Yesterday, various news outlets reported that Ariel Castro, charged with kidnapping and raping three Cleveland women and accused of holding them in his house for years, once wrote a suicide note.
Local Cleveland station 19 Action News has obtained a copy of the letter. Reporter Scott Taylor has been tweeting the contents of the note:
I just got a copy of a letter written by Ariel Castro in 2004. Cops found it in his house. He says "I am a sexual predator. I need help"
— Scott Taylor (@ScottTaylor19) May 9, 2013
Castro writes "They are here against their will because they made a mistake of getting in a car with a total stranger."
— Scott Taylor (@ScottTaylor19) May 9, 2013
Castro continues "I don't know why I kept looking for another. I already had 2 in my possession."
— Scott Taylor (@ScottTaylor19) May 9, 2013
Castro writes about wanting to kill himself and "give all the money I saved to my victims."
— Scott Taylor (@ScottTaylor19) May 9, 2013Castro writes he was surprised how young Gina Dejesus really is cause he thought she was a lotolder.
— Scott Taylor (@ScottTaylor19) May 9, 2013
More from the Castro letter: Castro writes he treated the 3 women well and later writes he's sick.
— Scott Taylor (@ScottTaylor19) May 9, 2013
Ariel Castro says in the letter he has no feeling for the bad things he has done.
— Scott Taylor (@ScottTaylor19) May 9, 2013
Note that the letter — which sounds like Castro confessing to kidnapping the women — was written in 2004, years before anyone discovered Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight.
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