‘You know they’s a kind of bird that don’t have legs so it can’t light on nothing, but has to stay all its life on its wings in the sky?... They sleep on the wind and never light on this earth but one time when they die… I’d like to be one of those birds; they’s lots of people would like to be one of those birds and never be – corrupted!’
‘Orpheus Descending’ is a celebration of birds that can’t settle, that stay on the wing, cherishing their freedom; a celebration of misfits and malcontents, oddballs and outsiders; of artists and activists, musicians and immigrants; of ‘the ‘fugitive kind’.
"Wild things leave skins behind them. They leave clean skins and teeth and white bones. And these are tokens, passed from one to another. So that the fugitive kind can follow their kind."
Rose Marie Bly’s Haunting Last Trip BY: Jean Campbell - June 25, 2021
Summer Wells, a five-year-old girl from eastern Tennessee, disappeared last week(June 15th 2021). She comes from a big family, with three brothers who have the same bleach blonde hair and blue eyes. Her full name, Summer Moon-Utah Wells, reflects another place her family once called home.
No one has seen Summer since the evening of June 15th, and no one knows exactly where she last was — in the house or yard — when she went missing. In a startling coincidence, another Bly family member vanished over a decade ago. Rose Bly, the sister of Summer’s mother Candus, disappeared from her rural Wisconsin home in the summer of 2009. Authorities have stated there is no connection, but law enforcement in Wisconsin has not ruled out foul play in that case, one they report, that has never gone cold. Daily updates continue to pour in regarding Summer’s fate, although the news is never good and rehashes the same scant information: volunteers working under the direction of dozens of law enforcement agencies who search on foot and in the air, trying to find a little girl who would have no reason to stray. Her father Don has said, “Summer would never leave our hill.” Her mother Candus is too distraught to speak with reporters. Candus has passed a polygraph regarding her daughter’s disappearance.
As Summer’s story darkens into its own mystery, the baffling question of Rose Marie Bly’s whereabouts lingers. Some of the details sketch a portrait of an unstable marriage and a mother who seemed unlikely to abandon her children, but law enforcement has no suspects. Rose Marie’s last ordinary day Rose was a mom and wife involved in a tumultuous new marriage to a man named Christopher Larson who she wed in February 2009. After she vanished, Larson told media he thought she’d left, but he did not know where she was. Rose grew up down the road from St. Croix Falls in tiny Grantsburg (pop. 1,384), in the far western part of Michigan where Polk County butts up against the Minnesota border and the scenic St. Croix River. Heading out on a Friday night for a few drinks, she left home after supper with her husband and his father. The last person who saw her was Chris Larson. Rose’s destination was another tiny town, Cushing, just a few miles north. It was late August 2009, and the day had been seasonably cool with gusty winds and a portent of autumn on its way. Rose got behind the wheel of her car, a white 2001 Pontiac Grand Am, and began the five-mile journey to Cushing at 7:30 pm. She would drive through the Barrens, an ecological oasis of stunted pine and oak forests clinging to sandy soil on mostly open terrain, which overshadows the tiny towns that dot the region. On a Friday night, the roads may have had a few more travelers than usual, but the area has never seen much traffic. She drove north on Highway 87, which remained unpaved until the 1950s. Her plan was to meet her cousin for a few drinks at a local bar. The cousin would later report she knew nothing of such plans. A casual evening Rose Bly was a small woman, five feet tall and 110 pounds. She had brown hair that she dyed blonde or red frequently, and usually dressed casually since her main occupation was caring for two toddlers. Her two girls were 1 and 2 years old. She was described by everyone who knew her as a devoted mom. Five days after she drove off, her car was recovered 30 miles north of St. Croix Falls in the town of Grantsburg, where Rose attended high school. The location of her car was unremarkable, a roomy parking lot where truck drivers sometimes left their tractor-trailers, according to the FBI VICAP alert. One local described the parking area as being near a laundromat, another noted it was close to the post office. Her cousin reported never seeing Rose that night, or thereafter. The Charley Project, an extensive database of American missing persons, notes that her car was discovered 15 miles from Cushing but gave no details on why it took five days to locate it. The last reported contact she made was a call to her husband, telling him she would be home around midnight. She had