Ariel Castro was sentenced for his crimes way back in 2013 and he died by suicide while in prison not long after. In 2022, Times Now reported that 2208 Seymour Avenue was still blurred out on Google Maps. Castro’s home was specifically modified to keep the three women captive and to hide them from view. In court, the jury was shown a model of the house and told how wooden planks were used to board up windows, and bedsheets and curtains obscured rooms from view. Most of the doors had their handles removed and a porch swing was moved to block the stairway to the girls’ rooms. Castro used chains to keep the women restrained and had the front door heavily alarmed. The inside of the house was described as dark and filthy.
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Today, the house is no longer there, and old images of it, taken for Google Street View, cannot be seen either. According to SF Gate, it is company policy at Google that users are allowed to submit requests to obscure pictures of buildings or cars. Once a request is granted it cannot be undone.
