also, ariel castro confesses. a law enforcement source says the man accused of abducting and abusing three young women, holding them prisoner in unspeakable conditions for nearly a decade has admitted at least some of his actions. no word yet on exactly what he's told authorities during his interrogations but the prosecutor in the case says he will seek to charge ariel castro with rape and kidnap and with aggravated murder. that's for allegedly beating and starving michelle knight into repeated miscarriages, a charge that could carry the death penalty. >> the law of ohio calls for the death penalty for those most depraved criminals who commit aggravated murder during the course of a kidnapping. >> meanwhile, the mother of gina dejesus says she spoke to ariel castro in the neighborhood as recently as last year, never suspecting her daughter was a prisoner in his house. listen to what she told abc news. >> you know how many times i've been through this street. i passed by that street. i was two blocks and a half awa

reports that ariel castro confesses to some things. details of a decade of torture and torment for three captive women are emerging and they are horse ifg. we have the latest live from cleveland. >>> and a cnn exclusive, shot and devastated by all the revelation. ariel castro's daughter speaks for the very first time. >>> then first jodi arias is put on suicide watch after her murder conviction and now she's in the psych ward. so what prompted this move? that is coming up. good morning, everyone. welcome to this special edition of "early start." i'm john berman in new york. >> nice to see you, john. i'm zoraida sambolin live in cleveland. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. we begin with horrifying details about the private hell those three women endured for ten years inside this house on seymour avenue right behind me. prosecutors say ariel castro operated a private prison and torture chamber right inside his home. he's held on $8 million bail charged with kidnapping and rape. and an aggravated murder charge could come next for the alleged k

ariel castro. >> she says he has been holding her here for ten years. >> i have been here a year. i was barbecuing with the dude. we eat ribs and listen to salsa music. >> and you had no indication -- >> bro, not at clue that that girl was in that house or anybody else was in there against their will. >> this might be for real. >> i will tell you this. because i was there to see her. all three girls. god works in mysterious ways. >> got the others in the house. >> go ahead. >> we found them. we he found them. >> thankfully. and i mean thankfunda's brave e three women are alive today. >> i just signed criminal complaints charging four counts of kidnapping and four counts of rape. no charges will be filed against the other two at this time. there is no evidence that the two individuals had any involvement. >> the child kidnapper operated a torture chamber and private prison in the heart of our city. >> the only opportunity after interviewing the young ladies to escape was the other day when amanda es

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ariel castro. it says when at least one of the women got pregnant, castro allegedly starved her for at least two weeks and then punched her in the stomach until she miscarried. we'll have more on castro's arraignment in a moment. >>> i also spoke with his former inlaws, including the sister of his ex-wife who says that castro is to blame for her sister's death. meanwhile, the mother of one of the victims is speaking out in her first interview. nancy reid spoke about gina's first night home. >> she said, mom, i don't want to stay in the room. i said you don't have to anymore. so that's part of her healing and knowing that she can now do what she wants. >> she said she doesn't want to stay in the room. >> nope. >> well, much has been made about the connections. between the castro family and gina dejesus' family, it's really fascinating. gina's mother would sometimes see ariel castro. >> you would see him and he would say how are you doing? >> nothing was wrong. >> yes. >> that's chilling. >> it is. >

ariel castro. abc's david muir asked nancy ruiz about that. >> you would see him and he would say how are you doing? >> yes. >> nothing was wrong. >> yes. >> that's chilling. >> it is. >> all the while he had your daughter. >> yes. you don't know how many times i've been through this street. i passed by that street. i was just two blocks and a half away from there. >> imagine a mother realizing she had walked by the home where her daughter was allegedly being hold hostage. lily rodriguez spoke to reporters through the window of her car. she was clearly distraught. [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> there are other pieces of the puzzle just now coming to light. writings found inside the house, pictures of the backyard and the word that castro had confessed to at least some actions. joining me, cnn's martin savidge, pamela brown as well as woio investigative reporter scott taylor. pamela, some word of some sort of confession. what have you heard from sources? >> we've known ariel castro has been t