only been married for six months but a divorce seemed inevitable. Motherless children Within three weeks of her disappearance, Bly’s newlywed husband filed for divorce, and it was not the first time. In September 2009, Larson requested a court order with the intention of ensuring Rose could not return and gain custody of the kids. The first divorce attempt had occurred just two months earlier, in June 2009 but according to Larson, she talked him out of it. The couple had at least one domestic abuse incident, which played out around the time of Larson’s initial divorce petition. It devolved into a he said/she said scenario. He accused her of slapping him. She maintained he’d put her into a headlock and slammed her to the ground. Larson petitioned for divorce after the police came out to de-escalate the conflict. But the two reconciled shortly thereafter and the petition was withdrawn. According to LeaderNewsroom.com, Bly had an active bench warrant for a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge, later amended to domestic abuse. The warrant was filed three months prior to her disappearance and seems likely related to the domestic incident in June after police showed up on the Bly/Larson doorstep to break up a fight. She pled not guilty to the misdemeanor domestic abuse charge in July 2009, but due to her disappearance, the warrant has never been resolved. In 2010, Larson was granted sole custody of the two girls. According to a best friend from high school, Nicole Steele, who posted on the “Help Find Rose Bly” Facebook group,” Rose said her husband had told her he would never let her take the girls. Law enforcement has extensively interviewed Rose’s ex-husband, friends, family, and acquaintances. They didn’t find evidence of any unusual patterns in her life prior to her disappearance, but one fact isn’t up for dispute: she was a caring mother who put her children first. The Twin Cities Pioneer Press followed the story from its beginning and interviewed investigator Pete Johnson. “I think I’ve heard that from just about everybody we talked to,” said Johnson, who shared the initial investigation with Lisa Detlefsen. “Nobody believes that she would take off and leave her kids.” In the days following Rose’s disappearance, investigators interviewed community members, used helicopters to conduct a search, and drained a small lake adjacent to the parking lot where her car was discovered. The last horseback ride and a missing set of keys About a week before she disappeared, Rose went horseback riding, something she’d loved since childhood. She took a tumble and for the next few days told her mom, Candus Harer, she’d been getting headaches. Her mother suggested she go to the doctor. After Rose went missing, her mother wondered if she might have lost her way, perhaps because she had a serious head injury. There is no medical evidence, however, that Rose was mentally impaired. In the ensuing years, the theory of a disoriented woman wandering away has begun to look unlikely. On March 4, 2021, Candus Harer, posted on the “Help Find Rose” Facebook group that authorities are “not ignoring the case,” but haven’t been giving out details to the public. The evening she left home for the last time, Rose was dressed casually, wearing flip flops and light clothes. She had on a pair of blue jeans and a white tank top, along with a green sweater against the cool night. Nothing in her demeanor or behavior suggested she was taking a journey that would last longer than a single evening out. Her vehicle was unremarkable and contained very little evidence. The car keys were never found. Rose didn’t habitually use credit or debit cards, so there was no way to establish a paper trail of spending or transactions. Her cell phone records turned up zero leads, and corroborate Chris Larson’s account that she called him that night. August 21st, the night she went missing, was the last time her cell phone had any activity. Nothing about the vehicle, except its abandonment, was suspicious. DNA samples were taken from the Pontiac, but results have not been definitive enough to generate any persons of interest, much less a suspect or an arrest, and have never been shared with the public. The case investigation began with the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, but as the leads dried up and the possibility of foul play emerged, local authorities asked for FBI guidance to make sure they were digging in the right places. Sparse news, loose theories Speculation about what happened to Rose Bly in the absence of hard and fast evidence runs rampant online. In the tiny communities of St. Croix and Grantsburg, some high school friends remember Rose being bullied as a teen but most commenters send prayers for the family and fondly remember her. Three theories are bandied about among those following the case. There isn’t enough evidence to put one forward, as they are all speculative. Some