Kidnapped women Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michele Knight's first day of freedom

AS MORE details emerge about the main suspect in the Cleveland triple kidnapping, Ariel Castro's son says he thinks his father may have targeted Gina DeJesus as she was his sister's best friend.

Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michele Knight, who went missing separately about a decade ago, were found on Monday in a home in Cleveland, Ohio.

Ariel "Anthony" Castro said he fears his father may have targeted the 14-year-old who went missing in April 2004 as she was such a close friend of his daughter Arlene. She was the last person to see Gina before she disappeared.

The 31-year-old told The Daily Mail he thinks it is "conceivable" that Gina got into his father's car instead of walking home as she recognised the elder Mr Castro as her best friend's father.

"That's one of the thoughts that went through my head because Gina disappeared in broad daylight on a very busy street. It's probably the busiest street on the west side of Cleveland," he said.

"It make you think how could she possibly disappeared without any trace. If she was abducted forcefully somebody would have seen it."

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Ashley Summers disappeared from the same Cleveland neighbourhood as freed abductees

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.

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Castro relatives in shock after Ariel Castro arrested for abduction of three women

RELATIVES of the Cleveland abduction suspect Ariel Castro have told of their shock over his arrest, and painted him as a recluse and a violent man.

Eddie Castro, who is a cousin of Ariel, told CBSDFW.com that he was born and raised in the home where police found the girls, and that his father eventually sold the house to Ariel.

He also confirmed this on his Facebook page where he wrote: "I grew up in that house."

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