The bizarre twist in missing family case

A Family of four has vanished without a trace from a tiny community in the Alaskan wilderness. Fox News Shepard Smith talks with investigators. Courtesy: Fox News

Missing: Michelle and Jaracca Hundley, aged five and three. Source: Supplied

THE grandmother of two young children who vanished from their home along with their mother and her boyfriend is being questioned by police over the family's mysterious disappearance.

Rebecca Adams, 22, her daughters Michelle Hundley, five, Jaracca Hundley, three, and Adams' boyfriend Brandon Jividen, 37, have not been seen or heard from since May 27.

The four disappeared from their rented apartment on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, about 250km from Anchorage, in unexplained circumstances more than two weeks ago.

In an unexpected twist to this already bizarre tale, 46-year-old Lisa Marie Hundley was taken into custody by US Marshals and an Alaska State Trooper over the weekend.

"Just know that I love you": The family disappeared after a disturbing phone call from Rebecca Adams to her sister Lanell. Source: Facebook

Ms Hundley was arrested in Smyrna, Tennessee on contempt of court charges connected with a 2010 drug possession and trafficking conviction.

She is the former mother-in-law of Rebecca Adams and the grandmother of Michelle and Jaracca, whose biological father Jaramiah Hundley was killed in a Kenai motorcycle accident on May 30, 2012 aged just 23.

Strange twist: The FBI is questioning Rebecca Adams' ex-mother-in-law Lisa Marie Hundley (above in a police mugshot taken over the weekend) over the family's disappearance. Source: Supplied

FBI special agent Steve Forrest told KTUU-TV that Ms Hundley was not being questioned as a suspect but as a person who could give investigators "more perspective on the family itself".

However, rumours that Ms Hundley fell out with Rebecca Adams after her son's death — possibly over financial matters relating to Jaramiah's estate or insurance — are being bandied around on social media.

Facebook is a hotbed of rumour and innuendo as relatives, friends and even strangers try to figure out what has happened to Jividen and Adams and her children. Other posts were too dodgy to publish. Source: Facebook

Deputy US Marshal Danny Shelton said Ms Hundley would be extradited back to Alaska from Tennessee's Rutherford County Jail, where she is being held.

The disappearance of Rebecca Adams, her children and Mr Jividen has sparked a multi-jurisdictional search involving the FBI, Alaskan State Troopers and police in at least three US states.

One of the flyers being circulated by authorities and relatives showing Rebecca Adams, her daughters Michelle Hundley, 5, and Jaracca Hundley, 3, and Rebecca's boyfriend Brandon Jividen, 37. Source: Facebook

Rebecca Adams last had contact with relatives on May 27, when she made an "ominous" phonecall to her sister and behaved "strangely" during a visit from their mother.

Kenai Police Sergeant Scott McBride told the Peninsula Clarion they were discovered missing on May 31 after relatives, neighbours and the couple's landlord called officers to ask for a welfare check.

Police found both the couple's vehicles still parked outside the four-apartment complex and all of their belongings, including their wallets, clothes, camping gear, childrens' car seats and Jaracca's nappy bag were left behind.

The entrance to the California St four-plex where Jividen lived with Adams and her daughters for almost two years. The family were model tenants according to their landlord. Source: Supplied

The family's brown and white English springer spaniel "Sparks" is also missing, fuelling speculation they planned their disappearance, or went willingly with another party before meeting with foul play. Their mobile phones have been turned off.

"It looks like they just vanished during breakfast," neighbour Desiree Guillam told local news site Your Alaska Link.

"Their food was still on the table and the counters and their jackets were on the back of the chairs, Becca's wallet with her ID and foodstamp card (was) there (and there) was a cellphone and everything."

"Know that I love you" Rebecca's ominous last words to sister Lanell (above) on May 27 before disappearing without a trace with her two young daughters (see below) and boyfriend of two years. Source: Facebook

Relatives say their last contact with Rebecca Adams, on May 27, was distressing and left them fearing for her welfare.

Lanell Adams told the Alaska Dispatch that she and her sister were planning to chat on Skype when Rebecca Adams called at the last minute to cancel.

The pair were always truthful with each other, Lanell Adams said, and growing up would often say "thou shall not lie" as a way to make the other tell the truth.

Lanell asked Rebecca, "Thou shall not lie — are you OK?"

Rebecca Adams responded, "Don't ask me that right now. Just know that I love you," Lanell Adams told the Dispatch.

Missing: Michelle and Jaracca Hundley, aged five and three, whose biological father Jaramiah tragically died in a motorcycle accident in May 2012. Source: Facebook

Concerned, Lanell Adams rang their mother, Jeanine Adams, who went to check on Rebecca.

"(Mum said) It looked like she had been crying," Lanell Adams said, but Rebecca "just blamed it on hormones or whatever."

Lanell Adams said her sister's disappearance was "extremely" out of character and that she was a "very responsible mum".

Hunter and survivalist Brandon Jividen, 37, with his young son, who lives in Louisiana with his mother. Source: Supplied

But she expressed concern about Mr Jividen, who moved in with Rebecca Adams about two years ago, just weeks after the death of her daughters' biological father, Jaramiah Hundley, in a motorcycle accident.

Little is known about Mr Jividen except that he is an avid hunter and fisherman and has at least two children from two previous relationships who live in different states.

Landlords Jeff Pfile and Anna Haave told AP they called police after Rebecca Adams and Mr Jividen were late with their rent — a first for the couple.

"If I felt they were going out of town I would have been the first person they called because they are so responsible (for paying their rent on time)," Ms Haave said. "For them to not say anything is not normal."

A Facebook post by Brandon Jividen's estranged teenage daughter Shelby (pictured below). Source: Facebook

Jividen's teenage daughter from a previous relationship, Shelby, has expressed suspicion on Facebook about the lack of apparent witnesses in relation to the disappearance of her father, his girlfriend and her two young children. Source: Facebook

A massive hunt involving FBI officers, Alaska search and rescue dogs, local police and volunteers, state trooper helicopters and small planes was carried out in the wooded area surrounding the family's California Ave home over the weekend and will continue until sundown today.

The search area backs on to a jail, Wildwood Correctional Facility, which houses long-term prisoners convicted of serious crimes.

FBI special agent Steve Forrest said "significant resources" had been allocated to the investigation.

"The major reason for our involvement in this particular matter is the age of the children and the mysterious circumstances surrounding their disappearance," Agent Forrest said.

Local Police and FBI agents have joined forces in the air and land search for Jividen, Adams and her two young daughters. Source: AP

Lanell Adams, who lives in Washington state, flew to Alaska last week to help with the search.

The Adams family was "afraid," she said, and had no idea what might have happened.

The family's baffling disappearance has sparked much rumour and innuendo among residents of Kenai, which has a population of just 7000 but is more transient than close-knit.

The case has eerie similarities to that of the McStay family, who mysteriously disappeared from their suburban Californian home in February 2010.

Three years later the bodies of Joseph and Summer McStay and their sons, aged three and four, were found buried in the Mojave Desert. The matter remains unsolved.

Another poster for the missing family. Source: Facebook

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