This article written and submitted by Ruby - thanks!
Great Falls, MT - You know how annoying it is when you have a few drinks, put your kids in the car, lead the police on a chase through your town, crash into a parked truck, and get then arrested for driving under the influence, reckless driving, and failure to remain at the scene of an accident? I, for one, hate when that happens. Imagine how much more inconvenient it is if you have your 2-year-old child in the trunk of the car during the whole ordeal, and somehow “forget” to tell police he’s there. That’s what happened to Summer Many White Horses.
On July 21st, Many White Horses put her 11-year-old daughter in the back seat of her car, and her 2-year-old, autistic son James in the trunk. It’s unclear right now whether James was alive or dead when she put him there, but the Medical Examiner is fairly certain the crash didn’t kill him. She then led police on the above-mentioned chase, was booked charges, and remained in jail until August 10th. Things were quiet for awhile. But on Thursday, September 4th, a missing persons report was issued for James, and police tracked Summer down to ask her some questions.
When the police located her on September 5th and asked about her son, she said he’d been in the trunk of her car since her arrest more than a month earlier. Say what?! And where was the car? Sitting at the repair shop of Carnahan and Sons where the police had towed it following her arrest. Needless to say, police obtained a search warrant, hightailed it over there, and, sure enough, found the badly decomposed body of the toddler right where she’d left him.
Now, I have a lot of questions. I’ll bet you do, too.
First, reports say that Ms. Many White Horses was a non-custodial parent. So I really want to know who had custody of James, and why he wasn’t reported missing for something like 6 weeks. When Casey Anthony failed to report Caylee missing, it was national news. How come no one seemed to notice this 2-year-old was gone?
Second, why didn’t police search the vehicle at the time of the crash and arrest? Wouldn’t it be standard operating procedure to at least open the trunk?
Third, why didn’t Summer or her daughter mention the boy at any time? This tells me that he was likely already dead. That would also explain why she was so determined to elude police that night. So the question now will be whether it’s possible for the Medical Examiner to determine a clear cause of death at this late date.
Poor little guy. Some kids don’t stand a chance in this world.
The 11-year-old is currently being taken by a Youth in Need of Care order, and Summer Many White Horses is expected to be charged with Deliberate Homicide on Monday.
Rest in peace, James Many White Horses.
48 responses so far ↓
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nellymed
Sep 7, 2008 at 3:29 pm -That poor baby I wish I could punch this stupid bitch in her ugly face. God just looking at her makes me want to throw up.
The custodial parent should be hung for not reporting that baby missing. But If the body was so badly decomposed and no one heard any noises or anything coming out of the trunk he was probably dead before the accident.
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Kathy
Sep 7, 2008 at 3:30 pm -WHAT THE FUCK!!!!?????
She killed that baby, before or after the accident, it makes no difference. Dead is dead and she is a murderer.
I can not believe that the police would not have gone through that vehicle after the accident just as regular procedure. Can someone explain this to me?
This should have definitely made national news. But, what is one less brown skinned baby in the world?
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impqueen
Sep 7, 2008 at 3:36 pm -Excellent writeup, Ruby. I’m still counting all the ways the ball got dropped on this poor baby boy.
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TheHereticMuse
Sep 7, 2008 at 3:39 pm -It boggles my mind that nobody thought to look in the trunk. If the body was that decomposed somebody had to notice the smell! Something similar happened years ago in the town I live in. A friend of mine had called me hysterical because her best friend was missing(they were 14 at the time) at first they thought she was a runaway. My friend kept telling the police no she would have told me and I haven’t herd from her I know her brother did something to her. Lo and behold they found her in the trunk of her brothers car with a single gun shot to the head. The car had been in police custody for two weeks before they looked in the trunk. Sad just sad.
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tray-bay-bay
Sep 7, 2008 at 3:42 pm -This is insane! How could no one miss this kid for 6 weeks? It’s not like they could think, eh he must be on a road trip with his buddies. He was a baby for fucks sake! How could the cops have never looked in the trunk?
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4realtho
Sep 7, 2008 at 3:46 pm -I too, think the baby was dead before being placed in the trunk of the car. Hopefully, the police will get that answer when they interview the 11-year old.
As for many horses……I hope the bitch gets many years.
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Sickia
Sep 7, 2008 at 3:49 pm -I found this, which has a few answers (but no good ones).
Apparently James had been passed around the family since birth.
http://www.greatfallstribune.c.....GECAROUSEL
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4realtho
Sep 7, 2008 at 3:58 pm -The mugshot for this bitch, looks like it was taken while she was having a stroke……she has that whole face slippage to one side thing going on.
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cheez1e
Sep 7, 2008 at 4:24 pm -This is absolutely horrible on so many levels. They think that poor little boy had been in that trunk since May?!?! And nobody thought there was anything wrong until September? After this woman had even given birth in prison!!! And I agree, that car should have been searched immediately!
