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cnn news 2013-05-14

Hi, I'm Anderson Cooper. Welcome to the podcast.

New details about the three Cleveland women held captive for a decade, what their life was like inside that house, reports of a family whose kidnapped son was found after four years and how their story gave hope all these years to one of the Cleveland families. Let's get started.

Authorities have just released a dispatch call that sent police to the house behind me, 2207 Seymour Avenue, on Monday after 911 call from Amanda Berry herself. Listen.

I have a call-tick on the phone with a female who says her name is Amanda Berry, and that she had been kidnapped 10 years ago. She's at this location now. The code one, the CAD is 0149-0149.

I copy. Is she still on the line or has she hang up?

She still is on the phone right now. She is saying that the male is Ariel Castro, 52-year-old Hispanic male that lives at 2207 Seymour, and that he's been holding her here for 10 years.

How about the others in the house?

7266.

Georgina DeJesus might be in this house also per …

We found them. We found them.

Copy.

Guys, send us EMS here. We've got a female kind of really, she's got a young child with her.

OK. Make it two. We also have a Michele Knight in the house. I don't know if you want to look that up in the radar, in the system. Thirty-two years old.

Also tonight, this new video shot just today, the Cleveland Justice Center, of Ariel Castro, the owner of the house who is charged today with four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape. Police say they will not charge his brothers in the case. There are also many new details tonight about what was found inside that house right over there, inside Castro's house. And what the last 10 years were like for Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michele Knight.

Today also had so much needed joy in it. Two of the women, Berry and DeJesus went home. Berry's 6-year-old daughter is well.

cnn's Pamela Brown joins me now with more on how all three women are doing.

First of all, you're learning new details about some of what they went through.

That's right, Anderson. We are learning that according to sources that Ariel Castro would actually test the girls, pretend like he was leaving the home, and then wait and see if they attempted to flee, and if they did even attempt to flee, he would discipline them. So he instilled fear in them and created a situation where they never wanted to flee.

But we have learned from sources, Anderson, that Monday was the first opportunity for anyone to escape, that Amanda Berry somehow knew he had left the home, and she had hit her breaking point. She took that as an opportunity to cry for help. But what's interesting to note here is that the other two women didn't leave the home. That they could have left but they chose to stay behind.

When Amanda Berry was outside.

When Amanda Berry was outside, when she ran outside the home, the other two women stayed behind, and that indicating that they weren't bound, but that they were afraid to leave, reflecting their state of mind, that they were fearful, especially in light of how he would test them before. And also …

And this is information coming from sources, from …

From law enforcement.

Law enforcement sources.

Yes.

OK.

Yes. And that essentially that they, these women had accepted this to be the reality. That they had succumbed to this. They thought this was their life and had Amanda Berry not asked for help and not escaped, this could still very well be their reality.

Which is similar to what we have heard from other people who have been held in similar circumstances even for a short time, that people kind of adapted to their situation, and start to kind of accept this as the reality that they're facing.

What else have you learned about how the women were held in there? What did they actually, did they all live together?

Well, Anderson, we've learned that they actually were kept apart for most of the time. That they were kept in separate rooms. That, but that they did interact and that they, quote, "relied on each other for survival." That's coming from a law enforcement source. That these women, even though they were kept apart a lot, that they still helped support each other, and that they were really in survival mode.