Ohio Kidnapper

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  8-Year-Old 'Hero' Pulls Sister From Car As Kidnapper Tries To Drive Away

  The 8-year-old was not about to let a strange man drive off with his 10-year-old sister in their great-grandmother's car. Moments earlier, Chance Blue and Skylar Weaver were waiting in the back seat as their great-grandmother dropped off a relative at a hospital in Middletown, Ohio, on Thursday afternoon. About 10 seconds after Nita Coburn left the...

• 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.

• Home of Cleveland kidnapper is demolished

  The Ohio house where three women were held captive and raped for over a decade has been quickly demolished, and authorities want to make sure the rubble isn't sold online as "murderabilia" - mementos from a murder scene.

• 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.

• Ohio abduction: suspect is father of captive girl, says official

  Tests confirmed that alleged kidnapper Ariel Castro is the father of a 6-year-old girl who was rescued from his house with three women this week, the state's top prosecutor said on Friday.

• Ohio abduction: victims switched on 'auto-pilot' to survive

  To survive a 10-year ordeal of beatings and rapes at the hands of the Ohio kidnapper, his three victims may have shut down mentally on a form of "auto-pilot" to dull the trauma, psychologists say.