Ashley Summers
| Ashley Summers | |
|---|---|
| Born | Ashley Nicole Summers June 16, 1993[1] Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
| Disappeared | July 4, 2007 (aged 14) Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
| Status | Missing for 18 years, 11 months and 16 days |
| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Height | 5 feet 5 inches (1.65 m)[2] |
| 💪 Weight | 130 pounds (59 kg)[2] 130 lb (59 kg)[2] |
Ashley Nicole Summers (born June 16, 1993) was 14 years of age when she disappeared near her home in Cleveland, Ohio in early July 2007. As of November 2019[update], her whereabouts remain unknown, as there have been no verified sightings of Summers since her disappearance.
Timeline
Disappearance
Summers was last seen at around 6:00 p.m. on July 4, 2007. She was last seen in the area of West 96th Street and Madison Avenue.[3] Earlier that day, Summers went to a pool party and she was the only guest at the party. After spending a few hours swimming in the pool, she decided to visit her aunt Christina, who lived within a 10-minute walking distance away from the pool, but never arrived. Because she was frequently staying with her relatives, her disappearance went unnoticed until two days later.
Her great-uncle Kevin Donathan said that he spoke with Summers on the morning of the day of her disappearance. Donathan grabbed Summers' phone and broke it, depriving Summers of her ability to contact her family or friends.
At the time of her disappearance, Summers had a tattoo of a heart and the word "Gene," in reference to Gene Gill, a boy whom she was dating at the time.[4]
Search efforts
Summers was initially considered a runaway, due to her history with her family in the weeks leading up to her disappearance, including the rebellious act of getting a tattoo without her mother's permission. A week after Summers disappeared, her family banded together to search the neighborhood and surrounding areas for the girl. The FBI did not begin investigating her case until May 2008, ten months after her disappearance, at which point the FBI speculated that she may have been kidnapped and that her disappearance might have been related to those of Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus, who vanished in Cleveland in 2003 and 2004, respectively.
On May 6, 2013, Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus were found alive and rescued from a house on Seymour Avenue. Police also found a third captive, Michelle Knight, who had been missing since 2002. Although Berry and DeJesus were well-known almost as soon as they disappeared, Knight received very little, if any, attention prior to their rescue and was absent from the FBI's missing persons database for most of the time she spent in the house.[5] There was initially speculation that Summers may have also been a captive in that house, but no evidence of this was ever found.[6]
On June 16, 2013, family and friends of Summers celebrated her twentieth birthday by passing out fliers and releasing balloons at West 110th and Lorain Avenue, with the intention of raising awareness of the disappearance.[7]
In November 2018, police and the FBI visited Holmden Avenue, a location that Summers was known to visit.[8] Authorities looked behind a home on Holmden Avenue, and uncovered new information on possible times and locations where Summers might have been spotted before she disappeared.[9][10]
Reported sightings
In early 2015, there were rumors that Summers had been spotted at an ATM in Rhode Island. The rumors were dismissed later that year, on July 6, 2015, two days after the eighth anniversary of her disappearance, when the FBI determined that the woman in the picture was not Summers.[11]
Legal proceedings
On December 4, 2018, Kevin Donathan was charged with rape, but has not been named a suspect in Summers' disappearance.[12]
Cultural significance
Summers was featured in a section of the show Oprah in October 2009, along with other missing people, including Sabrina Aisenberg and Jacob Wetterling, who disappeared in 1998 and 1989, respectively.[13] Wetterling was found dead in 2016. [14]
See also
References
- ↑ "FBI Missing Person Investigation - Ashley Summers". Archived from the original on June 7, 2013. Retrieved November 20, 2019.CS1 maint: Unfit url (link)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Philpin 2009, p. 243.
- ↑ "FBI looking behind Cleveland home in investigation into Ashley Summers' disappearance". November 8, 2018.
- ↑ "Ashley Summers Wiki: What Happened to the Ohio Teen in 2007?". February 19, 2019.
- ↑ "Michelle Knight, held captive since 2002, removed by Cleveland police from FBI database 15 months after disappearance". May 9, 2013.
- ↑ "Ariel Castro's Missing Women Other Than Amanda Berry, Michelle Knight, and Gina DeJesus?". May 11, 2013.
- ↑ "Rally Held On Missing Woman's Birthday". June 16, 2013.
- ↑ "FBI looking behind Cleveland home in investigation into Ashley Summers' disappearance". November 8, 2018.
- ↑ "Cleveland FBI reviewing new clues in Ashley Summers disappearance". November 7, 2018.
- ↑ "New Case Review in Ashley Summers Case". November 7, 2018.
- ↑ "FBI determines photo from Rhode Island is not missing Cleveland woman Ashley Summers". July 6, 2015. Archived from the original on July 7, 2015. Retrieved September 20, 2019.
- ↑ "Uncle of missing teen Ashley Summers charged with rape". December 4, 2018.
- ↑ "Sabrina Aisenberg, Jacob Wetterling and Other Missing Children". October 13, 2009.
- ↑ "Jacob Wetterling's Remains Have Been Found". September 3, 2016. Archived from the original on November 8, 2019. Retrieved October 20, 2019.
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