Police and a local citizens group found five children, six women and nine men in the grave, just northeast of Samarra.

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The jury of seven women and five men heard that Mr Ahmed came to police attention in May 2010 when he was arrested for an unrelated matter.

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Berry and one of the other women, whom police say Ariel Castro held captive, disappeared from the same neighborhood, within five blocks of each other, starting in 2003.

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