Two Ohio women who vanished when they were teenagers were found in the home of a 52-year-old man on Monday.
One of those women, Amanda Berry, called police on Monday afternoon and told a 911 dispatcher that she was with Gina DeJesus in the house, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. Berry, who's 27, and 23-year-old DeJesus were taken to a nearby hospital.
Just this summer, police were scouring the West Side of Cleveland for Berry's body after getting an apparently false tip from a prisoner who said he knew where she was buried.
The owner of the house where they were finally found was a 52-year-old man named Ariel Castro who had a single domestic violence arrest from 1993, according to the Plain Dealer. A third woman was with them but hasn't been identified.
Berry disappeared back in April 2003, the day before her 17th birthday, after she called her sister to tell her she was getting a ride from her job at a local Burger King.
A year later, DeJesus, then 14 years old, vanished when she was walking home from school in the same neighborhood where Berry had disappeared.
Since the girls vanished, there have been numerous vigils for them in the Cleveland area, the Plain Dealer reports.
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