Here are some thoughts on the interviews the father has given
Missing --Summer Wells: Father
Summer's father reported "what happened" according to his wife. This makes his account "unreliable" as it is not his own. Hence, the conclusion is Inconclusive.
When he has spoken about Summer:
1. he has revealed that he either believes or knows she is dead. This could be from either his defeated, depressed outlook in life, along with the context (child age, terrain, length of time, crime stats, media, etc) or it could be guilty knowledge.
2. he has used "positive linguistic disposition" expressing concern for what Summer may be going through , or may have experienced.
3. His use of religious imagery indicates an immature understanding (new) and is likely a reflection of the life he has led, including incarceration. He did not call upon deity to affirm his words in the interviews I have heard.
4. Substance abuse may impact his cognitive abilities, though limitations may predate substance abuse.
5. Suicidal ideation is likely
6. Child neglect (general, overall) is indicated. This impacts all the children
I cannot conclude innocence or guilt regarding Summer's disappearance from his interviews as he speaks of what his wife told him.
His need to persuade, in the account itself, indicates awareness of neglect.
This includes the "all of the sudden" portion of Summer saying she wanted to go inside and the mother watching her go through the door.
It's frustrating to listen to media's questions. For example, even as he reported that his wife passed a polygraph, why not ask him, "Did you take one?" and "What was the result?"
31 comments:
Did Summer have an accident?
Was she "twirled" into a door?
OT I hope you will do analysis of the report or interviews related to the report of UAP sightings and what the government says versus what they really mean about it! I'd be very interested in hearing your POV.
Thank you for doing this!!! I thought I was a professional analyst... Turns out I'm not. However, I do think its smart to hide behind his wife's account of what happened.
Interesting. Thank you so much
I transcribed a small portion form this interview. The father mentions -“lie detector test”- but does it in a way which doesn’t reveal if he actually took one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XehHtE4f0IE - 2mins 40s
The father is talking about dangers like druggies and bears, then says -
“But this was like at 5:30 in the evening you know, which makes me think, you know, that someone was laying in wait. I`ve heard somebody say that these people track kids down on Facebook and, find them and, you know … I`ve heard that story. I mean I don’t know, but all I know is she`s…. definitely not anywhere… around there. I think somebody’s abducted her and… took her out of the area.”
Reporter: Have you noticed anybody suspicious?
“No, and you know, and they`ve done such as good job. They`ve followed every single lead possible, they… they have tracked down all kinds of people… (coughs twice). Yeah they`ve tracked down everybody, they even, you know had me… in there, you know… lie detector test, the whole nine yards.”
Reporter: They had to rule out every possibility…
“Yes, so absolutely, so it didn’t bother me to do it, whatsoever. I, I understand that… and a lot of times the parents are responsible, you know.”
Adrian.
: Emergency scanner traffic from night Summer Wells went missing, 911 calls not released | WJHL |
Below is a transcription of the audio as authorities were called to Summer’s home on Ben Hill Road, courtesy of Broadcastify.
“You be in route to 110 one-one-zero Ben Hill Road off of Beech Creek it will the first resident on your right, in reference to a missing 4-year old. The parents have called in advised that the mother had went for a walk, came home and now they can’t find her, they have been yelling for her, she has been gone for about ten minutes now.”
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Mother, grandmother of missing 5-year-old Summer Wells release statements
https://youtu.be/jN04-ymKaDc?t=78
The mother going for a walk is new information. If we only had a statement from her or even the 911 call to look at it would open things up. I watched some clips showing the mother had posted footage of Summer at a swimming spot, allegedly earlier on the day she went missing. Apparently there was a 15 year old boy there with them. That boys father has made some social media posts saying his son had mentioned Summer had to be pulled out of the water after going under for a period of time, but was alive at that point and was asleep in the car when Summers mother dropped him off back home. At minimum this would confirm she was alive earlier in the day. If Summers father can be confirmed at work till he received his wife’s call then that would rule out any initial involvement on his part if there was any foul play.
It doesn’t look like Summer is in the surrounding area as the searches have failed to turn up any clues to her whereabouts which leaves her either being abducted or her body being hidden to cover up some type of accident. Hopefully the police will find evidence soon.
Adrian.
Summer Wells' father believes she may have been taken by human traffickers.
