Two Ohio Women Found Alive A Decade After They Disappeared As Teens

AP Photo/Tony Dejakelix DeJesus, holding a banner showing his daughter's photograph, stands by a memorial in his living room Friday, March 3, 2006, in Cleveland. Two Ohio women who vanished when they were teenagers were found in the home of a 52-year-old man on Monday.

One of those women, Amanda Berry, called police on Monday afternoon and told a 911 dispatcher that she was with Gina DeJesus in the house, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. Berry, who's 27, and 23-year-old DeJesus were taken to a nearby hospital.

A neighbor named Charles Ramsey reportedly heard the girls screaming and trying to get out of the house. He called 911 and gave the phone to Berry, a local ABC affiliate reported.

Just this summer, police were scouring the West Side of Cleveland for Berry's body after getting an apparently false tip from a prisoner who said he knew where she was buried.

The owner of the house where they were finally found was a 52-year-old man named Ariel Castro who had a single domestic violence arrest from 1993, according to the Plain Dealer. A third woman was with them but hasn't been identified.

Berry disappeared back in April 2003, the day before her 17th birthday, after she called her sister to tell her she was getting a ride from her job at a local Burger King.

A year later, DeJesus, then 14 years old, vanished when she was walking home from school in the same neighborhood where Berry had disappeared. Her mother, Nancy Ruiz, believed that she was abducted and forced into human trafficking, the ABC affiliate reported.

"I always said it from the beginning. She was sold to the highest bidder," Ruiz told the TV station.