Thoughts on Missing 5 year old Summer Wells' mother:
1. Did not immediately seek to make a plea to the alleged kidnapper on Summer's behalf. (Behavioral analysis) The cry to the alleged kidnapper is a natural reaction by a mother of a missing child.
2. When she did finally speak, she referenced Summer in the past tense several times. This indicates that the mother knows or believes her child is dead.
3. Police have shared few details on the case--therefore it is not likely that they have shared details with the mother that would lead her to accept Summer's death. Even when police do share terrible details, mothers often remain in denial, and even criticize police, in disbelief. It is a natural maternal reaction.
4. Maternal protective instinct and natural denial can be blunted by substance abuse.
5. Mother's priority weighs upon how people perceive her; not upon what Summer may be experiencing.
6. Neglect is indicated in her language. The unnecessary careful observations of Summer on what should have been a non-eventful day indicate a memorable event in what should have been ordinary.
7. Drug purchasing can invite violent criminals into a child's life & home. De-sensitized by chemicals, parental capacities for protection can diminish, while those in the drug trade lose basic human empathy. The risk to children from drug dealers is an ongoing jeopardy to their safety, just as they are in risk from parents under the influence.
8. Substance abuse increases Neglect, including unintentional death, which may be followed by panic cover up. Neglect is "easy" in that it takes no effort. It magnifies the selfishness (and often growing indifference) of substance abuse.
9. From the brief statements made by Summer's mother, her lack of use of Summer's name, while Summer is missing, indicates psychological distancing from the child at the very moment we expect an emotional clinging to the child.
The 911 call will be important for analysis.
10. It is not known from the mother's limited statements and poor interviews conducted by journalists, whether mother is directly involved, or has guilt due to Neglect & possible subsequent cover up.
11. Mothers' protective instincts make them the very last to accept a child's death. The denial is powerful and csn often take years to overcome.
This mother indicates very early acceptance, measured in days.
The lack of concern on the part of the mother for what Summer might have been going through at the hands of a kidnapper or human trafficker indicates that mother knew Summer was beyond a mother's help.
This is similar in vein to the more sophisticated language of Kate McCann, mother of missing child, Madeleine.
The McCanns' linguistic disposition towards Madeleine was "neutral"; that is, their concern was themselves, not Madeline. In context, this showed that they knew Madeleine was beyond their parental intervention. Both parents displayed this early on.
From the initial interviews, Kate, like Summer's mother, indicated that she had processed her child's death. Self preservation for Gerry & Kate was the linguistic priority.
Summer's mother showed more concern over what social media thought of her than for what Summer was experiencing while allegedly kidnapped.
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#5 she talks about how she had done everything to register her for school. She did not make a cry to the alleged kidnapper to return her so she can attended school.
I'd love to hear your analysis of all of the dad's fb posts.
'I'll see her in the resurrection': A month later Summer Wells' dad has little hope for her recovery
[DW] spoke with the Times News on Monday about how his family has been coping with the loss of Summer over the past four weeks, outside influences such as social media and the need to continue living their lives.
[DW] has believed since day one that Summer was abducted from their home.
He said that belief was confirmed fairly quickly by search dogs that picked up her scent in the back yard and followed a “dog trail” through the woods that ended at Ben Hill Road.
“We’ve had several people sneaking around there, but we’ve had them sneaking around at night,” [DW] said. “We’ve never had somebody up there at 5:30 in the afternoon that we know of. They didn’t come up the driveway. They came up a dog trail from the woods. The (police K-9) dog that they used, that’s where the scent took them. Down through the woods, not the driveway. At Ben Hill Road is where the dog’s scent ended. I already knew all that, but that just confirmed it for me.”
[DW] added, “It’s real discouraging. Only God can turn this around at this point. … The police can’t come up with anything. All these people on Facebook all over the world can’t come up with anything. Nobody can. Only God can. Somebody was either hiding in the weeds there waiting for her to go in the basement. They (her mother and brothers) weren’t 30 feet away when she got gone.”
(Audio interview and more at link)
https://www.timesnews.net/living/watch-now-ill-see-her-in-the-resurrection-a-month-later-summer-wells-dad-has/article_09f4e4de-e36d-11eb-bd14-973ee18fc0d4.html
Thanks for posting that John.
It would seem if the dogs picked up her scent someone must have been prowling and likely was already in the house without the knowledge of others. Perhaps entering while they were planting flowers thinking no one else was inside.
