Amanda Berry speaks in a video released on YouTube on Monday, July 8, thanking people for support and privacy. Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight escaped from a Cleveland home on May 6, 2013, after being held captive for nearly a decade.
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Amanda Berry vanished a few blocks from her Cleveland home on April 21, 2003. She was 16.
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Gina DeJesus speaks in the YouTube video.
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Georgina "Gina" DeJesus was last seen in Cleveland on April 2, 2004, on her way home from school. She was 14 when she went missing.
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Michelle Knight speaks in the YouTube video.
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Knight was last seen on August 22, 2002, when she was 21.
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In a handwritten note, Knight thanked Cleveland police for their efforts, saying she was overwhelmed with the support she had received from "complete strangers." The note was posted Wednesday, July 31, on the police's Second District Community Relations Committee Facebook page.
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Residents gather outside a community meeting at Immanuel Lutheran Church on Thursday, May 9, to talk about the kidnapping case in Cleveland. Balloons were released as part of the ceremony.
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FBI agents and other law enforcement officers stand outside suspect Ariel Castro's home in Cleveland on May 9. Castro, a former school bus driver, has been accused of holding three women captive for a decade in his house. He has also been charged with rape.
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Castro hangs his head low while talking with his public defender, Kathleen DeMetz, during his arraignment on May 9.
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Ada Colon prays during a vigil held in honor of the kidnapping victims in Cleveland on Wednesday, May 8.
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Relatives of kidnapping victim Georgina "Gina" DeJesus hug after she returned to her parents' home in Cleveland on May 8.
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Friends and neighbors cheer as a car carrying Amanda Berry arrives at her sister's house in Cleveland on May 8.
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Gina DeJesus gives a thumbs up as she arrives at her family's house in Cleveland on May 8.
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Ariel Castro was charged on May 8 with kidnapping the three women.
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The family house of Gina DeJesus has been decorated by well-wishers on Tuesday, May 7.
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Friends and relatives gather in front of the family house of DeJesus on May 7.
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Well-wishers visit the home of the sister of Amanda Berry on Monday, May 6.
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Investigators remove evidence from the house on Seymour Avenue in Cleveland where the three women were held.
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An FBI forensics team meets outside the house where three women were held as they investigate the property.
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An FBI forensics team member removes evidence from the house.
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A relative of DeJesus brings balloons to the home of Amanda Berry's sister in Cleveland on May 7.
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Children hold a sign and balloons in the yard of Gina DeJesus' family home in Cleveland on May 7.
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Bystanders and media gather on May 7 along Seymour Avenue in Cleveland near the house where the three women were held captive.
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A bystander shows the front page of The Plain Dealer newspaper to a friend outside of the house on Seymour Avenue on May 7.
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Cleveland Deputy Chief of Police Ed Tomba, center, speaks at a news conference to address details of the developments.
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The house where the three women were held captive in Cleveland was the home of Ariel Castro, who was arrested and is being held pending charges in the case.
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FBI agents remove evidence from the house May 7.
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A police officer stands in front of the broken front door of the house on May 7, where the kidnapped women escaped.
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Neighbor Charles Ramsey talks to media as people congratulate him on helping the kidnapped women escape on Monday, May 6. He helped knock down the door after he heard screaming inside.
