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Corpus Delicti

251: Survival: Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus

Corpus Delicti

CDM Productions

True Crime

4.5608 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Three women are held captive by one man for ten years. But when they finally are free, there's a fourth with them... a child. Ariel Castro preyed on women he knew peripherally and kept them against their will, torturing them constantly.


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Music by:

Kai Engel

"Daemones"

Blooper music by:

Art of Escapism

"Coal Miners"

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone, it's Jen.

0:25.1

And this is Lindsay.

0:26.4

And welcome back to Corpusillictide, the podcast.

0:29.5

We are still going strong in our Survivor series.

0:33.6

Yes, and tonight's episode, just a fair warning.

0:36.6

It has all sorts of trigger warnings.

0:39.0

It talks about domestic violence, sexual assault, animal cruelty, too, I think. It's got a lot.

0:45.3

It's pretty bad. But it's got everything.

0:48.9

Yes. But of course, we want to make sure that we highlight the survivors in this story.

0:53.9

Before we do that,

0:55.3

just a heads up, Jen and I usually take off in December for the holidays. We are doing that this

1:01.7

year, but it's going to be more of an unspecified hiatus. We're going to take an extended break.

1:07.1

We don't know for how long. Just to be perfectly honest, Jen has a ton going on at work

1:14.2

right now. She's doing her certification at work. I'm doing mine. I have a surgery in January.

1:20.2

We just got to take a minute just to get some of that out of the way. Patreon people,

1:26.1

you will not be billed. The billing will be paused, but you will still have

1:29.3

access to everything. You won't lose Discord. You won't lose anything like that. You're just not

1:33.2

going to be billed for that time and we won't have episodes during that time. Inless,

1:37.2

something random happens and we do an update or whatever. But just know that is coming in December.

1:41.8

We will let you guys know a return date as soon as we know that.

1:46.3

So let's go ahead and jump into this week's story, which takes us to Cleveland, Ohio, where three young women survived an entire decade in captivity at the brutal hands of Ariel Castro.

2:04.6

Ariel Castro originally was from Puerto Rico. He lived there with his parents and his three siblings until his parents divorced. And his mom took him and his

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