(Chicago Tribune) — Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without parole for abducting, raping and holding captive three women for as long as 11 years, and murder ...

It was a modest house on a modest street in a modest Cleveland neighborhood. But behind its doors unspeakable horrors of sexual abuse, beatings and torture were inflicted by Ariel Castro on three ...

According to a newly released sentencing memo, Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight kept diaries of their torture. The women detailed crimes committed against them by Ariel Castro, who is ...

Gina DeJesus, one of three women kidnapped and held captive in Cleveland for about a decade, made her first public appearance this weekend. DeJesus took part in a Cleveland parade that organizers ...

CLEVELAND -- A DNA test confirmed another dark twist in the story of three women imprisoned in a house for about a decade: Kidnapping and rape suspect Ariel Castro is the father of a 6-year-old girl ...

Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro was sentenced to life in prison without parole plus 1,000 years Thursday after one of the three women he held for a decade faced him down in court. "You have not been ...

When Ariel Castro was first arrested and charged with imprisoning and raping three women in his Cleveland house over a decade, his attorneys said evidence would show that he was not a monster. The ...

(CNN) — An Ohio man accused of murder, rape and holding three women in a Cleveland house against their will pleaded not guilty on Wednesday. Lawyers at an arraignment for Ariel Castro, 52, made the ...