Donald Wells: “They received some sort of tip, and we seen blue lights up and down Beech Creek, and the helicopter flew until like 4 a.m. looking around. So we were up until 4 a.m. being hopeful that they’d find something, but there’s nothing. ... They’ve been all through there with a fine-tooth comb. Several times over. She’s not in the area.”
Wells said his personal opinion is that a human trafficking ring may have seen her on Facebook and tracked her down.
Donald Wells: “Somebody has taken her out of the area, and I don’t know whether it’s a human trafficking ring or what, or who, but I knew from the first day that she wasn’t in the area.”
On Saturday, Donald and Candus Wells and their three sons attended their church, the Kingsport Seventh Day Adventist Church, for the first time since Summer went missing.
Donald Wells: “We got there at 9 a.m. And they had a vigil for Summer, and they had all types of pictures up on the screen. Summer went around that whole church and visited everybody, and so when we first went in there we both broke down, of course. Me and my wife both broke down and we had to go outside. They’ve been very supportive, of course. Everybody has. … Just missing Summer. I wish she could be there. The thoughts of her not being able to be there with us and with the people she loves so much, it is heartbreaking.”
Wells discussed the negative impact that social media comments are having on his wife. He said she is particularly affected by posts that are comparing her to the Boswell family from the death of 15-month-old Evelyn Boswell in Sullivan County in 2020.
Donald Wells: “There’s some pretty negative stuff online. My wife can’t help but be on there because she’s looking for clues. She can’t help it. This negativity is tearing her apart. That’s why she doesn’t want to do any interviews, because she’s afraid they’ll lash out at her even more. They’re calling her the Boswell-something, but I can’t remember what it was. Just all kinds of negative stuff.”
Church members have tried to visit the Wells at their home, but law enforcement isn’t allowing any non-residents past the Beech Creek Road intersection with Ben Hill Road.
Donald Wells: She (Candus) is not taking it well. She’s having a hard time, and she’s up and down. She needs some support.”
KTN: How does that make you feel?
Donald Wells: “I just hang on to what good people say. I don’t listen. Even at (his employer) Tucker Drywall we deal with all kinds. And, of course, I’ve been to prison. I try to be around good people and listen to what they say, and what God says. The rest of them can you know what.”
KTN: How are your sons doing?
Donald Wells: “They’re handling it better for some odd reason that I don’t understand. My oldest boy, he’ll say from time to time that he misses his sister. Your mind has a way of forgetting every now and then. I find myself doing that too. But then it comes flooding all back, of course. I might get away from it for about 15-20 seconds, but it will all come back. That’s the first thought in my mind when I wake up.” Wells said he’s trying to have hope and faith in God that He will protect Summer, wherever she is, “and He will turn it all around some day.”
“All I can do is put it in God’s hands,” Wells said. “I just appreciate everybody for their efforts because I know they’re trying hard. They’re not stopping but I just feel that she’s not in the area. And they know that. They still have to search.” He added, “We’ve still got our God. We’ve got to put our faith and trust in Him. He’s the only one who knows where she’s at.”
The mother (according to her husband) doesn’t want to give interviews –
“[because] she’s afraid they’ll lash out at her [even] more”
The mother has failed to give any interviews from day one of Summers disappearance. That would be before any social media posts or comments were made. She has missed many opportunities to appeal for help or plead with kidnappers etc… Even if her justification for failing to give interviews was sound (which it isn’t), it is not expected a mother with a missing child would let negative comments from others stand in her way of any actions she could take which could help find her child. If she has nothing to hide why would she believe her giving an interview would lead to more lashing out?
It is the contents of an interview which would be the determining factor for whether people would lash out. According to her husband she feels if she gave one it would lead to people lashing out “even more”, which suggests she feels what she would say/reveal would cause such actions from others. Neglect in the caretaking of Summer is clear, but is there more than that driving her to avoid speaking out?
Adrian.
Summer Wells mother gives her first interview:
Mother: “We really miss her very much… she was the angel, our blessing, the love of our life. She wa.. she`s what made our world go round.”
“I`m just scared that somebody`s hurting her, and there`s nothing I can do about it, and it, it smothers me.
“Me and my mother and her were planting flowers, and we went in after we got done washing our hands, and she got a piece of candy from grandma. And she wanted to go back over and see her brothers, and I said, ‘OK,’ and I walked her….. all the way over to the porch, and I watched her walk into the kitchen where the boys were watching TV. I told the boys, I said, ‘Watch Summer; I’ll be back.’ And within two minutes, I came back, and I asked the boys where their sister was, and they said, ‘She went downstairs, Mom, to play with her toys in the playroom.’ I said, ‘OK.’ And I yelled downstairs for her a couple times, and I didn’t get no answer, which was unusual because usually she always answers me. And so, I went down there to check, and she was nowhere in sight. She was just gone.”
