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I read the above link to the doenetwork and I'm confused, is Roy Summers the man believed to be the one who murdered the mother? He is also Brandi's father? If yes to both of those questions, then how can they rule the case as a non-family abduction?
 
Has Roy Summers been found or is he still on the run?
 
Yes, Roy Summers is the Man who murdered and Kidnapped my sisters. He was never convicted due to a technicality .... All the witnesses had been under hypnosis and there was a law being passed at that time that this testimony would not be credible. Therefore he was released. He is Brandi's biological father however my mother left him and married my Dad while she was pregnant and my father raised her as his own. Just to clarify some questions out there. We HOPE and believe Tiffani would still be alive and she is my full sister. Brandi was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis and we are aware she may no longer be alive. One can hope!

Roy Summers was inprisoned for several other crimes however he is a free man at this time and lives in California. (We have his address) Without endangering my family and myself I can't give any more info on that publicly. We don't know how much he knows about me!!!

The Alias names Brandi has had or suspected of having is from the daycare lady we found had been taking care of them. they had some sort of tight network and any and all resources the authorities had were exhausted with them.

If anyone can get our story out there and send the link to as many people as you know our hopes are that the girls wil recognize themselves or this story and find us.

scorbus76
 
Scorbus- I am sorry this happened to your mother and sisters. I can't imagine what you have been through. What a story. I was also under the impression that your/their father had taken them (I must have read that somewhere), and that no one was really searching anymore. So thank you for clearing that up!

I can't believe the man is free and you know where he is! Unbelievable! So, I would assume the girls (adult now) aren't with him?

I have no idea where to start to help, but there are a lot of people here who might. Your sisters' story/disappearance is actually one that has stuck with me after I first heard about it online, and I have thought of them from time to time wondering what happened.

Welcome to websleuths :)
 
Scorbus-
You have probably already seen this, but I wanted to point out at the top of this forum (cold cases) there is a "sticky" thread discussing assistance for family members of missing people. The lady who wrote that post, Kelly, has a son who is missing. I think she has done a lot of work with families of the missing. Reading that and even contacting her might be helpful, in addition to posting here.
 
What is a sticky thread? Im new to this site and still trying to learn how it works.

Thank you all and anyone can help by just telling our story to as many people that will listen and sending the link out.

www.charleyproject.org/cases/s/summers_brandi.html

www.charleyproject.org/cases/w/wise_tiffani.html

http://www.angelfire.com/mi3/mpccn/bsummers.html

There are many more! If you just google the names Brandi Jondell and Tiffani Claudette there are many sites that feature the story.

The last sightings I believe were in Idaho. However knowing that Roy Summers is living in the Bay Area in CA It wouldn't surprise me if they are near by. I was just a baby when it happened but it would be so wonderful to meet my sisters before its too late. You can never give up hope. Even if we find out they have passed away at least then we can put some closure on this terrible mystery.
 
Here is what I have been able to find so far...

The following info is taken from the Haywood CA Daily Review, and the Long Beach CA Independent and Press-Telegram, dated 3-31-1977 and then again on 4-7-1977.

LE were looking for two girls taken from the home of Claude and Beverly Wise. Claude, an Air Force sergeant stationed at Norton AFB in nearby San Bernadino, had returned home from work to find his wife dead, the victim of a single stab wound to the chest. She was slumped over in a chair in the living room. The couple's youngest daughter was found in the home, but the two older girls- 5 year-old Brandi Summers and 2 year-old Tiffany Wise- were nowhere to be found.
The articles stressed that Brandi suffered from cystic fibrosis and was in desperate need of medication.

Police, believing the murder/kidnapping involved a custody dispute, issued an APB for Roy Summers, Beverly's former husband and father of Brandi. Neighbors reported to police that a man meeting Summers' general description was seen putting the girls into a car on the day of the murder.

By the following week (articles dated 4-7-1977) LE were reporting to the newspapers that they had questioned Summers and decided he was not involved. A Detective Franz told reporters that Summers' statement that he was elsewhere at the time of the crime had been verified.

The report of the man seen outside the home then changed somewhat. A white male, with short reddish-brown hair, and possibly wearing a black "leather-type" jacket, had been seen outside the home escorting the younger girl to a gold Camaro. There was no sign of the older girl.

I did find something that I felt interesting....In December of 1979, LE in Maryland arrested a 31 year-old trucker by the name of William Lee Freitag for the kidnapping and rape of his former girlfriend. Freitag was operating a gold 1977 Camaro. Freitag lived in Laurel, some 15 miles from Wheaton, MD. In March of 1975, nearly two years to the day before the disappearance of sisters Brandi and Tiffany, the Lyon sisters (Sheila and Katherine) vanished from a shopping mall in Wheaton.
In January of 1980, Freitag walked away from the psych unit of a local hospital. When LE attempted to serve a warrant on him for violating his bond, he barricaded himself in his apartment along with his 19 year-old girlfriend. After his arrest, LE found several guns in the apartment.
During his kidnapping/rape trial, even the judge commented on Freitag's "dark side" and brutal nature.
He was sentenced to 20 years in prison 1980.
 
it has come to my attention I misspoke about something. I suggested he was in fact the man who murdered my mother and kidnapped my sisters. He WAS the man accused but not convicted as stated above due to a technicality. I hope this will clarify my statement.
 