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castro. >> authorities in cleveland lay out their case against ariel castro. >> i just signed criminal complaints charging aerial castro with four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape. >> reporter: his two brothers are not being charged. the women were bound while they were in captivity, there were chains and ropes in the home. we're also getting new details on abuse and abduction allegations against ariel castro which date back at least eight years. a complaint filed in 2005 against ariel castro by the natural parent of his child claims castro broke her nose twice, broke her ribs, gave her lacerations, knocked out a tooth, gave her a blood clot on the brain. dislocated both of her shoulders and threatened to kill figueroa and their daughters three or four times that year. she was engaged to figueroa until her death last year. >> she said that any little mistake she make, even if she dropped a plate to the ground he would get so upset he would throw her down the stairs. throw her against the wall. kicked her in the head while she was on the floor. hit her on the head. >> hit h

before ariel castro. taken into custody initially. and no charges in connection with this case. but as we heard in the hearing, they are facing some misdemeanor charges, open container, drug abuse, so forth. it appears they will be released after they pay their fines and so forth. but we saw ariel castro making his first appearance before the judge. the initial appearance, the judge reading castro's rights to him, will tell him the charges that he's facing, ask him if he understand the scharges, setting bail at $2 million per charge there. we're waiting to hear if he will enter a plea. he has the right to waive that, however. >> and, pamela, is your understanding the same as mine, so $2 million per that would be $6 million. >> reporter: that's what it appears, zoraida. it appears $6 million. >> all right. let's head over to john berman in new york. >> thank you so much, zoraida. i'm joined by former prosecutor wendy murphy. we're hearing the figure for bail. $2 million per case. i want to know what you ma

also, ariel castro confesses. a law enforcement source says the man accused of abducting and abusing three young women, holding them prisoner in unspeakable conditions for nearly a decade has admitted at least some of his actions. no word yet on exactly what he's told authorities during his

the daughter of this ariel castro. today he's been charged with four counts of kidnapping, three counts of rape. let me play this clip from "america's most wanted." >> two girls were walking home together, hoping to spend the rest of the afternoon at gina's house. >> i decided to call my mom and ask her, and so she gave me 50 cents to call my mom. and so my mom said no. that i can't go over to her house. and so i told her i couldn't. and she said, well, okay, i'll talk to you later. and she just walked. >> she's talking about gina dejesus, her friend. your correspondents from "america's most wanted" spoke to the daughter of ariel castro. >> the ironic thing is, and i'm not here to criticize police, and again i say it, 140 cops died in the line of duty last year. the only job you go to work and don't know if you're going to come home that night, your children don't know. but i always believed amanda's case and gina's case were linked. now i'm absolutely sure that when gina lent the 50 cents to ariel to ask that she call

cnn also has obtained exclusive pictures of ariel castro's backyard. you can see junk littering the ground. and a white cross that was spotted by a neighbor. let's go to pamela brown outside the home of the freed kidnap victim gina dejesus. good morning, pamela. >> good morning to you, zoraida. that's right. we're outside the home where gina dejesus has been staying with her family. she is still recovering and healing. you can see behind me, here, balloons cover the front yard of the home and then in the backyard, there's a blue tarp. that's so that gina dejesus can go in her backyard and feel, you know, hear the birds chirping, feel the wind, see the sun come out. these are things that are new to her that she hasn't experienced in ten years, according to family members. we spoke to her aunt last night. anderson cooper interviewed her and her aunt says that she is in good spirits but that she is still readjusting to this new reality. >> she's in great spirits. you know, finally some people listen, and she spent an hour and a half outside and i've never

