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The Lost Girls

The True Story of the Cleveland Abductions and the Incredible Rescue of Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina Dejesus

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The Lost Girls

By: John Glatt
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
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In The Lost Girls, John Glatt tells the truly amazing story of Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight - who were kidnapped, imprisoned, and repeatedly raped and beaten in a Cleveland house for over a decade by Ariel Castro - and their amazing escape in May 2013, which made headlines all over the world.

This audiobook has an exclusive interview with Castro's secret girlfriend, who spent many romantic nights in his house of horror without realizing that he had bound and chained captives just a few feet away. There are also revealing interviews with several Castro family members, musician friends, and neighbors who witnessed the dramatic rescue.

©2015 John Glatt (P)2015 Tantor Abductions, Kidnapping & Missing Persons True Crime Disappearance Abduction Schizophrenia Family

Critic Reviews

"For a wide-angle view of the horrific string of crimes start to finish, Glatt constructs an absorbing winner." ( Kirkus)
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An absolutely incredible story. At times frustrating while hearing the monster claim innocence and guilt at the same time. The narrator was easy to listen to. Great read/listen :)

Incredible

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An amazing story of survival and recovery especially if you look into the girls today

A very thorough and well narrated story

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A story that is about courage, survival, resilience and 3 incredible women. It is hard to listen to at times, but I wanted to hear their story.

Definitely Read/Listen

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If you could sum up The Lost Girls in three words, what would they be?

Repetitive, lacking depth

How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?

There is way too much reading verbatim from police reports/court testimony and some of the facts are repeated over and over, causing me to tune out and skip ahead. The background story is necessary but is too long and take focus away from the main story

What three words best describe Shaun Grindell’s voice?

Aussie done poorly

Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

No emotion as there was little of the in depth emotional recounts you would expect from a story like this. It was basically a retelling of facts, and no actually interviews with the victims. Disappointing.

An amazing story told in an ordinary fashion

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Sad that this happened! I am pleased the women have been found but I cannot imagine what their struggles would be

The story

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The author really did his research and compiled and wrote this book well. I also found it to be narrated very well the reader was clear, easy to understand and pay attention to. It was a hard story to listen to because of the horrific ordeals those brave girls were forced to endure. Their story highlights the need for proper deterrents for those whom are likely to harm the living. If cruelty and abuse towards the living were recorded against the perpetrators showing what they may be capable of (even if they are not prosecuted) cases such as this one may be solved a lot sooner. More fitting punishments need to be brought in. The death sentence is too good for those who damage others for life, instead they should be used in experiments instead of innocent animals, injected with diseases and potential cures for life which would at least make these monsters useful and better deter potential monsters from committing such heinous crimes. A new law is needed where those whom make others suffer forfeit their own human rights. In a world where abuses and cruelty are on the rise because of the lack of deterrents the law, courts, and governments need to rise up against it, become more serious about it, and really start to do something about it in order to finally lower it. May those 3 courageous girls live the safe, rewarding, successful, and peaceful lives that they so deserve!

Well researched.

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exstremely powerful story. the strength and resilaince of these girls is truely amazing. that said and as horrible as this was thank god they survived.

astounding

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it was a very in depth retelling of such a horrible tale. Such amazing women

Amazing

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I absolutely feel so terrible for these girls just imagining what they went through. this audible describing everything in such fantastic capturing details.
when you watch a documentary you don't get the full details. but here you did. so I believe hearing the full details of what happened really helps you truly understand what these girls and there families went through. fantastic audible

I'm just so happy these girls made it!

the details

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very sad read but good a must read. . . . . . . .

good read

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