# Three Girls Missing Since 2003, Found \[Alive\] In Cleveland (edited title) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 7, 2013, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-girls-missing-since-2003-found-alive-in-cleveland-edited-title/657669 "2013-05-07T00:20:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-girls-missing-since-2003-found-alive-in-cleveland-edited-title/657669/1 "2013-05-07T00:20:49Z")
Amanda Berry went missing on April 21, 2003 at the age of 16 (just before her 17th birthday). She was on her way home from her shift at Burger King and was never heard from again. [More details.](http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/b/berry_amanda.html) Georgina “Gina” DeJesus went missing on April 2, 2004 at the age of 14. She was last seen not far from where Berry was last seen. [More details.](http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/d/dejesus_georgina.html) Both girls - well, now women in their 20s - have been found alive in Cleveland. > [@](#): > > Hundreds of people gathered in the streets near 2207 Seymour Avenue in Cleveland, where the women were discovered. Cleveland police said Berry, DeJesus and Michelle Knight are alive, talking and appear to be OK. > > “I heard screaming… And I see this girl going nuts trying to get outside,” said Charles, a neighbor would found the women. “I go on the porch and she said ‘Help me get out. I’ve been here a long time.’ I figure it was domestic violence dispute." > > “She comes out with a little girl and says ‘Call 911, my name is Amanda Berry’… When she told me, it didn’t register.” He said he made the call and gave Berry the phone. When police arrived, officers asked him if he knew who he rescued. > > Read more: [http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/local\_news/cleveland\_metro/Cleveland-police-dispatch-Missing-teens-Amanda-Berry-and-Gina-DeJesus-found-alive#ixzz2SYsVao1k](http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/local_news/cleveland_metro/Cleveland-police-dispatch-Missing-teens-Amanda-Berry-and-Gina-DeJesus-found-alive#ixzz2SYsVao1k) ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-girls-missing-since-2003-found-alive-in-cleveland-edited-title/657669/2 "2013-05-07T02:02:30Z")
Here’s a local news station’s page with aggregate info: [http://www.newsnet5.com/generic/news/local\_news/amanda-berry-gina-dejesus](http://www.newsnet5.com/generic/news/local_news/amanda-berry-gina-dejesus) They’re having a press conference right now at the hospital where the women are at but it’s mostly a doctor standing around saying “Sorry I can’t go in to more detail.” There’s actually a third woman who was found, Michelle Knight, who was 21 when she went missing in 2002. They are also reporting that Amanda Berry’s daughter has been found so I guess she had a daughter in the past 10 years. You’re going to want to keep an eye out for a viral video of [the guy who helped rescue](http://fox8.com/2013/05/06/neighbor-i-got-amanda-berry-send-the-police-out/) the girls. He’s going to be the next [Antoine Dodson](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzNhaLUT520) or [Sweet Brown](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGxwbhkDjZM). Seriously, though - he was a hero today! ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-girls-missing-since-2003-found-alive-in-cleveland-edited-title/657669/3 "2013-05-07T02:32:58Z")
Anderson Cooper is talking about it on CNN right now. Wow. What a story. ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-girls-missing-since-2003-found-alive-in-cleveland-edited-title/657669/4 "2013-05-07T02:35:22Z")
It seems like practically everyone in my Twitter stream has shared a link to the video or at least the story. Incredible! ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-girls-missing-since-2003-found-alive-in-cleveland-edited-title/657669/5 "2013-05-07T02:45:28Z")
This is such amazing news! The missing posters are still up in various places…last year they even dug up a yard on the word of a convict who said he knew where Amanda was buried. So sad that Amanda’s mom passed away 7 years ago. There is absolutely no other news being reported in Cleveland tonight! No one is saying much about the third woman, who has been missing 12 years. But the next few days are going to be interesting indeed. Oh, I love the guy who rescued her! Listening to his interview, and when they asked him if he knew anyone else was living in there…he said “If I knew this last year I would have pulled this hero stuff last year!” He is amazingly funny! What a guy! ---