ariel castro. >> she says he has been holding her here for ten years. >> i have been here a year. i was barbecuing with the dude. we eat ribs and listen to salsa music. >> and you had no indication -- >> bro, not at clue that that girl was in that house or anybody else was in there against their will. >> this might be for real. >> i will tell you this. because i was there to see her. all three girls. god works in mysterious ways. >> got the others in the house. >> go ahead. >> we found them. we he found them. >> thankfully. and i mean thankfully due you to amanda's brave actions these three women are alive today. >> i just signed criminal complaints charging four counts of kidnapping and four counts of rape. no charges will be filed against the other two at this time. there is no evidence that the two individuals had any involvement. >> the child kidnapper operated a torture chamber and private prison in the heart of our city. >> the only opportunity after interviewing the young ladies to escape wa

>> i told them to look into ariel castro. >> did they do it? >> no, they did not. >> did you ever suspect ariel castro's involvement in the disappearance of thor two? >> let me put it this way, it did not surprise me that this did happen. i knew the type of person ariel was. he was a very smart man. i always said he's like a psychologist, very possessive very dangerous man according to everything his ex-wife told me. >> did his ex-wife ever suspect him in the disappearance of the? >> as far as i know she never mentioned anything. >> had you ever been inside the house? >> no, as far as i have been in front of the house. >> when you heard the other night that he was raised your first thought was what? >> my first thought, i thanked god because for a long time i was saying that ariel castro was a very dangerous man, he had the opportunity and the means to get those girls. he disappeared in plain daylight with no struggle whatsoever. i felt very happy for my ex-wife as you know, she passed and i took it as a revenge to her that everything that he d

ariel castro already charged with kidnapping and rape. he could be facing aggravated murder charges as well for his victims' miscarriages. that's one development we're following in the case. the other one has to do with dna testing. let's bring in susan candiotti, she's there in cleveland. thanks for being with us. what do we know about this dna? who's is it? what is it tracking? >> very important development, chris. hello from cleveland. we've learned from the attorney general from the state of ohio that the preliminary dna tests have come in. and not surprisingly as we expected they do show that ariel castro is the father of amanda berry's 6-year-old child. we had expected that he would be the father. this is what amanda berry has been saying all along. but now there is the forensic evidence to prove it. they conduct a test on the dna. those tests coming in today. they're also telling us, authorities here in ohio, that at this time there is no dna match between ariel castro and any still-open cases in the state of ohio, any unsolved cri

family, ariel castro, and the dejesus family. we still have a lot of unanswered questions, but i did ask the brother ricardo if he knew ariel castro and he told me, yes, he knew him a long time ago, he said, when they were both younger, but over the last ten years the span that his sister has been gone, disappeared for, he has not talked to or seen ariel castro. >> poppy harlow, thank you so much. and you see the crime tape where poppy is standing. get a shot of where i am. because there is a crime tape here surrounding this home, on seymour avenue. again, as we have been seeing this activity, we saw one of the dogs getting out of the k-9 unit that pulled up. i'm seeing police, sheriff deputies, fbi agents, you see one guy suiting up, putting on some sort of protective gear before walking into ariel castro's home. a man who has kept, again, no charges yet, but who apparently according to police kept these three young women and what appears to be one of the woman's daughters in this home for the better part of a decade. what will

tuvieron contacto con un adulto, con ariel castro, Él acusado. pasan las minutos y se conocen mÁs detalles macabros. vamos con el informe de isolda peguero. >>> 10 aÑos de vivir en un infierno. hoy llegÓ el dÍa mÁs esperado para alguna de jesÚs y su familia. con una sola seÑal, hizo saber a todos que estaba bien. >>> ¿cual fue su primera reacciÓn cuando abrazo a su hija?. >>> no quise soltarla porque en ee momento para mÍ es un sueÑo. y es un sueÑo que no quiero despertar. pero ya sÉ que estÁ conmigo. >>> yo sabÍ que un dia la verÍa viva yo no querÍa aceptar una mala noticia. t unas horas antes, lo hacia amanda berry. al llegar a la casa de su hermana que hablÓ a los medios en nombre de amanda y su familia. >>> estamos muy felices y contentos de tenerla a ella y su hija. queremos por favor, que respeten nuestra privacidad. hay muchas heridas que cerrar. >>> la tercera presunta vÍctima permanecÍa en el hospital aparentemente es la mÁs afectada en este largo cautiverio. al parecer, estas 3 jaochÓvenes son las Únicas vÍctimas

