Missing Persons of America -Summer Inman: Exclusive interview with witness whose tip helped police

I love my readers as they know what is going on. Here is an interview with a witness whose tip helped lead the police to the arrest of the kidnap suspects. Also, on Monday I have an exclusive interview with a person who has information on missing Phylicia Barnes, that you have never heard before.

William Inman II

So, on Friday, (one of the reasons that posts have been a little slow the last couple of days) I talked to an anonymous person who said “they” would share “their” story about the Summer Inman case, exclusively, with an understanding I would not use their name.

No problem, there’s many times I want to remain anonymous, too. First, here’s the background on the case in case you don’t know about it.

Summer Inman, 25, from Hocking County, in Logan, Ohio was abducted and forced into a white Ford Crown Victoria on Tuesday after she completed her shift at a bank where she worked for a cleaning service. On Thursday, based on a tip, three suspects were arrested and charged with Summer’s kidnapping. The suspects were her estranged husband, William Inman, II, her father-in-law, William Inman and her mother-in law, Sandra Inman.

Jerrie: You were responsible for the tip that led the police to the capture of the suspects in the case of missing Summer Inman. What did you see that day?

Pat: On Tuesday evening, I was walking with my children, it was between 6:45 and 7:10 PM, when I saw the white Crown Vic they were in. I was concentrating more on keeping my kids from running out into the road than I was on the car. I was headed southbound on the road I was on, and they were headed west on the road they were on. The car approached the intersection I was waiting to cross, they came up slow, which wasn’t really all that unusual, since I have small kids, a lot of people slow down to make sure they don’t hit kids.

Jerrie: What made the car stand out?

William Inman and Summer Inman

Pat: I noticed the car, because from a distance it looked like our police cruisers. As it approached, I noticed that there were no front plates, just the frame thing that you screw your plate into. I didn’t notice who was behind the wheel, as they approached me, mostly because they weren’t swerving or driving dumb. The car was all white, almost too clean looking, if that makes sense, there was no mud, nothing. The door molding or trim, the plastic pieces that are about half way between the bottom of the car and the window, it was all intact on the passenger side.

Jerrie: What was it about the situation that made you remember it?

Pat: I am not sure exactly why, I got this creepy feeling. I continued walking where I was going, but couldn’t shake the creeped-out feeling. The next morning I figured out why I had that feeling; Summer came up missing.

Jerrie: Is that when you called the police?

Pat: I called the police with the information I had as soon as I heard about Summer missing. I asked my children if they had noticed the car at the intersection. One told me a blonde woman was driving and that there were two men in the car and something about possibly a triangle sticker. I let the police know this information as well. Then when the mugshots came out today, I asked my children if they had seen any of the people in the car. They pointed at the woman and said she was driving and that they weren’t sure which guy had been up front with her, but remembers both of them.

Jerrie: What do you think happened to Summer?

Pat: As far as I am concerned the whole problem came about because the family comes from money, I am not sure how the family came into the money, but all the Inman’s have money. They were spoiled and thought that if they did get caught, they could buy their way out of it. They seem to be spoiled self-serving morons. Based upon the photos I have seen of their arrest, the parents have deteriorated in appearance. I would speculate drugs clouded their sense of judgment.

End of interview-

One of the things that become apparent with this witnesses account is that the information that was provided to the police was a vital link that led to an arrest. This is an example of where, if you think you have information about a crime, you need to report it to the police. Let the police be the judge as to whether the information is useful or not.

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