Father: “Personally I think someone come up here and grabbed her and ran down the hill and threw her in a car, and drove as far away as they could from this area.”
Mother: “I know she didn’t walk away from this property by herself, or off this yard… by her swing. I feel in my heart that somebody has came up here and took her… and lured her away from here.”
Adrian.
Wonder if she had dry drowning and they are covering it up due to neglect aspect. Mother used an alarming ount of past tenses when referring to daughter
I transcribed this interview of Summer’s parents, the URL of which is beneath. Unfortunately, the questions were edited out by the news channel:
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Mother: A lot. I know she didn’t walk away from this property by herself - or off this yard - by her swing. I feel in my heart that somebody has came up here and took her - has lured her away from here.
Mother: Me and my mother and her were planting flowers - and we went in after we got done washing our hands an’ - she got a piece of candy from Grandma - an’ she wanted to go back over and see her brothers and I said, “Okay”, and I walked her - all the way over to the porch and I watched her walk into the kitchen where the boys were watching tv - and I told the boys, I said, “Watch Summer, I’ll be back” - and within two minutes I came back, and I asked the boys where their sister was, and they said, “She went downstairs, Mom, to play with her toys in the playroom.”
I said, “Okay”, and I yelled downstairs for her a couple times, and I didn’t get no answer, which was unusual because usually she always answers me - and so I went down there to check and she was - nowhere in sight. She was just gone.
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Mother: I don’t go on walks around here, or runs because I’m scared of the bears and snakes - and even the cayotes that are around here.
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Mother: Well, whoever has my daughter I pray and hope that they have not harmed her and they bring her back to us safe and sound.
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Father: I’m just trying…I mean, go to the FBI and the police and and clear it up. I mean, I don’t know - it seems kind of elusive
Mother: It’s really strange that I’ve never seen this truck - and I’ve never heard of it until just recently. But I wish they would come forward and explain theirselves. And if you’re not a suspect at least come forward and say what you’ve seen.
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Mother: She was a tomboy I shaved my head she wanted to have her head shaved like me and the boys did.
Father: She tried to shave her head - in the back
Mother: She tried to shave it herself
Father: - and make it uh - I think you can see it in some of the pictures, and it was getting out of control so she - we decided to shave her head off and let it grow back long - and she shaved her head to - to, so she wouldn’t feel bad - and uh - but - but it didn’t bother her - at this point.
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Father: Well, we knew - I knew right away that she was abducted. Y’know, I knew that right away, and that’s what I told them from the beginning - but they have to - they have to go through their - you know - I forget the word
Mother: Investigation
Father: They have to do one step at a time, I guess, but I’m sorry that they had to spend so many man hours in these woods and everything. I’ve seen them limping and everything else, you know, and I feel for ‘em. I just wish there was a way that neighbours could search neighbours’ houses - and then if they’re not willing, you know, get a search warrant or something - but th-there’s just no way you can search every single house, you know, in the eastern United States, or whatever, but I wish there was a way.
Father: Just thankful for the person or persons that’s doing that, you know, out of love
Mother: I appreciate it
Father: jus - just trying to get information and trying to get her found an-and we thank them from the bottom of our hearts
Mother: It means a lot
Father: and we thank uh everybody who’s trying so hard and praying so hard, and she’s an awesome young lady and uh we just want her back
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Father: There’s always gonna be haters, you know it’s always gonna be that way in this world and we just wanna focus on the good friends and Christian people that are trying to help us, and praying for us, and praying for Summer - and we thank them from the bottom of our hearts, and that’s the kind of people we try to relate with and socialise with - so we don’t know anything about you know, no red truck, or - we hardly know many of our neighbours, I mean, because - uhh we just try to be round good people, I mean, and we do have good people in this area we found out since this has all happened - we got some real good neighbours and good folks everywhere, but uh -
Mother: The most important thing is to bring Summer home - safe.
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Mother: I’m sorry that you feel this way,about us, but we love our children with everything we have. We’ve never went without, thanks - to Summer’s daddy and my husband, he’s always provided for us and has worked as much as he could, and can -and still is - and I’m sorry that you guys feel that - way b but that’s my baby and nobody would ever treat her like that as long as - I was around. Ever.