they also called a case against ariel castro a slam dunk. tonight, new details on the rescue from the unsung hero in the case. it's not who you think. >>> now i want to go right to cleveland where woio is live for us. ed, another day of dramatic new developments on this story. you came face-to-face today with ariel castro. tell me about that. >> reporter: yeah, good evening. and i it come face-to-face with him with my cell phone, because i was checking some police records at the cleveland police when this baby was born, it apparently stopped breathing and everyone started to scream, started to panic, and ariel castro said, if that baby dies, i'm going to kill you. a complete scene of panic is what is being painted here, with one of the captive girls being told she had to deliver the baby of amanda. >> what is clearly emerging about this man ariel castro is that he rules with utter fear, and he would do tests to pretend to leave the house, and if the girls would pretend to escape, he would beat them up, and appalling details of multiple pregn

ariel castro. >> she says he has been holding her here for ten years. >> i have been here a year. i was barbecuing with the dude. we eat ribs and listen to salsa music. >> and you had no indication -- >> bro, not at clue that that girl was in that house or anybody else was in there against their will. >> this might be for real. >> i will tell you this. because i was there to see her. all three girls. god works in mysterious ways. >> got the others in the house. >> go ahead. >> we found them. we he found them. >> thankfully. and i mean thankfully due you to amanda's brave actions these three women are alive today. >> i just signed criminal complaints charging four counts of kidnapping and four counts of rape. no charges will be filed against the other two at this time. there is no evidence that the two individuals had any involvement. >> the child kidnapper operated a torture chamber and private prison in the heart of our city. >> the only opportunity after interviewing the young ladies to escape wa

they had separated from ariel castro at that time. but even still, it was just very horrendous, the stories like i said, after she had had surgery, brain surgery, and he still, she recollected to me how he still continued to beat her, like he hit her in the head, either he kicked her or hit her with a lead pipe. the stories were, i don't even think i really fully could grasp just how horrible some of the stories were. >> and he also beat your ex-husband repeatedly when he was younger, is that right? >> yes. both of them were beaten, just not, you know, not that any domestic violence is tolerable, but this went beyond like your normal domestic violence story. it just seemed very evil in nature, and i just couldn't understand how someone could treat someone they say they loved, let alone their own flesh and blood, like that. like i said, that really fueled my desire to not really want anything to do with him. and my ex-husband wasn't close to him because of their past, so it made it kind of easy. i also heard he wasn't really a fan of b

estÁn ente blando las ventanas y las puertas de la casa de ariel castro. tenemos confirmaciÓn que el sospechoso ha contratado a un abogado privado para que lo defienda en este caso que puede llegar a la pena de muerte. >>> las autoridades hoy confirmaron que ariel castro es el padre biolÓgico de la hija de amanda berry las pruebas de adn determinaron que el hombre no estÁ relacionado con otro crimen ocurrido en ohio. pero estÁn pendientes resultados de delitos ocurridos en otros estados. >>> segÚn se conociÓ en el interrogatorio con las autoridades, castro dijo que era adicto al sexo y que no podÍa controlar sus impulsos. >>> dios le quitÓ la mÁscara y ahora todo el mundo ve lo que yo dije. >>> fernando colon dice que ariel castro le destruyÓ la vida viviÓ con la que esposa de castro y sus hijos. y sabe de primera mano el tipo de hombre que es. >>> conocÍa el historial de ariel, lo violento, y lo inteligente y sabio que era, lo abusivo. >>> siempre tuvo sospechas que habÍa secuestrado a las desaparecidas. porque segÚn colÓn, las hijas de cas