**Author:** ![FaerieBeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@FaerieBeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FaerieBeth)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-girls-missing-since-2003-found-alive-in-cleveland-edited-title/657669/6 "2013-05-07T02:46:34Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > You’re going to want to keep an eye out for a viral video of [the guy who helped rescue](http://fox8.com/2013/05/06/neighbor-i-got-amanda-berry-send-the-police-out/) the girls. He’s going to be the next [Antoine Dodson](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzNhaLUT520) or [Sweet Brown](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGxwbhkDjZM). Seriously, though - he was a hero today! Charles Ramsey: “I’d a pulled this heroic shit LAST year!” That interview was awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-girls-missing-since-2003-found-alive-in-cleveland-edited-title/657669/7 "2013-05-07T02:57:53Z")
I’m trying to find a picture of Michelle Knight. I knew a girl of that name and age in college, in 1999-2000. She dropped off my radar. She came from somewhere in the northern Indiana/northern Ohio belt. There are probably a thousand Michelle Knights, but I wish I could find a picture! ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-girls-missing-since-2003-found-alive-in-cleveland-edited-title/657669/8 "2013-05-07T03:01:29Z")
_Three missing girls_ were found. OP missed one. 🙂 > **[U.S. News: Latest Breaking Stories, Video, and Photos on American Politics,...](https://www.nbcnews.com/us-news?lite)** > > Get the latest news headlines and top stories from NBCNews.com. Find videos and news articles on the latest stories in the US. Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight appeared to be in good health and were talking after being discovered in a home on the city’s west side, Cleveland Police Chief Michael McGarth said in a statement. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-girls-missing-since-2003-found-alive-in-cleveland-edited-title/657669/9 "2013-05-07T03:09:28Z")
Yeah there were actually just 2 being reported when I first posted. Not sure why Knight was left out originally - could have been that her disappearance wasn’t hardly publicized like the other two, as she was 21 when he went missing. There are also other people, kids, in the house. I’d ask a mod to correct it but they kind of creep me out with all the “THE OP IS A DUMMY SO WE EDITED THEIR TITLE!” announcements they attach to edits 😛 ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-girls-missing-since-2003-found-alive-in-cleveland-edited-title/657669/10 "2013-05-07T03:18:37Z")
The first article I read said three women had been found, but only identified the first two. Sounded like they were still confirming Michelle Knight’s identity when the story broke. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-girls-missing-since-2003-found-alive-in-cleveland-edited-title/657669/11 "2013-05-07T03:19:45Z")
We needed some good news after the events these past three weeks. There’s three really happy families celebrating tonight. I recall thinking that a kidnap victim would never be found after the first few months. Then Jaycee Dugard was found after 18 years. That Utah girl was found after a year. So yes in rare cases kidnappers don’t always kill their victims. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-girls-missing-since-2003-found-alive-in-cleveland-edited-title/657669/12 "2013-05-07T03:29:21Z")
> [@kittenblue](#): > > So sad that Amanda’s mom passed away 7 years ago. Especially since “psychic” Sylvia Browne [told](http://www.wkyc.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=26501) her that Amanda was dead first. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-girls-missing-since-2003-found-alive-in-cleveland-edited-title/657669/13 "2013-05-07T03:41:23Z")
This guy did all his shopping in one small area. I’m surprised I didn’t hear about this before. Lorain Avenue was his hunting ground. > **[Police visited home where three kidnapped girls were held in 2004... but left...](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2320571/Missing-Ohio-girls-just-3-MILES-Cleveland-block-disappeared-despite-huge-police-search.html)** > > Officers visited the home on Seymour Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio in 2004 as part of an investigation by child services but left when no one answered. > [@](#): > > The three female victims in Cleveland who were abducted a decade ago were all last on the same busy block in the city. > > Michelle Knight, who was 20-years-old when she went missing in August 2000, was last seen at a cousin’s house near West 106th Street and Lorain Avenue. > > Three years later, in April 2003, Amanda Berry, disappeared after leaving her job at a Burger King - at West 110th Street and Lorain. > > It was the day before her 17th birthday. > > And a year later, Gina DeJesus, then 14-years-old, was last seen leaving her middle school at West 105th Street and Lorain. ---