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Father: She loves to - she loves to dance - she - she’d always want me, she says, “Daddy, hold my hand so thatI can twirl.” And she’d - she would just like to twirl and twirl and twirl till my arm got tired, you know, and - I mean, you know, I put out there the - in one account, one of Summer’s favourite songs was uh ‘Godzilla’, and they say - you know, and they’re dropping all over me about past tense - was - you know, well, I’m sorry about that, I says -
Mother: She also liked the song um, by New Breed - it was called ‘House’ - ‘My House’ - she sung that a lot of times when I played it on the tv. She loved to dance.
Father: She liked to think of herself as a princess, and uh, you know - and all that like all young girls do, you know
Mother: She loved ‘Frozen’- she loved to be that - Elsa, an’ -
Father: And I think she really loved to be in church because she felt a lot of love there n’ I think you can’t explain what that love is but you feel it when you know it when you’re young, and she felt that there and she loved everybody in that church - she loves everybody in that church - I should rephrase that because they’ll tear that apart as past tense, and I apologise again for that.
I hope she gets to come home, you know, and I hope she gets to be with her church family again
Mother: Her best friend in that church was Robin - she loved her to death
Father: yeah, yeah. She looked up to women that were
Mother: When she come to that church she-e went looking for Robin - that was her favourite person
Father: Any woman that uh was professional, that
Mother: - was pretty, beautiful
Father: Yeah, she looked up to those kind of women, she you know - they were - I don’t know the word I’m looking for - I can’t think of it, but uh she looked up to ‘em - she’d give ‘em a run for their money every day. She’d give ‘em a run for their money, and there was times, you know, we - we’d be - you know. that our boys like, don’t do this and don’t do that, and the next thing you know, a stick would come up - it would just whop ‘em, you know- and be like “Summer, don’t do that.” you know
Mother: Summer was the boss of the family
Father: Yeah, she’s
Mother: She
Father: Typical girl
Mother: They’d get out of line, she’d put ‘em in line
Father: She’d do her best
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Mother: She loved to play in the mud and the water and swing on her swing, and enjoyed dirt
Father: when I was - when I’d run the lawnmower around, she - she would run behind me. When the boys run their bikes around she’d - as fast as that little bike could go - she would be behind them running as f - and keeping up with them, no problem, you know - she loved to run. She just loved to run. And uh, she could pull herself up on that swing, her full body weight with her two hands - and she could do that, and none of the other boys can do that, but she can.
Interviewer: Was she in school yet?
Father: No
Mother: No
Father: - she was going this year.
Mother: This was supposed to be her first year - in kindergarten.
Father: We did all the - what?
Mother: I took care of everything.. She - I had already took her for her shots and registered in the school - for ready for this year
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Father: I just never expected for anyone to get hold of my heart like she has, because I try to guard my heart as much as I can but she just - she- she holds my heart in her little hands, and I love her with all my heart. I’d do anything to have her back.
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Father: If there’s any way you can find it in your heart to please release her - somehow - I don’t know how you might do that. I mean, because I’m - you’re probably scared of going to prison for the rest of your life, and everything else, I’m sure - but please find it in your heart - have mercy, and find a way of letting her go - and - at where we can get her back, and uh just please have mercy on her, and you know, and us, and on her brothers. She’s such a loving good spirit - please, please don’t hurt her, please let her come home.
Father: My biggest fear is you know, her being tormented or locked in a dungeon, or basement, or something cuz she loves - she loved to be outside all the time, that’s - that was her - unfortunately, her - you know, her downfall, because a lot of times we’d be - the boys would be inside, and we’d be like, “Where’s Summer? Why’d you leave her out there alone?” You know, “Go get Summer now.” - you know, and that’s happened over and over again. And uh we’d come out and she’d always be close by - but we was always coming - she had to be outside - she was an outdoor person.
Mother: She loved to be outside
Father: And I’m just so afraid that she’s locked away. She’s such a loving heart and everything, and I’m afraid that she won’t be able to - that she’s locked away where she can’t be outside or play with her puppy or anything - she loved nature, you know, you know, and it’s -it’s - that’s my greatest fear, that she’s not able to do any of these things anymore, or that she could possibly, you know - I - I - I won’t want to think she’s dead, but it’s a possibility.
