The news reports the women are in good health (though one is still in the
hospital). How can they be in good health after going through what they
did? What did they do all day locked upstairs in rooms?
There was also an interview on MSNBC website that is with a guy that used to
play bass with him at clubs. Said the guy was a nice guy and he had been
over to his house. He never suspected anything. He had been over to the
guys house last week and the six year old came out, and the guy said it was
his grand daughter. He did say the kid was very shy. (But lot of kids are.)
http://tinyurl.com/d5x2jl3
http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/05/09/the-mind-of-ariel-castro-a-self-described-sexual-predator/
Strange stories from the daughter. Also, why is the man called an "accused"
wife abuser? Why was he not arrested years ago for that?
http://tinyurl.com/cajd98o
She had known her "daddy" as a "friendly, caring, doting man." Now shocked
and in disbelief, Gregg says she never wants to see him again... "I wonder
this whole time, how he could be so good to us, but he (allegedly) took
young women, little girls, someone else's babies, away from these families
and over the years never felt enough guilt to just give up and let them
free."
Gregg did not think anything out of the ordinary was going on in her
childhood home.
When she came calling, "he would take forever to come to the door," she
said. He always had the house locked up tight. Standing at a window, Castro
would often give her a hand signal indicating to her to wait. Then he'd wave
her around to the back door, not letting her in through the front of the
house. Once inside, visits were fun and cordial. Gregg, her husband and
Castro "ate, looked at photos and listened to music," she said. "He appeared
to be happy to see us and never rushed for us to leave. "At times, he would
disappear from dinner and give no explanation for his absence. The music was
usually turned up loud, but Gregg thought this to be fitting since Castro
was a musician.
Once she asked if she could go upstairs to see her childhood bedroom. Castro
coaxed her out of the idea, telling her, "Oh, honey, there's so much junk up
there. You don't want to go up there," she said. Again, she thought nothing
of it, "besides him being a pack rat."
Castro clung to home, never wanting to leave for more than a day, even to
visit Gregg out of state when she lived with her family in Indiana. "He was
adamant in the fact that he wanted to leave home early morning and he had to
be back by evening," Gregg said. Her family often made travel plans with
Castro that they then had to cancel because of her father's obsession with
his own four walls.
Gregg said that she never saw signs of the 6-year-old at her father's house
and that she never saw her with him. But about two months ago, he showed her
a picture in his cell phone. Gregg asked who it was. Her father told her
that the girl was his girlfriend's child by somebody else.
Gregg recalled fond memories of growing up in the house and fun times with
her father. He lined up the children in the backyard and trimmed their bangs
himself, she said. He took her for rides on his motorcycle.
And he never abused her, she said, or her sisters, as far as she knows. But
he beat their mother, Grimilda Figueroa, whom he accused of fooling around
with neighbors. He was very jealous, Gregg said. "When Mom and Dad were
fighting, it's like I just wanted to melt into the ground," she said. "I've
seen him basically stomp on her like she was a man," Gregg remembered. Then
after a bludgeoning, her mother had enough, and the family split up. The
other children left with her mother, but Gregg stuck by Castro, believing
the excuses he made for the violence. She finished growing up under his
roof, she said.
Smitty
"You can teach a man to play piano, but can you tune a fish?"