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 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 ...

(WOIO) - Kidnapper and rapist Ariel Castro has been moved from the Lorain Correction Facility in Grafton to the Correctional Reception Center in Orient, Ohio. Castro was sentenced to life in prison, ...

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 ...

CLEVELAND -- When Ariel Castro was first arrested and charged with imprisoning and raping three women in his house on a tough Cleveland street over a decade, his attorneys said evidence would show ...

CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Ariel Castro, sentenced to life in prison for the kidnapping, rape and beatings of three Cleveland women he held captive for years in his house, was found hanged in his Ohio ...

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 ...

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 ...

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) The Cleveland man serving a life sentence for holding three women captive in his home for a decade hanged himself in his prison cell, officials said Wednesday in another startling ...