I don’t want to address all that negativity - I just want to focus on the positive
Mother: And find our daughter
Father: - it’s so easy to get , you know, lost in that negativity and stuff, and it’s just not worth it, so, I’m just, nah. I appreciate y’all, the good things you say, and uh your prayers - that’s awesome.
Mother: When my little sister came up missing I was in between Arkansas and Tennessee. I don’t know all of what happened, or what did happen, but I hope that they find her too, and bring her home safely, too.
Father: Oh, yeah, there’s no - there’s nothing that - I mean she disappeared without a trace, they haven’t found anything, they haven’t found a body, nothing and you know, when you see cases like that - that’s why I lose hope on Summer, you know, I wanna keep hope, but sometimes I just - I -I-I - jus’ - I lose hope - and I think, well, maybe we won’t ever see her again, you know, an’ so I start thinking in past tense -sorry - but I’m trying to keep hope up. I’m trying to keep my prayers up, and all that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ4r1Q9wgl0
Mother:
"I told the boys, I said, ‘Watch Summer; I’ll be back.’
And within two minutes, I came back, and I asked the boys where their sister was, and they said, ‘She went downstairs, Mom, to play with her toys in the playroom.’
And I yelled downstairs for her a couple times, and I didn’t get no answer, which was unusual because usually she always answers me.
And so, I went down there to check, and she was nowhere in sight.
She was just gone.
I know she didn’t walk away from this property by herself"
There is a cluster of blue around the downstairs, and Summer was "just" "gone".
Was Summer dead in the basement?
Father:
"Somebody has taken her out of the area"
I knew from the first day that she wasn’t in the area.
Well, we knew - I knew right away that she was abducted.
Neutral language to describe a child abductor.
@Hey Jude said...
"I transcribed this interview...."
Thanks for doing it, it must have taken some time.
Adrian.
"Me and my mother and her were planting flowers
- and we went in after we got done washing our hands an’
- she got a piece of candy from Grandma
- an’ she wanted to go back over and see her brothers and I said, “Okay”,
and I walked her - all the way over to the porch and I watched her walk into the kitchen where the boys were watching tv - and I told the boys, I said, “Watch Summer, I’ll be back” - and within two minutes I came back, and I asked the boys where their sister was, and they said, “She went downstairs, Mom, to play with her toys in the playroom.”
What kind of "candy" did Summer get from Grandma?
Did Summer need help walking after consuming the "candy"?
No body = no toxicology report.
You’re welcome, Adrian. There is another part of the parents’ interview which was not included in the longer video - in the/a missing part Candus described the day leading up to Summer’s disappearance. It’s a pity it has been put out in segments, with the questions edited out. I’ll do what else I can find of it later.
@ Hey Jude
I would be interested to know the last time Summer was seen by someone other than her family. I know there is a video of her swimming allegedly on the day she went missing, but I am not certain if that is accurate. Once again thanks for the transcript, and if you find anything else please share.
Adrian.
Here you go:)
The JHWL website is not accessible to European visitors, only their YouTubes. I haven’t been able to find some parts of the interview on their own YouTube, so I have used a creator’s channel where these excerpts have been posted with just a short introduction and no commentary. There are two segments which aren’t in the longer video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4AloAHoUmE
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Mother: …from the drug store at Walgreens, at Fort Henry and - Morelock? - Moreland Drive - and Warriors was straight across so we just figured I’d take her over there to go swimming for a little bit while we waited on my Ma’s prescription.
We weren’t even there but twenty minutes.
Interviewer: And so then, Summer came back here with you later that afternoon, right?
Mother: Yes.
Interviewer: Okay. And so was there anybody else with you?
Mother: No, not when we came home, no.
Interviewer: Was anybody else swimming with you? People, I think, had questions about that.
Mother: Um, [name of minor bleeped] wanted to go with because - he didn’t want to be around his grandmother - becurr, as he would call it, she’s a [bleeped]. I’m sorry, that’s what he said. An’ I said, okay, well, I got to go pick up Mom from the hospital, and then we gotta do Walgreens, and then I’ll take you home. Well, we had to wait for Mom’s prescription at Walgreens, so we just went up the Warriors - there was all kinds of trash everywhere at Warriors when we showed up and I let Summer out to play - and we just stood there for about fifteen, twenty minutes, and then we all got back in the truck and went and got Mom’s prescription - and I took him home - and then we came home.
