Ohio Suspect May Face More Charges; Neighbors Say They Raised Flags About Castro
BURNETT: Welcome back to the second half of OUTFRONT on a Friday. We start with stories where we focus on our own reporting from the front lines. And tonight, I want to begin with the amazing news in Bangladesh. Sixteen days after that factory building collapsed, 10 days since rescuers gave up hope searching for signs of life, a survivor. I'm alive, the 19-year-old Rashma (ph) called out. It took about an hour before rescuers could pull her from the rubble. She was taken to a hospital shortly after. The death toll meanwhile is 1,043. Not including eight others who died in another factory fire this week in Bangladesh. In a recent report, the government citing a deadly fire last year at a factory said it was taking steps to increase factory worker safety. The problem is without unions or people in the West being willing to pay more for clothes, they might not happen. Officials have released the death certificate of Boston marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev. He was pronounced dead at 1:35 a.m. on April due to, quote, "gunshot wounds of torso and extremities", and, quote, "blunt trauma to head and torso." The certificate also shows that Tsarnaev has been buried at a Muslim cemetery in Doswell, Virginia. That has upset some residents. Officials there are looking into the legality of that burial. But the owner of the funeral home that prepared Tsarnaev's body meanwhile says that he was washed, placed in a shroud and buried in a plain wooden box per Muslim tradition. In Mali, two suicide attacks proved that al Qaeda continues to be a threat in the region. Military officials say three suicide bombers carrying explosives inside water bottles blew themselves up at a checkpoint this morning. A fourth was shot and killed. Three hundred miles away then were killed when they charged a military camp. A colonel with the West African force tells CNN he believes these attacks are far from over. Expert Rudy Attalla tells us that Malian soldiers are currently getting all their help from the French and are not capable of fighting the Islamists on their own. Tonight, the IRS is under fire for admitting it targeted Tea Party groups seeking tax-exempt status. An IRS director said many cases were grouped together for further review because they had names like Tea Party and patriot in them. But she blamed workers for taking a short cut. She said it wasn't, quote-unquote, "political bias". Former IRS attorney tells us it's possible they tried to centralize some cases to optimize processing. But says the question that remains is, why did the IRS apply extra scrutiny to these applicants? Now, the White House today called the behavior inappropriate and added that an investigation is ongoing. Well, it has been 645 days since the United States lost its top credit rating. What are we doing to get it back? Well, the Treasury Department reported that the U.S. government ran a budget surplus of $113 billion in April, $54 billion more than the same month last year and actually the biggest monthly surplus in five years. Well, a chilling picture continues to emerge tonight of who Ariel Castro is. And the abuse his victims allegedly endured in his Cleveland home. Police say DNA tests prove that Castro fathered a child with Amanda Berry. She, of course, one of the women freed this week from captivity, the one who ran out the door and made that call. We're also learning new information tonight about Castro, how he was brought up and what made him into the man that he is. Martin Savidge is OUTFRONT. And, Martin, what have you learned about Castro's early days which obviously could be important?</s>MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It is important, Erin. But I also want to point out here that as we research and do this investigation, it's not trying to find any reasoning for what he does. We're not trying to give him excuses for what he has been accused of. But we did want to know who was he before the world knew him as what many people accuse him of being a monster? And so, we started talking to relatives. We started talking to people in the neighborhood. He was born in Puerto Rico in a very small rural town, eventually made his way to Cleveland when he was 6. His family moved here. And even though his father was actually successful businessman, ran a car dealership down the street, he didn't have any real influence on Castro's young life. In fact, the father really wasn't around. He was raised by his mom. He lived on the streets here. He worked pretty much in this whole community. He went to school here. And then in high school, he made it all the way to 10th grade and then he dropped out. But one of the things he loved to do in high school, wrestling. After he dropped out, he couldn't find a job so he taught himself how to play the bass and then he became part of a band. He traveled around the Cleveland area performing in nightclubs. And this is what many people tell us is that there were sort of -- there was one Castro who you would talk to, who would be very shy, very polite. And the other person you talk to when he got on stage, he was gregarious, very outgoing. Music seemed to be something he was really drawn to. But then we also know he has this incredibly dark side. The violence that he committed, at least according to court documents against his wife is savage. And there are other incidents of problems in his life. So you begin to see a fuller picture here and you begin to look at a man differently, because you see him not just as when he was a monster but when other people looked at him and just a neighbor.</s>BURNETT: And, Martin, you know, you talk about how his dad wasn't around much but had a car dealership. You know, in the notes they found in the home that Ariel Castro allegedly wrote where he talked about being abused as a child. Is there any evidence that that happened at this point, or do we not know?</s>SAVIDGE: We don't know. And I press that point to a number of family members. You know, is this really possible? We saw the note. We saw, you know, what he claims happened to him in his life. There's not a single family member I've spoken to that has ever said that they had heard of this before that they ever knew of this before, that there was any relate they've could have been involved. They say they know him.</s>BURNETT: Well, there's still so many questions. When you put that together and you hear what Martin saying and then you know what this man is alleged to have done, it is impossible to put those two things together. And Ariel Castro's children are now trying to process the kidnapping and rape charges against their father. One of Castro's daughters Angie Gregg spoke exclusively with our Laurie Segall about how she is coping.</s>ANGIE GREGG, DAUGHTER OF ARIEL CASTRO: My father's actions are not a reflection of everyone in the family. They're definitely not a reflection of myself or my children. We don't have monster in our blood.</s>LAURIE SEGALL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: You would call him a monster?</s>GREGG: Yes. Yes. There will be no visits. There will be no phone calls. He's dead to me.