The two brothers of the man accused of holding three women captive in the US for 10 years say they have no sympathy for him.

One of the suspects in the case of three women who were rescued this week, 10 years after they went missing, had been active in neighbourhood searches and vigils for the women, neighbours say.

Neighbours have said they called police on at least two occasions to check on the peeling, rundown Ohio house where three women, who vanished separately about a decade ago, were being held.