Castro was also friends with DeJesus’ dad. Gina DeJesus, then 14 years old, was close friends with Castro’s daughter, Arlene. “Like, what was he going to do to us.”Īlmost a year after Berry became his prisoner, Castro went on the prowl again just five blocks away from the street where he kidnapped Berry. “I didn’t know if one day we were gonna be murdered or he wanted more girls in the house,” Berry said.
“There was plenty of times when I just never knew,” Berry said, adding that she thought, “Why is he keeping me here?” And he’ll be punished for what he did,” Berry said. “I would always write these numbers at the top of the pages, because I felt like, you know, one day maybe authorities will get to read it.
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In her diary, Berry used a code to record how many times he raped her each day. You know, you're not in that room with him,” Berry said. “You, like, put your mind somewhere else so that you're not there. “I mean, he tried to act nice, but he’s like, ‘Well, maybe you need to go take a shower,’ and I had to take a shower with him,” Berry said.īerry said she had to “numb” herself to cope with the sexual abuse. “That was the last we heard of anything,” Serrano said. But Castro never used Berry’s phone again. “We spent about a week, around the clock, in that area, hoping that this phone would be used again,” FBI agent Tim Kolonik said. With that information, they were able to narrow down that her phone had been used within a thirty to forty block area. In 2003, the FBI was just starting to develop technology that could track a cell phone’s location if it was turned on. “He called and said, ‘I have Mandy,’ which, nobody called her Mandy but who knew her,” said Beth Serrano, Berry’s sister. “Going to sleep at night, you know, if you wanted to toss on to your back, you couldn’t do that, you would have to take the whole chain and move it to the front of your stomach so that you're not laying on the big lock on your back.” One week after Amanda Berry’s abduction, Castro calls her familyīerry was missing for a week when her family received a late-night call from Castro, who taunted them using Berry’s cell phone. “It was really hard, you know, because in the beginning, the chain was around my stomach,” Berry said. On the fourth day of her abduction, April 24, 2003, Berry said Castro moved her to an upstairs bedroom and chained her to a radiator. As long as you fight, I’m going to fight,’” Berry said. And I said, ‘You know what, I’m going to make it home to you.
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I didn’t think that I was going to ever make it home.” April 24, 2003: Day 4 of Amanda Berry’s CaptivityĪs news of her abduction made headlines, Berry watched her mother and sister on the TV in the basement. “I was so scared that I was going to die. “I just started screaming and crying… ‘Somebody please help me,’ you know. And I’ll take you home.’”īerry said Castro chained her to a pole, shut off the lights and left her in the dark with a television on.
“He put a helmet over my head, and he said, ‘Just be quiet and don’t make any noise. “He took me to the basement and he taped my wrists and he taped my ankles and he put on a belt around my ankles over the tape,” Berry said. And from there I knew, like, this was not going to be good.” “And he took me in there, and he told me to pull down my pants. “He took me to the next bedroom, and it was just really dark in there, and he didn’t turn on the lights, and there was a little, like, a little room off of the bigger bedroom, kind of a big closet,” Berry said. Berry’s memories of what happened next are still raw. She later learned that the woman was Michelle Knight, who was abducted by Castro at 21 and had been held by him for almost a year. Castro took Berry upstairs and showed her something strange: a mystery woman sleeping in a bedroom in front of a television set.
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