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nellymed
Sep 7, 2008 at 4:30 pm -The mom says she told police that her son was in the trunk. Why the hell would a two year old be in a trunk?!!
This little boy was failed by the judge that gave custody to his mom, the police that didnt search the car, his family that didnt bother looking for him for six weeks, but first and foremost his mother. I say fry the bitch.
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gravergal
Sep 7, 2008 at 4:34 pm -OMG!!!! What the fuck. Give me 5 minutes alone with that bitch please.
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Ruby
Sep 7, 2008 at 4:36 pm -Sickia, thanks, there’s some excellent and illuminating information in that link. It was published after I did my poking around on this one. Otherwise, many of those details would have made it into my story, for sure.
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prettyuglyish
Sep 7, 2008 at 4:49 pm -I think she did the, “Hi. My name is Chubby…” one too many times and her face stuck like that.
This is one nasty bitch. I think Summer had Too Many Children — apparently she thought so, too. The Many White Horses should have trampled her in a stampede.
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Sickia
Sep 7, 2008 at 4:56 pm -Thank YOU Ruby, just glad to contribute.
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Lynn
Sep 7, 2008 at 5:44 pm -Don’t think it would do any good to stone this one. Looks like someone already smacked her in the face with a frying pan. Stupid bitch.
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commongrackle
Sep 7, 2008 at 6:47 pm -Ew. Who the fuck would want to impregnate that bitch? Twice?
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RevAnne
Sep 7, 2008 at 8:30 pm -Fucking disgusting.
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mousygirl
Sep 7, 2008 at 8:33 pm -god, what a sick bitch. how messed up is this 11-year-old going to be??
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silvahalo
Sep 7, 2008 at 9:26 pm -My son just turned 1yr….I can’t imagine how difficult it was for little James leaving the security of his prior home and back with a mother who never really wanted him. The mother is a loser and mean SOB. May the image of her dead son haunt her remaining days.
Rest in peace, James Many White Horses
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RobbieSue
Sep 7, 2008 at 9:32 pm -I don’t understand how no one smelled the decomposing body in the car for that long.
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Carolina Girl
Sep 7, 2008 at 9:33 pm -I hope this bitch pays and pays and pays. I can’t believe a court gave him back to her. That poor baby.
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April
Sep 7, 2008 at 10:40 pm -Grrrrr. What a fucking bitch. Who in the Hell knocked her up?? UGH!
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CheekySweetie
Sep 7, 2008 at 11:55 pm -I think she should be locked in a truck for the rest of her sorry life.
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solange822001
Sep 8, 2008 at 5:24 am -I really do hope he was already dead. The fact that the police could have saved him but didnt is too much to bear. I hope someone is held accountable for not checking that car. That is too much to fathom, god damn!
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claddaghgirl
Sep 8, 2008 at 6:22 am -Many white horses ran over her face a couple of times, me thinks.
This poor boy was autistic and had a nasty piece of crap as a mother. God help him. Was it reported how he died? I know he didn’t die due to the accident.
How was he not noticed missing for 6 weeks? How is that possible?
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Splash
Sep 8, 2008 at 8:43 am -You have got to be fucking kidding me. Nobody reported this baby missing for 6 weeks. OMG! I freak out when my 19 yr old doesn’t call me and let me know he arrived safely to his destination each time he leaves in his car.
And the police didn’t search the car after she took them on a chase? Wouldn’t that be standard to search the vehicle for drugs or something after a chase? Unbelievable. I hope this is a huge wake up call for this community.
Rest in peace, James Many White Horses.
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gm OF 10
Sep 8, 2008 at 8:56 am -OMG, I don’t know who is stupider (is that a word)… the police or that fugly bitch… Caylee is still missing, and no one thought to look for this little baby… sick sick sick….
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SilliMari
Sep 8, 2008 at 9:37 am -Even if the child was still alive, he probably wouldn’t have caused enough noise to get some help beings he was autistic.
The 11 year old should know a thing or two.
What a raging sack of shit she is.
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kratesis
Sep 8, 2008 at 9:54 am -oh man, I hope for that poor boy’s sake he was already gone when she got arrested. Sounds like EVERYONE let this little fellow down, LE, CPS, and whoever was supposed to be caring for him….. I hope the mother rots in hell, just like her little boy had to.
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WryBread
Sep 8, 2008 at 10:03 am -Mommy Many Dead Brain Cells is a piece of shit.
I think lots of these kids are not missed because nobody wants them in the first place. Everyone gets stuck with the autistic toddler and passes him along to someone else as soon as they can and then only feels relief when he is gone. To ask about him might make him come back on your hands.
When people start properly abandoning these kids at a hospital, etc., instead of killing them, I guess society will end up with so many kids on their hands that we’ll have to re-open the orphanages. At least then these poor helpless little ones will have a chance at a decent life.
