I kind of had to get used to everything again, and people and just everyday life. It really went through the city, right through the spine of the city, "Help me, help me, I'm Amanda Berry."īerry : It was scary at first, I mean, it still is a little bit. that desperation in the voice was chilling. Jordan : You can hear how desperate and frantic it was. On hearing a recording of Berry's 911 call saw the chains and we had to tell her that they were bracelets and she would notice that he would lock the door when he left and she would ask him, "Why do you lock to door?" and "Why can't you leave the door unlocked? Why can't you leave the door open?" And he would just come up with a story to tell her and that would be that. On getting pregnant and having Castro's babyīerry: I didn't know what was going to happen or what he was going to say, but I mean, I wanted to keep the baby, I just wasn't sure what he was going to do. He said to Amanda and Gina in the house that he hated his mother. Before he started kidnapping girls he had a common-law wife and he beat her. Jordan : He had a real problem with women to say the least. On Castro's sex addiction and history of domestic violence He just had a double life and when he walked inside his front door, he became a whole other violent person. He was saying hello to neighbors he was sweet he drove the school bus he was good to his friends. His house was a mess because he was a big hoarder, but he was very clever. He had the curtains inside and he tidied up his front lawn. If you walked down the street, you didn't see that he had put a door and nailed it to those windows and had quilts, because he had pulled the curtains. You can't underestimate how smooth he was. On how Castro managed to keep his kidnappings a secret So many times I wanted to turn onto my side I would have to move the chain to put the lock on the front of my stomach or I'd be lying on this big chain and this big lock and it was just uncomfortable. That chain was around my stomach and there was a big lock on it. There was a garbage can in there that I had to use for the bathroom. You had enough room to get up and use the bathroom or something like that. I couldn't tell that he was this horrible man talking to him in the van.īerry: like 5 feet, I think? I couldn't really do nothing. Like, he was talkative and he kept the conversation going and he was talking about his kids and how one of his kids worked at the Burger King that I worked at because I had my uniform on, so he was talking about that for a couple of minutes. On getting in Castro's car and realizing it was a mistakeĭeJesus (who was kidnapped in 2004) : I was kind of freaking out a little bit when he didn't turn around, but then when he started talking to me about his daughter and how he was going to take his daughter to the mall and stuff, I kind of, I little bit relaxed, but not really because I was still a little scared.īerry (who was kidnapped in 2003) : He wasn't mean in the car. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Hope Subtitle A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland Author Amanda Berry, Gina Dejesus, et al
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