Hey everyone, it's Mike with Bigfoot's Wilderness and I have a special treat for you. One of my favorite true crime podcasts, brought to you by Spreaker from iHeart and Then They Were Gone is a weekly podcast hosted by Kona and Ethan. This true crime audio experience focuses on unsolved missing persons cases, going beyond the headlines and social media posts. They bring a mix of high profile
cases and those that haven't gotten the media coverage that they deserve. Their soothing and calming voices will guide you through these stories while also trying to find answers and raise awareness. You won't be able to miss a single episode, that's for sure. You're about to hear a preview of And Then They Were Gone. Listen to And Then They Were Gone on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and others. August twenty first, two thousand and nine, a young
mother wanted a night out. Twenty one year old Rosemarie Bly had two children under the age of two. Rose stayed home with the kids while her husband, whom she had just married in February of that year, worked. Rose told her husband that she was going to go visit her cousin who lived near their home in Saint Croix Falls, Wisconsin, but Rose never made it. Her case received a fair amount of local attention, but not a lot of
clues, so eventually it faded from the public consciousness. That is until twelve years later, when her family was facing another tragedy, the disappearance of her niece Summer wells. When a person goes missing, there's a special kind of pain in the not knowing. I want to tell you the stories of those who never came home today. I want to tell you the story of Rosemarie
bl I'm kinda Gallagher, and this is and then they were gone. Rosemarie Bly was born in Grantsburg, Wisconsin, on September sixteenth, nineteen eighty seven, to Candas Horror and Kenneth Bly. Kenneth actually usually went by the name Jim, which his middle name was James. I know, it's like Jim is not short for Kenneth, so anyway. Jim had two children prior to his marriage to Candice, a daughter named Kathleen and a son named Kenneth.
Jim married his first wife in nineteen fifty eight, and they divorced in nineteen seventy two on grounds of cruelty. The couple had lived in Connecticut, but Jim eventually made his way to Galveston, Texas, and that's where he met Candas. Horror. Now, Candice is Summer Wells's grandma, and if you recall from Summer's story, she was there that day and she and Candice Summer's
mom and Candas we're all planting flowers shortly before her disappearance. All right, so we've got Ken Jim m. Yeah, then his son Ken Yeah. Then we have Candice well and her daughter Candy. Yeah. No, So the funny thing is is that so yes, uh, Kenneth and his son Kenneth has he has the daughter named Kathleen. His first wife's name is Kathleen. Oh and then I need to chart. I can't see it. Okay, So the first two kids, Jim's first two kids, don't come into
this, so we don't need to worry about them. Ken Jim, Yeah, Ken Jim. Um. But yeah, So after that first marriage, Ken Jim met Candice. Now he was significantly older than Candice by about twenty six years. Yikes, yeah, twenty six Yeah. The two married in Galveston, Texas in nineteen eighty one. When Kenneth was forty five and Candice was just nineteen. We you and I both became parents in twenty seven. Yeah, I know, I know, I know. The couple had three
daughters, starting with Candice, so Summer's mom. Candas is the oldest daughter, and she was born eleven months after they got married. And that's the thing. So originally I was like, oh, Candice, you know, it must have been like a shotgun wedding, but it doesn't appear that that was the case. Oh. Candas was followed by Jeanie and Rose, whom he called Rosie. The family was still in Texas when Candice was born,
but at some point they ended up moving to Gransburg, Wisconsin. I don't have a lot of information about their marriage, but you know, there have been rumors, actually interestingly that Candice, like Grandma Candace, was abusive toward him, but I don't, you know, I don't know. That's just literally internet rumor. It is not based on police reports or anything like that.
In any case, they did divorce when the three girls were in high school, which was basically, like, you know, sometime in the midnight, early to mid nineties is what it sounds like. Allegedly, Cantus actually left Jim for a woman and didn't have any contact with any of her children for several years. I couldn't find a record of their divorce for some reason, I could. I found the record of his first divorce. I couldn't find a record of this divorce, but I did find a record of Cantus
living in Las Vegas in nineteen ninety six. So I'm guessing that's, you know, kind of what happened and where she took off to for a while. So this is Grandma. Grandma wrote from summer Wells, right, Okay, So the three girls stayed in Grantsburg with their father, and Rose attended Grandsburg High School, where she navigated being a teenager without her mother.