The Ohio man convicted of abducting three women and holding them at his house for a decade wrote a suicide note detailing his dark tendencies and why he had them.
In the chilling letter, he confesses to his many crimes, yet he places blame upon the victims for being kidnapped in the first place.
Although Cleveland police have not confirmed the letter's existence, WOIO reporter Scott Taylor posted on his Twitter that he had seen the handwritten note, according to a recent Slate article.
The letter is dated 2004, just one year after Castro reportedly kidnapped Amanda Berry, who was held captive in the Cleveland's west end until she, two other women, and a six-year-old child said to be Berry's daughter escaped on Tuesday.
"I am a sexual predator," Castro wrote in the letter, found inside his home. "I need help."
Castro also wrote that his parents physically abused him, an uncle raped him as a child and that his addiction to sex was spinning out of control.
He blamed the women for their missteps-entering the car in which Castro first kidnapped them.
"They are here against their will because they made a mistake of getting in a car with a total stranger," he wrote. "I don't know why I kept looking for another. I already had two in my possession."
He detailed desires of suicide and requested that upon his death, "all the money I saved [be given] to my victims."
Police officers from the Cleveland department said on Wednesday that they had already taken over 200 items as evidence from the house where Castro tied up the women in isolation and hardly let them outside, lest he be found out.
Castro was convicted of rape and kidnapping in his first court appearance Thursday morning. His bond has been set at $2 million per case.
