several layers of trash bags. He said detectives continue to interview the suspect, who used his mother's address in Cleveland, the mayor said, in registering as a sex offender.

Cardilli said the man was arrested after a standoff with police Friday. Police did not immediately release the suspect's name. He was jailed in East Cleveland, the mayor said.

"The person in custody, some of the things he said to investigators made us go back today," the mayor said.

Police searched vacant houses over about three blocks in the neighborhood Saturday and planned to expand their search Sunday, Norton said.

The Plain Dealer reported that police, the FBI, the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation and the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Department went through yards and abandoned houses and used dogs trained to find cadavers.

The neighborhood in East Cleveland, of some 17,000 residents, has many abandoned houses and authorities want to be thorough, the mayor said.

"Hopefully, we pray to God, this is it," he said.

Congresswoman Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio) represents that area. Hopefully on GOP Sundays, she will tell David Gregory about the issues in Black America. 

I mean honestly, this event takes Black men down two notches in a week of politically charged rhetoric about racial profiling.

The controversy continues on in Black America. We handled the Cleveland kidnapping and Anthony Sowell.

We will cover this controversy as well.

Friday, July 19, 2013

Charles Ramesy: I'M BROKE BRO!

Charles Ramsey. The Cleveland, Ohio man who saved three women from a rapist sets the record straight about his situation.

Cleveland hero who rescued three women from 10 years of hell in Ariel Castro's home is telling the junk food media that he's lost his job because of the overnight celebrity status.

He's broke and he's trying to keep his spirits up.

HEY NOT SO FAST! HE CLAIMS HE'S FINE! CHARLES RAMSEY TELLING THE WORLD, HE'S GOOD! HE DOESN'T KNOW WHY THE MEDIA IS TARNISHING HIM!

Charles Ramsey, the country's most animated and yes unlikely hero spoke to the press about his good deeds in the long run. They didn't expect in the two months since his name landed in the junk food media, he was experiencing economic woes.

I mean every business in the Cleveland area is willing to give him all the heart clogging food and beverages the moment he comes in. He doesn't want food, he wants something good to happen to him and those victims.
Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight.
Why not help him build a home far away from that nightmare that he, Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight suffered that late May evening?

Well apparently The Daily Mail interviewed him during the bail hearing of Castro. They wanted to know how his life had changed since the events unfolded.

In court: The three women could face their alleged tormenter, Ariel Castro, in court later this year if Castro chooses to take the case to trial
Ariel Castro the man charged in rape of women.
I guess how when they've interviewed Ramsey, the often times vocal celebrity told it like it is and the reporter wrote it down. Well to make the world feel sorry for him, I guess they've jazzed up the story and made it seem like he's struggling to get by.

I am guessing The Daily Mail is sticking to the story.

But to Charles Ramsey, "IT'S BULLSHIT!"

Ramsey is saying that he had to find another place to go because the internet sensation follows him right to his door. And he's was getting fed up with it. He did admit he doesn't have the luxuries of being an international celebrity but he's happy and he wants to live his life in peace.

Ramsey did have thoughts of trademarking his name and animated vocals.

Ariel Castro is facing 977 charges including kidnapping, rape, felonious assault and premature death. He could face the death penalty if he's convicted. He abuse Michelle Knight and forced a miscarriage on her child. Castro has fathered a child with Amanda Berry.


Wish Charles Ramsey, Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight well and hope the best as they cope with their ordeal. Hopeful they'll succeed in getting their lives back together.

Monday, July 15, 2013

The Black And Missing Foundation Featured On Nightline!

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Don't forget about us!

The talk about the three women who were held captive in Cleveland by Ariel Castro still leaves unanswered questions.

Why did it take so long for the junk food media to cover this?

Even though Gina DeJesus were mentioned by the local Cleveland media, her disappearance was overshadowed by the ongoing coverage of Natalee Holloway.

Michelle Knight and Amanda Berry were mentioned heavily by the local news. Even though Knight was a runaway, she didn't get the amount of coverage Berry gotten. It took over 10 years to find the young women being held in the house of a former bus driver and accused rapist.
Niqui McCowan still missing and the junk food media rarely covers her disappearance.
In my community, we barely get coverage of Niqui McCowan, a Richmond, Indiana woman who went missing after she went to a local laundromat. She was to get married and had family ties in my community.

