In newly released police audio tapes, a 911 dispatcher notifies officers on Monday that she’s just spoken to a woman who “says her name is Amanda Berry and that she had been kidnapped 10 years ago.”
An officer on the recorded call says, “This might be for real.”
After police arrive at the Cleveland house of accused kidnapper Ariel Castro, women can be heard crying in the background. Then an officer tells the dispatcher: “We found ’em. We found ’em.”
Berry and two other women–Michelle Knight and Gina DeJesus–were found alive after a decade in captivity. The women endured lonely, dark lives inside a dingy home where they were raped and allowed outside only a handful of times in disguises while walking to a garage steps away, investigators say.