This is the last installment of our series, Lost and Found.

Chapter 3, the Cleveland kidnappings.

Girls go missing within blocks of each other over a couple of years.

At first, not much of an alarm goes up.

But as the disappearances multiply, the city of Cleveland and especially the

Tramont neighborhood would be on high alert. Could one person be responsible? Were they linked?

Or was it just a coincidence? People would be shocked to discover the answer had been right under

their nose all along. Join me for the final installment in our series, Lost and Found, Chapter 3, the Cleveland

kidnappings.

For the benefit of some of our more sensitive listeners, I have omitted some of the more graphic

details.

This case played out over a series of years, and the perpetrator was cruel and violent.

If you'd like to know all the details, I recommend John Glatt's excellent book on the case called The Lost Girls.

I will include a link to it on the show page.

The first girl, Michelle Knight. Michelle Knight's life was tough from the beginning. Michelle, her mother,

her father, and her two younger twin brothers bounced around a lot in and around Cleveland, Ohio.

Some of her earliest memories are living with her family in their old station wagon, having only apples to eat picked from an orchard

where they parked their car to spend the night. Her parents fought a lot and neither seemed

capable of caring or providing for their young children or themselves. When they were able to find

a place to rent, it was in a bad part of town rife with drugs, gangs, and violence. There were often many people in and out of the

house, a way, perhaps, for her parents to split the rent with multiple people, family members, friends,

and often virtual strangers to Michelle. There never seemed to be enough money to go around,

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