Captive: One House, Three Women and Ten Years in Hell
Nov 2013 · Penguin UK
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One monster. Three innocent girls. Ten years in captivity.
22 August 2002: 21-year-old Michelle Knight disappears walking home.
21 April 2003: Amanda Berry goes missing the day before her seventeenth birthday.
2 April 2004: 14-year-old Gina DeJesus fails to come home from school.
For over a decade these girls remained undetected in a house just three miles from the block where they all went missing, held captive by a terrifying sexual predator. Tortured, starved and raped, kept in chains, Captive reveals the dark obsessions that drove Ariel Castro to kidnap and enslave his innocent victims.
Based on exclusive interviews with witnesses, psychologists, family and police, this is an unflinching record of a truly shocking crime in a very ordinary neighbourhood.
Allan Hall was a New York correspondent for ten years, first for the Sun and later for the Daily Mirror. He has spent the last decade covering German-speaking Europe for newspapers including The Times and the Mail on Sunday. He is the author of two previous books, Monster, an investigation into the life and crimes of Josef Fritzl and Girl in the Cellar: The Natascha Kampusch Story. He lives and works in Berlin.
22 August 2002: 21-year-old Michelle Knight disappears walking home.
21 April 2003: Amanda Berry goes missing the day before her seventeenth birthday.
2 April 2004: 14-year-old Gina DeJesus fails to come home from school.
For over a decade these girls remained undetected in a house just three miles from the block where they all went missing, held captive by a terrifying sexual predator. Tortured, starved and raped, kept in chains, Captive reveals the dark obsessions that drove Ariel Castro to kidnap and enslave his innocent victims.
Based on exclusive interviews with witnesses, psychologists, family and police, this is an unflinching record of a truly shocking crime in a very ordinary neighbourhood.
Allan Hall was a New York correspondent for ten years, first for the Sun and later for the Daily Mirror. He has spent the last decade covering German-speaking Europe for newspapers including The Times and the Mail on Sunday. He is the author of two previous books, Monster, an investigation into the life and crimes of Josef Fritzl and Girl in the Cellar: The Natascha Kampusch Story. He lives and works in Berlin.
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3.7
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Belinda Hall
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January 27, 2014
I just found this book did not add much that cannotbe found with a google search. I was hoping for something a bit more gripping and in depth but instead the author repeatedly talked about other cases (ones he has books about funnily enough) to make up for the fact that there wasn't much extra to tell about this case yet. A book a few years down the line when the girls are more comfortable to give their opinions (if they ever are) would be far more inyeresting and heart renching inmy opinion.
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Corin Leonard
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January 2, 2014
You said that some people are born evil, thats ridiculous on the one fact that people are not born to be something they are the person they are because they have been built up by other peoples thoughts and opinions on ways to do and manage things, this could be witnessing your father beating your mother and if you were brought up to see acts of male dominants and you grow up and you marry a woman then when you argue with her you'll most likely resort to a method that your father used as you know it works
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sue hawnt
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December 31, 2013
The man was pure evil a monster.I do beleive that some people are born evil who commit crimes like this.
About the author
Allan Hall was a New York correspondent for ten years, first for the Sun and later for the Daily Mirror. He has spent the last decade covering German-speaking Europe for newspapers including The Times and the Mail on Sunday. He is the author of two previous books, Monster, an investigation into the life and crimes of Josef Fritzl and Girl in the Cellar: The Natascha Kampusch Story. He lives and works in Berlin.
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