ariel castro. >> she says he has been holding her here for ten years. >> i have been here a year. i was barbecuing with the dude. we eat ribs and listen to salsa music. >> and you had no indication -- >> bro, not at clue that that girl was in that house or anybody else was in there against their will. >> this might be for real. >> i will tell you this. because i was there to see her. all three girls. god works in mysterious ways. >> got the others in the house. >> go ahead. >> we found them. we he found them. >> thankfully. and i mean thankfully due you to amanda's brave actions these three women are alive today. >> i just signed criminal complaints charging four counts of kidnapping and four counts of rape. no charges will be filed against the other two at this time. there is no evidence that the two individuals had any involvement. >> the child kidnapper operated a torture chamber and private prison in the heart of our city. >> the only opportunity after interviewing the young ladies to escape wa

solo estuvo con ellos en 2 oportunidad y lo sacaron, ariel castro estuvo el aÑo pasado en una vigilia que se hizo para pedir que apareciera la vÍctima de origen hispano georgina de jesÚs y ademÁs tambiÉn estuvo presente en una excavaciones que hicieron las autoridades pensando que ahÍ estaba una vÍctima. >>> regresamos con ustedes. >>> muchas gracias. >>> reaccionan en puerto rico los familiares los 3 hermanos arrestados por el secuestro de estas 3 jÓvenes. >>> decenas de muerto deja la explosiÓn de un camion de gas en mÉxico. >>> resulta que estas monjas no eran tan monjas, les diremos lo que encontra ♪ seguimos con esta increÍble historia esta increÍble noticias de las k cautivas de cleveland, pero ahora desde puerto rico donde sospechosos pedro ariel castro, jorge entrevistÓ a familiares * y tiene reacciones. >>> finalmente la aed sea de la familia de georgina de jesÚs, llego a su fin cuando ayer supieron que estaba con vida que contento y gracias a dios que apareciÓ y aparecieron las otros dos tambiÉn. >>> su tÍo nos dijo que nunca perdieron la esperanza. >>> (in

dejesus has known ariel castro for 20 years. they played music together, and he's been at the castro house many times. tito dejesus joins me now. tito, i spoke to you earlier in the week. you give a fascinating insight into ariel castro, also saying, as everyone else has done, you never had a clue really about the kind of man he was. what's interesting to you tonight, you've had time to think about this. you've read and heard about what he did, and you remembered something about him in terms of his behavior around women. and i want you to talk to me about that first. >> when we used to go performing, he was alone all the time. he wanted to always see if he could go out and dance with women, strangers. so he would go pick out somebody and say, want to dance? and many, many times they would say no. he would come back to me upset. and i would tell him, stop doing that. you're just going to embarrass yourself. he said, i'm going to try again. i'm like don't do it. a lot of women don't like to dance with strangers. but he kept going,

you are looking at the back yard of ariel castro. these are pictures that were shared with me and my producer here from his back yard, which is also considered a crime scene. white tarp, fbi agents. this is the day after these young women were freed. and he describes seeing a hole that was dug by the agents at approximately eight feet by eight feet. this is just an idea of what we've been seeing. no one has actually seen these back yard shots until now. one other picture i want to share with you that was something that really struck this neighbor, a little white cross in the back yard of ariel castro. back in a moment. [ female announcer ] what if the next big thing, isn't a thing at all? it's lots of things. all waking up. ♪ becoming part of the global phenomenon we call the internet of everything. ♪ trees will talk to networks will talk to scientists about climate change. cars will talk to road sensors will talk to stoplights about traffic efficiency. the ambulance will talk to patient records will talk to doctors about saving

