julio castro is the uncle of the suspect and joins us on the phone. appreciate you joining us. can you tell us about your nephew, aerial castro? >> my nephew, we thought was a great man. he was a very -- he had a family. he separated from his wife years ago. he was a musician. he played with all the local groups. >> did you ever visit him inside his home? >> no, unfortunately, not. he lived a block from my place. >> so when you would see him, where would you see him? >> he would come to my store, years ago. but then he stopped coming. but i thought nothing of it. and i was shocked when i heard the news. >> about what year did he stop coming to your store? >> i don't know exactly. but it's been six or seven years. >> six or seven years. okay. so you're saying around 2006 or so perhaps. somewhere there around. to your knowledge, did he write an article -- or did he know the family -- did your family know the family of regina dejesus? >> of course. >> how did you know them? both of the parents grew up in the area with me and my family. >> and i understand you helped contribute to

we're just talking to julio castro. john walsh is still with us.n, i was talking to ed smart earlier tonight. and he was saying that often, people who have gone missing are found within a five-mile radius of where they first went missing. >> i know you've been trying to address this question all night, about do the perpetrators know their victims? 80% of the crimes kmited against children are by some trusted authority figure, we've noechb that for yearings. i've actually done cases where the murderer or the kidnapper was part of the search party. i believe these are guys in trench coats that expose themselves live under the bridge. no, nobody has been able to describe a kidnapper or a guy who would rape and hold someone as a sex slave looks like. it's very, very difficult to pick these guys out. they're cunning and smart and know how to manipulate. when he got older, mie michael devlin. he ma he was manipulated. people forget that i was terrified to escape. you've only got to listen to amanda saying help me, please, before he come back. >> and he w

his uncle, julio castro, spoke to our colleague alex perez. >> apparently he was living two personalities, driving the bus, the personality of being a musician, playing the bass, and the personality behind him that was committing this crime. >> the whole idea that your reality, your mind, and your personality would allow you to basically for a decade, tells you volumes about what little they care about mankind and those around them. where they probably used and abused these victims in untold ways over the years. just to get whatever their needs might be from them. >> reporter: amidst the joy and jubilation, many questions emerge. including, how is it possible three women, their pictures posted all over town, could be hidden virtually in plain sight. tonight, balloons and flowers outside her sister's house welcomed amanda berry home. according to the fbi, the three women bonded during their time together in the house. tonight, all three and the child are safe under police protection. as for the three suspects, they could be arraigned sometime on wednesday. terry? >> byron, incredible saga.

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. >>> julio castro es tÍo del sospechoso, y opto a todos los afectados. >>> les pido perdÓn a la comunidadmilia ruiz que fue familia de nosotros, que ahÍ hay un primo del papa de ella, de la mamÁ de ella. >>> aunque familiares dijeron que saben que recuperarse del encierro serÁ difÍcil. a las afueras de la casa todos esperaban verla, y durante el dÍa se escucharon gritos, cÁnticos de bienvenida. >>> y en la casa de gina de jesÚs siguen llegando mÁs personas para manifestar su alegrÍa luego de esta reapariciÓn, seguiremos atentos para conocer los rostros de estas vÍctimas. >>> gracias. y a raÍz de este caso muchos se preguntan quiÉnes eran estas jovencitas, la historia de ellas es sorprendente, porque dejaron a tres familias destrozadas. >>> gina de jesÚs desapareciÓ el 2 de abril, tenÍa 14 aÑos, el Último que la vio fue un amigo que la vio de regreso a su casa. su madre pensÓ que gina habÍa sido vÍctima de una red de trÁfico de personas, las autoridades nunca cerraron el caso. en el 2006 dijeron que tenÍan dos sospechosos, los hombres fueron arrestados, pero por cargos no relacionados, el

. >> a grocery store owner julio castro told the "associated press" the homeowner arrested is his nephew who worked as a schoolbus driver. >>> and this case is an obvious reminder of the jaycee dugard kidnapping. phillip and nancy garrido kidnapped her as she walked to a bus stop near south lake tahoe on the morning of june 10, 1991. on august 26th, 2009, more than 18 years later, phillip garrido brought dugard and their two daughters to a parole officer and dugard revealed her identity. both people pleaded guilty and they are serving life sentences. >>> 4:32. it could be weeks before we learn what caused saturday's deadly limousine fire. the chp says there will be no quick answers. five women were killed in the fire on the san mateo bridge. four others were injured. the chp says the limo was only supposed to carry eight passengers. kpix 5 reporter elissa harrington is at the bridge this morning with more information about the victims of that fire. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. these friends were brought together by their careers in nursing. the group was having a girls night

