Missing Search Continues For 5-Year-Old Summer Wells

[Totemic]

As of July 2024, there is no new information, the TBI is "still investigating"

Tennessee Bureau of Investigation gives latest update in Summer Wells’ disappearance

Saturday will mark three years since Hawkins County girl Summer Moon-Utah Wells was reported missing.

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[Sugar Cookie]

As of July 2024, there is no new information, the TBI is "still investigating"

Tennessee Bureau of Investigation gives latest update in Summer Wells’ disappearance

Saturday will mark three years since Hawkins County girl Summer Moon-Utah Wells was reported missing.

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What do you think happened to her?

I don't know the area that this happened in but is it one of those places surrounded by woods and would be difficult to locate a body?

Which parent do you think is involved?

 

[cubby]

Oh I think they are both involved even if just abetting, Tho I think , since Candace is the one who lost her, I think she's the main one and the "dad" just wet along and helped her keep her story straight. They are both sub human, so is Grandma, to a lesser extent, tho I do think Grandma knows something.

 

[Totemic]

@Sugar Cookie

I think "mom" has the most to do with this, but I'm not putting the "father" as a non entity. I think something was going on in the house that as school age was approaching, they couldn't hide anymore. Physical and sexual most likely.

Mom did something, not sure yet what. Father took the body and buried someplace. Or they hired someone to dispose. But they don't seem to be that bright to hire someone.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

The father of missing Tennessee girl Summer Wells says the past four years have been a 'living nightmare' - with 11 police searches on his home, his other children taken by the state, and his eldest son now listed online 'like a shopping product'.

Speaking ahead of the anniversary of his daughter's disappearance, Don Wells told Daily Mail that he still believes his daughter was kidnapped and addressed her abductors saying: 'Be glad I'm a Christian. I just hope law enforcement finds you first.'

Summer was five years old when she vanished from her family's home in Hawkins County on June 15, 2021.

Despite extensive searches and an ongoing AMBER Alert, no trace of her has ever been found. Police have said there is no evidence of an abduction.

Her disappearance devastated the family - but Don says what followed nearly broke them.


'We were a two parent family. They kept trying to get us to divorce. We suffered together. We suffered separate. We are now more solid together than ever before,' he said. 'We are still a two parent family with no children to parent.'

He and wife Candus Bly lost custody of their three sons in the wake of Summer's disappearance.

One of them, Josey, is now featured in a public adoption video.

'(He) is online being marketed like a shopping product. The pain never ends,' Don said.

'It was so good to finally see him. He is a great young man but has to be so hurt cause they took him and his brothers away from everything they knew. Then they took him from his brothers.

'This isn't about us now, it's about our boys. They took three of the five witnesses away. Together we could have worked together to try to solve what happened to their sister. Instead they lost everything. When we lost them, we lost everything. Hell times four.'

He says their hearts were so 'shredded' by the loss that it became nearly impossible to focus on the search for Summer.

'How could we concentrate on Summer when our hearts were shredded that our boys were gone so far away,' he said.

'We didn't know how the system worked... constantly being told how rotten we are by DCS, by social media, by people on the streets, on and on.'

Now, after years of legal battles, both Don and Candus have been cleared by the Department of Children's Services.


In spring 2025, DCS withdrew its findings of abuse or neglect, and a judge formally dismissed the allegations against them.

'Now DCS admits for the second time we are NOT abusers or neglectors of our children,' Don said. 'So bring Josey home. Bring them all home.'

The home they once shared with their five-year-old daughter has now been searched 11 times by investigators.

'Yes. If it wasn't for God and our Church and Pastor and friends, we wouldn't be here. God has remained faithful,' Don said.

Asked what he would say to Summer if he could speak to her today, he replied: 'I would hug her so long and cry so long that words would not have to be said. I love her so much. I love my wife so much. I love my boys so much. This week is so hard.'

Despite the emotional toll, Don says they've continued working with a private investigator who stays in touch with the TBI.

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Father of missing Summer Wells tells of 'living nightmare'

Summer Wells' father breaks his silence on 11 home searches, child custody loss, and seeing his son listed for adoption online.

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[Crazy Cat Lady]

I think about little Summer every now and then and I wonder if we’ll ever know what happened to her.

 

[cubby]

I don't believe him or Candus, they're both liars.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is hoping a new age-progressed image could help locate missing child Summer Wells.

It’s been four years since five-year-old Summer Wells went missing from her home in Rogersville, Tennessee. The TBI and the Hawkins County Sheriff’s Office have been working ever since to find her, and now, they have another tool they hope can help.

On Wednesday, the TBI released an age progression image of what Summer might look like today. It was created by a team of artists from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), an organization that has created more than 7,500 age progressions to date.

“A new updated depiction as to what that child might look like could be a key ingredient and a big factor in generating the public’s attention, forwarding the investigation, maybe causing someone to recognize them from that image,” said NCMEC forensic artist Colin McNally. “It also provides a sense of hope and peace and relief to families who have been dealing with two years, at least, of a nightmare.”

NCMEC can begin creating the images once a child has been missing for at least two years and can continue to create new ones every two years after that.

“We do want to approach every age progression update as a new interpretation of that child’s image,” McNally said. “It’s not looking back at previous age progression and aging that. It’s looking back at the original photos of the child, it’s utilizing biological family members at the age the child went missing, what the age the child would be today, and anything in between. That could be brothers, sisters, bio parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents. You never know which family member that child is going to resemble more.”

TBI hopes new age progression image can help find missing child Summer Wells

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is hoping a new age-progressed image could help locate missing child Summer Wells.

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