# Ariel Castro found hanged in cell. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 4, 2013, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ariel-castro-found-hanged-in-cell/667971 "2013-09-04T05:17:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ariel-castro-found-hanged-in-cell/667971/81 "2013-09-05T18:49:16Z")
> [@Becky2844](#): > > Re how the three women may feel: a death doesn’t automatically bring closure. It’s frustrating and maddening because now nothing can be changed. _if that makes any sense_ Amanda Berry has chosen to continue to raise his child. Maybe that’s closure for her. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2013, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ariel-castro-found-hanged-in-cell/667971/82 "2013-09-06T00:47:24Z")
Maybe Amanda Berry has chosen to continue to raise _her_ child… because the little girl is hers, regardless of how she was conceived. ---
**Author:** ![smee\_goan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@smee\_goan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smee_goan)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2013, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ariel-castro-found-hanged-in-cell/667971/83 "2013-09-06T01:08:37Z")
He won’t do it again, A co-worker of mine was his union rep at the school bus job, funny thing is the rep also drove the school bus that drove a route to pick up kids in front of Anthony Sowell’s house, (11 women murdered and buried there)-two books available Imagine the book or fliker of this psycho? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2013, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ariel-castro-found-hanged-in-cell/667971/84 "2013-09-06T15:38:45Z")
I haven’t read the thread, since I don’t really care about Castro. He’s best forgotten, except insofar as law enforcement can learn from his crime. That said, the news is on. The reporter said ‘Castro only served one month of his life sentence.’ Actually, I’d say he did live the rest of his life in prison. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2013, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ariel-castro-found-hanged-in-cell/667971/85 "2013-09-06T17:27:02Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Why didn’t you just shoot yourself first and spare all of those innocent lives? ☹ Many of them do exactly that. They’re called “suicides.” ---
**Author:** ![Hershele\_Ostropoler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e47c2d/32.png) [@Hershele\_Ostropoler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hershele_Ostropoler)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ariel-castro-found-hanged-in-cell/667971/86 "2013-09-08T16:14:26Z")
In addition to John Donne, I worry that Ariel Castro will become a martyr. There were already people saying feminism is to blame for his crimes; now the’ll had him to feminism’s body count. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ariel-castro-found-hanged-in-cell/667971/87 "2013-09-08T17:16:43Z")
> [@Hershele\_Ostropoler](#): > > In addition to John Donne, I worry that Ariel Castro will become a martyr. There were already people saying feminism is to blame for his crimes; now the’ll had him to feminism’s body count. Huh? 😕 Like, ‘If those damned feminists would let me do what I want, I wouldn’t _have_ to kidnap women!’? ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ariel-castro-found-hanged-in-cell/667971/88 "2013-09-08T18:25:36Z")
> [@Hershele\_Ostropoler](#): > > In addition to John Donne, I worry that Ariel Castro will become a martyr. There were already people saying feminism is to blame for his crimes; now the’ll had him to feminism’s body count. I’m not crazy about all brands of feminism, but you’d have to be an anti-feminist AND a complete idiot to adopt Ariel Castro as a martyr, blaming his death on feminism. Anyone who buys into THAT ideology will get nothing but belittlement, and not just from feminists, from generally sane people as well. ---
**Author:** ![KaylaLynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@KaylaLynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KaylaLynn)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2013, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ariel-castro-found-hanged-in-cell/667971/89 "2013-09-08T19:18:40Z")
A noose and a chair should be readily available to those of his ilk. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2013, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ariel-castro-found-hanged-in-cell/667971/90 "2013-10-10T18:11:02Z")
Looks like it may have been autoerotic asphyxiation: > **[Officials: Ariel Castro May Have Died from Auto-Erotic Asphyxiation](https://www.gawker.com/officials-ariel-castro-may-have-died-from-auto-erotic-1443457148)** > > Ariel Castro, the Cleveland man who kidnapped three young women and kept them captive in his basement for ten years, might have died from auto-erotic asphyxiation, not suicide, according to a report from the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and... I hate to think, though, that he went out a happy man. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2013, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ariel-castro-found-hanged-in-cell/667971/91 "2013-10-10T18:35:42Z")
Also apparently his guards were not complying properly with the required checks on him. That would have to be the more important finding. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ariel-castro-found-hanged-in-cell/667971.md?page=4)