Between 2002 and 2004, three young women,
Michelle Knight,
Amanda Berry and
Georgina "Gina" DeJesus, were kidnapped by
Ariel Castro in his home in the
Tremont neighborhood of
Cleveland, Ohio. They were subsequently imprisoned in his house on Seymour Avenue until May 6, 2013, when Berry escaped with her six-year-old daughter and contacted the police. Knight and DeJesus were rescued by responding officers and Castro was arrested within hours.