No human remains found in search of Ohio house where women held

      
A search of the Ohio house and property where three women were found after about a decade in captivity did not uncover any human remains, Cleveland authorities said on Wednesday.      

Director of Public Safety Martin Flask said in a statement that "a thorough search of the scene" at the house "did not reveal human remains."     

The suspect in the case of three women who were rescued this week, 10 years after they went missing, had been active in neighborhood searches and vigils for the girls, neighbors say.      

When neighbors gathered for a candlelight vigil just a year ago to remember the girl, Castro was there too, comforting the girl's mother. Castro, just like everyone else in the tight-knit, mostly Puerto Rican neighborhood, seemed shaken by the 2004 disappearance of Gina DeJesus and another teenager who went missing the year before.       

Now he and his brothers are in custody after a frantic call to emergency officials led police to his run-down house, where authorities say DeJesus and two other women missing for about a decade were held captive.       

No charges have been filed against the men, but they could appear in court as early as Wednesday morning.      

Amanda Berry, 27, Michelle Knight, 32, and DeJesus, about 23, had apparently been held captive in the house since their teens or early 20s, police said.       

A 6-year-old girl believed to be Berry's daughter also was found in the home, police Deputy Chief Ed Tomba said. He would not say who the father was.          


REUTERS/AP