Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland

the situation became so bad that the FBI finally gave her a letter to carry certifying that she was not Amanda.

Although Kolonick and his team didn’t know it, they were parked only about a thousand feet from the house where Amanda was being held, and could have walked there in a matter of minutes. The FBI had never heard of Michelle Knight, and they didn’t know that she was also being held in the same house. Nine months earlier, Castro had abducted her from the exact same Family Dollar lot where the FBI van was now parked.

When Amanda was thirteen, she picked up the extension on the home phone and discovered that her father was having an affair.

Beth was picking up the extension in the dining room.

As the father of three teenage daughters, Amanda’s case felt personal to him, and his cop radar was pointing him straight at Amanda’s smart-mouthed boyfriend.