here's abc's david muir. >> ariel castro. >> reporter: ariel castro in captivity, handcuffed in a blue jumpsuit his head down. charged with multiple charges of kidnapping and rape. >> this child kidnapper operated a torture chamber and private prison in the heart of our city. >> reporter: the prosecutor's words come 24 hours after the homecomings a decade in the making. we learned that inside that van, gina dejesus was overcome and overwhelmed by the crowd but hugged her mother inside the van who told her you could do it. give them a thumbs up and she did. >> no matter how hard it is for everybody it is awesome. >> reporter: you got her back. >> yes. that's the most important thing right now. >> reporter: in the hours after the scene, gina told her parents she did not want to sleep upstairs in a room like she had been forced to for the last decade. instead the extended family sleeping on inflatable mattresses in the living room to grant her wish. gina's mother nancy told us she has known ariel castro for years, after growing up in the same community. that castro spoke to her on several

but we're going to begin in cleveland, ohio, where ariel castro was brought in this morning to face four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape. and believe me, those words don't even begin to describe the horrors that this unemployed former school bus driver allegedly inflicted on three young women on a daily basis for between nine and 11 years. castro was preceded in court by his brothers pedro and onil castro, who were taken in with him on monday night, but are not being charged in the brutality that was inflicted on seymour avenue. they did face some outstanding misdemeanor charges, and in unrelated cases that were, believe me, very old cases, but they were dispensed with quickly. ariel castro, on the other hand, barely looked up, and never spoke a word as the judge set bail at $8 million. and that is more than the prosecutor brian murphy was even asking for. mr. murphy called the alleged offenses "premeditated, deliberate, and depraved." and just how depraved is made woefully clear. in police reports from the night amanda berry, gina dejesus, and michelle knight were all resc

and we're getting our first look this morning at ariel castro. he's the man accused of kidnapping three women and holding them captive in his home for a decade. castro is facing four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape. listen to a reporter of woio from cleveland peppering him with questions that everyone wants answered. >> why are you covering your face? what do you have to say to those women? how could you do that? what kind of monster does this? >> we're also learning a lot more about the abuse and the tort tutor that was endured by amanda bary. gina dejesus and michelle knight. in an initial report obtained by cnn, knight was allegedly starved and beaten after multiple pregnancies in order to induce miscarriages. that's probably explaining why michelle knight was in the hospital. initially when we talked to freddie, her brother, he said that she looked pale. we talked to gina's family who spent some time with her. they said she's always been a slight girl referring to how short she is. the good news is they told us her spirits are r

castro. >> reporter: authorities in cleveland lay out their case against ariel castro in the disappearances of amanda berry, gina dejesus and michelle knight. >> i just signed criminal complaints charging ariel castro with four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape. >> reporter: castro's two brothers are not being charged. authorities say the women were bound while they were in captivity that, there were chains and ropes in the home. we're also getting new details on abuse and abduction allegations against ariel castro which date back at least eight years. a compliant filed in 2005 against ariel castro by a woman listed as the natural paint of his child claims castro broke her nose twice, broke letter ribs, gave her lacerations, knocked out a tooth, gave her a blood clot on the brain. next to that it says inoperable tumor. dislocated both shoulders and threatened to kill her and her daughters three or four times that year. fernando colon was engaged to her until her death last year. here's what he says she told him about abuse at the hands of ariel castro. >> she said that any littl

is that what ariel castro is? >> what he did was monstrous but if we call him a monster, what we're doing is closing the book on understanding how this human being was able to create this prison in his own home and lock these three women up and the horrific acts and abuse that took place. so do i think he's a monster? i think he's a human being who did monstrous things and we need to understand them, for many reasons. >> what are the aspects to his character that you have read or seen about in the last week that tell you that really, what's behind it is some sort of personality flaw, i guess. >> i wouldn't call it a personality flaw. i'm not going to diagnose him from this distance, as i always say, but let's talk about what's been revealed. this is somebody who has been abusing women since 1989. that's clear, that's in the record. he's been on probation, this is not the first time. this may very well be the escalation, the end point, of a long history of abusive behavior. >> how do you explain, though, xavier, th

