Castro told FBI how he was almost caught twice Interrogation: Ariel Castro in court last month. Three days after his arrest, Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro told the FBI how he almost got caught twice over the past decade, including once when a girlfriend was suspicious that a television was on in the room where he was holding one of three young women. Broadcaster NBC's Today show aired excerpts from four hours of FBI interrogation tapes made after Castro's arrest in May. Castro, 52, took his own life in his Ohio prison cell on Tuesday. The former Cleveland bus driver was sentenced to life in prison plus 1000 years on August 1 for abducting three young women - Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight - over a 10-plus-year period and holding them them captive in chains in his Cleveland home. On the videotapes, Castro says there were several close calls that could have led to his capture. Once, he tells FBI interrogators, a girlfriend noticed that there was a television on in an upstairs room of his house in Cleveland where he was holding Ms Knight. She says, 'What is that? You have a TV on up there? My heart started beating and I was like, 'OK, she's probably catching on to something,"' Castro says. In another incident, Castro says, he should have been spotted on surveillance tapes at the school where he abducted Ms DeJesus. Asked if that was a close call, he replies, "Yeah." He also tells FBI agents that he used Amanda Berry's mobile phone to call her mother. "I said something ... that I have her daughter and that she's OK," Castro tells the FBI interrogators. He says he told Ms Berry's mother that "She's [Amanda] my wife now, something like that, you know, probably not the exact words." Asked about the response from the mother, Castro says, "I hung up. We didn't have a conversation. He also describes what happened on the day Ms Berry escaped, ending the ordeal for the young women. Castro says Ms Berry's daughter, whom he had fathered, was always asking him why he locked all the doors in the house. On the day he was captured, he says, he left a bedroom door open. I let my guard down. USA Today