There are limited leads to the case and people are not giving up hope for her safe return.

A few years back my local junk food media news programs were focused on a Xenia, Ohio woman named Tiffany Tehan, a new mom who was lasted seen in a Dayton, Ohio convenience store with a man. The man was named Tre Hutcherson, a divorce man who fell in love with her and told Tiffany to leave her husband. They've fled to Florida before they were caught by the U.S. Marshals. The woman had to pay a hefty sum for the coverage by local authorities. But to this day they've maintained their love for one another. Tehan divorced her husband and remarried Hutcherson.

Hutcheson and Tehan ended up have a child together. Tehan shares custody of her first child with the ex-husband.
Tiffany Tehan, a runaway married woman took off with her lover. The junk food media covered her disappearance and her marriage to her boyfriend Tre Hutcherson.
That managed to get national attention. And it turned out a happy ending in a negative way though. But still while I can remember the times they've covered Tifanny Tehan, there's times they've never said a word about Niqui McCowan.

Again, we here at Journal de la Reyna send our prayers to families of all missing people. We hope they've find their loved ones. We send our thoughts to the Cleveland women and Tiffany Tehan. We wish them well on their journey.

There a term that's often mentioned by Black journalists, myself and others. It's called Missing White Woman Syndrome. It's a phrase that was started after the junk food media stayed focused on Holloway while a pregnant woman by the name of LaToyia Figueroa got little to no coverage. Her disappearance was overshadowed. The media covered Natalee Holloway about the time Figueroa went missing.

Although I've not been on Wikipedia lately, I can claim credit in creating this page and Missing White Woman Syndrome. In 2005, I was really upset over Loserville ambulance chasers Greta and the Mustached Guy ongoing obsession with this story. They've made this a story more of a movie than an actual missing person case.

I was annoyed with Nancy Grace (Nancy Shrew) and Rita Cosby (Raspy Cosby) always rushing to judgment in this Aruba situation.
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LaToyia Figueroa went misisng in 2005. She ended up being killed by her former boyfriend.

The article about LaToyia Figueroa took a life of it's own.

She went missing and was found dead. Her former boyfriend Stephen Poaches was arrested and put in the iron college. Police discovered Figueroa's remains in a grassy, partially wooded lot in Chester, Pennsylvania, located 13 miles south of Philadelphia. They arrested Stephen Poaches, the father of her unborn child, on August 20, more than a month after she was reported missing.

On October 17, 2006, Poaches was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder for the deaths of Figueroa and her unborn child.

The disappearance of Figueroa sparked controversy about media coverage because cable news channels, such as CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News Channel, neglected to cover her story in favor of Natalee Holloway, a Caucasian teen missing on the island of Aruba.

Some observers protested that Figueroa's case was similar to the Laci Peterson case (which also covered the same timespan) and thus deserved greater attention, implying that race was a factor in the lack of coverage.

Missing White Woman Syndrome is a phrase coined by social scientists and media commentators to describe the "wall-to-wall coverage" given in media reporting, especially television, to missing person cases involving young, white, upper-middle class women or girls.
Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight in 2013.

The degree of coverage is usually compared with cases concerning a missing male, or missing females of other ethnicity, socioeconomic classes or perceived physical attractiveness.

The actual phrase comes from Sheri Parks, an associate professor at the University of Maryland, who used the term in a 2006 interview with CNN to describe this observed media trend.

On the ABC's Nightline, there's a story about Black & Missing, an organization devoted to finding missing people of color. They work everyday trying to find missing people. They work harder than the junk food media.

It has to be more like an unarmed teenager being shot and killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer to make the junk food media coverage.

Still with the celebration of the three missing Cleveland women and the agony of defeat in the George Zimmerman trial, we must keep an open mind to what happens in America.

The junk food media will always rile us into political action. This Trayvon Martin and Cleveland Three will spark a decision about race.

Hopeful that things will turn out for the better for all the missing people in the world. It's a shame that the media overlooks those people because of a ratings grabbing event.



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Tuesday, July 09, 2013

Victims Of Cleveland Kidnapper Speaks!

Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight speak out. The women were held captive for 10 years in a Cleveland, Ohio home by a madman. Ariel Castro was charged with kidnapping and could face the possibility of the death penalty for causing the women to have miscarriages.

Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight come forth to express their blessings of being alive in the horrible ten years of being captive of Ariel Castro, a former bus driver.

Months back, the junk food media raced to Cleveland, after word got out that two women who were missing as teenagers were found by neighbors in home.

Amanda Berry broke out with her daughter to report that Castro was the guy who kidnapped her, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight.

Cleveland Police raced to the home of Castro and arrested him.

Castro was charged with numerous accounts of kidnapping, felonious assault and murder. He punched the women when they were pregnant allegedly causing miscarriages.

He is held on a $8 to $10 million bond and if he's found guilty, he'll get either life or death in the iron college.

The women reemerge today to tell the public they're appreciation for all the help they've gotten since the horrible ordeal.

The young women post a video on YouTube telling the public thanks and ask them for privacy through this ordeal.

We here at Journal de la Reyna wish the women well. They faced years of traumatic horrors. We hope they can get their lives back together and move forward.

View the video here.

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Charles Ramsey Faces Backlash From Junk Food Media!

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Cleveland man who saved kidnapped women is hailed a hero among the majority. The minority hates this because he's a Black man. So they find ways to paint a negative picture of Charles Ramsey.
 
Even an unlikely hero still gets called a NIGGER by those in the conservative/white supremacists bubble.

Part II will deal with the Castro brothers. They're in fear of retaliation because of the junk food media's coverage of them.

The junk food media is looking into the history of viral sensation Charles Ramsey. The unlikely hero and others were responsible in rescuing Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight.

Ramsey is a colorful figure. The internet is blown up with "autotune" of the often brash and straight to the point Cleveland resident.

What I don't see is how the conservative/white supremacist bubble treats this individual like's he's criminal.

According to those in the junk food media, he was once a criminal.

Who gives a...........(Well you know)!

My problem with this is simple. The junk food media just can't give a man a break. Even though he may had done wrongs in the past, Charles Ramsey admitted that he's paying for his past sins. He's even cautious about the media attention given to him.

I see he's a honest man a heart! Even though there's a reward in this, he wanted to give it to the victims.

Charles Ramsey Criminal Record
They used the picture to portray heroic Cleveland resident as a criminal.
WEWS-TV (Newsnet 5, NBC Cleveland) apologized for putting his business out there for the conservative/white supremacist bubble.

Cleveland's WEWS-TV issued an apology on Thursday after the local news station reported on Charles Ramsey's criminal record.

Ramsey was one of two neighbors who helped Amanda Berry, who had been kidnapped for 10 years, and two other women escape from captivity earlier this week. While he was hailed a hero for his role, his presence on TV was mocked and even autotuned. Al Sharpton defended Ramsey. "He kicks in a door to rescue those women and some are criticizing his diction?" Sharpton said of Ramsey.

Soon after his TV debut, reports surfaced about Ramsey's record, one that reportedly included convictions for domestic violence. Multiple outlets, including WEWS, reported on Ramsey's criminal past.

After facing backlash from viewers, WEWS apologized in a post on the station's Facebook page.

TO OUR READERS & FOLLOWERS: We heard you. Wednesday night, we made a poor judgment call in posting a story about Charles Ramsey’s criminal record and how he’s since reformed. While the story was factually sound, the timing of it and publication of such information was not in good taste, and we regret it. Your comments prompted us to quickly remove the story from our website and Facebook page, but we know we can’t erase what we’ve already done. Ramsey is a hero for his actions, and we recognize that. Thank you so much for your feedback.




Thursday, May 09, 2013

Cleveland Kidnapper Was A "Monster", Says Family!

Amanda Berry and her daughter fought back captor. The junk food media will now focus on how the Cleveland Police failed Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight.

Bad publicity and the outcomes of being in a minority-majority city.

The city where Black and law enforcement are like distant cousins. Long distance cousins to say at least.

Cleveland, population 394,000 makes it the second largest city in the state of Ohio. The city seen a major decline in population due to economic turmoils such as manufacturing drying up and racial tensions driving the White people from the city. Cleveland minority population for Black and Hispanic citizens would be about 80%.

