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Desperate Search for Missing Child Summer Wells: Not First Family Member To Go Missing
Summer Moon-Utah Wells, only 5-years-old, went missing from her rural Tennessee home in Beech Creek on June 15, 2021. Her parents reported her missing to the Hawkins County Sheriff’s Office that evening at approximately 6:30 p.m. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) issued an Amber Alert the following morning.
Summer has the lightest, beautiful blonde hair and big blue eyes, weighing only 40 pounds and standing 3 feet tall. She was wearing gray pants, a pink shirt, and possibly barefoot.
Investigators asked residents living near Ben Hills Road to check any trail or surveillance cameras that may contain images of Summer. They also encouraged residents to check their properties, their sheds, buildings, or any other possible place where she may have sought shelter.
Summer disappeared from a community with a population of under 4,000 people, averaging 49 people per square mile. Beech Creek is located in a mountainous area in southwest Tennessee, approximately two hours southwest of Nashville.
Summer’s disappearance was also reported to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children that works throughout the country assisting law enforcement in the search for missing children.
According to Summer’s father, Don Wells, Summer had been planting flowers with her mother and grandmother right before she disappeared.
“She was planting flowers with her mother and grandmother, and she wanted to go into the house — wanted to go downstairs and play with her toys,” Don Wells told WSMV. “I went down to the basement, and she was gone, so she went out the basement door, which was unlocked, and we haven’t seen her since.”
