Ariel Castro was reportedly behind the infamous Cleveland kidnappings took place between 2002 and 2004. He was born to Pedro Castro and Lillian Rodriguez on July 10, 1960, in Duey, Yauco, Puerto Rico.

CNN – Ariel Castro agreed Friday in an Ohio courtroom to a plea deal in one of the most sensational kidnapping cases in recent memory. The deal, reached with prosecutors, would let him avoid the ...

Disclaimer: This article contains mentions of assault. Reader discretion is advised. Ariel Castro, who was responsible for the Cleveland kidnappings, pleaded guilty to 937 counts of kidnapping, rape, ...

When Ariel Castro is eventually brought to trial for his crimes, one of the key pieces of evidence may be a letter he wrote confessing to his many crimes—a letter made more awful by the fact it was ...

A judge in Cleveland confirmed a 1,000-year prison term for kidnapper Ariel Castro at his sentencing hearing today, but not before a moving speech from one of his victims, and Castro's own stubborn ...

CLEVELAND (Reuters) - A former Cleveland school bus driver, Ariel Castro, on Friday pleaded guilty to hundreds of charges of kidnapping and raping three women he held captive and will serve life in ...

One of the three women held captive and brutalized by Ariel Castro in his Cleveland home declared to a spellbound courtroom Thursday that she would overcome all that has happened to her. “I spent 11 ...

The medical examiner who did Ariel Castro’s autopsy dismissed Thursday’s rumors that his death may have been masturbation-related, insisting that it was a suicide. Coroner Jan Gorniak insisted that ...

An Ohio man who held three women captive for a decade while repeatedly raping them has been officially sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Ariel Castro pleaded guilty last ...

Wed, 08 May 2013 22:17:23 GMT — A Cleveland man arrested after three women missing for a decade were found alive at his run-down home was charged Wednesday with kidnapping and raping them. Prosecutors ...

Investigators said the women apparently were bound with ropes and chains, and a city councilman briefed on the case said they were subjected to prolonged sexual and psychological abuse and suffered ...