YOUR TAKE
Your Take: Revisiting Ariel Castro's haunting past
Updated May 6, 2014, 1:51 p.m. ET

Contributor Castro’s home, a day before it would be demolished last year.
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Bystanders and police keep watch over the infamous street where unthinkable torture took place.
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An abandoned building at one end of Seymour Avenue.
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One street over, artwork on the perimeter of a children’s daycare attempts to brighten the area.
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Twinkie Avenue, one block away, used to be home to a large Twinkie factory back when Cleveland was a manufacturing giant.
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A smokestack rises above part of the old Twinkie factory.
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An abandoned, run-down apartment complex across the street from Castro’s home.
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Graffiti adorns another abandoned building on Castro’s street.
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A stained-glass window of a church that sits at one end of Seymour Avenue, where Castro’s captives could hear bells tolling on Sunday mornings.
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This small simple flower grows next to a children’s tire swing in an empty lot three doors down from Castro’s “House of Horrors”. It is not unlikely that Castro may have brought his young captive daughter to this swing to play.
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