'Everybody's still a suspect': Cops have no new clues in hunt for Summer Wells
Tennessee detectives have admitted they have no new clues in the hunt for missing five-year-old Summer Wells and say that 'everybody's still a suspect.'
Summer was reported missing from her Rogersville home on June 15 around 5.30pm after her parents Donald and mother Candus Bly said she went into the basement alone and then vanished.
Hawkins County Sheriff Ronnie Lawson vowed that the investigation was still active as he addressed the huge public curiosity in the case and urged people not to 'speculate.'
'Everybody is still a suspect, person of interest, however you want to put it,' Lawson added. 'And we're still very intensely looking into it.
He added: 'I understand people's curiosity about where we're at in the case, as far as the investigation, I know people speculate, and I understand that. But they have to understand our No. 1 goal from day one is to find Summer.'
Summer's three brothers have reportedly been taken into protective custody after Donald Wells admitted that he had taken to drink amid rumours about the girl's disappearance.
'Right now, with everybody attacking us and all this stuff going on, it's probably better for them,' Wells said in an interview with the Jay is 4 Justice podcast last month.
Her disappearance had sparked a 13-day search in the area around the home with few leads, and Wells told podcast host Jennifer Youngblood that his daughter's disappearance has fueled rumors and theories, which had begun to affect him.
'They come at me and said – either posing – said they had the inside scoop with TBI [Tennessee Bureau of Investigation] and that they knew I sold my daughter for drugs, and I flipped out. I flipped out,' Wells told Youngblood. 'I believed that stuff. Like an idiot, I believed it and I flipped out, started drinking and everything else. And that's why they took our kids.'
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Summer was reported missing from her Rogersville home on June 15 after her parents Donald and mother Candus Bly said she went into the basement alone and then vanished.
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