I do not care how well built the house is. You cannot tell me that nobody in the family knew about this. So yeah they had a 1200 foot basement. So what?
Nobody ever asked “Hey dad, why can’t I go down there in the basement with you where you spend so much time?”
Nobody ever asked “How come it looks like we buy food for three or 4 more people?”
Sorry no buying it. Somebody knew. They may have been frightened or abused or something but somebody knew
Read yesterday in an interview with the 30+ year old son, that the Mother moved the son and two sisters out in 1993 after years of abuse. The son said he’d hardly be back at the house, maybe a few times a year for short visits. So, it’s not like the scum’s family was living there all this time he had the women in the basement.
I think the mother and kids had moved out.
But yeah, I understand your skepticism. There’s another story where he so tortured his ex-wife that she went and the kids went to live with her new boyfriend’s family. Then the father put the daughters up to accusing him of sex abuse.
It took the son, the one who had written a news story about the abductions, to clear the boyfriend’s name by testifying that the father had just made it all up.
Oh, and then the FBI suspected the boyfriend of the abductions. He told them that Castro was the real monster, who with his pattern of chaining and abusing his wife was the one who should be checked out—but the FBI declined to investigate him.
Because the family lived in another house.
Please do some reading before being indignant.