Ariel Castro, the suspect being accused of kidnapping three women and holding them against their will for a decade, reportedly scoured the neighborhood where his daughters lived and preyed on their friends.

According to ABC News, two of the victims, Gina DeJesus and Amanda Berry, had gone to school with the suspect's two daughters, and they all knew one another, Castro's daughter Emily informed a private investigator in a recorded prison interview.

"It couldn't be coincidence," Emily told private eye Chris Giannini of her father's choice to apparently target the two girls that she knew.

Berry, 26, and Emily, 25, had gone to school together.

During her 2003 abduction, Berry resided just a couple houses away from the home that Castro's daughters lived in with their mother and stepfather. Emily's sister Arlene was the last person to see DeJesus prior to her disappearance.

"I went to Wilbur Wright (Middle School) with her," Emily added. "He would come to his own kids' neighborhood, not his own. I'm not saying he should have done it all. I'm saying he didn't consider anything about us being his kids. He didn't consider that he's not only doing [kidnapping children] but he's hurting us."

Emily is currently behind bars herself, serving a 25-year prison sentence for stabbing her own baby daughter in 2011.

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