Posts Tagged Ariel Castro

By zerlina • 10 years ago

New report claims that Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro may not have committed suicide

Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro may not have committed suicide after all.  Castro, 53, was found hanging in his cell last month after being sent to prison for life after holding three women hostage for nearly a decade.

Via ABC News:

Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro may have died from auto-erotic asphyxiation, not suicide, and two prison guards falsified logs documenting their observation of him in the hours before he died, the state said Thursday.

Castro’s pants and underwear were pulled down to his ankles when he was found, leading the state to forward those facts to the state highway patrol to consider the possibility of auto-erotic asphyxiation, according to the report from the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.

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Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro may not have committed suicide after all.  Castro, 53, was found hanging in his cell last month after being sent to prison for life after holding three women hostage for nearly a decade.

Via ...
By Alexandra Brodsky • 10 years ago

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By Alexandra Brodsky • 10 years ago

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Bey is on the cover of Ms., giving the feminist blogosphere another month to police her feminism and then yell at itself for this policing.

Read Kiera Wilmot’s story in her own words.
By Alexandra Brodsky • 10 years ago

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A survivor argues that military sexual trauma should be treated ...