With Blacks The Cleveland Police are facing a public backlash because of reports of neighbors ignoring their concerns.
(L-R) Ariel Castro, Onil Castro and Pedro J. Castro
Ariel Castro with brothers Onil and Pedro were arrested by Cleveland Police. Based on information Ariel Castro not his brothers may face federal charges if the FBI finds more evidence of sex slavery.
The Cleveland Police are under investigation for the shooting of unarmed individuals. The man (was a john) and the woman (was a prostitute) and they've apparently crashed into a cruiser and the police fired upon them.

Anthony Sowell, known as the Cleveland Strangler was killing prostitutes and runaways. He buried their bodies in his home. It took over a decade to discover the dead bodies being buried in the basement of his home. I once thought that one of the women freed this week was one of the victims of Sowell.

Ariel Castro the man held in custody in the kidnapping of Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight.

According to Cleveland Police, the man had restrained the women with chains and rope. The women were abused and knocked up continuously by the individuals. The women had miscarriages. The only woman with a child is Amanda Berry and she was pregnant by Ariel Castro.

Yesterday, the junk food media awaited the arrival of Gina DeJesus, Amanda Berry and her daughter.

The media covered it just like they've covered the Boston Marathon bombings and Sandy Hook tragedy: Wrong and just plain reckless.

For one thing, they're trying to say they had opportunities to escape the home. It's funny some would say that! If you're not in that person's shoes, you wouldn't know how to escape a captor!

Today, Castro was giving a bail hearing. For each woman and the child, it's a $2 million bond. With an $8 million dollar bond, the worst isn't over for the suspect. The county prosecutor is even going as far to seek the death penalty in this case.

Castro with his love for music and seemingly friendly personality, Ariel Castro was a familiar presence in his heavily Latino neighborhood on Cleveland’s west side. The Washington Post reports that the former school bus driver lived a decent life in the neighborhood. He was the "nice guy" according to neighbors. The family said he was a "monster" and a "recluse".
Ariel Castro's Facebook page tells a disturbing picture into the seemingly "nice" guy who was a bit odd.
Castro, 52, drove a school bus, attended neighborhood barbecues, played bass in a number of local bands and was known for the musical equipment that filled his living room, especially his beloved bass guitars.

Yet there were hints of another side to Castro, who was charged with kidnapping and rape on Wednesday in the abductions of three young women who were held captive for the past decade. The house that seemed so open to some fellow musicians was closed to other people, with locks on the basement, attic and garage.

Records show that Castro was accused of beating his former wife so badly it triggered a blood clot in her brain and that he was fired from his job in November after a series of disciplinary incidents.

The seeming contradictions have left neighbors and family members shocked and perplexed at what could have gone wrong for a family that seemed so woven into the tightly knit community around it, a family that had close ties to relatives of at least one of the victims.

“I am very surprised. I never thought Ariel would do something like this. Never,” said Noemi Castro, Ariel Castro’s half sister in an interview with The Washington Post.

Castro was charged with four counts of kidnapping, which included all three captives and the daughter born to one of them while she was detained, and three counts of rape against the three women.

Castro’s brothers — Pedro Castro, 54, and Onil Castro, 50 — were also arrested and still in custody Wednesday, but police said they would face no immediate charges. Police said they had found no evidence the two brothers were connected to the crimes.

Ariel Castro, of Puerto Rican heritage, lived in and owned the ramshackle house on Seymour Avenue where the three women — Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight — were rescued Monday night, along with Berry’s 6-year-old daughter.
Horrible experience for three women. Took over 10 years to find Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight. Suspect Ariel Castro fathered a baby with Berry.
Pedro and Onil Castro lived together a few blocks away. Little information was available about them Wednesday. Media reports said they did not have jobs and never married.

Also mysterious was the web of ties among the Castro brothers, especially Ariel Castro and the family of DeJesus, who disappeared at age 14 while walking home from school on April 2, 2004.

Roberto Diaz, a neighbor, said in a interview with The Post that Ariel Castro participated in at least one of the annual neighborhood marches to draw attention to all three missing girls. Khalid Samad, a friend of the DeJesus family, said Ariel Castro knew DeJesus’s father and helped search for her after she disappeared, the Associated Press reported. He also performed music at a fundraiser in her honor, Samad said.
The women were held in a "house of horrors" according to the law enforcement officials.
DeJesus’s best friend before she disappeared, Arlene Castro, is the daughter of Ariel Castro. Arlene Castro was with DeJesus moments before she disappeared; Arlene Castro appeared on TV’s “America’s Most Wanted” in 2005 to draw attention to the case.

