SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS FOUR YEARS LATER OUR RENEE WUNDERLICH SPOKE TO AN UPSTATE ACTIVISTS WHO IS STILL FIGHTING FOR ANSWERS. SHE JOINS US LIVE IN THE STUDIO TONIGHT RENEE. WELL, GABI, THIS ACTIVIST TELLS ME THINGS NEED TO HEAT UP IN THIS COLD CASES DEPUTIES CONTINUE TO INVESTIGATE I SPOKE WITH ONE WOMAN WHO SAYS THIS BABY DESERVES JUSTICE SHE VANISHED FOUR YEARS AGO ONE YEAR OLD LIANA RIGHT WAS LAST SEEN AT EDGEWOOD SQUARE APARTMENTS IN PENDLETON UPSTATE ACTIVIST. TRACY FAN HAS BEEN WE WE’RE LOSING. HOPE AT THE FACT THAT SHE’LL EVER BE RETURNED TO US AND RETURN TO THE FAMILY NOW. SHE WANTS JUSTICE FOR LEONA. I JUST WANTED TO COMMUTE TO UNDERSTAND THAT THIS TIME OUT FOR POINTING FINGERS AND IT’S TIME FOR US TO SAY THESE PEOPLE ARE RESPONSIBLE AND THEY NEED TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE. WE ON HIS MOTHER CAROL SULLIVAN HAD GONE TO A FAMILY CELEBRATION THAT NIGHT LEAVING LIANA WITH HER THEN BOYFRIEND TRAVIS JONES IS CURRENTLY IN JAIL ON UNRELATED CHARGES SULLIVAN HAS CUT TIES WITH JONES AND HIS SINCE MARRIED. LIANA’S FATHER RICHARD WRIGHT IN AUGUST THE ANDERSON COUNTY SHERIFF NAMED JONES AS A PERSON OF INTEREST IN A STATEMENT TO WYFF NEWS 4 THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE RIGHTS IN PART. THIS CASE IS VERY IMPORTANT TO US. IT’S STILL ONGOING AND WE ARE EVEN PURSUING FRESH INFORMATION. HOPEFULLY, THESE LEADS WILL YIELD SOME MORE POSITIVE RESULTS DEPUTIES ARE STILL SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS CALLING ON THE COMMUNITY TO COME FORWARD TO
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Warrants filed in the case of missing Anderson County baby Leonna Wright
Solicitor reviewing evidence against those changed
Updated: 7:55 PM EDT Jul 8, 2020
Warrants have been filed in the case of an Anderson County baby missing for the past five years.Tenth Circuit Solicitor David R. Wagner said in a media release that “warrants have been obtained,” but would not comment as his office continued to review the case.Read his full statement below.”I am aware that warrants have been obtained by the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office at the direction of Sheriff McBride in the matter of the tragic case of Leonna Wright. As a courtesy to the sheriff’s office I agreed to review the Leonna Wright case file prior to any charging decision being made. Unfortunately, the sheriff’s office has declined to return this courtesy by waiting until my review was complete prior to charging. I cannot speak to the appropriateness of these charges until the full review process is finalized to ensure the high standards of evidence that we require for prosecution have been met. Therefore, my office considers this matter to remain an ongoing open investigation, and for that reason I will not be commenting further at this time.”Leonna vanished from the Edgewood Square apartments in Pendleton on June 6, 2015.The baby’s mother, Kiara Sullivan, then 22, said that her then-boyfriend, Travis Jones, was watching the child when she disappeared early that morning.At the time of Leonna’s disappearance, Jones and Sullivan told investigators she might have crawled or walked out of the apartment after her older sister, who was then 3, had unlocked the door. They said they found the baby missing when they woke up around 9:30 a.m.Investigators later determined that the older child was not capable of unlocking the door.During a 2018 news conference, Anderson County Sheriff Chad McBride said, in regard to them having a person or persons of interest, “It’s not what you know, it’s what you can prove.”McBride went even further, saying that Travis Jones is a person of interest, which he said is synonymous with suspect. He said they are keeping “close tabs on him,” and that Jones was recently in their custody after being arrested on other charges.McBride said that there are a few other people he’d put in the category of persons of interest. He said investigators will work with anyone who is willing to come forward.”If you weren’t there, but you know because you were told, you need to come forward,” McBride said.
Warrants have been filed in the case of an Anderson County baby missing for the past five years.
Tenth Circuit Solicitor David R. Wagner said in a media release that “warrants have been obtained,” but would not comment as his office continued to review the case.
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Read his full statement below.
“I am aware that warrants have been obtained by the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office at the direction of Sheriff McBride in the matter of the tragic case of Leonna Wright. As a courtesy to the sheriff’s office I agreed to review the Leonna Wright case file prior to any charging decision being made. Unfortunately, the sheriff’s office has declined to return this courtesy by waiting until my review was complete prior to charging. I cannot speak to the appropriateness of these charges until the full review process is finalized to ensure the high standards of evidence that we require for prosecution have been met. Therefore, my office considers this matter to remain an ongoing open investigation, and for that reason I will not be commenting further at this time.”
Leonna vanished from the Edgewood Square apartments in Pendleton on June 6, 2015.
The baby’s mother, Kiara Sullivan, then 22, said that her then-boyfriend, Travis Jones, was watching the child when she disappeared early that morning.
At the time of Leonna’s disappearance, Jones and Sullivan told investigators she might have crawled or walked out of the apartment after her older sister, who was then 3, had unlocked the door. They said they found the baby missing when they woke up around 9:30 a.m.
Investigators later determined that the older child was not capable of unlocking the door.
During a 2018 news conference, Anderson County Sheriff Chad McBride said, in regard to them having a person or persons of interest, “It’s not what you know, it’s what you can prove.”
McBride went even further, saying that Travis Jones is a person of interest, which he said is synonymous with suspect. He said they are keeping “close tabs on him,” and that Jones was recently in their custody after being arrested on other charges.
McBride said that there are a few other people he’d put in the category of persons of interest. He said investigators will work with anyone who is willing to come forward.
“If you weren’t there, but you know because you were told, you need to come forward,” McBride said.
