CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The daughter of kidnapping suspect Ariel Castro told America's Most Wanted in 2004 that she was the last person to see Gina DeJesus alive. 
 
 Arlene Castro was a friend and classmate of Gina DeJesus at Wilbur Wright Middle School in Cleveland. She told the show -- which profiles missing-persons cases to draw attention to them -- that she was walking with DeJesus and borrowed 50 cents from the then-14-year-old to call her mother to ask if the two could hang out at Gina's. 
 
 When her mother said no, Castro said they parted ways. 
 
 According to past media reports, police dogs tracked DeJesus' scent to the payphone Castro said she used. 
 
 
 
 This is an interview with Arlene Castro on "America's Most Wanted" in 2004. 
 
 
 
 Here's a transcript from the show: 
 
 This is Tom Morris with one of our most mysterious missing child cases: 
 
 It started at this Cleveland middle school one year ago today. 14 year old Gina DeJesus left school and started walking done this busy Cleveland street. 
 
 She never made it home. 
 
 Gina vanished in broad daylight. 
 
 Nancy Ruiz: When I came home and I got on the phone from 4 o'clock i started calling friends and they said they did not see her. 
 
 Morris: I talked to the last person who did see Gina that day; her best friend and classmate, Arlene Castro. The two girls were walking home together hoping to spend the rest of the afternoon at Gina's house. 
 
 Castro: I decided to call my mom and ask her and so she gave me .50 to call my mom and so my mom said no that I can't go over her house. and so I told her I couldn't and she said well okay I'll talk to you later and she just walked. 
 
 Morris: Normally Gina would have taken the bus but after she gave Arlene .50 for the pay phone she didn't have enough money for left bus fare. So she headed home on foot. 
 
 Police canines tracked Gina's scent from the pay phone on the corner to right down the street half way up the block to this no street sign right here. This is where the trail went cold. 
 
 The disappearance of Gina DeJesus on busy Lorain Avenue has sent a familiar chill through this Cleveland community. 
 
 The cops working to bring her home are the same cops working to solve the disappearance of another teenaged girl. almost exactly a year earlier just a few blocks away. 
 
 Amanda Berry vanished on April 21, 2003 as she walked home from her job at this fast food restaurant. 
 
 And when she disappeared which direction was she walking? 
 
 She was last observed to be walking northbound on west 110th which is the street right here. 
 
 Two attractive teenaged girls, they disappear in similar circumstances along the same busy avenue. 
 
 What does it mean? 
 
 A lot of the local people around here are you know are talking about it as well and how they are getting a little bit scared for their children as well. 
 
 Whether or not these cases are connected police and the families of these two girls need your help. 
 
 Gina DeJesus was last seen wearing a tan shirt light blue jacket and black pants. 
 
 Amanda Berry has slick sandy blond hair and multiple piercings in each ear. 
 
 If you have any information about either of these missing children Please give our hotline a call right now at 1-800-crime tv. ||||| Police have yet to charge the three brothers accused in Cleveland's most high-profile kidnapping case in years. 
 
 All three men - Ariel Castro, Onil Castro and Pedro Castro - remain in police custody. Although the usual protocol between the Cleveland Division of Police and the Cleveland Municipal Court is that detectives file charges within 36 hours, Administrative Judge Ronald B. Adrine has extended the charging period in this case to 48 hours, which is within the federal mandate for charging time. 
 
 Meantime, more details are emerging about the lives of three women held captive in a west side Cleveland house for years. 
 
 According to 19 Action News Reporter Lydia Esparra, Gina DeJesus knew the man suspected of kidnapping her and holding her captive for nearly 10 years. 
 
 Family members tell Esparra that Ariel Castro was a relative of DeJesus' best friend, possibly her father. 
 
 He's also been to at least two vigils for the missing girls. 
 
 Amanda Berry and her daughter Jocelyn, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight were found in a house on Seymour Avenue Monday afternoon. Berry was heard by a neighbor screaming for help. The neighbor, Charles Ramsey, helped free Berry and a young girl, 6, believed to be Berry's daughter. 
 