ariel castro knew gina. she was one of his own daughter's best friends. >> it started at this cleveland middle school, one year ago today. >> reporter: his daughter going on "america's most wanted" to talk about the friend she lost, not knowing her own father would, years later, be charged. >> she said, well, okay, i'll take to you later. >> reporter: and in a cruel twist, ariel castro would offer his own help, searching for gina, picking up flyers. he prays and comforts her family through the years. in an exclusive interview, gina dejesus' mother, nancy ruiz, told me she has known ariel castro for years. and so you would see him and he would say, "how are you doing?" >> yes. >> reporter: like nothing was wrong. >> yes. >> reporter: that's chilling. >> it is. >> reporter: all the while he had your daughter. >> yes. >> reporter: and when you think back to those conversations, what do you think? >> he never gave an indication of anything. >> reporter: never a hint of that other side. there was horror in that h

castro. >> ariel castro. >> reporter: today ariel castro was the one sitting in captivity with a community looking on. handcuffed in court. in a blue jumpsuit. his head down. charged with multiple counts of kidnapping and rape. >> this child kidnapper operated a torture chamber and private prison in the heart of our city. >> reporter: the prosecutor's words come just 24 hours after those homecomings, a decade in the making. we've now learned that inside that van, gina dejesus was overcome, overwhelmed by the crowd, but she hugged her mother. inside that van, who told her, you can do it, give them a thumb's up. and she did. a mother guiding a daughter all over again. >> reporter: because she's still that 14-year-old girl. >> in my eyes, in my heart, she is. >> reporter: so much lost time. >> yes. but it's awesome though. no matter how hard it is for me, it's awesome. >> reporter: you got her back? >> yes, and that's the most important thing right now. >> reporter: in the hours after that scene, gina told her parents she does not want to sleep upstairs in a room like she'd been forced to for

it's ariel castro. what catches the officer's eye and probably was too quick for you was the license plate on the back of the bike is turned sideways. he says that is an old trick when riders have something to hide. so the officer follows castro into the gas station and confronts him. >> a driver's license. what's wrong? >> reporter: castro, it turns out, doesn't have a motorcycle driver's license and that is a serious offense. it could lead to his arrest. and it may be why castro seems nervous. this, by the way, is the last known interaction that castro has with law enforcement before he was arrested last monday, a little less than five years later. and notice how polite castro is when the officer comes back with the other news. the plates on the bike don't belong to that bike. >> these plates don't belong to this bike, do they? what year model is this? >> this is a 2000. >> where's the harley? you keep getting deeper and deeper and deeper. >> i know, but i just got off of work, i'm a school bus driver

they also called a case against ariel castro a slam dunk. now, out to cnn's poppy harlow, and now more dramatic details emerging throughout the night on the case, and what can you tell us about the latest? >>> we are just told that amanda berry had the baby who is now her 6-year-old child in the home of aerial kas troeshgs and that the baby was delivered by michelle knight, and that is what the source says that castro grabbed michelle knight and told her to deliver the baby and deliver amanda's baby and we are also told that the baby was born, piers, in a plastic tub to contain all of the amniotic fluids. and we are also told that when aman amanda's baby was born that the baby stopped breathing and everybody started to scream, and castro said if that baby dies,ly kill you. another important thing that i want to tell you, piers, this source tells us that what is most incredible here is that this girl who knew nothing about childbirth was able to deliver a baby that is now a healthy 6-year-old, and paints a chaotic and panicked and very, very

