Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight have been captive in a home in Ohio

May 7, 2013 12:46 GMT  ·  By

Police have arrested three people in the disappearance of three women, reemerging in a home in Ohio.

Three brothers have been charged in the kidnappings, but their names are yet to be mentioned by authorities.

According to the Guardian, the girls were being held by one of the men, 52, while his 50 and 54-year-old brothers who lived at separate locations were also involved in the kidnappings.

As we have mentioned in an earlier news piece, the three missing girls are Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight.

Berry was taken when she was just 16 years old and she was working at Burger King restaurant in April 2003.

"I'm Amanda Berry. I've been on the news for the last 10 years," she told the 911 operator after being freed.

In 2004, the same man kidnapped DeJesus, who was 14 years old. In 2002, they took then 21-year-old Knight.

The owner of the home where she was found was identified by a neighbor as one Ariel Castro. Another neighbor, Charles Ramsey heard Amanda through a door that was barely open, enough to squeeze a hand through.

He helped free her by kicking down the door and quickly became a local hero. Footage of him describing the rescue has gone viral online.

He heard Berry screaming after a barbecue with the homeowner, who was never suspected by those in the area of being capable of serious crimes.

"I'm going to hold her, and I'm going to squeeze her, and I probably won't let her go," Berry's cousin Tasheena Mitchell stated for local news.

She describes the girl's mother dying in March 2006, after years of strenuous search efforts in hopes to find her daughter alive.

"She literally died of a broken heart," City councilor Dona Brady explains.