community members opine that Chris Larson, her ex-husband, is involved, despite a lack of evidence tying him to a crime. Others believe it’s possible Rose could have voluntarily left to start a new life. The third option, that she encountered a stranger and fell victim to foul play, will always remain a possibility. Larson took a polygraph in late August, only a week after Rose went missing, and passed. According to authorities, he is not a suspect. He is the person who reported her missing, on August 22nd, 2009, and has no criminal history. Larson has continued to live and work in the community where he raises his two girls. Law enforcement maintains they have not ruled out anyone, however, as they sift through the small pile of clues. Polk County authorities have never announced any persons of interest, although Larson received the most attention. The husband is always suspect #1, so the focus on him at the outset was standard procedure. Second, it’s possible Rose Bly left town with another person, explaining why her vehicle was abandoned. She may have planned to leave the area, set up a meeting with her cousin, and driven instead to meet another individual. She may have believed Chris’s promise: he would never let her take her kids and wanted out of what was, by several accounts, a problematic marriage. Third, Rose could have fallen victim to a random crime She may have helped someone on the highway, whether known to her or not, who abducted her. The Twin Cities Pioneer Press spoke with law enforcement in 2015, who hinted the most likely answer to the mystery of Rose Bly’s disappearance is foul play. Polk County Investigator Pete Johnsons told The Press, “First we have to find out where she is…before we have anything to have a suspect for.” If you have any information about Rose Marie Bly, contact the Polk County Sheriff’s Office at 715–485–8300. Rose Marie Bly’s Haunting Last Trip BY: Jean Campbell - June 25, 2021 Summer Wells, a five-year-old girl from eastern Tennessee, disappeared last week. She comes from a big family, with three brothers who have the same bleach blonde hair and blue eyes. Her full name, Summer Moon-Utah Wells, reflects another place her family once called home. No one has seen Summer since the evening of June 15th, and no one knows exactly where she last was — in the house or yard — when she went missing. In a startling coincidence, another Bly family member vanished over a decade ago. Rose Bly, the sister of Summer’s mother Candus, disappeared from her rural Wisconsin home in the summer of 2009. Authorities have stated there is no connection, but law enforcement in Wisconsin has not ruled out foul play in that case, one they report has never gone cold. Daily updates continue to pour in regarding Summer’s fate, although the news is never good and rehashes the same scant information: volunteers working under the direction of dozens of law enforcement agencies who search on foot and in the air, trying to find a little girl who would have no reason to stray. Her father Don has said, “Summer would never leave our hill.” Her mother Candus is too distraught to speak with reporters. Candus has passed a polygraph regarding her daughter’s disappearance. As Summer’s story darkens into its own mystery, the baffling question of Rose Marie Bly’s whereabouts lingers. Some of the details sketch a portrait of an unstable marriage and a mother who seemed unlikely to abandon her children, but law enforcement has no suspects. Rose Marie’s last ordinary day Rose was a mom and wife involved in a tumultuous new marriage to a man named Christopher Larson who she wed in February 2009. After she vanished, Larson told media he thought she’d left, but he did not know where she was. Rose grew up down the road from St. Croix Falls in tiny Grantsburg (pop. 1,384), in the far western part of Michigan where Polk County butts up against the Minnesota border and the scenic St. Croix River. Heading out on a Friday night for a few drinks, she left home after supper with her husband and his father. The last person who saw her was Chris Larson. Rose’s destination was another tiny town, Cushing, just a few miles north. It was late August 2009, and the day had been seasonably cool with gusty winds and a portent of autumn on its way. Rose got behind the wheel of her car, a white 2001 Pontiac Grand Am, and began the five-mile journey to Cushing at 7:30 pm. She would drive through the Barrens, an ecological oasis of stunted pine and oak forests clinging to sandy soil on mostly open terrain, which overshadows the tiny towns that dot the region. On a Friday night, the roads may have had a few more travelers than usual, but the area has never seen much traffic. She drove north on Highway 87, which remained unpaved until the 1950s. Her plan was to meet her cousin for a few drinks at a local bar. The cousin would later report she knew nothing of such plans. A casual evening