Knight Delivered Berry's Child; Kidnapping Suspect No Stranger to Police; Ariel Castro Charged; Questions Raised about Kidnapping Hero
BURNETT: Welcome back to a live special edition of</s>ERIN BURNETT: OUTFRONT. We're hearing for the first time what exactly police encountered when they entered the home Monday when Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michele Knight were being held captive. We have obtained the police audio from that afternoon. It's incredibly emotional. And here's the moment that police entered the house on Seymour Avenue and rescue the three victims.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Adam 2-3, you've got a bust coming? This might be for real. There might be others in the house. Gina DeJesus might be in this house also. We found them. We found them.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Copy.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Send EMS here. We've got a female</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We also have a Michele Knight in the house. I don't know if you want to look that up in radio -- in the system. Thirty-two years old.</s>BURNETT: And you can hear the women crying there in the background. We also have new video tonight of Ariel Castro, the man now charged with rape and kidnapping in connection with this disappearance of those three women. This exclusive video is shot by our affiliate WOIO inside the Justice Center in Cleveland. You can see him there trying to cover his face, wearing some sort of sweatshirt type of thing. This is right after he was re-interviewed by police. He tries to go right there. They want him to go through the door. Brian Todd is in Cleveland with the very latest on the investigation and the charges filed today against Ariel Castro.</s>BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Authorities in Cleveland lay out their case against Ariel Castro in the disappearances of Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michele Knight.</s>VICTOR PEREZ, CITY OF CLEVELAND PROSECUTOR: I just signed criminal complaints charging Ariel Castro with four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape.</s>TODD: Castro's two brothers Pedro and Onil are not being charged. Authorities say the women were bound while they were in captivity, that there were chains and ropes in the home. We're also getting new details on abuse and abduction allegations against Ariel Castro which date back at least eight years. A complaint filed in 2005 against Ariel Castro by the Gramilda Figueroa, then listed as the natural parent of his child, claims Castro broke her nose twice, broke her ribs, gave her lacerations, knocked out a tooth, gave her a blood clot on the brain. Next to that it says inoperable tumor, dislocated both of her shoulders, and threatened to kill Figueroa and their daughters three or four times that year. Fernando Colon was engaged to Gramilda Figueroa until her death last year. Here's what he says Figueroa told him about abuse at the hands of Ariel Castro.</s>FERNANDO COLON, FORMER FIANCEE OF CASTRO'S EX-WIFE: She said that any little mistake that she make, even if she drops a plate to the ground, he would get so upset that he would beat her, throw her down the stairs at one point. Throw her against the wall. Kicked her in the head while she was on the floor. Grabs some barbells with weights and hit her on the head.</s>TODD (on camera): Hit her on the head with barbells?</s>COLON: With barbells. She already had one brain surgery when I met her.</s>TODD (voice-over): But that domestic abuse case from 2005 was dismissed. Because Ariel Castro often didn't show up in court and because on a crucial day, Gramilda Figueroa's lawyer was not there. And Fernando Colon could have motivation for laying out allegations against Castro. Colon was convicted of molesting two of Castro's children several years ago. He claims Ariel Castro orchestrated the charges again him to deflect attention from Castro's own alleged crimes. Colon is moving ahead with an appeal of his conviction. He says this about the death of Castro's former common law wife last year.</s>COLON: She died of injury she sustained on her head, with brain aneurysm, all that, cancer, whatever she had on her head. All of that caused her death.</s>TODD: That complaint back in 2005 also alleges that Ariel Castro would abduct his daughters from their natural mothers several times, even though she had full custody of them. Also, regarding Fernando Colon, he told us that he told the FBI back in 2004 to look at Ariel Castro as a possible abductor of Gina DeJesus, but that the FBI didn't do it. Now an FBI special agent said tonight they have checked their records from that time, and there is no evidence they know of that Fernando Colon ever told them about Ariel Castro -- Erin.</s>BURNETT: I know. It's so hard to know what everyone is saying, what's true, what isn't. So many difficulties in this case. I know Ariel Castro's daughter, his daughter Emily, that new Gina DeJesus also had a criminal record, Brian. And she's serving 25 years now for the attempted murder of her own baby daughter. What do you know about that case?</s>TODD: That's right, Erin. Now we have court documents on that case as well. This happened back in 2007. That's a pretty grizzly looking court documents which talks about how she slit the throat of her 11-month-old daughter four times trying to kill her that -- her own mother, Emily Castro's mother, that Gramilda Figueroa that we talked about, actually rescued the child. Wrestled the child away from her, hailed a passing car, got the child to a hospital, saved the child's life. That child did survive. But Emily Castro, Ariel Castro's daughter, is now serving a 25-year sentence in Indiana for that attempted murder.</s>BURNETT: And Brian, there have been a lot of questions about the credibility, as we were just referring to, of a lot of people involved in the case, including the man who claimed credit for having saved these women, Charles Ramsey. I want to play the 911 call that he made to police. Take a listen to that.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Cleveland 911. Police, ambulance or fire?