Cleveland Kidnapper Rapist Ariel Castro Found Dead

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Ariel Castro, the Cleveland man who was sentenced to life in prison plus 1,000 years in July after pleading guilty to imprisoning and raping three women for a decade, was found dead in his jail cell, a prison spokeswoman said early Wednesday.
The 53-year-old convict was found hanging in his cell around 9:20 p.m. Tuesday at the Correctional Reception Center in Orient, officials said.

Prison medical staff performed CPR before Castro was transported to Ohio State University Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, officials said.
Castro had been housed in protective custody, which means he was in a cell by himself, and guards make rounds every 30 minutes at staggered intervals, according to the Ohio Bureau of Prisons.

Prison officials said a "thorough review of this incident is underway."
The three women Castro kidnapped had disappeared separately between 2002 and 2004, when they were 14, 16 and 20 years old.

The women — Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight — escaped May 6 after Berry broke through a storm door and screamed for help while Castro was out of the house. Castro was arrested later that day a short distance from the home.
Castro was sentenced Aug. 1 to life in prison plus 1,000 years on his guilty plea to 937 counts including kidnapping and rape.
At the sentencing, Knight confronted Castro, reading a damning statement.
"I spent 11 years in hell," she told her tormentor, "your hell is just beginning."
In his own statements at the sentencing, Castro put much of the blame on his victims, saying things like, "I am not a violent person. I simply kept them there without being able to leave."

Castro's attorneys had tried unsuccessfully to have a psychological examination of Castro done at the Cuyahoga County Jail, where Castro was housed before he was turned over to state authorities following his conviction, his attorney, Jaye Schlachet, told The Associated Press early Wednesday. Schlachet said he could not immediately comment further.
In an interview last month after Castro's conviction, Schlachet and attorney Craig Weintraub said their client clearly fit the profile of sociopathic disorder and that they hoped researchers would study him for clues that could be used to stop other predators, the AP reported.

 

RA beat you to it by one min.

 

Maybe Webbie can merge them. ^^^



God that man is ugly inside and out. *shudders* Burn in hell.