They are never forgotten in my heart. They are caterpillars, waiting to turn into a butterfly. They are never forgotten, they are loved. Then a crew of workers wearing high-visibility jackets tore the house down using heavy demolition kit, as neighbours and television crews looked on.
Onlookers cheered. Within minutes, the house was reduced to a pile of rubble. Castro's neighbours in the working-class district of Cleveland had vowed to see the house demolished at the conclusion of the trial. Two birds frolic in the flower bushes planted where Castro's house once stood.
The Spectacle. What it is, others on the street said, was a spectacle that brings in onlookers from around the country. Rose said he has seen countless out-of-state license plates, and some from Canada, on cars as they cruised down the street. The field and the street have found their way onto many people's macabre lists of must-see Cleveland attractions. A woman visited the city with her family from Baltimore in the summer of , before the homes were torn down, and among photographs she posted to Facebook of her and her family at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Cedar Point were three photographs of the boarded-up and fenced-in home that was the site of so much grief and pain for the women.
Two years later, in July , another Facebook user posted a photograph of the street signs at the corner of Seymour Avenue and Scranton Road with the caption, "Look where I was. In May of , a woman uploaded a video on YouTube of her visit to Castro's home as part of what she called her "serial killer, true crime obsession.
She spoke in the car ride over to Seymour. She forgot DeJesus's and Knight's names. As the car rolled up to the field, she realized that the home had been torn down and was visibly upset. She opened the passenger door before the driver fully stopped the car and walked toward the planted flowers. They are used to it. And they're tired of it. We're just normal like everybody else. We want to raise our children to be as productive as possible.
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For 11 years. When US prosecutors wheeled a dollhouse replica of Ariel Castro's home into a Cleveland courtroom, it did little to convey the true horror experienced by his three victims - Michele Knight, Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus. Police photographs showed two rooms in which Ms Berry and her child - fathered by Castro - were sometimes kept, with Disney film posters tacked to the pink walls, stuffed animals lined up on the bed.
Ariel Castro's home: it looked like a normal house from the outside. Credit: Getty Images. In horrifying contrast, rusted iron chains were found on the floor and the windows boarded with heavy wooden planks. The women were rarely given access to the bathroom, instead having to relieve themselves in plastic buckets that were "emptied infrequently", according to prosecutors.
Prosecutors told the court how Castro kept a "significant amount of cash" in a basement washing machine, which he would then throw at the victims after raping them. Gruesome scene: chains and locks are pictured in Ariel Castro's house. Credit: Reuters. Ariel Castro breaks down while talking about the child that he fathered with Amada Berry as he addresses the court while seated between attorneys. Based on diary entries, police told of how the women were chained to poles in the basement, or to a bedroom heater, or kept in a van for days on end.
One woman, after she tried to escape, had a vacuum-cleaner cord wrapped around her neck, according to a prosecution memo.
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