In her interview with The Washington Post, Noemi Castro said that although she was not close to Ariel Castro, she had been told by other family members about “weird” signs in his life. “He didn’t let anybody in the house,” she said. “There were locks on everything. That’s a red flag.”

Ariel Castro has been accused of violence against women, according to court records. The records show he was charged in 1993 with domestic violence against his wife, Grimilda Figueroa, but a grand jury declined to indict him. The case was dropped.

In August 2005, according to records in Cuyahoga County Domestic Relations Court, he was ordered to stay away from Figueroa and their children after he was accused of beating her so severely that he broke her nose twice, broke her ribs, dislocated both shoulders and caused a blood clot in her brain.

The petition for a protective order says he threatened to kill Figueroa and their daughters on multiple occasions. The order was rescinded three months after it was granted, for reasons that are unclear, at a hearing not attended by Figueroa’s attorney. Figueroa died last year.

Ariel Castro’s daughter Emily has also run into trouble with the law. She was sentenced in 2008 to 25 years in prison for trying to kill her 11-month-old daughter by slashing the girl’s throat four times, court records show. Emily Castro also cut her wrists with the same knife she used on her daughter, records show.

In an appeal, filed shortly after her conviction, Castro’s attorney said his client was not competent to stand trial because she has “mental health issues, including manic depression.”

Ariel Castro also ran into problems at work. Although school records show he received mostly “excellent” marks in his performance evaluations as a bus driver for the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, they also show that he was fired in November after being disciplined for the fourth time in nine years. Incidents included leaving a child alone on a bus in 2004 while he went to a Wendy’s restaurant for lunch.

A Cleveland police report quoted the girl as saying that when Castro arrived at the Wendy’s, he told her, “Lay down, b----,” and left her alone. After he returned, he “drove around a while” before he returned her to her home care provider.

The fourth time Castro was disciplined, records show, was over a Sept. 20, 2012, incident in which he left his unlocked bus in front of a school for several hours.

“I left my bus parked in front of the school and walked home two blocks away,’” he wrote in the file. “I felt tired [that] day. Scranton is my school so I didn’t think anything wrong with parking there. I do appologize.”

Local musicians said Ariel Castro could be guarded about his home, wary of letting people into his world. But Tito DeJesus, a local piano player, was one of the few who stepped inside the house on Seymour Avenue.

It was a few years back, and DeJesus was dropping off tools and appliances that Castro had bought from him. “He was kind of like a hoarder,” DeJesus recalled. The living room was filled with musical equipment, he said. A lamp served as an end table. Castro’s bass guitars were on stands around the room.

The two played together in several bands, and Castro was forever gushing about some new piece of musical gear he had acquired. “He liked to show off his stuff,” DeJesus said.
Shame!
And he liked to show off his playing, too. DeJesus said Castro’s style was a good match for his own. “He’s one of the top [Latin] bass players in Cleveland,” he said.

There was something else DeJesus noticed. “He never had a woman,” he said.

Edwin Nunez, a salsa band leader who performed with Castro, said Castro tended not to hang out with other musicians after gigs. “He was very private about his life,’’ Nunez said.

Roig-Franzia reported from Cleveland. Debbi Wilgoren and Alice Crites contributed to this report.

Tuesday, May 07, 2013

Limbaugh: Cleveland Kidnappers Are Obama Voters!

He's still bitching and probably hurting the AM dial by his choice words. 

Okay, we know know that Cumulus Radio Networks and Dial Global are expressing frustration with him.

Many national advertising companies refuse to sponsor such a controversial figure.

Yet again proving that he's not going away, King Hippo manages to throw cold water on a very monumental event in Cleveland, Ohio. The controversial agitator manages to "joke" about the kidnappers of three missing women being supporters of President Barack Obama and embracing welfare.

Today on his show, he along with the rest of the junk food media are pondering the five rules of yellow journalism. The junk food media is trying to piece together to how Ariel Castro and his brothers O'Nil and Pedro managed to hide Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight in plain sight!
Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight were held captive in a Cleveland home. They were found after 10 years of family fears they were dead.
King Hippo running his mouth made the ridiculous comparison to the kidnappers. Yeah, he and I both watched the CBS action series Hawaii Five-0. Ironic this episode was on around the time these women were found.

