Report: Note from Suspect Found in Cleveland Kidnapping Case
From Yahoo!
A note reportedly found inside Ariel Castro’s Cleveland home in 2004 includes a chilling admission: “I am a sexual predator. I need help.”
The letter, believed to have been written by Castro in 2004, was obtained by Scott Taylor, an investigative reporter for Cleveland’s 19 Action News.
Castro, 52, was charged on Wednesday with four counts of kidnapping and the rape of three women—Amanda Berry, 27, Gina DeJesus, 23, and Michelle Knight, 32—whom he is suspected of holding captive in his home for close to a decade. Berry gave birth to a child, who also is believed to have been held captive in the home. Police say the women were restrained with ropes and chains and were repeatedly raped.
Taylor posted excerpts from the letter on his Twitter feed.
“They are here against their will because they made a mistake of getting in a car with a total stranger,” Castro wrote, according to Taylor. “I don’t know why I kept looking for another. I already had 2 in my possession.”