Sex kidnapper Ariel Castro Found Dead in Prison Cell

Lawyers for the kidnapper and rapist Ariel Castro called yesterday for an independent investigation into his death and accused officials of failing to acknowledge that he was a suicide risk.

Castro, who was sentenced to 1,000 years on top of a life term for abusing three young women for a decade and for the murder of his unborn child, was found dead in his Ohio prison cell on Tuesday night. Preliminary autopsy results showed that he had used a bedsheet to hang himself.