Details: Sharene Vess Davis and her siblings are searching for their younger brother, Heath Brian Vess. The Vess's parents, James and Wanda Vess, were married in 1956; seventeen years later, they had nine children (six sons and three daughters). The oldest child was sixteen and the youngest was six months. By all appearances, the Vess family was a happy and loving family. However, in reality, James Vess was a dangerous alcoholic; by 1973, James's drinking binges had strained the Vess marriage. He was often too drunk to work; he also was abusive to his wife. Sharene remembered on one occasion that her father had beat her mother because she hid alcohol from him.