</s>CHARLES RAMSEY, HELPED RESCUE AMANDA BERRY: Yes, hey bro. I'm at 2207 Seymour, West 25th. Hey, check this out. I just came from McDonald's, right? So I'm on my porch eating my little food, right? This broad is trying to break out the</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Sir, sir --</s>RAMSEY: You know what I mean?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Sir, you have to calm down and slow down. Is she still in the street?</s>RAMSEY: Seymour Avenue.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Is she still in the street? Or where did she go?</s>RAMSEY: Yes, I'm looking at her, she right now. She's calling you all, she's on the other phone.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Is she black, white or Hispanic?</s>RAMSEY: She's white, but the baby look Hispanic.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK. What is she wearing?</s>RAMSEY: White tank top, light blue sweat pants, like a wife- beater.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do you know the address next door that she said she was in?</s>RAMSEY: Yes, 2207. I'm looking at it.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK. I thought that was your address. So that house --</s>RAMSEY: No, no. I'm smarter than that, bro. I'm telling you were the crime was, not my house.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK. Sir, we can't talk at the same time. Do you want to leave your name and number?</s>RAMSEY: Charles Ramsey.</s>R-A-M-S-E-Y. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Are the people she said that did this, do you know, are they still in the house?</s>RAMSEY: I don't have a</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Can you -- can you ask her if she needs an ambulance?</s>RAMSEY: You need an ambulance or what? She needs everything. She's in a panic, bro. I think she's been kidnapped, so, you know, out yourself in her shoes.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We'll send the police out.</s>BURNETT: That is one of the most amazing things I've ever heard, Brian. What more do you know about Charles?</s>TODD: Well, Erin, what we've been told by neighbors, and we talked to one of the neighbors across the street, this was the neighbor actually who Amanda Berry ran to across the street to call 911. That neighbor says that it wasn't Charles Ramsey who kicked part of that door down to free Amanda Berry, that it was a man named Angel Cordero. And apparently other neighbors have also said that that person was Angel Cordero who kicked the door, and not Charles Ramsey. Now we do have to say that the police have publicly thanked Charles Ramsey for what he did that night. So it's a little less clear at the moment who was the real hero here, and maybe we'll get some clarity on that in the coming days.</s>BURNETT: Most certainly will. A lot of people really have connected with Charles Ramsey. Thanks to Brian. And OUTFRONT tonight, criminologist Casey Jordan. Casey, when you hear -- we keep getting more information.</s>CASEY JORDAN, CRIMINOLOGIST: Right.</s>BURNETT: Now we have new information about the baby and how it was born in some sort of a plastic tub.</s>JORDAN: Right.</s>BURNETT: And Ariel Castro allegedly threatened the oldest woman, Michele Knight, that he would kill her if she didn't make sure Amanda Berry's baby survived because the baby is not -- every detail is more and more strange.</s>JORDAN: But it's out of the horse's mouth. I mean, this is from police reports, from the interviews with these three women in the first 24 hours. And even though they're traumatized, they've been bottling this up for years. Right now, their memories are going to be the most clear that they will ever be. Sometimes the adrenaline actually will bring on more clarification of the memory. Memory gets worse as time goes on. So if the women are saying this, it's probably credible and most likely true. And the detail of that. Having a baby in a kiddie pool to minimize the mess that it would make. This is just the sort of thing that nobody would make up. And it's really disturbing because it shows the mentality of the captor and the suffering of the captives.</s>BURNETT: And can you explain more how someone could keep this a secret? I mean, we've talked about this neighborhood, that it was -- you know, the houses are close together. People live life in the warm weather very much out on the street. Ariel Castro among them. Barbecuing, drinking with friends out and about. He had a job until November. He was -- he was not often there. How does this happen and you keep it a secret?</s>JORDAN: Because he's out and about is how he keeps the secret. And we've seen this with dozens of serial killers. Jeffrey Dahmer was drinking beer with his neighbors all the time, too. But in the case of the captive, remember, he needs to act normally, so that nobody ever suspects him, which is why he speaks in that video when he's stopped on the motorcycle. He's so polite. Nervous, but very polite and respectful to the officer, which is why the officer lets him go and wheel his bike away.</s>BURNETT: Right.</s>JORDAN: Remember, the minute he starts acting odd, and the oddest thing is that while he was cordial with his neighbors, he never allowed them into his house. The bottom line is --</s>BURNETT: He's never that close.</s>JORDAN: In the lower socio-economic neighborhood, they often suffer from what we call a siege mentality. It's a distrust of the police, government agencies, and it's a mind-your-own-business credo. You know your neighbors on a superficial level. And you'll help them out if you need to. But if there's trouble in the neighbor's houses, most people do not want to get involved. And they expect the same courtesy if there's ever trouble at their house. Mind your own business. Little bit of backstreet idea of what justice is and how things should be taken care of, taken care of at the neighborhood level. So his activities would very rarely come to the attention of police.</s>BURNETT: Casey, thank you very much. Casey Jordan. A criminologist and profiler for the FBI. Still to come, a verdict announced at the Jodi Arias trial today. What the prosecution actually had to do to get that job done. Plus what's next for Arias, could she avoid the death penalty by lethal injection? And we're also following other key stories tonight. Seventeen U.S. officers with the ability to launch nuclear weapons suddenly removed from duty and Benghazi.