The families of Ashley Summers and Michael Hodges will hold a press conference at 3 p.m. at the offices of the Cleveland Missing to bring attention to their missing respective cases.
Ashley Summers was 14 years old when she went missing from the Clark-Fulton area on June 9, 2007. She turned 30 years old on June 16.
It was first thought by authorities that Ashley went missing from her Cleveland home on July 9, 2007, and was last seen near the intersection of West 96th Street and Madison Avenue. But now, based on new information released by the FBI in 2021, agents believe she was last seen a day earlier in the area of West 44th Steet and Trowbridge.
At Sunday's press conference, Ashley's mother, Jennifer Summers, said there is no underlying reason for Ashley to leave home willingly.
"[She was] your typical 14-year-old. I mean, she was a handful at times. I mean, she would get her siblings in trouble. I mean, it got her in trouble a lot," Jennifer said at the conference. "But I mean, yeah, she was family orientated. Like she, I mean, there was no reason that she would leave willingly and not come home. There was just no reason for it."
Jennifer said any news about Ashley is bad news unless she is found alive.
"I don't think there's ever going to be peace unless she's brought home," Jennifer said.
Since Ashley went missing, the FBI’s Violent Crime Task Force got involved in her case, and a forensic artist created age-progressed images of what she may look like now.
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Micheal Hodge was 39 years old when he went missing from the Puritas neighborhood on March 6, 2004. He turned 59 years old on June 15.
“He just left,” John Hodge, Michael’s brother, told newsnet5.com in 2014, ten years after his sibling's disappearance. “He rode off on a bike, and no one ever saw him again.”
One of Michael's other brothers, Bill Hodge, spoke at Sunday's press conference and said Michael has been missing for 19 years, and he has not stopped thinking about him.
"It's been 19 years now since Michael's last scene, and he's greatly missed. There isn't a day that goes by that we don't think about him," Bill said at the press conference. "We're always praying for him because, at this point, being so long, only God knows what would happen. And we pray for him all the time."
At the press conference, Bill said the family works to remember Michael every year.
"We never want to forget Mike. We don't want anybody else out there to forget that he's missing. So every year, we used to try to do something in remembrance of Mike, just because we don't want [him] to be forgotten," Bills said at the conference. "And he's loved by all of us, and we feel maybe somebody might know something, maybe someday somebody might come forward and say something."
Hodge is described as a white male who is 5-foot-10 inches tall and weighs 140 pounds. He has red hair and blue eyes.
Anyone with information on either of their whereabouts is asked to call the Cleveland Police Department at 216-623-5005 or your local FBI.
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