The Lost Girls (44 page)

JOHN GLATT
is the author of twenty-one books and has more than thirty years of experience as an investigative journalist in England and America. He has appeared on television and radio programs all over the world, including
Dateline NBC, Fox News, A Current Affair, BBC World News,
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A&E Biography.

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The Prince of Paradise

Love Her to Death

Lost and Found

Playing with Fire

Secrets in the Cellar

To Have and to Kill

Forgive Me, Father

The Doctor’s Wife

One Deadly Night

Depraved

Cries in the Desert

For I Have Sinned

Evil Twins

Cradle of Death

Blind Passion

Deadly American Beauty

Never Leave Me

Twisted

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Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Prologue

Part One ARIEL CASTRO

1. Roots

2. Nilda

3. 2207 Seymour Avenue

4. Breaking Free

5. Lillian

Part Two THE VANISHINGS

6. Michelle

7. “I Think I Know You”

8. Amanda

9. “I Have Your Daughter”

10. Gina

11. The Search

12. “Somebody Knows Where Amanda Is”

13. Revenge

14. “She’s Not Alive, Honey”

15. Frame-Up

16. Witness for the Prosecution: Ariel Castro

17. “She Died of a Broken Heart”

18. Miracle at Christmas

19. A Narrow Escape

20. AMINA’s Law

21. “Did They Ever Find Your Cousin Yet?”

22. Terminated

23. “Miracles Really Do Happen”

Part Three FREEDOM

24. Deliverance From Evil

25. “Dead Giveaway”

26. “The Nightmare Is Over”

27. Mother’s Day

28. “This Child Kidnapper Operated a Torture Chamber”

29. “The Monster’s a Goner”

30. “The Best Defense We Can”

31. Indicted!

32. “He’s Never Coming Out Except Nailed in a Box”

33. “The Scope and Magnitude of Ariel Castro’s Crime is Unprecedented”

34. “I Am Not a Monster”

35. Yellow Balloons

36. Retribution

Epilogue

Photographs

About the Author

Also by John Glatt

Copyright

THE LOST GIRLS
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Cover design by Danielle Christopher

Cover Photographs: Background image © Emmanuel Dunand/Getty images, Michelle Knight © James Ford Rhodes HS/Splash/Splash News/Corbis, Amanda Berry and Gina Dejesus © FBI/Splash News/Corbis

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Glatt, John.

The lost girls: the true story of the Cleveland abductions and the incredible rescue of Michelle Knight,

Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus / John Glatt.—First edition.

pages cm

ISBN 978-1-250-03636-0 (hardcover)

ISBN 978-1-250-03637-7 (e-book)

1. Knight, Michelle, 1981– 2. Berry, Amanda. 3. DeJesus, Gina. 4. Castro, Ariel, 1960–2013. 5. Kidnapping—Ohio—Cleveland—Case studies. 6. Kidnapping victims—Ohio—Cleveland—Case studies. I. Title.

HV6602.C54G53 2015

362.88—dc23

[B]

2015002462

e-ISBN 9781250036377

First Edition: April 2015