<Tr> <Th> Perpetrator </Th> <Td> <Ul> <Li> Ariel Castro </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> Ariel Castro </Li> </Ul> <P> Between 2002 and 2004, three young women--Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Georgina "Gina" DeJesus--were kidnapped by Ariel Castro and held captive in his home in the Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland, in the U.S. state of 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 . </P> <P> On May 8, 2013, Castro was charged with four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape . Castro pleaded guilty to 937 criminal counts of rape, kidnapping, and aggravated murder as part of a plea bargain . He was sentenced to life plus 1,000 years in prison without the possibility of parole . One month into his sentence, Castro committed suicide by hanging himself with bedsheets in his prison cell . </P>

The girl who were kidnapped for 10 years