(Chicago Tribune) — Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without parole for abducting, raping and holding captive three women for as long as 11 years, and murder ...

According to a newly released sentencing memo, Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight kept diaries of their torture. The women detailed crimes committed against them by Ariel Castro, who is ...

Michelle Knight's mother hires lawyer, says she is shut out of seeing daughter. CLEVELAND, May 10, 2013— -- Cleveland kidnap victim Michelle Knight, who may have had the most harrowing ordeal in ...

Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro was sentenced to life in prison without parole plus 1,000 years Thursday after one of the three women he held for a decade faced him down in court. "You have not been ...

(AP) Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro says he called the mother of one of his victims while she was in captivity and told her she was OK, according to a videotaped FBI interrogation. Castro also told ...

CLEVELAND -- Three women found alive after a decade in captivity endured lonely, dark lives inside a dingy home where they were raped and allowed outside only a handful of times in disguises while ...

Gina DeJesus, one of three women kidnapped and held captive in Cleveland for about a decade, made her first public appearance this weekend. DeJesus took part in a Cleveland parade that organizers ...