3 Women Found After Being Missing Over A Decade

Three young women who have been missing for years were found alive Monday in a residential area just south of downtown Cleveland.

Cheering crowds gathered Monday night on the street near the home where police said Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and a third woman, Michelle Knight, were found earlier in the day.

At least two of the women, Berry and DeJesus, were found within a few kilometres of where they disappeared.

A 52-year-old male has been placed under arrest, police said. A press conference was scheduled for Tuesday.

“I heard screaming… And I see this girl going nuts trying to get outside,” Charles, a neighbor who found the women, told Cleveland’s News Channel 5. “I go on the porch and she said ‘Help me get out. I’ve been here a long time.’ I figure it was domestic violence dispute.”

“She comes out with a little girl and says ‘Call 911, my name is Amanda Berry’… When she told me, it didn’t register.”

He said he called 911 and then gave Berry the phone, newsnet5.com reported.

Berry disappeared at age 16 on April 21, 2003, when she called her sister to say she was getting a ride home from her job at a Burger King. DeJesus went missing at age 14 on her way home from school about a year later.

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