Interviewer: And how many hours was that before she was reported missing?
Mother: You know, I really can’t tell you all the time details because - time gets away from you when you’re - tryinga enjoy yourself.
Interviewer: Is there anything else you wanted to address about the TikTok, or any rumours, or things you’ve seen about that, or around that topic?
Mother: I don’t really have no more than that.
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[This began after the father said, in the longer interview segment, “I’m trying to keep my prayers up, and all that.” ]
[4.55 min.]
Interviewer: And you know, has it been tough, you know, having to deal with that situation, and then this happening, too - I mean, how does that make you feel?
Mother: It is difficult. It’s very difficult. It - it makes no sense at all. How can people just - vanish, and not be heard from or seen without a trace. It’s very devastating.
Father: Keep a close watch on your kids.
Mother: Yes.
Father: Don’t let ‘em out of your sight
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Apparently the lad, though Candus doesn’t say he was swimming with them that day - according to her they just stood there for fifteen or twenty minutes while Summer went to play. So Summer wasn’t necessarily swimming either?
There is a TikTok video posted that day in which Summer was swimming and the lad was in the water. It should be easy enough for investigators to establish if it was a video from that day, or just posted that day.
I wonder whose fingerprints are over all the Twisted Tea cans at the swimming hole - did they come from the home? What’s the significance of mentioning the trash? The home was messy, could have cleared up and dumped a trash bag full of cans while doing errands and before investigators arrived - timeline is iffy and they didn’t have time to drink all those while no-one was swimming. May not have been their trash. Why mention it? Trash everywhere.
A more fastidious person might comment on the trash - the Wells’ outside area is littered with cans and trash in some videos, so it’s not as if that’s a great issue, and interesting that Candus comments. It bothered her, but she still “let Summer out” to play in it.
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Just thoughts, not analysing. I’m sure they don’t have resources to fingerprint random bags of trash, and even if it did come from the home - it wouldn’t have ro mean anything other than that some people might dump trash in their kids’ favourite swimming places.
From Hey Jude`s transcript - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4AloAHoUmE
The pronouns point to Candus, Summer and the unnamed minor going to the Warriors while grandmother waited for her prescription at Walgreens.
“[we] just figured [I’d] take her over there”
A decision was made in unity (presumably between mother and grandmother) signalled by the mothers use of “we” concerning Summer going to Warriors. Candus then says - [I’d] take her over there” which suggests grandmother did not go with them. The mother doesn’t mention the brothers (I presume they were at school) so we have the Mother, Summer and unnamed minor going to the swimming location.
“Well, we had to wait for Mom’s prescription at Walgreens, so [we] [just] went up the Warriors"
The use of “we just” fits with what I said above with the mother comparing who went to the Warriors against who stayed at Walgreens. It’s noted that the mother fails to mention the other minor initially in her account and his presence is only revealed later when the reporter asks if anyone else was there.
“We [weren’t] [even] there [but] twenty minutes.”
The mother chooses to include the length of time they were at Warriors in her answer. She may or may not have been asked for it by the reporter. Regardless her words show she is sensitive to timing. Candus doesn’t tell us how long they were there, but rather that they “weren’t even there but” followed by a time. That she says this in the negative makes it sensitive, and the words “weren’t even” show she has a need to minimise/play down the time. This makes us ask did something happen during the time spent at the location which has caused Candus to exhibit sensitivity in her language.
“so we just went up the Warriors - there was [all kinds] of trash everywhere at Warriors [when] we showed up and I let Summer out to play”
We now have the extra information regarding trash being everywhere. Shortest sentence is best and that would have been simply –
“so we just went up the Warriors and I let Summer out to play”
The extra information –
“there was [all kinds] of trash everywhere at Warriors [when] we showed up”
This information isn’t needed to explain what had happened so we see it as extra information that Candus has a need to explain/include in her statement. She needs us to know that there was “all kinds” of trash there, which shows she is thinking about different types of trash. That’s interesting as most people would talk about the amount of trash, perhaps saying “there was trash everywhere”. Candus is not interested in the amount of trash, but rather the types of it. We know there is talk of alcohol being consumed there, with empty cans being found at the location. This could be the reason her mind was focused on types instead of amounts. If she had left some trash there she would be thinking of what it was (the type), her mind would have knowledge of it.
