1. Forensic Assessment By Regan Mulcahy

2. The Ariel Castro Kidnappings 3. Chosen Criminal Ariel Castro 4. Ariel Castros Basic Information Gender: Male Age: 53 ( July 10th, 1960 - September 3rd, 2013) Born in Puerto Rico 5. Ariel's Biography/Background His parents divorced when he was still a child. Him, his mother and three siblings then moved to mainland USA. Then moved out to Cleveland, Ohio where they remained, where his father and the extension of his family also lived. He then graduated from Cleveland's West high school. 6. Castro met his future common law wife, Grimed Figueroa. The two had two children, Ryan (left) and Rosie (Right). The two of them moved into their own home at 2207 Seymour Avenue in 1992.. 7. The House Their home was a two-story, 1,400-square-foot (130 m2), four-bedroom, one-bathroom house with a 760-square-foot (71 m2) unfinished basement. 8. Early Signs When Figueroa and Castro moved into their new home, "all hell started breaking loose Castro beat Figueroa, breaking her nose, ribs, and arms. He also once threw her down a set of stairs, cracking her skull. In 1993, Castro was arrested for domestic violence. Figueroa moved out of the home in 1996 and secured custody of her four children. Castro continued to threaten and attack Figueroa after she left him. 9. His Work? Before his arrest, Castro worked as a bus driver for the Cleveland Metropolitan School District until he was fired for bad judgment. After a series of issues, including: making an illegal U-turn with children on his bus using his bus to go grocery shopping leaving a child on the bus while he went for lunch and for leaving the bus unattended while he took a nap at home. 10. Michelle Knight Early Life Born in April 1981, Michelle Knight grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. As a girl, she wanted to pursue a career as a firefighter, and later aspired to become a veterinarian. Knight dropped out of school after becoming pregnant. She had a son, whom she named Joey. When the boy was a toddler, an injurypossibly caused by an abusive boyfriend of her mother'sled to his being taken away from Knight and placed in foster care in 2003. 11. On August 23, 2002, Knight left her cousin's house and subsequently disappeared. Her family reported her as missing, but most eventually came to believe that Knight, distraught over losing her son and unable to deal with the negative turns her life had taken, had run away on her own. Though her mother continued to post fliers about her daughter, Knight was removed from the FBI's database of missing people in 2003. Police acknowledged that limited resources had been spent on investigating her disappearance, because she was an adult and was believed to have run away due to anger over losing custody of her son. 12. But in fact, Knight had been offered a ride by Ariel Castro. As she knew one of his daughters, Knight accepted the lift, thinking she was a thirteen year old prostitute. She then agreed to enter Castro's Cleveland home, located at 2207 Seymour Avenue on the 22-08-02, when he promised to give her a puppy for her son. Once inside, Knight was restrained and imprisoned. It was the beginning of years of torture 13. Her Captivity For the first of many months she was kept, chained up in his basement where upon his would force sexual congress with her. She would beg him to stop and to let her go which he would reply with savage beatings. After a few years she was moved upstairs into a small bedroom. Where upon she plotted her escape, only to be caught and savagely beaten again. Not long after that Ariel took her into another bed room where upon she met Amanda Berry 14. Amanda Berry Amanda Berry disappeared on April 21, 2003, one day before her 17th birthday. Berry was last heard from when she called her sister to tell her that she was getting a ride home from her job at a Burger King. The FBI initially considered Berry a runaway, until a week after her disappearance when an unidentified male used Berrys cell phone to call her mother, saying I have Amanda. Shes fine and will be coming home in a couple of days. 15. The Campaign to Find Amanda Berry Amanda's family did not give up hope finding their daughter. They made their own website Find Amanda Berry as well as other social media like Facebook and MySpace. They went to a psychic on national T.V Sylvia Browne who told her mother she was dead but she never gave up hope. Berry was featured also in a 2004 segment of Americas most wanted as well as the Oprah Winfrey Show. He would then make the two of them watch the news, with no news about Michelle Knight 16. Gina DeJesus Born on April 1, 1990, in Cleveland, Ohio, Gina DeJesus became a kidnapping statistic when she disappeared at age 14 while walking home from school. She was imprisoned with two other young women, Michelle Knight and Amanda Berry. The DeJesus and Castro family were close. Castros daughter Rosie was a good friend of Gina and was how he lured her into him home. 17. The Twisted Part Of it all Castros were well-acquainted with the DeJesus family. One DeJesus relative ran a nearby club where Ariel Castro, a bass player, had performed with different bands. Castro relatives helped search for DeJesus. DeJesus' relatives said Ariel Castro participated in a search party and attempted to work closely with the family. 18. 9 years pass Over the next nine years, Gina DeJesus would be held, alternatively with ropes and chains, with two other young women. Castro also taunted Knight about the fact that DeJesus and Berry had family members desperate to find them, while no one was looking for her Knight suffered during her time as a prisoner, she supposedly became pregnant five times, but miscarried each time after being starved and beaten by Castro. Two other young women, Gina DeJesus and Knight was forced to deliver the child Berry gave birth to while in captivity while at gun point. 19. 06.06.13 Then one day in Summer Castro left his home, leaving the basement door open as well as Berrys chains. Berrys now 6-year old daughter, Jocelyn came down into the basement where her mother and the other women were kept. The basement door was unlocked and the Amanda Berry was unchained. And then Berry ran 20. Phone Call 21. Charles Ramsey Interview: 22. Aftermath Michelle, Gina and Amanda as well as Amanda's daughter went to hospital were they remained together. Amanda took herself and her daughter home with her while Gina and Michelle went back to Ginas home. Michelle going due to her anguish at her mother, for being the cause she lost her son and for practically abandoning her while Gina and Michelle's family continued their search. 23. Ariel Castro Castro was arrested on May 6, 2013. On May 8, he was charged with four counts of aggravated murder, attempted murder, assault and instance of rape. Along with his two other brothers. He was set a bail of $8 million Dollars and pleaded not guilty of 329 charges. He was give consecutive life sentences (1000 years in total), and without parole and was also fined $100,000 dollars. 24. He then committed suicide on September 3rd 2013 in his cell. He wrote a suicide note in which he confessed to the kidnapping as well as all the other heinous acts he committed, but blamed the victims for being kidnapped Killing yourself, thats not strength. Surviving it is strength, and thats what them girls did. They survived it for 11, 10 and 9 years.- Amanda Berrys Sister 25. Cognition It could be said that the reason why he raped and kidnapped these women as well as him abusing his wife and children in the past could be explained by him having defective cognition (Incorrect thinking patters). Many of the things he did, such as helping the DeJesus family to find Gina while the entire time we was holding her captive. He showed: Clear criminal thinking patterns Failure of moral development What can be taken from Ariel Castro was that he definitely had incorrect thinking patterns, and his twisted behavior and actions can be due to this. 26. The End