Charles Ramsey, the Cleveland man who found three missing women who went missing for around a decade, described his experience of finding the women in a video.
“I heard screaming, I’m eating my McDonald’s, I come outside, and I see this girl going nuts trying to get out of the house,” Ramsey, a neighbor, said in the video, according to CNN.
“I got on the porch and she said, ‘Help me get out. I’ve been here a long time.’ I figured it was a domestic violence dispute. So I open the door. And we can’t get in that way ’cause of how the door is, it’s so much that a body can’t fit through; only your hand,” said Ramsey, who works as a dishwasher for a restaurant.
Michelle Knight, 32, Amanda Berry, 27, and Gina DeJesus, 23, were found in his neighbor’s home. The three women went missing between 2002 and 2004 in separate cases.
“Bro, I knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man’s arms,” Ramsey added in the video. “Something’s wrong here. Dead giveaway. Dead giveaway. Dead giveaway. Either she’s homeless or she’s got problems. That’s the only reason she run to a black man.”
Neighbors said that there was nothing that suggested three women were being kept inside the home.
“This girl is kicking the door and screaming,” Ramsey told NBC affiliate WKYC-TV. “So I go over there ... and I say, ‘Can I help? What’s going on?’ And she says, ‘I’ve been kidnapped, and I’ve been in this house a long time. I want to leave right now.’”
He let the woman use his phone to call 911.
Ariel Castro, the owner of the home, was arrested on Monday along with two other suspects, who were unnamed.
According to The Associated Press, Berry kicked the bottom of a locked screen door in the home, telling the dispatcher: “Help me. I’m Amanda Berry. I’ve been kidnapped and I’ve been missing for 10 years and I’m, I’m here, I’m free now.”
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