getting various details about one of the suspects, ariel castro who is being held along with his two brothers. we confirmed from his uncle julio that the mother is still alive and that the father died we think in 2004. ariel castro separated from his wife a few years ago. he's believed to be a musician. significantly he knew the gina's family. in fact, there was evidence earlier that his son, who also is called ariel but goes under the name of anthony had written a piece, an article about gina being missing. i guess we'll find out more from the police about that tomorrow. but in terms of the reporters in cleveland who've covered this for quite some time. this must be an astonishing night because it's bringing three unsolved huge mysteries together in one fell swoop. >> it's an incredible story. it's the biggest story obviously of the year. it's probably one of the biggest stories of our lives as reporters. i was just about headed out the door to go home. when this broke i went up and said, do you need some help? the next thing you know i'm out there covering this. people are calling me from all over the world to find out what

. >>> julio castro es tio de ariel y de gina de jesÚs. >>> alegre por un lado, agobiado por el otro,a persona. >>> en este barrio, los vecinos siguen atÓnitos. >>> una actividad como la que Él estaba escondiendo su doble vida. >>> durante esta odisea infernal, fueron atadas, mordidas, maltratadas, encadenadas y violadas, confirÓo la policÍa. nuevos detalles revelan que michelle knight, se llevÓ las peores palizas, en 455 ocasione que estaba encinta. los 5 abortos servirÍan para pedir la pena de muerte para el secuestrador, si considera que fueron asesinados intencionalmente. >>> para los residentes de la zona es un infame recordatorio la casa de una historia que conmocionÓ al paÍs, quieren que la residencia sesea demolida. >>r cleveland no tiene como control de esta propiedad. nosotros no tienen el derecho para destruir esta estructura. >>> segÚn este concejal, los sobrevivientes y familiares consiguieron abogados y solicitan una compensasiÓn econÓmica. >>> autoridad analizan posibilidades para asegurarse que castro reciba todo el peso de la ley, este se encuentra detenido en la cÁrc

shame on you. >> reporter: julio castro says by the way when it was gina dejesus who went missing he gave money to try and find her. he actually helped and went out on the streets to try to locate her. he is stunned that any of his family could have been involved in her disappearance. >> martin savidge. cnn's brooke baldwin is also in cleveland right now and spoke to a band mate of the suspect, ariel castro. how did that go? >> reporter: yeah, wolf. i talked to a man named tito dejesus and asked when you hear the last name dejesus might he have been related to gina. he said perhaps loosely but not that he knew of. he has been in contact with the family. obviously they are absolutely elated. what was unique about this interview is because he provides this very unique perspective because he has been inside of this home here on seymour avenue. he actually played many gigs with ariel castro. they were in a band together for a number of years so he talked to me a little bit about that. i asked him what the heck was ariel castro like? i want to play this part of the interview in which i as

ariel's uncle julio castro is with martin in that cleveland neighborhood. martin, was the uncle able to listen to the news conference at all? >> reporter: we were. and i'm joined right now by julio castro, he's the uncle. we both listened to the news conference. for the first time authorities have identified the other men in custody. they include pedro castro and o'neill castro. that's in addition to ariel cast k ro. they are all your nephews. is that right? >> yes. >> reporter: what is your reaction to all of this that was happening apparently in your nephew's home? >> stunning. it's stunning. it's stunning for the whole neighborhood. >> reporter: did you have any idea, any clue this was going on? >> no, none whatsoever. >> when was the last time you spoke to ariel? >> i would say about five or six years ago, i can't recall exactly. i'm a grocery store owner and they have a lot of people coming and going. you don't hear from them. >> reporter: you weren't in close touch with them? >> not lately. >> but at that time even six years ago according to authoriti

a short while ago i had a conversation with julio castro. he is the uncle of the three men that are now considered suspects in this case, and i asked him about what is the family reaction to this? listen. >>. >> i haven't been able to talk to immediate family other than my -- their reaction is surprising. everybody is surprised what's happening. >> what would you say to your nephew if you could talk to him? >> what would you want to know? >> what can i say? >> shame on you. >> number one question probably by law enforcement, by everybody in this city is how come nobody knew? how could it go on so long? i can't answer that for you yet. >> trr so many -- i can hear the din just around you with the number of reporters that descend odd that street and that the amount of information that's still yet to be unearthed in this. martin savidge, thank you for scrambling so quickly overnight to get what you have. i want to turn my attention to you, nancy, because the minute we heard this, we were all reminded right away of jaycee dugard, kidnapped as a