**Author:** ![lavenderviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cdc98d/32.png) [@lavenderviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lavenderviolet)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-girls-missing-since-2003-found-alive-in-cleveland-edited-title/657669/14 "2013-05-07T03:51:20Z")
It’s creepy to think that there are other people out there being held captive that we don’t know about. I really wish that Amanda’s mother had lived to see her again. Nothing will ever make up for what Amanda lost by not getting to spend those years with her mom. [This article](http://www.cleveland.com/brett/blog/index.ssf/2013/02/amanda_berrys_mother_louwana_m.html) makes it sound like even though she was rough around the edges Louwana really loved her daughter. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-girls-missing-since-2003-found-alive-in-cleveland-edited-title/657669/15 "2013-05-07T03:59:19Z")
What also sucks is that not too long ago (2009) [a dude](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Sowell) was arrested and found guilty of murdering 11 women and burying them in his house in Cleveland. Now, he was on the East side and the current nutjob is on the West side but still Cleveland is not that big of a place. That’s a lot of missing women for one small city! And the neighborhoods both guys lived in were similar - old houses on tiny plots. How does nobody notice this stuff going on? Where are all the busybodies? ☹ ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-girls-missing-since-2003-found-alive-in-cleveland-edited-title/657669/16 "2013-05-07T04:50:03Z")
CNN showed a picture of a woman who was identified as Amanda Berry in the ER with her sister, and a little girl who most likely is her daughter. They later showed them with the child cropped out. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-girls-missing-since-2003-found-alive-in-cleveland-edited-title/657669/17 "2013-05-07T05:03:39Z")
heres the picture uncropped but the child’s face is pixelated. Thats a requirement in the UK. [![](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/05/07/article-2320519-19A704B4000005DC-461_964x349.jpg) ](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/05/07/article-2320519-19A704B4000005DC-461_964x349.jpg) Amanda has lot of weight in captivity. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-girls-missing-since-2003-found-alive-in-cleveland-edited-title/657669/18 "2013-05-07T06:51:32Z")
[Ramsey to the rescue!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcLSI3oyqhs) The guy is priceless! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-girls-missing-since-2003-found-alive-in-cleveland-edited-title/657669/19 "2013-05-07T13:05:34Z")
> [@FaerieBeth](#): > > Charles Ramsey: “I’d a pulled this heroic shit LAST year!” That interview was awesome. And [this line](http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/local_news/cleveland_metro/cleveland-man-who-found-missing-woman-amanda-berry-i-thought-that-girl-was-dead#ixzz2Sbz5eEaM): > [@](#): > > Ramsey: Bro, I knew something was wrong when a little, pretty white girl ran into a black man’s arms. Something is wrong here. Dead giveaway. Dead giveaway. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-girls-missing-since-2003-found-alive-in-cleveland-edited-title/657669/20 "2013-05-07T13:14:44Z")
> [@lavenderviolet](#): > > It’s creepy to think that there are other people out there being held captive that we don’t know about. Especially if they’re still in that same house! I kid, you’re absolutely right. Sometimes it’s almost too much to hold out hope, and then something like this happens. And yes, a tragedy beyond measure is the mom dying heartbroken at the loss of a child, never to see her found safe. I haven’t read it reported yet, have they mentioned a motivation for the abductions? Was it sexual related or did this guy just want daughters he couldn’t have otherwise? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-girls-missing-since-2003-found-alive-in-cleveland-edited-title/657669.md?page=2)