Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus endured ten years of captivity by the hands of Ariel Castro. However, on May 6, 2013, being locked down was no longer an option. Berry had found a way to escape and dial 911. “I’ve been kidnapped and been missing for 10 years. I’m here. I’m free now,” a panicked Berry told the 911 operator. Now, Berry and DeJesus are doing big things. The two have collaborated on writing a book titled, Home: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland, and are now speaking with Robin Roberts during a 20/20 special that will air on Tuesday, April 28 at 10 p.m. ET on ABC, about life after captivity.

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In the 20/20 special, “Captive: A Journey of Hope and Survival” the two young authors go over the conditions of living and what actually happened while being locked away. Berry said Castro tthat Castro convinced her that he knew where a friend was, one that she was looking for. She drove with him to his home where he ‘showed her a mystery woman sleeping in a bedroom in front of a TV set.’ “When I seen her … it was like a little peephole that, like, the doorknob was supposed to go in,” she told Roberts.

“And from there, I knew, like, this was not going to be good,” she said. Castro then took her down to the basement, pictured here, and made her his second prisoner. “He chained [me] up to this pole and it was, like, a really thick chain, like a motor chain or something, and he just left me there,” Berry said. “He shut the lights off and put a little TV there and I was just left in the dark.”

After his arrest, Castro could no longer take the heat.

On Aug. 1, 2013, Castro was sentenced to life plus 1,000 years in prison after he pled guilty to 937 counts of kidnapping and rape. On Sept. 3, 2013, he was found dead in his prison cell after committing suicide by hanging.

SOURCE: ABC News