</s>BURNETT: OUTFRONT tonight, Melissa Moore, her father Keith Jesperson is the serial murderer known as the "Happy Face Killer". He killed at least eight women, signed his anonymous confession letters with a smiley face. He is currently serving life sentences in prison. Of course, she saw him there with her when she was just a little girl. Melissa, thank you so much for coming OUTFRONT and talking to us tonight. You just heard Angie, Ariel Castro's daughter, say "we don't have monster in our blood." You were just a teenager when your father did these things and then when he was convicted. Did you have a hard time conveying that about your family?</s>MELISSA MOORE, AUTHOR, "SHATTERED SILENCE": I did, Erin. What was really difficult was when the news broke I was 15. I went to high school the next day after I found out about my dad. And then to my surprise, my peers, my friends, their parents had watched the news, too. And so when I arrived to school that next day, they were advised by their parents to not associate with me, to not be my friend. And so I took this like guilt by association and I thought, well, maybe there is something wrong with me. Why are they dissociating with me? Not that this is my dad and that's the reason why. I started to internalize it.</s>BURNETT: I mean it must be terrifying. You look at that. You don't understand it's someone that you loved and then you see these things and so horrific. You know, your father did these -- killed these eight when you were the ages of 10 and 15. How long did it take before anyone would treat you normally after that?</s>MOORE: Well, I started to keep it a secret. I changed high schools. I did change my last name like my dad suggested. He asked me to change my last name while he was in prison. Well, actually, started jail when I went to go visit him to find out if this was really true. Was this really the case that he was wanted for all these murders? I had a hard time believing it. And then so after I talked to my dad and then the first thing he said to me is change my last name, I knew that this was true, that I had to settle into this new reality that my life was no longer going to be normal.</s>BURNETT: I mean, Melissa, it's impossible to imagine what you went through. And yet you have with grace. In that interview with Laurie Segall, Angie also talked about her feelings towards her father. And it sounds like yours. They were complicated. Here's Angie.</s>GREGG: Love doesn't go away. But I just don't feel it right now. And I, like I said, I can't forgive him. Like there is no way. You know, the main emotion that I have besides gratitude that these girls are home is disgust. You know? When I really sit down and start thinking about him, I literally want to vomit.</s>BURNETT: Melissa, you were last communicated with your father I believe, correct me if I'm wrong, when your 17. You're 33 years old now. Have you ever been able to forgive him?</s>MOORE: Forgive is complicated. I -- I feel what Angie feels. I feel disgust for my father's actions. I feel embarrassed. But I was also a victim of abuse and violence, I witnessed it. It sounds like from what I've been reading that she's also witnessed her mother being abused. And those are things that you can't erase. And so when I think about Amanda Berry's young daughter, I think about what her future lies, what is going to happen to her? I can only reflect on my life and for me, there has been a light at the end of this grim circumstance. I found a happy new normal. It's maybe different than your normal or anybody else's normal. But it's way better than the horrific childhood I grew up.</s>BURNETT: And, of course, you know, you have children off your own. You have your own life now. You know, also another thing that Angie said was that even though, you know, she knew her father was beating her mother and you were talking about -- you were talking about that, she would never thought her father could do something like this. I mean, she's in the moments of grief and terror right now. But here's how she expressed that feeling.</s>GREGG: Why did you take these girls and why did you never leave? And why did you never -- why didn't he ever feel guilty enough to let them go?</s>BURNETT: So do you -- did you ever have suspicions about your own father? I mean you were between the ages of 10 and 15. I mean, you obviously have a lot going on in your own life at that point. But did you ever have suspicions?</s>MOORE: I did, not to the fact that he was a serial murderer. But when I was 6 years old, he tortured my animals in front of me. And mind you, he was my dad. He's my only frame of reference as with Amanda Berry's little girl, her dad Castro is her only frame of reference. So I thought that was normal but it didn't feel right. That's the best way I can describe it. But when I heard the news that my dad had strangled and killed his fiancee, then I had the memory back of when he killed and tortured by strangulation the stray cats that came on our property. That's when I knew -- and that's when it sunk in that he's really capable of killing people.</s>BURNETT: Melissa, I know this is a hard question to ask. But, you know, humans are -- human feelings are so complicated. Do you still love your father?</s>MOORE: I don't know if I would use the word love. There's a parental bond there. So that's why I cut communication with him via phone and via letters, because when I would go to the mail box and I would see a letter that was from him, it would bring back to the surface that oh, yes, I do have a dad and that he is serving time in prison. And that oh, yes, he is a serial killer that I -- that my normal life is interrupted then. So as I cut that communication, those feelings diminish and I can live my normal life that way. If I continued on talking to him, he's still playing psychological games and trying to control and manipulate me. So I have to cut ties. And that's the only way I can recover and move on. That's what I feel like is best for this family, too.</s>BURNETT: And just before we go. Since do you have your own children and, you know, we look at this little girl now, this 6-year- old girl, who is the child of Ariel Castro. How do you talk to your children about who their grandfather is?</s>MOORE: And that's a tough thing, because you want to protect their innocence. You want to make them believe that there really aren't monsters under the bed. That everybody is a good person. You don't want to diminish that reality that they have for just a short period of time that as my daughter she's almost 12 now and she's curious. She wants to know more. And she does know that he's in prison and that he's killed multiple women. She doesn't know the details. And there's no way I can protect her from that knowledge with me being an advocate and going out and speaking, those are some of the things that I have to share.</s>BURNETT: Melissa, thank you very much for sharing it with us and with our viewers. We really appreciate that. I know it's not easy. Well, still to come, a Grammy nominated Christian rock star caught in a police sting. He was trying to hire a hitman to kill his wife. And the U.S. has the second largest stash of nuclear warheads in the world. Why 17 men charged with protecting them have been stripped of their duties? An OUTFRONT investigation.