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Ashley Summers was 14 when she vanished from her Cleveland neighborhood in early July 2007. After attending a pool party at a relative’s house on about July 7 or 8, she reportedly left to walk a short distance to her aunt’s home and never arrived. Because Ashley often stayed with different relatives, several days passed before her family realized she was missing and they filed a report with the Cleveland Police Department on July 11, 2007.

In the weeks before she disappeared Ashley had argued with her mother over a new tattoo of her boyfriend Gene’s name inside a heart. Authorities initially treated the case as a runaway; the family has consistently said they do not believe she would cut off all contact. The FBI joined the inquiry in 2008 and at one point investigators considered links to other Cleveland cases, but no evidence connected Ashley to Ariel Castro’s crimes. A 2015 ATM sighting in Rhode Island was later ruled not to be her. Ashley’s great-uncle was investigated in 2018 and was later convicted of unrelated child abuse, but has not been formally named a suspect in her disappearance.

Who in the neighborhood or extended family remembers Ashley around July 7–11, 2007, or saw anything that might help fill the gaps in her last known movements?