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A Lost Woman

Michelle Knight was 21 years old when she was lost on the streets of Cleveland, looking for the location where she was to appear in court for a child custody hearing of her son. Exhausted and desperate, she walked into a Family Dollar store to ask locals if they could help her get to the location of her custody hearing. Nobody in the store knew, except for one man who said, “I know exactly where that is,” just as Knight was about to leave the store. That man was Ariel Castro. Recognizing Castro as the father of a girl she knew from the neighborhood, she took him up on his offer to drive her where she needed to be.