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Normalcy elusive in community where women were held captive

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This image provided by Hachette Books shows the cover of Michelle Knight's book Life After Darkness. Five years after being rescued from a decade-long captivity in chains inside a heavily fortified Cleveland house, kidnapping survivor Knight published her second book, focusing on her recovery and life afterward, including her marriage. (Deborah Feingold Photography/Hachette Books via AP)

Survivor of 10-year Ohio captivity looks ahead in new book

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 6, 2014, file photo, kidnapping survivors Gina DeJesus, left, and Amanda Berry are honored at the annual National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's Hope Awards dinner in Washington. For years, the two women and a third, Michelle Knight, were held captive in a Cleveland home by Ariel Castro before finally escaping in 2013. They were bound with heavy chains and subjected to repeated rapes and other abuse. Now Berry and DeJesus have written a book about their experiences, “Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland,” which is scheduled to come out Monday, April 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Women held captive in Ohio home for decade release a memoir

By DEEPTI HAJELA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, June 26, 2014, file photo, Michelle Knight smiles during an interview in Cleveland. During an interview on Sunday, Oct. 19, 2014, Knight, one of the three women held captive in a Cleveland home for about a decade, said she has been able to forgive her kidnapper, Ariel Castro, and find peace in her life. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)

Michelle Knight forgives Ariel Castro for 11-year imprisonment, torture

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

FILE - This is a 1981 file photo of Steven Stayner as he testifies about his abduction in 1972 by Kenneth Eugene Parnell and his seven years in captivity. The 7-year-old boy was kidnapped in 1972 while walking home from school in Merced, California. After Stayner escaped captivity in 1980, Kenneth Eugene Parnell was convicted of kidnapping him and a second boy, 5-year-old Timmy White, and sentenced to seven years in prison. Stayner died in a motorcycle accident in 1989 at age 24. (AP Photo/File)

Discovery of missing woman recalls past abductions

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FILE - This is a 1981 file photo of Steven Stayner as he testifies about his abduction in 1972 by Kenneth Eugene Parnell and his seven years in captivity. The 7-year-old boy was kidnapped in 1972 while walking home from school in Merced, California. After Stayner escaped captivity in 1980, Kenneth Eugene Parnell was convicted of kidnapping him and a second boy, 5-year-old Timmy White, and sentenced to seven years in prison. Stayner died in a motorcycle accident in 1989 at age 24. (AP Photo/File)

Discovery of missing woman recalls past abductions

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Attorney: Castro allowed Cleveland women an escape

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FILE - This Monday Feb. 24, 2014 file photo shows from left, Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight introduced at the Performing Arts Center in Medina, Ohio. The three women held captive in a Cleveland house before escaping a year ago Tuesday have spent their first year of freedom learning to drive, taking boxing lessons and cherishing time with their families. Berry and DeJesus both said in statements released Monday, May 5, 2014 that they are thankful and growing in many ways. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)

Ohio kidnapping survivors say they’re thriving

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FILE - In this Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013 file photo, Michelle Knight speaks during the sentencing phase for Ariel Castro, right, in a Cleveland courtroom. The list of missing people in Cleveland makes up about one out of every 10 cases in the entire state. Most are found within a few weeks, but there are more than 22 people who have been gone for more than a year. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)

Michelle Knight: I forgive Cleveland kidnapper

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In this Saturday, May 3, 2014 photo, Manuel Walker holds up a poster of his mother, Gloria, in the neighborhood where she went missing in 2007 in Cleveland. Gloria lived in the second floor apartment on the left. What hasn’t changed since the stunning discovery of the three women held captive by Ariel Castro is that others are still missing from the same streets. The list of missing people in Cleveland makes up about one out of every 10 cases in the entire state. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

Families of missing in Ohio wait for their miracle

By JOHN SEEWER - Associated Press

FILE - This combo image made from July 8, 2013, file images from video provided by Hennes Paynter Communications shows, from left: Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight, the three women held captive in a Cleveland home for a decade by Ariel Castro. Families of those missing in Cleveland are still waiting for their own miracles a year after the three women were freed from a decade of captivity. The list of missing people in Cleveland, a city of just under 400,000, makes up about one out of every 10 cases in the state. (AP Photo/Hennes Paynter Communications, File)

Updates on lives of freed women, abductor, rescuer

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2 Cleveland kidnap victims to be recognized

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State to pay cost of Cleveland kidnapper autopsy

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** FILE ** Ariel Castro looks at Michelle Knight, one of three women whom he was convicted of holding captive, as he speaks during the sentencing phase of his trial on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro’s death was a suicide: consultants

By Andrew Welsh-Huggins - Associated Press

** FILE ** Ariel Castro, left, stands before a judge with defense attorney Craig Weintraub during Castro's arraignment on an expanded 977-count indictment Wednesday, July 17, 2013, in Cleveland. Castro is charged with kidnapping and raping three women over a decade in his Cleveland home. Castro pleaded not guilty to 512 counts of kidnapping and 446 counts of rape. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

Auto-erotic asphyxiation possible in Castro death

By Andrew Welsh-Huggins - Associated Press

** FILE ** Ariel Castro looks at Michelle Knight, one of three women whom he was convicted of holding captive, as he speaks during the sentencing phase of his trial on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

Ariel Castro called mother of 1 victim while holding girls captive in Ohio: report

By Andrew Welsh-Huggins - Associated Press

** FILE ** Ariel Castro looks at Michelle Knight, one of three women whom he was convicted of holding captive, as he speaks during the sentencing phase of his trial on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

Ariel Castro victims stay silent on captor’s suicide

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** John Esposito faces the court during his arraignment in Central Islip, N.Y., on charges he imprisoned 10-year-old Katie Beers in an underground bunker for 17 days, Jan. 21, 1993. Esposito, convicted for kidnapping Beers and hiding her under his Bay Shore, N.Y. home in 1992, died Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013 at his jail cell in Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, N.Y. He was serving a 15 years-to-life prison term. (Associated Press)

Man who kidnapped Katie Beers in 1993 found dead in prison cell

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Ariel Castro looks at Michelle Knight, one of three women whom he was convicted of holding captive, as he speaks during the sentencing phase of his trial on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

Ariel Castro dead: Ohio man who held 3 women captive for a decade kills self in prison

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TYRRELL: Sociopaths and Democrats

By R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. - The Washington Times