Knight, Berry, and DeJesus: Twilight Language in Cleveland

The face of evil? Suspect Ariel Castro.

"I was eating my McDonald's. I come outside and see this girl going nuts trying to get out of the house. I go on the porch and she says, 'Help me.'" ~ So begins the interview with neighborhood hero Charles Ramsey, as he tells the rescue story of Amanda Berry's escape from Hell in Cleveland, Ohio.

Hell had an address: 2207 Seymour Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio.

[Proofs of the famous mathematical result that the rational number 22/7 

is greater than π (pi) date back to antiquity.]

But the three are free. And the questions begin.

Amanda Berry, at the hospital, on the right, with her sister.

Lorain Ave.

Clark Ave.

The suspected abductor Ariel Castro, 52, was arrested at a nearby McDonald's. Perhaps it was this McDonald's at 10710 Lorain Avenue, Westown Square Shopping Center, Cleveland, Ohio? Or apparently, more likely, at 3211 Clark Avenue, Cleveland?

Lorain Ave.

Amanda Berry was last seen in April 21, 2003, when she called her sister to say she was getting a ride home from work at this Burger King on West 110th Street and Lorain Avenue (at 14205 Lorain Avenue). Berry was set to turn 17 the day after her disappearance.

On April 2, 2004, 14-year-old Georgina "Gina" DeJesus went missing while walking home from Wilbur Wright Middle School. She was last seen around West 105 Street and Lorain Avenue.

Michelle Knight, 20, was last seen leaving her cousin’s house near West 106th Street and Lorain Avenue (shown), on August 23, 2002.

Lorain Avenue was the common denominator in these abductions.

The name "Lorain" originates from "Lothar = famous army." The Lorraine region is in eastern France, from Medieval Latin Lotharingia, literally "Lothar's Realm," name later given to the northern portion of the lands assigned by the Treaty of Verdun (843 C.E.) to Lothair I in the first division of the Carolingian empire. His empire stretched from the North Sea to the Mediterranean. Before his death (855 C.E.), Lothair subdivided his lands among his three sons. His son, Lothair (for whom the region is named), was given Lotharingia as his kingdom.

Joan of Arc came from Lorraine. The name also may be possibly derived from Laura (Latin) "laurel" = "victory."

Michelle Knight (note headband)

 DeJesus (note headband)

 Berry (note headband)

The known rescued victims, to date, have been identified as Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Georgina DeJesus. Their names allude to a mounted man-at-arms, a fleshy fruit produced from a single ovary, and a worker of the earth (farmer) linked to Jesus. They were taken from Lorain (= famous army). and brought to a location, Seymour (= Saint-Maur, Maur = Dark Skinned). A Holy Crusade?

For more on the name "Charles Ramsey," see here.

"Green, Berry, Hill. And I would like to think this was only a matter of chance." 

~ Magnolia, 1999.

What profiling was the abductors doing? What name game were they playing, knowingly or unknowingly? What melodrama of horror was scripted here?

In the midst of all of the celebration of the escape of Knight, Berry, and DeJesus, one of dark side of this news issues from a Browne.

Amanda Berry's mother Louwanna Miller appeared in 2004, on the The Montel Williams Show, to ask self-described psychic Sylvia Browne if she could get any information on how her missing daughter was doing. Browne said that Amanda Berry was dead. Browne's "answer" is being discussed online in relationship to Miller's death on March 2, 2006. Browne was wrong.

Browne

In general, telling a family that a relative is dead is irresponsible, and has little to do with being a psychic. That has everything to do with, allegedly, theater, money, and infamy.

Of course, the darkness actually begins with the three Castro brothers. More will be revealed about their crimes against humanity, soon enough. Not to taint others who enjoy the same music, but what is being shared now is that Ariel Castro is reportedly a Puerto Rican fan of del merengue music. This music is well-known for its overly sexualized album covers.

The Unholy

The Facebook face of Ariel Castro.

May 8th Update: Ariel is being charged with the kidnapping of four and the rape of three. His two brothers, below, are not being charged with any involvement with his crimes, based on the testimony of Knight, Berry, and DeJesus - and Ariel.

 Suspect Onil Castro

Suspect Pedro Castro

"The fields of Islington and Marybone.

To Primrose Hill and Saint John's Wood.

Were builded over with pillars of gold.

And there Jerusalem's pillars stood."

~ William Blake, Chapter II, Jerusalem in 1804-1818.

  

Del Taco Hit

The mixture of a date, a name, and a location come rushing at us in the news today, to remind us to not let our twilight language guard down.

On June 19, 1982, the dead, limp body of God's Banker, Roberto Calvi was found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London.



Before George Jo Hennard crashed his truck into Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas, on October 16, 1991, and sprayed it with gunfire. killing 23, including himself, wounding 20, he had watched a documentary video at home about a similar scenario carried out by James Oliver Huberty, who killed 21 people and wounded 19 at a San Ysidro, California, McDonald's on July 18, 1984. Huberty was shot dead at the McDonald's by law enforcement personnel.



On March 1, 2000, a man opened fire at a Burger King and a McDonald's in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, killing 3 and injuring 2 others. On May 24, 2000, a Queens. New York, Wendy's was shattered by gunfire that left 5 dead and 2 wounded. On January 20, 2003, a man walked into a Burger King in Pomona, California, killed 2 and was shoot by police, in what was called a "suicide by cops."

The ripples continue.

A man walked into a Southern California fast food restaurant and shot his stepdaughter and her family of four as they ate lunch together, killing the woman's husband and 8-year-old son before fatally shooting himself Saturday afternoon, June 19, 2010, one day before Father's Day.

The gunman, who was identified as Jimmy Schlager, 56, of Lancaster, rode a bicycle to the Del Taco restaurant restaurant in San Bernardino, California, before opening fire at his family, who were having lunch. The name Schlager is German, and is loosely translated as a "hit," formerly, as in a "musical hit." There are apparent records of Schlager having a criminal record of some violence.

Both his stepdaughter, 29, and her five-year-old son sustained multiple gunshot wounds and were taken to hospital in critical condition. His stepdaughter's 33-year-old husband and his six-year-old son died from their wounds.

Schlager arrived at the Del Taco restaurant in San Bernardino on a bike at about 1 p.m., walked over to a table and opened fire on his stepdaughter, her husband, and their sons, San Bernardino police Lieutenant Jarrod Burguan said. While the motive remains unclear, authorities believe "there’s a domestic connection," Burguan said.

Witnesses offered the police "very vague" accounts of what Mr. Schlager said to the family, Burguan said: "Something to the effect of, ‘Well, what do you think of me now?’"

The woman's husband, 33, was declared dead at the restaurant and the 8-year-old was declared dead at a hospital, San Bernardino Fire Department spokesman Steve Tracey said.

The woman and the 6-year-old boy were hospitalized in critical condition, Tracey said.

Police said several other people were in the restaurant, but the gunman clearly walked in seeking the four victims. They said the gunman had a long and violent criminal record, but did not give further details.

Owners of nearby businesses said horrified patrons streamed out of the restaurant after the shots were fired.

"I saw some people yelling and all of a sudden I heard 'boom, boom, boom, boom'," Jorge Garcia, who works at a recycling trailer in the same parking lot as the restaurant, told the Riverside Press-Enterprise. "I saw two employees run out of the employee door and then I saw eight or 10 people run out of the restaurant and across the street."

What will the next week deliver to our consciousness via forthcoming breaking headlines?