She also needs to include the timing by saying “[when] we showed up”. This is significant because it shows she wants the listener to believe that the trash was already there. So we are seeing sensitivity to the visit to the Warriors in relation to time spent there where she seeks to minimise/play it down and also that “all kinds of trash” was already there when they arrived.
Adrian.
Continued
The statement below is very interesting -
“and I let Summer out to play - and we [just] [stood] there for about fifteen, twenty minutes, and then we [all] got back in the truck and went and got Mom’s prescription”
The mother seeks to minimise what happened when they were there – “and we [just] [stood] there” – She is thinking about something else signalled by her use of the word “just”. It could be that her drinking alcohol (possibly giving some to a minor as well) has caused her to minimise her actions. She could have said “we were there about 20 minutes and then we went back to Walgreens”, but her focus is instead of what actions happened there - “just stood”. This has caused the word “stood” to be brought into her statement with body positioning relating to changes in tension. She seeks to minimise being “stood” by saying “just stood”. This points to other things/actions happening at this point in her statement.
The most interesting part is below –
“then we [all] got back in the truck and went and got Mom’s prescription”
Why does she include that they “all” got back in the truck? She could have said they were there twenty minutes then went and got her Moms prescription, but something has caused her to think about getting in the truck. Not only getting in it, but who got in it. She needs us to know “we [all] got back in the truck”. Why wouldn’t they all get back in the truck? By saying this she is including something which is so obvious that it does not need to be said. You have to get back in the truck go back to Walgreens so to include it is strange. The pronoun “we” on its own would have been enough to describe getting in the truck, but she went further by adding “all” to her statement. This leaves questions which need answering.
Did they all get back in the truck?
Did mother leave Summer in care of other minor for a period time while she went and got the prescription and picked her mum up?
Did someone get left behind?
Adrian.
Mother: Um, [name of minor bleeped] wanted to go with because - he didn’t want to be around his grandmother - becurr, as he would call it, she’s a [bleeped]. I’m sorry, that’s what he said. An’ I said, okay, well, I got to go pick up Mom from the hospital, and then we gotta do Walgreens, and then I’ll take you home. Well, we had to wait for Mom’s prescription at Walgreens, so we just went up the Warriors - there was all kinds of trash everywhere at Warriors when we showed up and I let Summer out to play - and we just stood there for about fifteen, twenty minutes, and then we all got back in the truck and went and got Mom’s prescription - and I took him home - and then we came home.
Interviewer: And how many hours was that before she was reported missing?
Mother: You know, I really can’t tell you all the time details because - time gets away from you when you’re - tryinga enjoy yourself.
...Isn't it a little bit weird from a personality point of view that Candus does zero coverup for the 15-y-o? Personally I'd be editing his reason for wanting to go to the swimming pool with a little, er, delicacy, especially if I knew it might be on the news. "[Grandma] was getting on his nerves", or similar. It might very well mean she doesn't like the teen boy all that much, and doesn't care if he catches hell from a family member for her characterization.
Also, "time gets away from yourself when you're tryna enjoy yourself" is a little creepy, a little folksy-philosophical and cold. She's preaching aphorisms while her pre-kindergarten daughter is missing. She should be racking her brain and trying to remember what happened, beating herself up for not being able to remember, like we've seen time out of mind from the parents of missing children.
Also, she's just finished an entire paragraph and a half about prescription runs, errands, and other daily dulness. Not exactly a "trying to have fun" family moment; yet here Candus is, skipping right back over the previous paragraph and a half and landing again on the swimming. Clearly, the swimming is both (a), significant to Candus in the timeframe; and (b), she feels the need to convince people that it/her afternoon was "fun".
Just my thoughts:
Mother: "An’ I said, okay, well, I got to go pick up Mom from the hospital, and then we gotta do Walgreens, and then I’ll take you home. Well, we had to wait for Mom’s prescription at Walgreens, so we just went up the Warriors - there was all kinds of trash everywhere at Warriors when we showed up and I let Summer out to play - and we just stood there for about fifteen, twenty minutes, and then we all got back in the truck and went and got Mom’s prescription - and I took him home - and then we came home.
1. They were picking up Mom [Candus'Mom?]from the hospital? Why was she at the hospital?
2. It appears Mom [Candus' Mom?] was released with a prescription needing to be filled with the "we gotta do Walgreens...". It should be easy enough to verify the prescription, time, type of medication, form of medication (pill/liquid), in-store video of who picked up the prescription/who waited for the prescription.
