Good grief.   The Daily Mail has some remarkable pictures of the inside to the house where the three women were held captive.

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Ariel Castro – 52                       Onil Castro – 50                      Pedro Castro – 54

Ariel Castro padlocked the doors leading to his basement, his attic and his garage and never allowed his family inside, his son has exclusively revealed to MailOnline.

Update 1.  At least five babies were born at the house, while one of the victims suffered as many as three miscarriages because she was so malnourished, police sources told NewsChannel5.

Other sources told WKYC that the captors would beat the women when they were pregnant, meaning that the babies would not survive.  (link)

Update 2.  A source further noted that Knight told police that there was another woman in the home when she got there, but one day she woke up and the woman was gone. There is writing on the wall in the basement which includes the name of a female and says, “Rest In Peace,” but police do not know if that is related to the case at this time.  (link)

Update 3.  One neighbor, Nina Samoylicz, said that one night two years ago, she and some friends saw a naked woman in Ariel Castro’s backyard. They tried to speak to her, and a man told the woman to get down, she said.

“So we said something to him, (and) he told her to get in the house and he ran behind the cars and got in the house,” Samoylicz said. They called police, but they weren’t taken seriously, she claims.

A week or two after that incident, Castro erected tarps in the backyard to seclude it, she said.  (link)

Chilling photographs from 2001 show a grinning Castro standing in front of a locked door – behind which unimaginable horrors may have been unfolding in the basement.

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By that point, Michele Knight, one of the three women he allegedly held captive for a decade, had already been missing for a year.

In an interview with MailOnline, his son Anthony Castro, 31, has spoken of his shock at his father’s alleged crimes and revealed how Ariel Castro asked him just weeks ago whether he believed the kidnapping of Amanda Berry – one of his victims – would ever be solved.

‘If it’s true that he took her captive and forced her into having sex with  him and having his child and keeping her hidden and keeping them from  sunlight, he really took those girls’ lives,’ he said.   (read much more)

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