Was he actually arrested? And did it go to trial? That might help establish a timeline of his movements.
 
scorbus76 said:
Hello, I am the sister to these girls. Is anyone still looking for them. We posted Age Progression pictures of my sisters. You can find them on the website for the "Center for Missing and Exploited Children". Please write back if you are still researching our story.
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Hello,

I am sorry to hear about your story. I am the Kelly who was mentioned in this thread. My organization would be happy to promote your sisters' cases.

To begin, you would register to receive services here. Submit one form for each sister: http://www.projectjason.org/report.html

I will then contact you and discuss some options we have for awareness. Here's a link which lists our services. I think they would be a great fit for our 18 Wheel Angels program. http://www.projectjason.org/benefits.html

With Hope,

Kelly Jolkowski, Mother of Missing Jason Jolkowski
President and Founder,
Project Jason
www.projectjason.org
Please help us with Jason's Birthday Campaign:
http://www.projectjason.org/forums/index.php?topic=3021.0
 
yes to both questions. The case went to trial, unfortunately I don't know all the details. My family has boxes of newspaper articles explaining most of it. Unfortunatly because I was so young I only know what has been told. I am just only recently learning more. Or I should say putting it all together. The last confirmed sightings were in Idaho I believe. But since he lives in California we wonder if they wouldn't be nearby. Could be a longshot.

Can you send a link to those newspaper articles? That was very interesting stuff!

I can tell you it was a pretty publicized murder/kidnapping at that time . Should be lots of info. I'm just unsure how to find it? Anyone have any online resources they can direct me too?
 
I still can't find anything directly detailing the arrest and trial of Roy Summers, however I did find the following.

An appeal on behalf of Juanita Iwakiri was filed with the Idaho Supreme Court in 1984. Iwakiri, nicknamed "Tiny", was arrested and convicted for complicity in the kidnapping of Brandi and Tiffany. She is the sister of Molly Casner, who was reported to be Roy Summers' girlfriend at the time of the kidnappings. (Now we know where at least two of the AKAs came from). Iwakiri had contacted a lawyer, attempting to find out information on adopting the girls. At the time, Summers and Casner had left the area, leaving the girls in Iwakiri's care. She feared for the safety of the girls, and was seeking to adopt the girls before the two returned. Rebecca Boyer, Iwakiri's friend at the time, testified at Iwakiri's trial that she had seen the two girls at Iwakiri's home. The lawyer to whom Iwakiri had spoken also testified against her.

Iwakiri was initially sentenced to five years in prison, but was granted probation after five months and the charges were later reduced to a misdemeanor.

Boyer's testimony arose from two hypnosis sessions that, according to an opinion written by one of the judges, was not admissable. He also opined that the lawyer whom Iwakiri had sought advice from had violated lawyer-client privilege by testifying against her.

Some of the salient points from Iwakiri's trial:

On March 30, 1977, Brandi Summers and Tiffany Wise disappeared from their home in San Bernardino, California, after their mother, Beverly Wise, was murdered. The older girl, Brandi, was the natural daughter of Beverly and her first husband, Roy Summers, while Tiffany was the daughter of Beverly and Claude Wise, Beverly's husband at the time of the murder.
The girls and Roy Summers were subsequently sighted in various locations in Nevada and the southwest. In 1980 a Garden City resident (part of the testimony references a McKinney St. address) positively identified Brandi as having been in Boise from viewing a picture that investigators ran in The Idaho Statesman. Further investigation revealed witnesses who could place both girls in the care of <Iwakiri> and led ultimately to <Iwakiri>'s arrest in Boise in 1980.
At Iwakiri's trial on kidnapping charges the testimony of Rebecca Boyer was presented. Boyer had been hypnotized twice prior to trial in order to refresh her memory. The first hypnosis session was conducted by a detective with the Boise Police Department. Also present at that session were Boyer's attorney, Robert A, another detective, two investigators, an operator and recorder. Defense counsel was aware of the session, part of which was tape recorded. The second session took place shortly before trial at the Boise Hypnosis Center and was conducted by a Dr. S. The existence of a second hypnosis session was not revealed during discovery.
The key portion of Boyer's testimony consisted of an account of having seen the two missing children in appellant's home. She also testified to seeing a man, later identified as Roy Summers, in the house.

