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Episode 78 - Ariel Castro & The Horror at 2207 Seymour Avenue

RedHanded

Wondery | RedHanded

True Crime

4.518.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Between 2002 and 2004 Ariel Castro abducted three young women and chained them up in his basement at 2207 Seymour Avenue. Over the course of the next decade he systematically broke them down, tortured them, raped them, brutalised them - until finally, and miraculously they escaped.

This week we cover the case of Ariel Castro and the three remarkable women who survived an unbelievable ordeal; Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus.


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0:00.0

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0:21.0

I'm Hannah, I'm Saruti, and welcome to Redhanded.

0:26.0

On the 6th of May, 2013, Aurora Matty was sitting on her front porch on Seymour Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio.

0:35.0

There was nothing unusual about that day, until 5.45pm, when Aurora looking across the street to 2207 Seymour Avenue, the House opposite.

0:46.0

Saw an arm poking out from behind a storm door.

0:51.0

2207 was quite a big house, it had two floors, four bedrooms, one bathroom, a basement and a backyard, but only one person lived there.

1:01.0

As Aurora looked closer, she realised the arm was waving, and she started to hear the person who the arm was attached to, shouting for help.

1:10.0

Aurora's neighbours, Charles Ramsay and Angelo Cordero, also heard the cries.

1:15.0

They thought this had to be some sort of domestic violence situation or possibly a robbery gone wrong.

1:20.0

They approached the door and kicked a hole in it so the woman on the other side could climb through.

1:25.0

This woman had a small child with her. Both of them made it out through the door.

1:31.0

She told Charles Ramsay that they needed to call 911, her name was Amanda Berry, and she'd been missing for 10 years.

1:38.0

In interviews with the press later that day, Charles Ramsay uttered the immortal words that made him an internet legend.

1:58.0

You know he's written a book called Dead giveaway, and the full title is Dead Giveaway, The Rescue, Hamburger's White Folks and Instant Celebrity.

2:08.0

What you saw on TV doesn't even begin to tell the story.

2:12.0

There's a big controversy between him and Angelo of who actually broke down the door.

2:17.0

He says that Angelo just saw the arm waving and then ran off, and now that Charles Ramsay's really famous, Angelo's come out being like, no it was me.

2:26.0

I know there's a lot of people as well, the neighbours being like, oh he didn't do anything blah blah blah, but it is the book.

2:32.0

I obviously haven't read the book, but I read an interview with him about it. It was like called Five Years On From The Rescue or whatever.

2:40.0

I was like, what is this guy written a book about, but actually his life after this case happened is really interesting because as the name suggests with instant celebrity he became so so so famous because of what happened and that interview.

2:51.0

He just became like this viral meme sensation.

2:55.0

It seems like it kind of ruined his life. That instant celebrity dumb.

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