(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 ...

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 ...

The 52-year-old former schoolbus driver accused of holding and abusing three women in his Cleveland home, will face four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape, police announced Wednesday ...

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 ...

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 ...

(AP) Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro says he called the mother of one of his victims while she was in captivity and told her she was OK, according to a videotaped FBI interrogation. Castro also told ...