Rose Bly was a small woman, five feet tall and 110 pounds. She had brown hair that she dyed blonde or red frequently, and usually dressed casually since her main occupation was caring for two toddlers. Her two girls were 1 and 2 years old. She was described by everyone who knew her as a devoted mom. Five days after she drove off, her car was recovered 30 miles north of St. Croix Falls in the town of Grantsburg, where Rose attended high school. The location of her car was unremarkable, a roomy parking lot where truck drivers sometimes left their tractor-trailers, according to the FBI VICAP alert. One local described the parking area as being near a laundromat, another noted it was close to the post office. Her cousin reported never seeing Rose that night, or thereafter. The Charley Project, an extensive database of American missing persons, notes that her car was discovered 15 miles from Cushing but gave no details on why it took five days to locate it. The last reported contact she made was a call to her husband, telling him she would be home around midnight. She had only been married for six months but a divorce seemed inevitable. Motherless children Within three weeks of her disappearance, Bly’s newlywed husband filed for divorce, and it was not the first time. In September 2009, Larson requested a court order with the intention of ensuring Rose could not return and gain custody of the kids. The first divorce attempt had occurred just two months earlier, in June 2009 but according to Larson, she talked him out of it. The couple had at least one domestic abuse incident, which played out around the time of Larson’s initial divorce petition. It devolved into a he said/she said scenario. He accused her of slapping him. She maintained he’d put her into a headlock and slammed her to the ground. Larson petitioned for divorce after the police came out to de-escalate the conflict. But the two reconciled shortly thereafter and the petition was withdrawn. According to LeaderNewsroom.com, Bly had an active bench warrant for a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge, later amended to domestic abuse. The warrant was filed three months prior to her disappearance and seems likely related to the domestic incident in June after police showed up on the Bly/Larson doorstep to break up a fight. She pled not guilty to the misdemeanor domestic abuse charge in July 2009, but due to her disappearance, the warrant has never been resolved. In 2010, Larson was granted sole custody of the two girls. According to a best friend from high school, Nicole Steele, who posted on the “Help Find Rose Bly” Facebook group,” Rose said her husband had told her he would never let her take the girls. Law enforcement has extensively interviewed Rose’s ex-husband, friends, family, and acquaintances. They didn’t find evidence of any unusual patterns in her life prior to her disappearance, but one fact isn’t up for dispute: she was a caring mother who put her children first. The Twin Cities Pioneer Press followed the story from its beginning and interviewed investigator Pete Johnson. “I think I’ve heard that from just about everybody we talked to,” said Johnson, who shared the initial investigation with Lisa Detlefsen. “Nobody believes that she would take off and leave her kids.” In the days following Rose’s disappearance, investigators interviewed community members, used helicopters to conduct a search, and drained a small lake adjacent to the parking lot where her car was discovered. The last horseback ride and a missing set of keys About a week before she disappeared, Rose went horseback riding, something she’d loved since childhood. She took a tumble and for the next few days told her mom, Candus Harer, she’d been getting headaches. Her mother suggested she go to the doctor. After Rose went missing, her mother wondered if she might have lost her way, perhaps because she had a serious head injury. There is no medical evidence, however, that Rose was mentally impaired. In the ensuing years, the theory of a disoriented woman wandering away has begun to look unlikely. On March 4, 2021, Candus Harer, posted on the “Help Find Rose” Facebook group that authorities are “not ignoring the case,” but haven’t been giving out details to the public. The evening she left home for the last time, Rose was dressed casually, wearing flip flops and light clothes. She had on a pair of blue jeans and a white tank top, along with a green sweater against the cool night. Nothing in her demeanor or behavior suggested she was taking a journey that would last longer than a single evening out. Her vehicle was unremarkable and contained very little evidence. The car keys were never found. Rose didn’t habitually use credit or debit cards, so there was no way to establish a paper trail of spending or transactions. Her cell phone records turned up zero leads, and corroborate Chris Larson’s account that she called him that