Michelle Knight Mother, Barbara Knight, Searched For Daughter For 10 Years After Police Gave Up Hope

Michelle Knight was the third woman rescued from a basement, along with the missing Cleveland girls Gina DeJesus and Amanda Berry. Knight was held captive in the basement for over ten years.

While much is now about the disappearance of both Gina DeJesus and Amanda Berry, Michelle Knight's disappearance was a mystery. And now still there is little information on the discovery of Knight, there still is no photo published either from the time she went missing or since her discovery.

All three women, and the girl, who is believed to be Berry's daughter, were being held captive at the Seymour Avenue home of Ariel Castro, a 52-year-old former school bus driver.

Now believed to be about 30, Michelle was kidnapped over 10 years ago in her late teens. Knight was last seen on August 23, 2002, at her cousin's house near West 106th Street and Lorain Avenue, according to Cleveland's newspaper The Plain Dealer.

Her mother Barbara Knight kept searching for her daughter when she disappeared without a ttrace despite police and social worker insisting that Michelle left on her own. Strangely, Michelle was never registered as missing on the Ohio Missing Persons website.

Barbara Knight now lives in Florida and has not yet heard from Ohio Police, however she did comment that she hopes her daughter has actually been discovered and not wrongly identified.

"I'm praying that if it is her, she will come back with me so I can help her recover from what she has been through," she said. "So much has happened in these ten years. She has a younger sister she still has not met. I missed her so much while she was gone."

After 10 years of being held, the three women including Michelle Knight were freed from their captor when a neighbor, identified as Charles Ramsey, heard screaming in the house.

Ramsey, told WEWS-TV he saw Amanda screaming, "Help me get out! I've been in here a long time."