they also called a case against ariel castro a slam dunk. tonight, new details on the rescue from the unsung hero in the case. it's not who you think. >>> now i want to go right to cleveland where woio is live for us. ed, another day of dramatic new developments on this story. you came face-to-face today with ariel castro. tell me about that. >> reporter: yeah, good evening. and i it come face-to-face with him with my cell phone, because i was checking some police records at the cleveland police headquarters, and all of a sudden, investigators started walking this guy down to another room for another interview. it was fbi agents, it was also the cleveland police sex crimes investigators and all of a sudden, here's this guy, the house of horrors, the man everybody is talking about, right there in front of my eyes. so on his way back, i shouted a couple of questions at him and he wasn't talking, he was hiding his face. so suddenly the monster is hiding his face, embarrassed. but i asked him, "how could you do this, what would you say to those

suspect ariel castro. a lot going on this morning. first let's go live to susan candiotti. she's in cleveland. susan, the two young women who shot the video of police rushing into castro's home actually thought that they were in trouble. could you explain that? >> that's right. well, picture this. they happened to be driving down the street when they noticed some police flashing lights behind them. and so they pulled over and thought uh-oh, what did we do wrong? and then they looked in front of them, and saw everything unfolding. look. and where did you see her, amanda and her little girl? >> coming down the street. >> and then everything unfolded right here? >> yep. >> these two women happened to turn on to ariel astro's street and found themselves smack in the middle of an amazing escape to freedom. >> amanda walking down the street with a cop right when the cap asked her who are you, she passed us and said amanda berry. >> when you heard the name amanda berry and you knew exactly -- >> me and her looked

and the first friday that ariel castro is in jail for kidnapping. tests prove that he is the father of the little girl. the main questions remained, how these three young women were picked up without anyone noticing. >> cleveland police detectives and now 15 fbi agents aggressively working this case. >> reporter: their disappearance captivated this community, flyers, rallies, vigils. this reporter covered the kid p kidnappings from day one and was right there when the young women finally made it home. [ applause ] >> there's one thing on the tree that just gets me. the yellow ribbon with her missing photo. her mom said that was the hardest thing to look at it every time. >> how did it captivate the entire city here? >> well, i think, again, to see two teenage girls go missing from the same general area right away just gave you chills. >> reporter: it was right here, 106th and lorraine on cleveland's west side back in 2002 when michelle knight was standing at this intersection and ariel castro allegedly offered her a ride. she got into the car and va

we're also hearing from ariel castro's daughter. the man she once logly called daddy, she calls evil, vile, and demonic. >> my father's actions are not a reflection of everyone in the family. they're definitely not a reflection of myself or my children. we don't have monster in our blood. >> do you look at your dad -- you call him monster? >> yes. >> yes. there will be no visits. there will be no phone calls. he is dead to me. >> and a community unionitis in its grief and shock. clevelanders hold vigils to seek healing together. let's go live to cleveland now and pamela brown has new information on the dna evidence taken from ariel castro. what can you tell, you pam? >> well, carol, we have learned that the state crime lab worked overnight to expedite the results, samples taken of ariel castro's dna. the preliminary results of his dna profile have been sent to cleveland police. we're still waiting to find out exactly what's going to happen from here. we have been reaching out to police and the prosecutor's office, but what we do kno

. >> prosecutors, they are pushing for more charges against ariel castro. he is accused of holding three women captive in his home for a decade. the lead prosecutor says castro operated a torture chamber and private prison in the heart of the city. >> yeah. susan candiotti, you're in cleveland. before we get to the possibility of additional charges, i understand you have some new information on ariel castro, the dna test. they pushed that along. what have you got? >> that's right. hi, michael and suzanne. within the hour we have learned that. and this is probably not surprising information, but a preliminary dna match has been made and determined that ariel castro, the suspect in this case, is indeed believed to be the father of the 6-year-old child of amanda berry, little jocelyn, 6 years old. they've been conducting tests quickly working around the clock and have determined in fact that ariel castro is the father of amanda berry's 6-year-old child. this is information that moves along. however, we've also learned that they took that same dna in ohio's com