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Envy
Sep 8, 2008 at 10:19 am -Now as for how these (insert derogatory term for dumbass police and mechanics) couldn’t notice the smell, has any one been to a repair shop? Nothing but grease and oil as far as you can smell. I’m not saying it in defense but to make a point. Personally i have a sensitive nose but a block away, that’s all i can smell.
I hope James finds peace in the end.
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majaka
Sep 8, 2008 at 11:43 am -I agree is sad how many of these kids are look as a burden, I know is hard to deal with their disability but they are a gift no matter what… poor baby I do hope he was death and not alive all that time inside the trunk.
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MAjustaMom
Sep 8, 2008 at 12:01 pm -Not to defend LE but I don’t think they had any reason to search the car and they may need warrants or probable cause for that. Since she didn’t say, “oh, by the way, I’ve got a 2 year old in the trunk because I didn’t want to get arrested for not having him in a car seat” they didn’t have a reason to look. On the car lot, it’s probably got lots of cars and once towed in by LE, they probably just secure it and leave it alone.
Due to so much weirdness going on in the world, maybe the laws need to be changed to have all cars automatically searched upon the arrest of the offender, of course, that will set off the ACLU but, even if this one child could have been saved or at least found sooner.
Can we all make a promise to spread the word that if someone’s child hasn’t been seen in (at least) 24 hours, we start asking questions and make sure we’re confident of the answers? If we question someone’s parenting abilities with good cause, we have things checked? Family or not?!
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Abroad
Sep 8, 2008 at 1:02 pm -And when do we distrust something which could easily be true?
I suppose the family could have called the brother, but which one of them should have taken the initiative to do that? And as someone further up the comments said, there is always the risk that whoever asks around gets the child……
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Peeperann
Sep 8, 2008 at 7:17 pm -Holy crow, this is horrific! That poor baby. And yes I agree with you. If the baby isn’t perfect, white and adorably cute, it gets no press, and thats just sick.
The so called mother, family, police and media completely dropped the ball on this little guy. God bless him.
And heres another one who just kept her mouth shut, (probably because he was already dead. And the 11 year old? I’m hoping she had no idea her baby brother was in that trunk, she’s already going to be messed up enough as it is.
36
Trish
Sep 8, 2008 at 8:01 pm -I tend to believe the poor baby was dead before the accident.
She also waited that long to report it on purpose….stupid bitch.
Some people should just be sterilized …damn it
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Unamused Cat
Sep 9, 2008 at 12:19 am -The body of a toddler found in the trunk of his mother’s car may have been there for months as she drove around town, evaded questions about him and was even arrested, police said.
http://ap.google.com/article/A.....gD932V5P80
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Rhoni
Sep 9, 2008 at 12:33 am -It boggles my mind that a parent can kill their child but beyond that how does anyone ride around with a dead body in the trunk for 5 mins let alone months. Especially when it’s your own child..Damn what has this world come to?
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Ruby
Sep 9, 2008 at 6:59 am -Wow, thanks for that great link, UC!
For those of you who don’t click links much, this story says Many White Horses says James died accidentally in late May, she wrapped him in a blanket, put him in a garbage bag, and tossed him in her trunk. She told a variety of different stories to different people about where he was. More as it happens…
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Kathy
Sep 9, 2008 at 7:18 am -MONTHS?!?!?!?!?!!?
Motherfuck…what about the smell?
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Gilleis
Sep 9, 2008 at 9:43 am -This fugly bitch looks like a life-size cabbage patch doll - only uglier. I’m surprised she survived asphyxiation from the bags that were placed over her head for anyone to screw her in the first place.
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sugarglider
Sep 9, 2008 at 6:27 pm -W?T?F?
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Abroad
Sep 9, 2008 at 6:35 pm -Contained inside the garbage bag?
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testpattern
Sep 9, 2008 at 8:03 pm -Evidently trunk burial is the new thing in car accessories among a certain element.
In the case of Many White Horses, I suspect the car was pretty much a rollin’ reakin’ wreck anyway and probably nobody much noticed….
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sugarglider
Sep 11, 2008 at 12:12 pm -Peeperann, you know what to do…with love and decomp!
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Ruby
Nov 22, 2008 at 12:02 am -Just an update on this story. Many White Horses told police that James died accidentally in May when he fell from his high chair. The coronor’s report shows that his neck was broken, and police say that an injury such as he had is very unlikely from a fall of this sort. The defendent says she didn’t call police because she was scared.
But scared probably wasn’t the real issue. You see, James was autistic, and was receiving regular disability checks. Guess who continued cashing them after James died? Guess who even reported one of them missing, but then cashed both the original and the replacement? Come on. Anyone? Take a guess.
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WryBread
Nov 22, 2008 at 12:46 am -Wow. That high chair must have been 50 feet high.
Could it be a woman named “Ugly Face Scare Horses’ Ass?” or “Many Resemblance Horse’s Anus?”
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