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Missing | Summer Wells

True Crime Society

True Crime Society

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2021

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Summer Wells vanished from her family home in Tennessee on June 15, 2021. No trace of her has been found since that date.

Summer had allegedly been planting flowers with her mother Candus and grandmother (also named Candus) on the day she disappeared. She got bored, and her mother's story is that she went back inside. Summer told her brothers that she was going to her basement bedroom to play with her toys. This is the last time she was ever seen.

Summer's parents have a theory that she was abducted via a basement door that opens to the outside of the home. Many believe this was not a stranger abduction though. Did something happen to Summer and there has been a cover-up? Could the infamous 'Cornbread Mafia' be involved?

In this episode of the True Crime Society Podcast we discuss:
- The circumstances surrounding the disappearance of Summer Wells.
- The ongoing search for her - the TBI have so far investigated over 1200 tips in this case and are trying to track down the driver of a vehicle seen in the area at the time.
- The criminal records of her parents and other family members.
- The removal of Summer's siblings from the care of their parents in July 2021.
- The appearance of the parents on Dr Phil recently - Summer's mother stormed off set after being 'interrogated'.
- Theories about Summer's disappearance. Could a shady group of characters known as the 'Cornbread Mafia' have taken Summer in retaliation from a drug debt? Was Candus negligent and does she know more about what happened to Summer? Could this really have been a total stranger abduction?

Be sure to check out our blog for clips of the crime scene. You can also watch Summer's parents on Dr Phil here - https://truecrimesocietyblog.com/2021/12/07/lost-in-tennessee-where-is-summer-wells/

Thank you as always for listening x

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up guys, welcome to another episode of a true crime society podcast with Stephanie

0:21.8

and Olivia. That's all I had planned out in my head so far. If you listen to our last episode

0:30.6

and follow us on Instagram, you'll know that this episode is going to be about missing

0:35.2

summer wells. We say this with a lot of cases, but it's true for all of them, a big mess

0:39.8

of a case. No, I feel like I've heard of this one in kind of generally followed it, but

0:44.9

until I started delving into it, there's a lot. There's a lot of people, a lot of people

0:49.3

with the same names. It's a lot to keep track of. A lot of people the same day. Didn't

0:54.3

that just happen in another case too that we talked about? Or may they all started at the

0:58.7

murder, the murder, the murder dogs, they're all, oh yeah, that's what it was. Don't, don't

1:04.4

bring them up. It's a tough subject for me. We were just talking about how some people

1:11.5

said they missed having like a little bit of a chat in the beginning because we moved

1:16.1

everything to the end. So we figured we'll test out giving, giving a little buffer. So

1:21.4

we'll talk about ourselves for three minutes. So if you don't want to hear about ourselves,

1:25.5

then you can ask for three minutes or I'll put a timestamp if it's really that big of a deal.

1:31.3

One thing we can't talk about is that I got engaged last weekend. I'm excited. This is the

1:39.3

first time Olivia and I have really talked about it in person in court. No, no, not my text

1:45.4

or child. Yeah. We went my fiance and I always after Thanksgiving, we got a Vermont, so we went

1:53.2

up there. We got to go to some breweries up there and we walked over to look at like Champlain

1:58.5

and I was just taking pics like a basic girl does and I turned around and he did it. And I said,

2:04.6

and I said no. I changed mine because you've still got a fiance. Yeah, just kidding. I said yes

2:11.5

and then I screamed. So you're so exciting. So I'm now a fiance. So if there's any wedding

2:17.2

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