King Hippo: "But as it so happens, I happened last night to watch Hawaii Five-0 on CBS. Hawaii Five-O‘s premise last night was kidnapped girls held until they were 18 and then let go or killed — well, always killed — by a couple doing it for the welfare benefits."

“Now I don’t know what happened in Cleveland, but I couldn't help but make the connection. I mean, if everybody else in the low-information crowd is going to use what happens on TV for reality, why can’t I?”

“Three brothers, but not related the the three women, have been arrested in Cleveland — which voted Obama. Not that that’s got anything to do with anything!” 

Again, we are witnessing the eventual demise of talk radio. The crown jewel of AM radio is getting older and more crankier. King Hippo is hurting talk radio literally.

Not only liberal agitators suffer from a lack of audience but fresh young conservative agitators are struggling to move into a market as well.

Since the Republicans failed to defeat the president, they're now trying to hurt the legacy. The president was handed major defeats since he was sworn in this year. The Democrats fear the Senate majority is at risk of being in Republican control. Everything the president done since he's been in office has been challenged by the greedy White extremist and their friends the Republican Party. It's not fair but it's politics.

This awful comparison made by King Hippo is crude to say at least. Whether he's joking or not, it's inappropriate for him to do that.

If Lil' Wayne can get pulled from Mountain Dew for a crude rap verse, how come the conservative agitator continues to spit a crude verse without a beat?


Details Emerge About Missing Women In Cleveland!

Amanda Berry, reportedly found alive
Found. Amanda Berry busted out of kidnapper's home and call the police. The woman along with two others were found in a Cleveland home. The FBI and Cleveland Police are investigating three men who held these women captive for over a decade.
The FBI and Cleveland Police are investigating three individuals involved in a kidnapping of long forgotten teenage girls who became captives.

The junk food media finally pays attention to the abduction of two teens who were missing for over a decade. The media had long forgotten about Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus for the Aruba incident.

Nonstop wall-to-wall coverage of Natalee Holloway and the suspect Joran Van der Sloot kept the media busy. It helped ambulance chasers Nancy Grace, Greta Van Susteren, Rita Cosby and Geraldo Rivera in the spotlight. They were investing their time worrying about this story more than a two young girls missing in Cleveland.

Today the news of the bold actions Amanda Berry (and her daughter) are being the talk of the nation. Berry along with the two other women were freed from captivity by a good samaritan.

Charles Ramsey on the act of cautious fear helped Berry, DeJesus and Michelle Knight escape from their horrible ordeal. Over 10 years of being missing, the young women were hid in plain sight.

Ohio governor John Kasich, President Barack Obama and Cleveland mayor Frank Jackson were informed about this during the night.

There will be a press conference to detail what happen. 52-year-old Ariel Castro and two of his brothers are being held in Cuyahoga County lock-up in regards to their involvement. Castro appears to be a former school bus driver.
Ariel Castro, the kidnapper.
This type of incident will assure they'll face federal charges. The FBI will interview the woman and get the information necessary to put those horrible individuals in the iron college for life.

It's a rarity that missing children are found alive especially after years of being missing.

The most famous missing women were Elizabeth Smart and Jaycee Dugrad. Smart was kidnapped from her home and found at least nine months later. Smart went on to become a victim's rights advocate and a married woman. Dugard was kidnapped for over 10 years and had children with her captor.

Initially, thoughts of death were in the minds of the family. But hope wasn't lost.

The Plain Dealer reports, Berry called police Monday afternoon and frantically told a dispatcher that she was alive and free after being kidnapped 10 years ago and held captive in a house on Seymour Avenue.

"We've confirmed it's them," a Cleveland detective said. "They are alive and safe." Police have scheduled a news conference for 9 a.m. today.

Berry, now 27, DeJesus, 23, and Knight, 30, were taken to MetroHealth Medical Center. The FBI and police will interview the women, the detective said.

DeJesus, missing for nine years, and Knight, missing for 11 years, were with her.

Police arrested three brothers, ages 50, 52 and 54. Police did not release names.

But neighbors said one of them is the owner of the house, Ariel Castro, 52, a Cleveland school bus driver until last November who had lived in the two-story house since 1992. Records show he was arrested for domestic violence in 1993, but a grand jury declined to indict him.