"Several people" sneaking at night? That's scary and there's a reason they'd be there and not elsewhere. Perhaps it's the trailer out back or some other reason such as things left outside that are attracting them. Teenagers nearby or even their own sons.
He's correct in thinking she's likely already dead. The police have most likely already informed them of her survival rate according to statistics.
However, there's always that long shot that she's somewhere being held captive and the search for her should continue.
I would think it best to assume she's dead than to have her being tortured in the minds of the parents.
The truck seen should be sought. It's likely in a barn or under cover somewhere considering the media involvement in the case if people even watch the news anymore.
The buckets tell more about the driver than anything. What labels were on them? Was this a hunter baiting deer or feeding other animals? A worker? A weary traveller?
They may have been hungry and entered the house looking for food or something to steal.
Yes, the parents need to continue their lives regardless of all the blame and shame others want to force on them for their own purposes.
I just watched the recent YouTube video in which the father gives an interview. He seems committed to his faith despite his criminal background, and I'm certain his church would back him, too.
They had family photos posted. Hopefully they had permission to use their likeness and not just using the family-especially the other children-for their own personal gain to entrap them into their reality show hellish production(s).
In one photo the man looked like he's been painting and in another it appeared drywall tape had been applied and bedded. That might explain the white buckets in the truck and is likley someone in those trades. Someone he knows or has crossed paths with.
He stated the K9 units tracked her sent down a path through the woods out to the road. Scary business!
I can see why they never made a plea for the kidnapper to release her. Has anyone ever returned an abducted person based such begging?
If he is a painter, they may be looking for ingredients for meth production, which is common in some areas of the USA.
Or, he could have owed someone for something and/or it's abduction based out of retalation.
It could be some rogue cause group trying to herd certain members of a trade or industry which is also common among the racketeering groups in the do-gooder world of fake charities and DIY media productions.
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Is it possible the six dogs played a part in an accidental killing of Summer? There were new puppies who I heard were barking like crazy at everybody. Could six untrained / no vet. appointment dogs go pack mad on a small girl and attack and kill her?
Where did Candus and Don hide her body? Anything left is probably close to the house. Please don't tell me Don fed her to the six dogs. I hope they checked that barrel that had "For Sale" written on it. They hid her incredibly well. Kate is nodding very approvingly from Great Britain. Gerry is suitably impressed. They don't understand why their fundraiser is not as productive as theirs was.
Maybe she's hidden in the woods nearby.
https://youtu.be/AkZS-YJrZ8s
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It is unlikely a bunch of puppies munched on the little girl and the family members concealed that type of accidental death.
What is questionable, though, is the fact that a dog trail existed to the road in the first place.
Also questionable is how the tipster of the maroon Tacoma truck with the ladder rack and white buckets "IN" the bed was able to see "IN" the bed of the truck. And, that tip surfaced 10 days later.(?)
Typically people who want to abduct and/or kill others for shitz and grins will bait out the dog(s) prior to entering the home of the victim if they can. Getting it as close to a busy highway as they can offers the largest scenerio of possible suspects as well as making others at church paranoid. It's a good shake-down market and they don't want to miss an opportunity to argue with their own logic.
Of course the longer it continues and someone else is offered money by the state to investigate, they'll show up with dogs that can smell a corpse hundreds of feet under water and read tarot cards, too. Albeit, they typically come up empty handed, too, but that's the name of the game.
The local media is useless which is telling by their "timeline" which consists of a chronological order of articles or news stories about the missing child and not what time she went missing, where they people were, who did what at which time, etc.
Yep! It's all over except waiting on the far woman to sing....a few courses of "I can see into the bed of a truck from a highway" song.
The DIY investigators are taking over the family's church web videos and using them for their armchair detective work. One video shows Summer wandering about aimlessly during service while her mother-unkempt and slumped in the pew sound asleep-is not involved at all.
It's clear from her TV interview she has no interest in personal hygiene and/or how she's perceived by others. That said, sleeping during church is odd...especially when the congregant isn't elderly or a small child.
I'd wonder if she doesn't have a medical problem and/or isn't taking heroin.
That said, with those videos online, regardless of what the family does or doesn't do, it makes targeting victims much easier.
It's similar to the murder of a church pastor's wife in Indianna some time back. Others sought to indict the husband because....well, he existed.
