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She died of heart failure three years after Berry disappeared. Like, she was always fighting. How do I feel about that? And that was because of Jocelyn. Though she was locked in with the three of them whenever Castro left the house, Jocelyn occasionally was allowed to go outside in the backyard, to the park or to Sunday services with her father. Would he ever think about touching her because, you know, he had his problems?

For the first time in 10 years, Berry said she found her bedroom door unlocked without Castro around. Downstairs, the front door was open but wired with an alarm. Beyond it, the storm door was padlocked shut, but Berry was still able to squeeze out an arm. Berry said someone passing by outside saw her, but did not intervene. Finish kicking it out, and you can get out. Once Berry was out, she called for Jocelyn to crawl through the door. The two of them found a neighbor with a phone to call Police arrived and rescued DeJesus and Knight.

I will never know. On Aug. On Sept. He had killed himself. Two years later, DeJesus and Berry graduated from high school. The home where DeJesus, Knight, and Berry were held captive has been demolished and is now a green space. Crime Time is your destination for true crime stories from around the world, breaking crime news, and information about Oxygen's original true crime shows and documentaries.

Sign up for Oxygen Insider for all the best true crime content. Sign Up for Free to View. Digital Original. CrimeCon While walking home from school on April 2, , a 5'1", year-old DeJesus disappeared after being offered a ride by former school bus driver Castro — ironically the father of one of DeJesus's friends, Arlene Castro who was the last to see DeJesus alive prior to her disappearance.

But rather than take DeJesus home, Castro took her to a house he owned in the depressed Tremont area of Cleveland; she was held captive in Castro's basement. As time went on, the DeJesus family continually worked with police and the FBI to try to find DeJesus, including posting flyers around town and holding vigils with neighborhood groups.

The teen was also featured on the national television program America's Most Wanted for three consecutive years — in , and Over the next nine years, DeJesus would be held, alternatively with ropes and chains, with two other young women, Knight and Berry who eventually would give birth to a daughter in captivity. Castro reportedly covered DeJesus's head with a bag when he raped her because he knew her family well and because she was a friend of his daughter's.

Another ironic event came in , when Castro's estranged son, Anthony, then a journalism student, wrote about DeJesus's disappearance and its impact on the community in an article that was published in a Cleveland-area community newspaper. On May 6, , DeJesus and her fellow captors were rescued after Castro left the house to run errands and Berry managed to flee to the front door of the house, where she screamed for help; two neighborhood men, Angel Cordero and Charles Ramsey, responded to her screams.

Berry and her 6-year-old daughter, Jocelyn, were first to emerge from the house, and DeJesus and Knight were freed shortly thereafter—leaving their nearly decade-long prison behind. Because DeJesus was so young 14 when she was abducted, she, along with her fellow captors, face a long road to recovery. Specifically for DeJesus, due to being held with chains for long stretches of time, some bones in her neck are fused, causing her restricted movement.