Police were searching the house and yard Monday night and into this morning.
Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus were found alive in a Cleveland home. Rarely missing children are found alive after being missing for years. They were held captive in a home located near downtown Cleveland.
Berry was the first to get out of the house, escaping through a broken door. A child came out behind her. Police then came and rescued the other two women, who were taken to the hospital. It wasn't immediately known who the child was.

Dr. Gerald Maloney, emergency room doctor at MetroHealth, said in a news conference Monday night that the three women were in fair condition.

"They are able to speak, they are safe, and hospital staff are assessing their needs and evaluating if they will spend the night," he said. "This is good. This is not the ending we usually see from these stories."

Knight, who was 19 at the time of her disappearance, was last seen at a cousin's house near West 106th Street and Lorain Avenue on Aug. 23, 2002.

Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson released a statement Monday expressing gratitude that the three women were found alive.

"We have many unanswered questions regarding this case, and the investigation will be ongoing," Jackson wrote.

Outside of MetroHealth, a large crowd awaited word on the women's condition.

Berry's cousin, Tasheena Mitchell, 26, who was 16 years old when Berry disappeared, said her brother had called to tell her the news that Berry is alive. But she said she received it skeptically, having had her hopes dashed by false reports in the past.

"She was my best friend," Mitchell said.

A friend interrupted her, "She's alive. She is your best friend."

"You're right," Mitchell continued. "She is my best friend. I'm so nervous. I'm so excited. They won't let me inside. But I will stay here all night if I have to."

Drivers passing the hospital and the neighborhood honked their car horns in support, while police protected the rescued women's relatives from a crush of TV news cameras and reporters.

Many in the crowd hugged and cried.

"They don't find people who go missing, you know," said Kayla Rogers, 23, who waited at the hospital for news of her friend. She attended Almira Elementary and Wilbur Wright Middle School with DeJesus. "I'm at a loss for words."

Rogers said she only attended one vigil over the years because it was too painful.
The home of the kidnapper. Seymour Avenue was quiet until Monday.
As the crowd grew outside of Castro's house, details about the mysterious resident circulated.

Jannette Gomez, 50, who often visits family and friends on the street, said Castro would park his motorcycle and red pickup truck behind the house, lock the gate and enter the house through a back door.

Occasionally, he would turn on a dim porch light, but the house was always dark, Gomez said. Shades blocked the windows, and at least one window was boarded up.

Gomez said he never had much to say, she said. He would say 'Hi' back, but there was never much conversation.

Castro's uncle, Julio Castro, who owns a store called Caribe at the corner of West 25th Street and Seymour, said he had mixed emotions about the discovery.

"For me, it's bad on one side and good on the other side."

Julio Castro said his nephew used to play bass in various bands that performed at a local club once owned by DeJesus' uncle. He said he believes his nephew knew the family from the club and the neighborhood.

Charlie Czorba, a Caribe customer who lives on Seymour, said he was stunned by how long the women had lived at the house undetected.

"This is our own backyard," he said. "These girls were locked up in our own backyard."

Another neighbor, Victor Pratts, who has lived on the street for about 25 years, said Ariel Castro would occasionally come out and ride a four-wheeler with him. But Pratts said he never saw any of the three women enter or exit the house.

Aurora Marti, 75, who lives across the street from Castro, said she was sitting on her neighbor's front porch talking Monday evening when an arm reached out of the front door at Castro's house.

"She was waving her arm and saying, 'Help me! Help me!' " Marti recalled through her daughter, who translated from her mother's Spanish.

The captive woman identified herself as Amanda Berry and said she was kidnapped 10 years ago.

Neighbor Charles Ramsey said he also heard a girl screaming, "Help, help me out." He said the girl looked familiar. He said he called 9-1-1.

Ramsey said Castro took off running while Ramsey kicked and broke the bottom of a door, allowing Berry to crawl out.

Police arrested Castro at a nearby McDonald's restaurant and brought the other two women out of the house, witnesses said.

Ramsey said he knew Castro, had even eaten ribs with him -- and had no idea the women or the child was in the house.
A relieved hero, Charles Ramsey gives a color interview about his role in saving kidnapped women.
"We never thought that man would do anything to anybody," Pratts said. "He was a bus driver."

Mike Iwais, a longtime resident in the neighborhood, lives in a house just a parking lot away -- about 200 feet -- from Castro's house.

