Ariel Castro, who is facing 977 criminal charges related to the kidnapping of three women in the Cleveland area, has struck a plea bargain that will save him from the death penalty, but send him to ...

A judge in Cleveland confirmed a 1,000-year prison term for kidnapper Ariel Castro at his sentencing hearing today, but not before a moving speech from one of his victims, and Castro's own stubborn ...

Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro told a courtroom at his sentencing hearing that he was a victim of sex when he was a child, ...

Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro was sentenced to life in prison without parole plus 1,000 years Thursday after one of the three women he held for a decade faced him down in court. "You have not been ...

When Ariel Castro was first arrested and charged with imprisoning and raping three women in his Cleveland house over a decade, his attorneys said evidence would show that he was not a monster. The ...

Castro pleaded guilty to 937 counts during a morning court appearance. In exchange, prosecutors recommended he be sentenced to life without parole, plus 1,000 years. The judge accepted the pleas and ...

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro may have died from auto-erotic asphyxiation, not suicide, and two prison guards falsified logs documenting their observation of him in the hours ...

According to a newly released sentencing memo, Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight kept diaries of their torture. The women detailed crimes committed against them by Ariel Castro, who is ...

A new investigation into kidnapper Ariel Castro’s death suggests prison guards may have falsified information regarding his supervision before his death, and that the actual cause may have been ...

According to JoEllen Smith of the Ohio Department of Corrections, Castro was found hanging in his prison cell at the Correctional Reception Center in Orient, Ohio, around 9:20 p.m. Tuesday. Although ...