 Berry then called 911 begging for help. 
 
 "Help me, I'm Amanda Berry. I've been kidnapped and I've been missing for ten years and I'm here. I'm free now." 
 
 Officers arrived to the scene within two minutes of getting the call, and recovered Berry and the little girl. DeJesus and Knight then came out of the home. 
 
 Berry went missing in 2003 a day shy of her 17th birthday. DeJesus disappeared as she walked home from school in 2004 at the age of 14. Knight went missing in 2002 at the age of 20. 
 
 "Words cannot describe the emotion," said FBI Special Agent Stephen Anthony. "Yes, law enforcement officers do cry." 
 
 "Prayers have been answered," he added. "The nightmare is finally over and the healing can begin." 
 
 Multiple sources confirm two of the women were often held in the basement, and one woman in a room upstairs. Law enforcement sources have told 19 Action News that one of the rooms had chains hanging from the ceiling. 
 
 Reporter Ed Gallek also learned that one woman told police she had gotten pregnant more than once, but her captor beat her and she ended up losing the babies. 
 
 Former CMSD school bus driver Ariel Castro, 52, and his brothers, Pedro, 54, and Onil, 50, are in police custody. Charges are forthcoming. 
 
 Police were called to Castro's west side home two times - once in 2000 for a fight in the street and again in 2004 after Castro inadvertently left a child on his school bus. Nothing criminal came of that investigation. 
 
 "Amanda Berry is the real hero," said Deputy Chief Ed Tomba. "She is the one that got this rolling. Without her, none of us would be here today." 
 
 Neighbors on Seymour have been captivated by the story unfolding before their eyes. 
 
 "Unless they built some sort of dungeon I cannot believe someone did not notice something," one neighbor said. 
 
 Maria Castro Montes is only too sorry that the accused kidnappers are her cousins, who she says have shamed the family name, "Our pain is minimal compared to the pain of those girls." 
 
 Media from around the world have come to tell the story as well. 
 
 
 
 The Cleveland Branch of the FBI wants people to call 216-522-1400 to provide any tips relative to this investigation. 
 
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– If you thought the twisted details of the Cleveland case ended with yesterday's news of reported sightings of naked women in Ariel Castro's backyard, well, steel yourself: New reports reveal Castro bizarrely and brazenly inserted himself into the search for one of the missing girls. The latest: The AP reports that Castro physically aided in the search for Gina DeJesus, going so far as to hand out fliers with the 14-year-old's photo and perform at a musical fundraiser held in her honor. (DeJesus' uncle played in bands with Castro over the last two decades.) As previously reported, Castro attended a 2012 vigil for DeJesus; the AP now reports that a witness saw him comforting the girl's mother. A neighbor tells the AP he was with Castro the day investigators dug up a yard looking for remains. Castro reportedly told him, "They're not going to find anyone there." Brother Pedro reportedly took things even further: He spoke to Fox 8 in 2012 after the crews excavating a lot in search of a body found nothing. The line from its report at the time: "Cleveland resident Pedro Castro said, 'That’s a waste of money.'" But Fox 8 also reports on Ariel Castro's bizarre connection with another one-time suspect: Fernando Colon, who the FBI questioned in 2004 about DeJesus' disappearance, after it was determined that he and his stepdaughter were the last ones to see her. And here's where it gets weirder: His stepdaughter, Arlene, is Castro's daughter. Colon was convicted that same year of molesting two of Castro's daughters; Castro himself testified for the prosecution, and Colon now says he plans to appeal his conviction, asserting that Castro was attempting to keep the spotlight off his own crimes. Further, he says he told the FBI to look into Castro in connection with the missing girls. Odder still, Arlene actually appeared on America's Most Wanted to discuss the case in 2004. She says that she was with DeJesus on the day she went missing, and borrowed 50 cents from her to call her mom to ask for permission to go to DeJesus' home, reports the Plain Dealer. Her mom said no and the two went in different directions; but DeJesus no longer had enough money for bus fare, so she began to walk, then vanished.