"I used to see him walking around all the time," he said. "But I never saw nothing crazy. This is unbelievable. It's a miracle they found him, and it's a miracle those girls are alive. It's a blessing from God."

Michelle Knight's grandmother, Deborah Knight, said she had not yet heard from police but was waiting for some kind of verification that one of the women is really her granddaughter. Although Michelle Knight was reported missing more than a decade ago, family members concluded that she probably left on her own because she was angry that her son was removed from her custody, the grandmother said. She said her daughter believed she had last seen Michelle Knight several years ago in a van with an older man at a shopping plaza on West 117th Street.

A June 2004 story that appeared in the Plain Press, a West Side neighborhood newspaper, was written by someone named Ariel Castro and described the community's anxiety since the disappearance of DeJesus and Berry. A Plain Press spokesman said the Ariel Castro who wrote for the publication was a journalism student whose relationship to the man in custody is not known.

The author interviewed DeJesus' mother, Nancy Ruiz, and a group of parents waiting for their children to be released from Wilbur Wright Middle School. They spoke of the need for greater security and the fear that had settled upon the neighborhood.

"For seven weeks, Gina's family has been organizing searches, holding prayer vigils, posting fliers and calling press conferences," Castro wrote. "Despite the many tips and rumors that have been circulating in the neighborhood, there has been no sign of her. One thing is for certain, however. Almost everyone feels a connection with the family, and Gina's disappearance has the whole area talking."

Rachel Dissell and Peter Krouse contributed to this story. There will be updates on this.

The videos are explicit and we express discretion in this. Amanda Berry and hero Charles Ramsey call 911 and there will be explicit language from both.


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Monday, May 06, 2013

BREAKING: Missing Cleveland Women Held Captive Freed!

Found alive with two other women. Gina DeJesus and two other woman were held captive by individual.

THIS IS A BREAKING EVENT! WE HERE AT JOURNAL DE LE REYNA SEND OUR PRAYERS TO THE THREE YOUNG WOMEN WHO WERE KIDNAPPED BY THIS INDIVIDUAL. WE SEEK JUSTICE FOR THE INDIVIDUAL INVOLVED IN THIS KIDNAPPING. WE WILL STAY ON THIS EVENT AS MORE DETAILS EMERGE! 

Three women who were once teenagers apparently turned up alive in Cleveland, Ohio. The alleged kidnapper was arrested.

The FBI and Cleveland Police were looking for these young women for years.

This news comes to over ten years of hope being lost and the possibility these women would be found dead.

This amazing news will travel and of course, we'll be covering this here at Journal de la Reyna.

CNN reports that Amanda Berry one of the victims busted out of the kidnapper's home and called the police.

The break the FBI and Cleveland Police needed came today.

Three women who went missing years ago in separate cases have been found together Monday in Cleveland, Ohio, police said.

One of the women called 911 after breaking out of the house where she had been living.
Amanda Berry.
"Help me, I am Amanda Berry," she said, her voice distraught and quick, according to an audio recording of the call released Monday night. "I've been kidnapped and I've been missing for 10 years. And I'm here and I'm free now."

Another 911 call came in less than a minute later from a man who saw Berry busting out of the house.

"She's like, 'This (expletive) kidnapped me and my daughter,'" Charles Ramsey told 911.

A 52-year-old man has been arrested, Cleveland police said on their website. Brian Cummins, a councilman who represents the area where the women were found, said the suspect's name is Ariel Castro.
Cleveland Police found missing women.
The three women are in fair condition, Gerald Maloney, an emergency department physician at Metro Health Medical Center, said Monday night.

"I am thankful that Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michele Knight have been found alive," Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson said. "We have many unanswered questions regarding this case and the investigation will be ongoing. Again, I am thankful that these three young ladies are found and alive."

Angie Garcia, whose aunt lives across the street from where the women were found, said Berry ran over to the house Monday and begged to use the phone. Berry, who was carrying a child, told the aunt who she was and then asked to use the phone to call 911.

The women and another young child came out of the house across the street, Garcia said.

"We never saw the girls there and we were always outside," she said. "We only saw the guy."

Berry and DeJesus were in their teens when they disappeared in 2003 and 2004, CNN affiliate WEWS reported. Knight went missing in 2002, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

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