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Cleveland Kidnapper’s Home Demolished, Deleted From Google Street View

1. The FBI showed up at the former residence of Ariel Castro early Wednesday to level the house with a crane. The demolition of the house was part of the Cleveland kidnapper’s guilty plea deal which spared him the death penalty.

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2. Watch spectators cheer as the ‘House of Horrors’ demolition begins.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu3U_Gb44dE]Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=vu3U_Gb44dE.

3. Debris from the house was loaded into trucks and driven away to prevent scavengers from sifting through for “murderabilia.”

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4. Castro victim Michelle Knight brought yellow balloons to the demolition and released them into the air.

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Angelo Merendino / Getty Images
Angelo Merendino / Getty Images
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Tony Dejak / AP
Tony Dejak / AP

11. And in an effort to completely erase the notorious site from history, the house has also been deleted from Google Street View.

Read more: http://buzzfeed.com/mikehayes/cleveland-kidnappers-home-demolished-deleted-from-google-str

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