CLEVELAND – It's been eight years since 14-year-old Ashley Summers was reported missing and federal investigators have not given up on their search for answers.
She was last seen back in 2007 in the area of West 96th Street and Madison Avenue.
Recently, investigators learned Ashley was not the person in a surveillance photo being circulated nationwide.
"Ashley had been a runaway but she had always returned home so for her to continually be gone is very unusual," explains Cleveland FBI Special Agent, Vicki Anderson. "Did she leave on her own and then get into trouble? Did she get into some kind of victimization? Was she held captive? We just don't know what has happened to Ashley."
Agents continue to go back and talk to people who they talked to before, just in case they remember something now they didn't then. They are generating their own leads and following up on tips they receive from the community.
"We've been on some crazy, crazy leads before that led nowhere but we'll always follow up on them because you never know," Anderson said
If you have any information contact the Cleveland Division of the FBI right away at (216) 522-1400.
"I think sometimes people think that they're bothering law enforcement or that it's really not that big of a deal, what they know," says Anderson."Maybe they have the piece of the puzzle that we need. Maybe there's something that they know and there's something that somebody else knows and when we put it together it may give us something to follow up on."
