IS this girl the fourth victim of the Cleveland abductions?

In 2007, 14-year-old Ashley Summers disappeared from the same Cleveland neighbourhood where Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michele Knight went missing.

Police originally presumed Summers had simply run away from home after an argument with her family. All of her clothes were gone, and the family reported that she called her mother a month later to say she was ok.

But when nobody saw or heard from Summers again, authorities began to suspect the teenager was being held somewhere against her will.

From that point onwards, the FBI believed there was a connection between the disappearances of Ashley Summers, Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus.

The three girls vanished within five blocks of each other, and media reports always drew links between them. Most notably, a segment on Oprah publicised the disappearances of Summers, Berry and DeJesus together.

The FBI's suspicion of a connection between the cases hasn’t changed with the discovery of Berry, DeJesus and Knight in Ariel Castro's house, just a few kilometres from their own homes.



Knight revealed after her release that there was another girl at the home around 10 years ago but that the victim then disappeared, the Daily Mail reports.



In police interviews she added that she did not know how many other women were in the house because they were all locked in separate rooms, Fox News reported.



Summers' family is hoping the rescued abductees will have more information that may help, and investigators are scouring Castro’s house for clues.

"Whether it is something we find at the house, or someone seeing the stories remembers something, we continue our search for Ashley," FBI agent Vicki Anderson told local media on Tuesday.

According to Summers' step-grandmother, the teenager disappeared from her great uncle's house, which is less than a mile away from Ariel Castro's makeshift prison.