night. August 21st, the night she went missing, was the last time her cell phone had any activity. Nothing about the vehicle, except its abandonment, was suspicious. DNA samples were taken from the Pontiac, but results have not been definitive enough to generate any persons of interest, much less a suspect or an arrest, and have never been shared with the public. The case investigation began with the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, but as the leads dried up and the possibility of foul play emerged, local authorities asked for FBI guidance to make sure they were digging in the right places. Sparse news, loose theories Speculation about what happened to Rose Bly in the absence of hard and fast evidence runs rampant online. In the tiny communities of St. Croix and Grantsburg, some high school friends remember Rose being bullied as a teen but most commenters send prayers for the family and fondly remember her. Three theories are bandied about among those following the case. There isn’t enough evidence to put one forward, as they are all speculative. Some community members opine that Chris Larson, her ex-husband, is involved, despite a lack of evidence tying him to a crime. Others believe it’s possible Rose could have voluntarily left to start a new life. The third option, that she encountered a stranger and fell victim to foul play, will always remain a possibility. Larson took a polygraph in late August, only a week after Rose went missing, and passed. According to authorities, he is not a suspect. He is the person who reported her missing, on August 22nd, 2009, and has no criminal history. Larson has continued to live and work in the community where he raises his two girls. Law enforcement maintains they have not ruled out anyone, however, as they sift through the small pile of clues. Polk County authorities have never announced any persons of interest, although Larson received the most attention. The husband is always suspect #1, so the focus on him at the outset was standard procedure. Second, it’s possible Rose Bly left town with another person, explaining why her vehicle was abandoned. She may have planned to leave the area, set up a meeting with her cousin, and driven instead to meet another individual. She may have believed Chris’s promise: he would never let her take her kids and wanted out of what was, by several accounts, a problematic marriage. Third, Rose could have fallen victim to a random crime She may have helped someone on the highway, whether known to her or not, who abducted her. The Twin Cities Pioneer Press spoke with law enforcement in 2015, who hinted the most likely answer to the mystery of Rose Bly’s disappearance is foul play. Polk County Investigator Pete Johnsons told The Press, “First we have to find out where she is…before we have anything to have a suspect for.” If you have any information about Rose Marie Bly, contact the Polk County Sheriff’s Office at 715–485–8300.
Candus Harer The Mother of Rose Bly and Candus Bly Wells, The grandmother of Summer Wells
Where is Rose Marie Bly? The young St. Croix Falls, Wis., mother disappeared in August, 2009 leaving barely a trace.
So Allyson Mullaney Harris, 6 months down the road, has re-emerged from the shadows to make sure the suspicion is still brewing around her best old ex friend Candus. Now she claims that Candus told her that her sister Rose (missing since 2009) is under the driveway at the old house in Wisconsin, and the web crime infiltrators, alluding themselves about what is fact and what is fiction, have had their chaos God jobs renewed. They stand gasping and clutching their pearls pointing and "praying" by the light of their torches...they need to take their pitchforks to WI and dig up the driveway now. I can't make this stuff up!
Sure, go use the GPR see if there are bones, first look at the records and see when the driveway was laid. It's not a small project, looks like a pretty big driveway. Check if it had any major repairs, because things like that usually require permits and some professional information about where the water and sewer lines are (call before you dig).
Did neighbors notice any excavation for the new driveway in 2009? or did they save the body until the time was right so it didn't seem so suss? See because these are all things the original investigation would have found as red flags...
"hmmm, say Joe, investigator forensics dude, did ya notice all the fresh dirt? they've been digging wonder what the...., oh it's just the new driveway, we're clear." Moving right along.
People Have been saying horrible things about the family and what happened to Rose for just about the whole time she's been missing. I found the most insane posts on the Facebook page for Rose Bly that were posted 8 yrs ago. I found them because as soon as Summer went missing, people flooded that page with the same crap they have flooded every Summer wells Missing page with.
