Lily Rose Lee, from her animal rescue on the outskirts of Cleveland, has been busily preparing for the first weekend of May. She’ll be hosting an event at a city banquet hall to celebrate the first year of her non-profit, Unleashed Animal Rescue, as well as her eighth year with her husband, Michael Rodriguez.
But she’ll also be celebrating — most importantly and most famously — the 10-year anniversary of the day Ms Lee, then known as Michelle Knight, walked free with two other women from a veritable house of horrors after more than a decade of imprisonment in 2013. Since August 2002, she’d been chained, beaten and starved, lured into the house originally by an evil predator who’d manipulated the same love of animals that would motivate her to start her new nonprofit years later.
