Hunt for missing five-year child whose parents claim disappeared five months ago.
Summer Wells vanished without a trace on June 15, and the investigators seem nowhere near getting answers on the case.
It’s been five months since the enigmatic disappearance of Summer Wells from Hawkins County, Tennessee, and investigators seem to be no further than a step closer to determining what transpired to the girl who was five years old.
Despite hundreds of tips poured in by the general public, a $40,000 reward for information, and efforts to track down the driver of the red pickup truck seen in the area, it appeared that it had hit a brick wall.
The case was brought again into the spotlight on Saturday when Summer’s dad was arrested for driving under the influence.
An officer in a white GMC spotted Donald Wells. He was attempting to leave along a road near the Hawkins County and Greene County line in Tennessee at night on Saturday, according to Hawkins County Sheriff’s Office.
The sheriff’s office said the car went off the grass shoulder, and the officer stopped the vehicle.
Mr. Wells was unable to pass a test of sobriety and admitted to the police officer that he’d had several shots, according to the police report stated.
He was charged with multiple charges, including impaired driving, possessing an open container, and violating financial responsibility. He was granted bail the following day.
At his arraignment on Monday at the time of his arraignment, Mr. Wells was later detained for violating his probation and returned to jail, as reported by WJHL. Then, he was released from prison in the morning.
The Wells family announced the “Find summer Wells” website last Sunday. The statement described the Wells’s behaviour as “stupid” but stated they felt the “pain” of the girl’s disappearance “won’t disappear” as well as that the family “needed to smoke cigarettes.”
“Thank all of you for your nice messages. There are no words to describe the way what each day is like. We were in need of cigarettes” said the declaration.
“IT was a foolish choice. We ask you to keep us in your prayers. Keep Don. This pain will never be gone. Thank you for your support”.
In July, Mr. Wells claimed that his sons were removed from his family’s home by child protective services due to unsubstantiated theories about what transpired to his daughter had caused him to drink.
“They confront me and tell me that – whether or not they were in a fake way – they have the inside scoop on TBI (Tennessee Bureau Of Investigation), and they were aware that I had sold my daughter to drugs. I turned around. I was flipped out,” he told a podcast.
“I believed in that theory. Like a fool, I believed in it, and then I turned out and began drinking and all the other things. This is the reason they took our children.”
The arrest occurred just a few days after the Wells family was featured in a pre-recorded footage of Dr. Phil McGraw’s show, to discuss the ongoing hunt for Summer. During the interview, Wells confirmed his conviction that Summer was taken away.
Mr. McGraw was watching the videos along with a pair of deceit and “body specialists in the field of language” who examined the answers to the questions and determined that they didn’t believe that their parents had anything to do with the disappearance of Summer. The experts are not police officers.
However, McGraw said that despite this, McGraw claimed that he believed that the girl’s mom might be more aware of her disappearance than she was telling the truth, even though there was no evidence to support his assertion.
In another episode, experts question the actress Bly regarding her involvement in the “Cornbread Mafia,” an alleged organized crime group that operates throughout the US south. Ms. Bly fell down, put down her microphone, then left the stage following when the name of the organization was mentioned. But when later asked about why she had an intense reaction to being said by the group, she stated that they were “horrible”; however, she didn’t know about the group’s existence.
“Cornbread Mafia “Cornbread Mafia” according to experts, isn’t as much an organized crime group as the Italian Mafia and Mexican drug cartels, but rather is a standard code of silence for those involved in the trafficking of marijuana, especially in the 1980s. As of now, there has been no evidence that suggests that a criminal organization of any kind was behind the disappearance of Summer.
The latest developments, in this case, are more than two months following Summer disappeared without a trace on June 15.
The family of the girl, who was five years old, told them that she was gardening alongside their mother, Candus Bly, and her grandmother, only 20 feet from the home of her family situated on Ben Hill Road in Beech Creek.
Summer was reported to have walked in from her garden and told her three brothers older than her that she was heading downstairs for a play session with the toys she had in her basement.
Ms. Wells stated that she later discovered her daughter was gone.
Mr. Wells and Ms. Bly have said that they believe their daughter was abducted from their family home.
Mr. Wells claimed that he believed the kidnapper climbed the hill near their house, threw Summer into a vehicle, and then drove off.
Police dogs spotted Summer’s scent and followed it through the woods surrounding her home. However, they eventually lost track, as he had previously said.
“They encountered dog trails from into the forest,” He said. “The dog they utilized, that’s where their scent led them down in the woods and away from on the driveway.”
The father claimed that he’d witnessed wandering about in the woods in the past.
In less than a month after her disappearance, the girl’s father, Wells, declared that he wasn’t as optimistic that his daughter would ever be alive.
“Statistically, the case is likely dead already,” Mr. Wells told the Kingsport Times-News in early July. “I am so sad to think about that. I cherish her with all my heart.”
He stated that he had taken a little comfort from his belief that she would be there in the next life.
“If there is nothing more,” he continued, “I’ll be able to see her at the resurrection. So long as I follow the commands and do what I’m supposed to, I’ll be able to see her.”
Mr. Wells stated that he was dissatisfied with the efforts to find the missing persons because neither police nor the public could “come up with any ideas.”
“The police aren’t able to think of something,” he said. “All those users on Facebook worldwide cannot come up with anything. There is no way to come up with anything. Only God can.”
Ms. Bly added that she believed that her daughter was taken and issued an appeal to the suspected kidnappers to release her daughter.
She had previously said to WJHL that her mother, she as well as her daughter Summer, and her sons were in the process of planting flowers the day that the little girl vanished.
“I believe in my gut that somebody came in here and … and has tried to lure her away,” Ms. Bly said.
“Whoever is my daughter’s guardian, I hope they don’t hurt her and return her to us, safe and sound.”
She said: “I’m just scared that someone’s hurting her, and I have nothing to do to stop it. It’s a smothering feeling for me.”
The two of them have not provided any evidence. Bly or Mr. Wells have offered any proof for their beliefs. Summer was kidnapped.