"Oh you made another one disappear!"..."where's Summer Wells?" "Where's Rose?" "Where's your Daughter? what did you do to her!?" ......... One story has Candus's other sister Jeannie to blame because she was "having an affair with the husband". the "friend of a friend" Says she heard Jeannie "Shot her in the head and pushed her in the waterfalls." Really? and so now...based on something Ally (Candus's ex "best friend") said we reignite the madness?
Ally says she saw Summer on the day she went missing, Hunter says she never came to the car, Candus says she never came to the car. Ally Says Hunter's father hasn't visited him in years since they left NY in 2010.
She also says his father was down in Sept-Oct with a group of 13 people to try and find a place to live, and they turned around and went back to NY the same day.
According to Ally the father has visitation rights as of around 2019 for summer vacations and alternate Christmas breaks, Hunter has not visited him.
The reason she says the father did not come to get Hunter after Summer went missing and it was an emergency to get Hunter out of there, instead of sending the Bikers, was because he didn't have any money, that he never has any money, that he lives off his girlfriends and has a bunch of kids he never pays for.
And yet! He was Just there in Rogersville hanging on the Hill, in September looking for a place to live allegedly, allegedly with 13 other people including their families? They all went home the same day? Except for Jose Roman whom Ally had set her sights on romantically, and she got upset because he didn't return the interest, took her toys and went home, never to talk to Candus again. She stated later that Jose had "hit on" her 15 year old daughter on a Facebook post commenting that she was his crush,....She also stated, he was just some guy neither her nor Candus knew, but she insisted he stay at Candus's house with her, yes she was staying there too with her kids.
Was it a gang of Bikers? a caravan of moving trucks, or hippie school buses? See note below on Jose Roman
Sorry to be so salty but Ally is not a good source of information! She has a habit of repeating verbatim, rumors she has read on Facebook or heard on YouTube.
You know who started the rumor of Summer drowning> Leslie Hill! she posted it on Facebook trying to do damage control when Hunter was first seen on the tik toc video and the crowd went wild!
She said the he told her that Summer was underwater for a minute or more, that Hunter saved her, then she might have hit her head on a rock. Then in the interview she sat in on with Ally on Unmasked YouTube channel, she knocked it down to about 20 seconds, then Hunter managed to whittle it down to 4 seconds in his interview with the Interview Room YouTube channel..
Leslie also stated that Hunter was a friend of Donald (not the kids or Candus) ...Nope too many inconsistencies between Hunter and His own mother even, then between Hunter and Candus, and Candus and Ally.
Have you seen the dogs going crazy when anyone goes on the Wells property other than Chris Macdonough of the Interview Room who admittedly had his dog with him when he went up there?
According to Ally and her Grandmother, the dogs will rip you to shreds, sharp pointy teeth!! scary dogs! Get outta here!!!!! Who is an acquaintance of Ally who lives on the Hill, that she can't talk about because it's part of the investigation? ? who helped feed the dogs while Candus was gone. because Ally says her and one of the neighbors fed the dogs when she was gone to WI.
They look scary, do they not?
I believe this is clip from footage from when some news crews were on the property. So scary!!!
Jose Roman was caught in 2010 in Fulton County, NY "Jose Roman, 33,(he's 44 now, and a female--->, Gloversville are charged with defrauding the county of $789 after failing to report receiving food stamps issued in Connecticut. They are charged with welfare fraud, filing a false document and petty larceny." Another person at the same address at the same time "was charged with filing a false document after failing to report she was living with the father of her child. It's checked and cross checked, he lived at the address where the arrest was made in 2010, and the woman arrested with him lived there as well, and Ally as far as I can ferret out may have lived in Connecticut at the time. beginning in 2005 there is record of her having a residence there in Preston CT
‘This country used to be wild, the men and women were wild and there was a wild sort of sweetness in their hearts, for each other. But now it’s sick with neon, it’s broken out sick with neon, like most other places.’
Carol Cutrere, ‘Orpheus Descending’
