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Missing Teens Mystery
Three teens from the same area vanish without a trace. Tonight, Police need your help to find them.
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Cleveland office of the FBI is asking for your help in finding a third girl who went missing from a West Cleveland neighborhood. Two different girls have disappeared from the same area in the last ten years. Ashley Summers disappeared in the summer of 2007. She was last seen not too far from the area near W. 100 and Lorain Avenue where Gina Dejesus vanished almost five years ago and Amanda Berry disappeared almost six years ago.
Ashley's case has not received as much attention because of how she left. "With Ashley, she did run away at first," says Scott Wilson, a spokesman for the FBI. "But, unfortunately, she hasn't been seen since she ran away in July 2007."
Wilson says the FBI is investigating the possibility that the three disappearances are related. And he says agents worry that one or more of the girls may have been forced into prostituition. "It's a problem throughout the country," Wilson says. "Whether that's the case here, we don't know. But, certainly, those are things we have to concern ourselves with."
Ashley's grandmother, Theresa Harris, says, "There's not enough out there to find her. Somebody's got to know something." Our website now has a page dedicated to Northeast Ohio's Most Wanted. On it, you can find a section on missing children that includes information on these three missing girls. The FBI says tips can be anonymous and are treated as confidential. Wilson adds that it's often just one tip from the public that helps agents find missing children.
Ashley's case has not received as much attention because of how she left. "With Ashley, she did run away at first," says Scott Wilson, a spokesman for the FBI. "But, unfortunately, she hasn't been seen since she ran away in July 2007."
Wilson says the FBI is investigating the possibility that the three disappearances are related. And he says agents worry that one or more of the girls may have been forced into prostituition. "It's a problem throughout the country," Wilson says. "Whether that's the case here, we don't know. But, certainly, those are things we have to concern ourselves with."
Ashley's grandmother, Theresa Harris, says, "There's not enough out there to find her. Somebody's got to know something." Our website now has a page dedicated to Northeast Ohio's Most Wanted. On it, you can find a section on missing children that includes information on these three missing girls. The FBI says tips can be anonymous and are treated as confidential. Wilson adds that it's often just one tip from the public that helps agents find missing children.
