Inconvenience Gone: The Short Tragic Life Of Brandon Sims

Where is Brandon Sims? The four-year-old had not been seen since July 3 1992 when he attended a birthday party with his twenty-year-old mother Michelle Jones. Jones was employed confident talented smart assertive and involved in many community activities in Indianapolis Indiana. In contrast when he was last seen Brandon Sims an only child was a serious quiet thin boy who rarely maintained eye contact with his mother. After that night he was never seen again. His body has never been found. For years Jones lied to her friends about Brandon telling some that he was living with his father and others that he was staying with his grandmother in another state. When Brandons father who had been in jail came looking for Brandon Michelles shocked friends confronted her. She confessed that Brandon was dead. She repeated her story of how Brandon died to a detective after she admitted herself to the local psych unit. Days later she checked out of the unit and refused to reveal where he had hidden Brandons body. She was sure she had gotten away with murder. And she would have except the detective didnt believe her story. He enlisted the help of a novice prosecutor because no experienced prosecutor would take the case. In Indiana no one had ever been convicted of murder without a body. That prosecutor has written a book that reads like a mystery novel instead of the real murder prosecution. Truth is stranger than fiction where Santeria curses the law and politics are only a few of obstacles to justice.