Ariel Castro neighbour charged with murders and rapes
Increased scrutiny of Cleveland block after Castro's arrest led to Elias Acevedo, who admits murdering two women in the 1990s

Increased scrutiny of missing person cases in a Cleveland neighbourhood following the arrest of kidnapper Ariel Castro led to charges against a neighbour for the murders of two women in the 1990s, the FBI said on Friday.

Elias Acevedo, 49, was charged late on Thursday with the kidnapping, rape and murder of his 30-year-old neighbour, Pamela Pemberton, found strangled in 1994, and another woman believed to be Christina Adkins, a pregnant 18-year-old who disappeared in 1995. He also is charged with the rape of two young girls.

"Because the public became more aware and investigators were determined and relentless, people were re-interviewed and there was an increased interest in these missing person cases," FBI spokeswoman Vicki Anderson said.

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The indictment against Acevedo includes 115 kidnapping charges and more than 173 charges of rape involving Adkins, Pemberton and the repeated rapes over a period of months of two girls, starting when they were eight and 11 years old. He was also charged in the 1993 rape of his brother's common-law wife.

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Full article here: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/19/ariel-castro-neighbour-charged-murders-rapes