Missing in Cleveland: The True Story of the Seymour Avenue Abductions
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Joe
4.9 • 638 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
In 2002, Michelle Knight became the first victim in a kidnapping investigation that would span eleven years in Cleveland, Ohio, as Ariel Castro abducted three women and held them captive at 2207 Seymour Avenue in one of the most significant missing persons failures in American criminal history. Detectives failed to connect the disappearances of victims Amanda Berry in 2003 and Gina DeJesus in 2004, leaving three open cases while the suspect drove a school bus, played bass in local bands, and attended vigils for the very girl he had locked in his house, before a 937-count conviction in 2013.
Ariel Castro spent years consoling a grieving mother at community events, handing out her missing daughter's flyers, and standing at candlelight vigils on her behalf. Three women survived more than a decade of captivity through an extraordinary bond forged with each other and with a child born inside that house, and when they finally walked out on May 6, 2013, they didn't stop moving. This is a story about what people are capable of, the absolute worst of it and the most astonishing of it.
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| 0:51.0 | In Cleveland, Ohio, there's a house that doesn't exist anymore. |
| 0:55.0 | The city demolished it in August of 2013 and shredded every single piece of it so that nothing could be kept or sold. |
| 1:02.0 | For 11 years, that house stood at 2207 Seymour Avenue, completely ordinary from the outside. |
| 1:09.0 | Neighbors walked past it. |
| 1:11.6 | Police made visits to it. |
| 1:13.6 | Three women were inside waiting for over 100 years. Tremont is one of those neighborhoods in Cleveland that has been quietly working class |
| 1:46.6 | for over a hundred years. |
| 1:49.0 | Church on Sunday, kids on bikes in the summer, everyone on the block knowing each other's |
| 1:53.7 | names. |
| 1:54.8 | On Seymour Avenue, there was a house that had been standing since 1890, a two-story building |
| 2:00.4 | with nothing about it that would make you slow down |
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