. >> julio castro, thank you for joining us. trying to shed some light on what's happening here.sh again. you heard from the uncle of the men in custody. came from a nice family, haven't spoken to him in a few years. he was a decent guy. he has children. >> but i do want to add there was the neighbor who we spoke to earlier. he said to him don't leave the children alone. there was a gut feeling she had. so kind of these two sides we're looking at here. what's your take on that, john? >> you know, about a year ago you were covering jerry sandusky who molested multiple boys. picked kids from dysfunctional families. no one wanted to believe that he was a child molester, that he was a pedophile, that he was doing it in plain sight. he was taking disadvantaged children into the locker room and saud miezing them. it didn't come out until one 16-year-old boy was brave enough to say this is not the revered coach that you think he is. he's a pedophile. he's good at it it. he's a sociopath and then ten other guys came out, grown men. and people go, oh, my god. they function, they are good

julio castro said that he is still in shock over this and never wants to see his nephew again. >> i feel's my family. we're from a big family, and we never thought that something like this could happen within our family. those girls never show their face to anybody. to no one. i don't know how he kept them all these years. it's unbelievable. >> meantime, castro's son brings another very strange twist to this story. ariel anthony castro wrote an article back in 2004 about the disappearance of dejesus. at the time he was studying journalism at bowling green university. the article reads in part -- quote -- "for seven weeks gina's family has been organizing searches. despite the many tips and rumors that have been circulating in the neighborhood, there has been no sign of her. one thing is for certain, however. almost everyone feels a connection with the family, and gina's disappearance has the whole area talking." police also arrested the prime suspect, two brothers. one we're being told is 50 years old. the other one is older at 54. more information about them is expected to be released a

. >> reporter: the three brothers are ariel castro, 52, pedro, 54, and julio, 50. it's ariel that neighbors knew best as a school bus driver and gaye kids gave kids rides on his all-terrain vehicle. the women disappearing about a year apart were last seen within a five block radius and held in castro's house about a mile away. the astro brothers' uncle owns a neighborhood corner store. >> they might have been living two different lives. >> reporter: some neighbors thought the house was vacant. but a few now say they were concerned. >> they wouldn't open the windows, no doors, only the attic window. >> i had family members that phoned the police and they came and knocked on the door and nothing. >> reporter: police say they only answered calls twice on the street once before the women disappeared and in 2004 to question ariel about a child he left behind on his school bus mistakenly. no charges were filed. >> what we have here is a psychopath or usually three. usually when you have three people involved, you have a ringleader. my guess is the one that owned the hous

castro. what about the relatives. listen to julio. >> i feel terrible because it's my family.ve a big family. we never thought like something like this could happen within our family. those girls never showed their face to anybody, no one. i don't know how he kept them all these years. it's unbelievable. >> greg: how can you be a close family and not know. we're shocked by this. how can that be? >> kimberly: we're so close you are not allowed into the house. >> greg: they have on facebook, he was happy he had five grandkids. >> bob: i was going to say, they had to be getting out of the house. if you have a family that big. >> eric: can i ask you a dumb question. can you have a baby and never see a doctor and can that baby grow up? >> kimberly: there were a number of children in germany that were abducted. >> eric: is that potential harm? >> given the fact at what they are looking at. much more on this story. >> greg: you go to the dentist twice a year. ten years, there has to be a moment when they had to see somebody. >> dana: you heard the one woman say she was in good health

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castro family. ainsley? >> hi, steve. we're here with julio and his wife. the boy's uncle.across the street. and maria is first cousins with those three boys that you just had on the screen. we're looking at the pictures of your first cousins that are behind bars and have allegedly been holding these girls for ten years. what goes through your mind as a castro member? >> devastation. obviously shock. this was all unfolding to our family as well as it was to the rest of the world. we had no indication of any of this and we are deeply saddened that members of our family could have had anything to do with this. but first and foremost, i just want to express to gina, to amanda and to michelle how horrible we feel for everything that you went through. these girls lost ten years of their lives and they're never going to get that back and there is nothing that we could ever do or say to make that better and to give them back a part of their childhood. but they are true heros here. they survived in this house beyond all odds and i applaud them for that. i hope that they can somehow

. >> and we want to bring in julio, the uncle and here with his daughter maria castromontes. first question, mr. castro, did you have any inkling these nephews could be involved in something like this? >> nothing whatsoever. >> when was the last time you saw them? >> pedro was sitting at the bus station, the bus stop the other day and i passed by and i say hi and good-bye. that was it. ariel i haven't seen in the last six years. >> maria, what do you know about these men? >> i know they're cousins. ariel, beloved cousins. this is an incredible thing to believe but one of the things i want to say on behalf of the castro family we are elated obviously that these girls have been found and that they are alive and our hearts are full of joy for that reason, and at the same time the family is suffering a great sadness to know that these girls have suffered at the hands of family members of ours and we would certainly like to say to those three young women that we are so sorry for everything they had to endure and we want them to know if they ever need anything, we are here for them, and we certainly hope tha