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If this is not allowed in it's own thread I apologize profusely for it. This is an AMAZING article and gives a lot of insight as to what happened the night they were rescued.
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Evenings like this are as good as it gets on Seymour Avenue.
Goldilocks temperatures are perfect for a bike ride or for sitting out on the porch with friends. Perhaps a neighbor will fire up the grill. The smell of barbecue and the beats of salsa music soon might trickle out on to this short side street in one of Cleveland's many working-poor communities. It's mid-spring. The sun won't fade for at least another couple of hours.
For a few moments, everything is pleasant. Then comes the horrifying cry for help.
What happens over the next half-hour becomes worldwide news. Neighbors and police officers free three missing women and a child from years of abuse. Police arrest the accused abductor a half-mile away at a fast-food restaurant.
Subtract any element. Would Amanda Berry and her 6-year-old daughter, born a prisoner, have escaped Ariel Castro's lair? How about Gina DeJesus? Would we ever have known about Michelle Knight? She was the first of the three to vanish. But while Berry and DeJesus were the subjects of extensive investigations, Knight's case quickly was forgotten.
In these tense and emotional minutes of Monday, May 6 is the story of how bravery and swift action ended a decade-long nightmare. The heroes are the neighbors, the police officers and the women. Berry especially. Tonight, after 10 years, two weeks and one day of cruel incarceration inside Ariel Castro's Seymour Avenue home, she summons her courage.
'You can't be Amanda. Amanda is dead.'
Aurora Marti drags her green plastic chair -- the one with the Cleveland Indians cushion -- across the narrow driveway to Altagracia Tejeda's small, stone patio next door. Angel Cordero, a friend from nearby, is on the porch.
MORE HERE: http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2013/05/30_minutes_that_ended_a_decade.html
How this story was written and reported
This story is based heavily on Plain Dealer reporting throughout last week. Original reporting included new interviews with neighbors and other witnesses. The newspaper also relied on accounts and reports shared by city and police sources, on publicly released recordings and documents and on video footage of Charles Ramsey's interviews with local and national news reporters. Quotes obtained directly from a recording, document or witness account are presented with quotation marks. Angel Cordero, Aurora Marti and Altagracia Tejeda spoke to The Plain Dealer through an interpreter.
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Evenings like this are as good as it gets on Seymour Avenue.
Goldilocks temperatures are perfect for a bike ride or for sitting out on the porch with friends. Perhaps a neighbor will fire up the grill. The smell of barbecue and the beats of salsa music soon might trickle out on to this short side street in one of Cleveland's many working-poor communities. It's mid-spring. The sun won't fade for at least another couple of hours.
For a few moments, everything is pleasant. Then comes the horrifying cry for help.
What happens over the next half-hour becomes worldwide news. Neighbors and police officers free three missing women and a child from years of abuse. Police arrest the accused abductor a half-mile away at a fast-food restaurant.
Subtract any element. Would Amanda Berry and her 6-year-old daughter, born a prisoner, have escaped Ariel Castro's lair? How about Gina DeJesus? Would we ever have known about Michelle Knight? She was the first of the three to vanish. But while Berry and DeJesus were the subjects of extensive investigations, Knight's case quickly was forgotten.
In these tense and emotional minutes of Monday, May 6 is the story of how bravery and swift action ended a decade-long nightmare. The heroes are the neighbors, the police officers and the women. Berry especially. Tonight, after 10 years, two weeks and one day of cruel incarceration inside Ariel Castro's Seymour Avenue home, she summons her courage.
'You can't be Amanda. Amanda is dead.'
Aurora Marti drags her green plastic chair -- the one with the Cleveland Indians cushion -- across the narrow driveway to Altagracia Tejeda's small, stone patio next door. Angel Cordero, a friend from nearby, is on the porch.
MORE HERE: http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2013/05/30_minutes_that_ended_a_decade.html