3 Women Escape After Being Abducted 10 Yrs Ago

[Bella Fortuna]

Yesterday - huge news here in the states; not sure how much it's getting covered elsewhere.

http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/articl ... 493054.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/08/us/cl ... .html?_r=0

CLEVELAND (AP) — Three women who went missing separately about a decade ago were found Monday in a home just south of downtown and likely had been tied up during years of captivity, said police, who arrested three brothers. One of the women said she had been abducted and told a 911 dispatcher in a frantic call, "I'm free now."

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/articl ... z2SemD2hzt

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[SteveB]

I think I would have devised an escape in the first week...but 10 years...must have had some serious Stockholm syndrome.

[Bella Fortuna]

I'm curious and dreading what comes out about what happened in those ten years.

[charlou]

It was headline news in Australia last night when we turned on the ABC to watch At The Movies. The news reporters were certainly into the story. I haven't been watching or listening today so don't know where it's at.

[charlou]

I'm curious and dreading what comes out about what happened in those ten years.

It was mentioned that one of the women has a child, but nothing more was said about that.

[Bella Fortuna]

I'm curious and dreading what comes out about what happened in those ten years.

It was mentioned that one of the women has a child, but nothing more was said about that.

Yes, 6 years old so born during the captivity. No word on which of the brothers is (presumably) the father.

[hadespussercats]

Berry disappeared at age 16 on April 21, 2003, when she called her sister to say she was getting a ride home from her job at a Burger King. DeJesus went missing at age 14 on her way home from school about a year later. They were found just a few miles from where they had gone missing.
Police said Knight went missing in 2002 and is 32 now. They didn't provide current ages for Berry or DeJesus.

Derrrrrrrrrrrrrp.

[Bella Fortuna]

Maffs is hard.

[FBM]

That's a double-dip derp.

[JimC]

I gather some serious questions will be asked of Cleveland law enforcement, after a number of reports failed to achieve any action...

[Tyrannical]

Ramsey's lively and captivating interviews have been shared on social networking sites most of the day with many claiming it as 'the best interview ever.'

Mr Ramsey told WEWS-TV: 'I heard screaming, and I see this girl going nuts trying to get outside [of the house].

'I go on the porch and she said, "Help me get out. I've been here a long time." I figure it was domestic violence dispute.'

'She comes out with a little girl and says "Call 911, my name is Amanda Berry."

'I knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl runs into a black man's arms, I said, "Something is wrong here". Dead giveaway.'

That cheeky daily mail

[Audley Strange]

The best thing, other than these ladies being found alive, was the dead eyed goons milling about in the background of that Charles Ramsey interview they had on the beeb. Everyone of those guys made our neds look like overfed wealthy raconteurs. There was one guy, looked like a scrawny meth-chimp with a big tattoo on the side of his cheek, if you watch him closely he seems to be lip syncing nodding and staring into the camera like it was a object from a future world.

[Rum]

Fucking woo. This from the BBC news website.

"There is an online backlash against self-proclaimed psychic Sylvia Browne, who in 2004 told Ms Berry's mother, Louwana Miller, on TV her daughter was dead and her last words were "goodbye, mom, I love you". Ms Miller died in 2006 of heart failure, aged 43"

[Bella Fortuna]

"What's the harm?" people ask... sigh. That poor mother.

[cronus]

In a large amorphous country like the United States is today how many other dungeon ladies are there? I've a feeling this is the tip of a ugly iceberg of gigantic proportions.