Why did the mother differentiate when she said my “other children”? That’s also the only time she showed any emotion.
The mother introduced water “washing hands” “…And we went in after we got done washing our hands and…”
It may have been cut or I missed it, The mother didn’t say she went out the basement “door” or that it was unlocked in her account. The father,recounting in another interview, said the mother …”went down there and she was gone, so she went out the basement “door” which was unlocked”. An included step and a story. Couldn’t he have straight said so she went outside? Both seem like unnecessary inclusions. Who initially included them( does it matter) and why?
I made some analysis on the last portion of Candus Wells statement regarding the moments leading up to Summers disappearance.
“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.”
“I didn’t get [no] answer”
This statement contains a double negative. The word “didn’t” is needed for the function of the statement, but the word “no” (negative) has been used in place of the expected “an” –“I didn’t get [an] answer”. The statement has also been structured in a way which makes it passive, as it fails to incorporate summer into it in terms of her being part of the answering process. The mother could have said –
“I yelled downstairs for her a couple times and [she] didn’t answer”
Including the pronoun “she” would bring Summer into the process and also avoid the need to use the double negative. The same problem occurs again later.
The mother then adds extra information into her statement when she says –
“I didn’t get no answer, which was unusual because usually [she] always answers me. And so, I went down there”
That can be shortened to –
“I didn’t get no answer so I went down there”
I don’t want to analyse that in depth but rather focus on the pronoun use. We see Candus has used the pronoun “she” when she is talking about what “usually” happens – “because usually [she] always answers me”. When thinking of the “usual” it prompts Candus to use the pronoun “she” to represent Summer. We will follow this more.
Continued -
“And [so], I went down there [to] check, and she was [nowhere] in sight.”
That is another passive statement where the mother fails to say what she went down to “check” on. We see Summer is not included in the checking process. Candus does not say “I went down there to check on [her]”, so we cannot conclude that is what she did, we cannot say it for her. We may be tempted to interpret things that way, but that would be a mistake as we should not draw conclusions without having the complete information to support them. Next we are told –
“and [she] was [nowhere] in sight”
Note we do now have the pronoun “she” including Summer in the statement “[she] was [nowhere] in sight”. We see that “nowhere” is qualified with the word “sight”. If Summer was not in the basement and Candus believed that via her knowledge of going there and not finding her then the strongest statement she could make would be –“she wasn’t there”. If we compare that against her actual statement –
“she was nowhere in sight”
“she wasn’t there”
When someone says something wasn’t “there” it allows for the something to be somewhere else. When someone says something is “nowhere in sight” it allows for something to be there, but just not in “sight”. The mothers final words were –
“she was [just] gone”
We see the extra word “just” used to describe Summer being gone. This makes the statement different to the basic “she was gone”
“she was gone”
“she was [just] gone”
The mother is comparing her being gone against another thought. She was “just” gone as opposed to something else. When two thoughts are compared and the lesser one is brought into language we see the word “just” inserted before it which tells us that what has been mentioned is the lesser of those two thoughts. We don’t know what Candus is comparing her statement against, but we do know that she is comparing it against something. It could be that she is thinking about Summer being gone as opposed to Summer hiding (if that is something she did). It’s likely if that was common it would have caused the language of “finding” to be used by the mother as in “I couldn’t find her” which would speak to the act of searching. Note Candus does not mention she searched for Summer only that she was – “she was [nowhere] in sight. She was [just] gone”.
We see Candus is selective with her pronoun use/naming of Summer. Also she dies not tell us what she did when she was gone. Did she search the whole house, did she call the brothers and ask them to help etc… This information is not there?
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@Adrian,
Yeah, all that you wrote about is questionable. So is the two minutes she took to do whatever.
Deciphering their language...don't even attempt it as it is a mixture of slang in the area I'd suspect. He said "she got gone" at some point. It makes no sense unless it's a spin-off of "gonna git myself some gone" as opposed to saying "I'm leaving, goodbye."
There's enough to critique in their appearance and church videos that is telling of their basic need to survive in this world. The last thing they need is to learn tenses and proper English.
I saw in one video that one of the boys were wearing a T-shirt with the name of a local drywaller. He may work as a drywaller and/or painter when needed. In a town of roughly 4500, he most likely has to drive to a more affluent area to work where they are building more houses and businesses. It makes sense she would state they never heard of a red/maroon Tacoma truck as most in such a small town would likely already know who it belongs to; the gas station attendant, a waitress, a town cop, a building supply employee.