3. "so, we just went up the Warriors..."- Don't like the so used with the just. Just compared to what other option? Was there a discussion on what to do while they waited on the prescription? Who is "we" that just went up the Warriors, Candus, the minor and Summer or Candus, her mom, the minor, and Summer, or is anyone else along on this trip besides Candus, her mom, the minor, and Summer?
4. "There was all kinds of trash everywhere at Warriors when we showed up and I let Summer out to play..."- Why is she mentally thinking about and verbalizing the trash everywhere? Why does it matter? When "we just went up Warriors" (mentally comparing Warriors to another place to go), was she expecting Warriors to look prettier? If the trash everywhere is such a sticking point with her, why did she let Summer out to play?
5. Candus said "we showed up...", but only "I let Summer out to play". Again, who is the "we" that showed up? She says "I let Summer out to play" and "we just stood there for about fifteen, twenty minutes" Again, who is the "we" that she says "just" stood there? And how can that "we" stand anywhere if the only one who verbally got out of the truck was Summer? Did Candus "let Summer out to play" (irregardless of the trash everywhere)because Candus wanted to play in the truck with the minor? Wonder how far the Warriors is from the Walgreens? Is there video of who arrived at Walgreens initially to pick up the prescription and the time, who (if anyone) waited for the prescription, and who finally picked up the prescription and the time? Would any Walgreens video time stamps support Candus' went up to the Warriors "about fifteen, twenty minutes" and then got her mom's prescription timeline?
6. Then how can that "we" all get back into the truck if the only one who verbally got out of the truck was Summer?
7. After that "we" all got back into the truck, she says [we] went and got Mom's prescription and I took "him" home (not we took him home), and "then we came home".
8. There's an uncomfortable amount of pronoun ambiguity in her statement.
Things I don't like:
-"me and my mother and her were planting flowers..."- Candus lists herself first, her mother in unnamed, Summer is unnamed.
-"and we went in after we got done washing our hands..."- Candus begins with three distinctly verbally separate people planting the flowers, but they suddenly become united ("we") when they're going in and washing hands. Why? Why does going in come verbally before washing hands, but she says they went in after washing their hands? Is this experiential memory? Why does she even mention washing their hands (handwashing after planting something outside is kind of a given)?
-"she got a piece of candy from grandma..."-Why is she mentioning this in context to a missing child? Why is it important to Candus? Is it abnormal for Summer to get candy from grandma? Why did "my mother" (no name) suddenly become grandma, in context to Summer, but she didn't have that context when they were planting flowers? Is there potentially any mother-daughter jealousy?
-"and she [Summer] wanted to go back over and see her brothers..."- This just seems out of place. Candus doesn't say she wanted to play with her brothers; she said Summer wanted to see her brothers. This seems to suggest a need to see them? Was something going on that day/outside/or planting flowers that was making Summer feel stressed? Are her brothers her stability because her parents haven't been the most stable? For a little girl who's described by her parents as being outdoorsy,loving the outdoors, nearly always outdoors, she wanted to go see her brothers in the house? And she wanted to go in the basement?
"the door was unlocked..."- The dad said it was unlocked, but unlocked is not open.
I'd like to read the full transcript,too. It's odd that one section the mother has to apologise for how someone asking the questions "feels" about them and their financial situation. That is odd while a child is missing.
Unless that person knows of a trafficking ring and their cash flow system, which in itself is revealing.
Statements within this article begs to be dissected:
https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/summer-wells-tn/tbi-official-calls-lack-of-tips-or-leads-in-summer-wells-disappearance-frustrating/
“Typically on an AMBER Alert and the ones that I’ve been involved in since I have been over this program, within a couple of days we have a tip or lead or have an idea if they’ve been abducted, if they maybe left into the woods,” Smither said. “Somebody saw something that leads up hopefully to get an answer to where the child went or if they were taken. We’re going to have some tip or lead. And that is the frustrating part for law enforcement in this case and the public.”
LEFT into the woods?
This article is almost a month later and some almost 1000 tips. The title states they are frustrated at the LACK of tips.
"it leads up "hopefully" to get an answer to where the child went or If they were taken"
Makes one wonder about that Tacoma truck siting, eh?
Have you listened to Hunter's interview on The Interview Room? What do you make of his "clarification" when replying to Chris' "Why do you think Summer was so drawn to you?" and first replying "because I paid attention to her" with adding "but not in a weird way"?
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