From the lawyer's testimony:

"A. <referencing an alleged phone call from Iwakiri> The person then said, 'Well, I have got an adoption question I wanted to ask you about.' I then said, 'Wait a second. I don't handle black market or under-the-counter types of adoptions. I will handle them if they are health and welfare type of adoption or if there is some religious or other organization involved that has a child, but I don't take things under the counter, next of kin or otherwise.'
"Q. Did the defendant make any statements to you after you had told her that?
"A. Yes. She responded, 'No, that is not what I'm talking about. The children are already here. They are my sister's--' I believe she said they were two girls. I think that she said that they were ages two and five but I am not totally sure about that.
"Q. Did she have occasion to make further comments at this time concerning these children?
"A. Yes. She told me, and again the sequence in which this occurred is a little bit vague in my mind. ...she stated that she was concerned about the two children because she did not think the sister and the boyfriend would take good care of them. The sister wasn't very--if I remember her words--consistent or concerned with their care. She also felt that the boyfriend had a tendency to be violent and might even physically harm the children; she was concerned about that. She also, at approximately this point in the conversation, indicated that the one of the two girls had medical problems.
"Q. Did she indicate what kind of medical problems?
"A. No, sir. She did indicate that it was something that would get worse with age and required an extensive amount of medication and that she was concerned about that. She didn't think the sister and the boyfriend would take adequate care of that medical problem. Towards the end of the conversation, she stated that the natural mother had in fact been killed. I don't remember whether she used the word killed or murdered. But in any event, had been killed, had not died a natural death. She also stated that the boyfriend had been involved in this killing.
"Q. She did?
"A. Yes, sir.
"Q. How did she state that?
"A. I believe her words were at that point in the conversation, that the natural boyfriend was about half crazy and that he had murdered or killed the California wife and that she was concerned that he might also physically harm the children or might physically harm her, Tiny.
From the testimony of Rebecca Boyer, which was disputed as being recalled and/or constructed during hypnosis sessions:
Rebecca Boyer was called to the stand and testified that Iwakiri contacted her after Iwakiri was first interviewed by the police and that Iwakiri told Boyer that she was going to tell the truth which was that Iwakiri's sister had had the missing children and that a man, presumably Roy Summers, had killed five or six wives. Boyer continued that she was interviewed by police February 6, 1980, and that she identified two photographs as being children that she had seen in Iwakiri's house. Boyer commenced the practice of calling either Officer W or Officer M whenever she thought of something that might be helpful in the case. On February 16, 1980, Officer W came to Boyer's house in response to a telephone call from her to hear about her reported remembering that Iwakiri wanted to adopt the two missing girls who were the subject of the case and who had reportedly been seen in the Iwakiri home by Boyer. Iwakiri reportedly told Boyer that her sister lived with a man in California who beat his wife and took two children and that the children were brought to Iwakiri's home. Boyer reportedly referred Iwakiri to Robert A, an attorney, for possible adoption of the children but Iwakiri decided not to use A. Boyer reportedly saw the two missing girls in the Iwakiri home and also in her home. Iwakiri reportedly said that the older girl had some kind of disease which got progressively worse (which would be consistent with cystic fibrosis). Iwakiri reportedly brought the two girls back from California in a pickup camper. Boyer reportedly saw Roy Summers in the Iwakiri home and was reportedly told by Iwakiri that Summers was Iwakiri's brother. After her arrest, Iwakiri reportedly told Boyer that she had kept the missing children in her home but that it had just been on a drop in basis. Under cross examination Boyer reported seeing two dark haired ladies with Roy Summer in the Iwakiri home. One of the dark haired women was heavy set and attractive and was reportedly introduced to Boyer as the wife of the man who Boyer identified as Roy Summers and who was reportedly introduced to her by Iwakiri as Iwakiri's brother. However, this heavy set dark haired woman was in fact Molly Casner, Iwakiri's sister. Boyer said she knew the person who she identified as Roy Summers as "Tiny's" brother.
Boyer reported seeing the missing children a total of five or six times.
 
This is amazing you were able to dig up these transcripts! I had heard some of these stories from family but this helps put many pieces of the puzzle together.

The trial was held in Riverside, CA in San Bernadino County. It took place on or around 1983 and lasted about 4 months.

Kelly,

Thank you for the offering of your program. It sounds like it could really be helpful.

I am also sorry to hear of your loss. The not knowing is one of the worst pains to bear.

I know that our chances of finding the girls healthy and alive are slim to none with this many years behind us. But somehow just giving up is not as option for me. I hope I will some day see my sisters and you and your family will someday have answers.
 
Scorbus76, I sent you a PM

I can't get rid of the underling sorry
 
This is my first post here at WS, but I have been following this site for sometime, very smart folks here, you all's compassion & concern is most touching & appreciated!
I have been (almost) obsessed with these missing/abducted girls, I have searched nearly all Jane Does in the surrounding states & I found this website http://www.maricopa.gov/Medex/Unidentified/search.aspx?caseNum=79-0583 (Click on photos link to see artist rendering) This could be Tiffani, the "Little Jane Doe" is about the same age she would have been, I have a sinking feeling that the abductor(s) figured out that Tiffani wasn't related, especially, if they were confused at which girl was theirs, that would explain why both were taken, I'm sure someone else has already concluded as to that scenario by now. I just wanted to get you "sleuthers" to give your opinion on this one.
Also, Has anyone heard from scorbus76 on this lately?
 
I'm always here. Sometimes it just gets hard to keep hitting walls. I never give up hope. I know somewhere somehow we'll get answers.

The pics of jane doe don't seem familiar to me but I'll run them by family members.

How did you hear about our story?
 
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