That witness and/or vehicle is in question in my mind.
After seeing that T-shirt, I was reminded of a man in Florida who did drywall that was targeted by one of these human trafficking rings. It was a conspiracy geared operation and got so bad that he finally had his kids taken away breifly as he'd herded the into the center of the house thinking the government was using some type of special weapon to Target his home. It's clear from his many videos that it is human trafficking and they likely targeted him because he moves from place to place and that ensures they have entrance to many more homes to bug and target and start their sick stuff all over again on someone new. They'd steal his mail, he'd build new box and lock it, they'd tear it down. The stalking never seemed to end and of course CPS would not be interested nor even entertain the thought that human trafficking existed in such a manner and the police certainly aren't interested in doing any thing about the growing crimes as that is how they get promoted and terrorise average citizens into spying on each other.
The armchair detectives are a subset of this criminal operations that has destroyed many Americans, their homes and their lives.
https://www.therogersvillereview.com/rogersville/article_2b1b072a-8c56-513b-8024-faace9a4f2c3.html
Above is a link to some statements made by Candus Wells around the time of the parade I think. Whether or not the statements have been edited by the pseudo-journalists is unknown given their propensity to get others to speak and behave a certain way for their show(s).
There's something about a visit to a friend's house that stands out as she uses "sit" and other forms of it in her recall. Maybe drugs were involved?
She claims the 15 year old that went with them that day lied and dramatized the incidents at the swimming hole. That's a possibility give there's unlikely much more to do in that small town other than make up stuff to cause excitement. People do that.
She also claims someone had been camping on a neighbor's property prior.
The red/maroon Tacoma truck with the ladder rack and two white buckets inside is most likley a "cluster of crap".
Summer Wells' mom pleads: 'Just bring her back'
By Jim Beller Staff Writer 8 hrs ago
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This is the last known photo of Summer Wells.
The lower portion of the driveway loop shown here is a blind spot from the area between the Wells home and the grandmother’s camper.
Photo by Jim Beller
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ROGERSVILLE – “If you took her, just bring her back. You don’t even have to tell me that you did it. Just bring her back. Say that you found her walking, I don’t care. Just bring her back. That’s all I care.”
So pleaded Candus Wells late Sunday afternoon in regards to her 5-year-old daughter Summer, who went missing five weeks ago, seemingly vanishing within five minutes of last being seen. “I don’t understand it,” the child’s mother said. “It don’t make no sense.”
Candus recalled June 15, the day Summer disappeared.
Candus’ mother – also named Candus, but who’s nicknamed Candy – needed to see a doctor in Kingsport about her aching knee.
“We went to Gatlinburg and the boys accidentally kept tripping over her sore knee,” Candus said. “She had an artificial knee replaced. And if you twist it the wrong way, it pops out and it hurts really bad. And she couldn’t figure out why it wouldn’t stop hurting after a while, so I took her to the ER that morning.”
After taking Candy to Holston Valley, Candus and Summer went to visit some family friends in Kingsport. “They invited me over to sit at their house while I waited for my mom to get done so we weren’t sitting in the hot truck. So, I went over there,” Candus said.
“I was sitting and mom called me to come get her,” said Candus, adding that the 15-year-old son of her friend asked to go along. “I went and picked her up, and then we drove all the way across town and dropped her prescription off. They said it’d be about 30 minutes at the most.
“So, we were like, well instead of sitting here in the car where it’s hot — it was baking hot – we’ll just go to Warrior’s and let Summer swim for a little while. Like I said, we weren’t even planning on going swimming or fishing or anything,” Candus said.
So, they went to Warrior’s Path State Park and let Summer and the boy swim in the cove just south of the park’s horse stables. “I figured 15 or 20 minutes in the water, you know, run a little bit of energy out instead of sitting in the truck,” Candus said.
One of the last videos shot of Summer before her disappearance is of her swimming in that cove. There has been much speculation in social media about what happened next. According to accounts, Summer went under water and the boy dove in to save her. Candus said that didn’t happen. In the video, Summer is seen splashing in the lake, then stands up to reveal it’s only about waist-deep.
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They opened that tote right there and all it’s got in it is a bunch of crafts and stuff.
You couldn’t even fit nobody in that if you wanted to. 😯
They opened that like seven times.
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Do you have a link to this?
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