Essays from Seymour Avenue: Me, Ariel Castro, and the Captive Cleveland Women
Jon Horst Hoyer is a former Lutheran clergyman who lived and worked just steps away from the house on Seymour Avenue from where 3 women and a child were rescued in May of 2013.  He is intimately familiar with that street, having spent the first 10 years of his life growing up in that environment, as well as having served as the Director of Ministries at the Lutheran Church located at the corner of Seymour Avenue and Scranton Road.  In addition, he was personally acquainted with the man now incarcerated for the horrendous crimes, namely Ariel Castro.  Hoyer currently resides and writes in the Old Brooklyn neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio.