Upon conviction, I recommend that these "gentlemen" be housed as cellmates with the biggest, baddest, psychopaths in the Ohio penal system.

When I wrote my novel, "The Lailly Worm," I imagined a situation of a horrific captivity for which the victim ultimately perhaps could not obtain justice through the law--but also that the damage to the victim, a beautiful young New York lawyer, perhaps could not be overcome. And both of those issues became the driving force of the story. Some readers identified immediately with the premise; others could not. Novels with this degree of emotionally roiling scenes aren't the ones that everyone loves.

Three brothers... There's a gene pool to avoid... First lock them up in the basement and let the three women back in the house for an hour or so... I fear Justice will not be swift enough. I find it rather interesting that I do eventually expect some form of justice when the government is adjudicating between citizens, but not when it is the government vs. citizens...

I heard one report that police were summoned to that house in 2004 to investigate a report of a naked girl crawling in the back yard. If true, police would have had probably cause to search that house and should have done so.

Right, khalling. It is almost instinctive to me, in such a case, to lament that there are so few types of punishment. Nothing seems adequate to what was done to these women. I had a brief exchange with an Objectivist lawyer in Washington, Sam Kazman, about this (he was one who called my attention to "The Lailly Worm" parallel). Of course, in "The Lailly Worm" the reader can experience all that outrage and yearning for full vengeance without becoming an advocate of "cruel and unusual punishment." And I also begin to obsess over how this could have been detected, prevented, the girls saved. How, given the ideal law enforcement system? There is not necessarily a satisfactory answer, though we can point to reports from neighbors to which the police should have paid more attention.
If a man, say, who has no relationship to a girl, no tie to the family, arbitrarily snatches himself a victim to this liking, and is careful not to leave clues on the scene, and then is very sensible and ruthless about captivity, the crime is exceedingly hard to solve without a door to door search of homes in the city, a clear violation of the Constitution... And as the success of this crime becomes understood, there will be imitators... For the captive, the only hope may be that over many, many years, there will be a fatal slip. And that the conditions of captivity will be such that a slip can be made (not chained hands and ankles 24/7 forever). The whole thing is ghastly in the extreme.

I immediately thought of Laily Worm. Ten years. But also a child. Horrific. Also, the three teens were kidnapped in almost the exact same location. This should have obsessed the detectives. Doesn't seem to be the case..... Crazy fuchs