Is there a darker side to Ariel Castro - "the Cleveland man suspected of abducting 3 girls and holding them captive for around a decade" ... linked with the CIA?

Police rescued 3 women who were locked inside Castro's house on Monday, aged 32, 27 and 23, who all went missing from 2002 to 2004 as well as finding a 6-year-old girl who police believe was born in captivity.

"Castro and 2 of his brothers, Onil, 50, and Pedro, 54, were taken into custody on Monday and were expected to be charged within 36 hours of their arrest."

However, in hindsight, there were signs of a darker side to Ariel Castro...

Did Ariel Castro kidnap kids for the CIA?

Ariel Castro said he worked for the CIA. Joe Popow, 45, who..."has known the Castro brothers since childhood said: "Ariel was in my garage probably five or six years ago...said he was in the CIA."

"...it's the way he said it, how serious he said it. I didn't know what he was capable of. That just put me on defense, and I just started stepping away," Popow said.

Who knows, it may or not be true at all.

Now it looks like the 3 girls were held prisoner for 10 years - at 2207 Seymour Avenue, the house owned by Ariel Castro since 1992.

In 2004, the police came to visit the home at 2207 Seymour Avenue but "they left when no one answered the door."

It begs to question now as to how police and the feds investigating the case failed to find the 3 girls who remained undetected at the home just 3 miles from the block where they all went missing.

Now it looks like the 3 girls were held prisoner for 10 years - at 2207 Seymour Avenue, the house owned by Ariel Castro since 1992.

In 2004, the police came to visit the home at 2207 Seymour Avenue but "they left when no one answered the door."

It begs to question now as to how police and the feds investigating the case failed to find the 3 girls who remained undetected at the home just 3 miles from the block where they all went missing.

Juan Perez, 27 says that three years ago he and his sister heard a woman's scream that 'gave them goosebumps' that went on for 10 seconds, they called the police but the police took no action.

Israel Lugo, 39, lives three houses down from Ariel Castro's house and "said in 2011 he heard what he thought was a girl banging on a window". He says 'the cops came but they never did anything'.

Nina Samoylicz, a neighbour of Ariel Castro, says she saw three naked young girls crawling in the backyard of his house on all fours with dog leashes around their necks and three men controlling them, but the police never responded to her call and also failed to respond to calls from two other neighbors.

Now, back in 2004, a man named Marc Dutroux was convicted of raping and murdering a string of young girls - 2 of who starved to death in his cellar - he said 'he was part of a widespread pedophile ring that included policemen and elite members of Belgian society.'

Dutroux says he abducted girls with police help and  insisted that he was not a "lone predator" but part of a wider pedophile ring. Belgian police were apparently told the whereabouts of one of the victims of  Marc Dutroux one year before she was found dead, as described in Belgian court papers. It seems that throughout the Dutroux trial there have were allegations of police collusion but remained at that.

Is there a connection...maybe? Will we ever get the full truth? No, never...but there is ALWAYS more to a story than meets the eye. Only time will tell...