Cleveland Kidnappings

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  Indian Student Goes Missing In US, Parents In Hyderabad Get $1,200 Ransom Call

  The parents of an Indian student studying in the US have received a ransom call demanding nearly a lakh rupees after their son went missing. The caller informed them their son had been kidnapped and threatened to sell his kidney.

• Ohio Kidnapping Victim Says She Forgives Captor

  One of the three women held captive for nearly a decade in a Cleveland house before escaping last year says she forgives the man who kidnapped and tortured her all those years.

• Woman held captive in Ohio has book deal

  One of three young women held captive for years in a Cleveland house has a book deal.

• Ohio kidnap victim says was hung on the wall like ornament

  Michelle Knight, who survived years of imprisonment after being kidnapped by Ariel Castro, gave details about her ordeal.

• Ohio kidnapper Ariel Castro died of auto-erotic asphyxiation, not suicide

  Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro may have died from auto-erotic asphyxiation, not suicide, and two prison guards falsified logs documenting their observation of him in the hours before he died, the state said on Thursday.

• Ohio kidnapping: Ariel Castro who held three women captive commits suicide

  Ohio corrections officials say Ariel Castro who held three women captive in his home for nearly a decade has committed suicide at a state prison facility.

• Cleveland kidnapper Castro insists he is 'not a monster'

  The US bus driver who kidnapped three young women and tormented them for a decade in his Ohio home insisted as he was sentenced to life without parole on Thursday that he was "not a monster."

• Ohio kidnapper Ariel Castro sentenced to thousand years in jail

  An Ohio judge on Thursday sentenced Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro to life in prison for abducting, raping and holding captive three women for as long as 11 years, and murder for forcing one of the women to abort her pregnancy.

• Kidnapped Ohio women kept diaries: prosecutor

  Three women held captive in a run-down home for a decade kept diaries documenting the horrific physical and sexual abuse they suffered on a daily basis, prosecutors said on Wednesday.

• Ohio kidnappings: Accused pleads guilty, gets life plus 1000 years in prison

  A man accused of keeping three women captive in his Cleveland home for a decade, beating them, and raping them repeatedly is waiting to be sentenced after pleading guilty to avoid the death penalty.

• Ohio kidnapping: 977 counts filed against Ariel Castro

  The man charged with kidnapping and raping three women over a decade in his Cleveland home faced arraignment on an expanded, 977-count indictment.

• Three Ohio women freed from abduction ordeal release video

  Three young Ohio women freed two months ago from a decade of captivity in the home of a former school bus driver spoke publicly for the first time since their ordeal in a video released early on Tuesday thanking supporters and loved ones.

• Ohio kidnapping case: Ariel Castro pleads not guilty

  A Cleveland man has pleaded not guilty to holding three women captive in his home for a decade and raping them.

• Ohio kidnappings: Accused plans to plead not guilty, says lawyer

  The man charged with holding three women captive and raping them during a decade in his Cleveland home plans to plead not guilty to criminal charges, one of his lawyers said on Wednesday.

• Cleveland women held captive have long-term injuries, say sources

  Two of the women imprisoned in a Cleveland house in conditions described as similar to a prisoner of war camp suffered from severe malnutrition and will require long-term therapy for injuries such as hearing loss and joint and muscle damage, two sources with direct knowledge said.