Michelle was a young single mother when she was kidnapped by a local school bus driver named Ariel Castro.
By sharing both her past and her efforts to create a future, Michelle becomes a voice for the voiceless and a powerful symbol of hope for the thousands of children and young adults who go missing every year..
In Finding Me, Michelle will reveal the heartbreaking details of her story, including the thoughts and prayers that helped her find courage to endure her unimaginable circumstances and now build a Life worth living.
But Michelle would not be broken.
Castro tormented her with these facts, reminding her that no one was looking for her, that the outside world had forgotten her.
Local police believed she had run away, so they removed her from the missing persons lists fifteen months after she vanished.
Barely out of her own tumultuous childhood, Michelle was estranged from her family and fighting for custody of her young son when she disappeared.
Their escape on May 6, 2013, made headlines around the world.
In 2003 Amanda Berry joined her in captivity, followed by Gina De Jesus in 2004.
For more than a Decade afterward, she endured unimaginable torture at the hand of her abductor.
Michelle was a young single mother when she was kidnapped by a local school bus driver named Ariel Castro
