This article is really long but here are the bits from family members.
Grandmother, Hubby Turn on Each Other After Boy’s Horrific Motel Death
Davis, who also goes by the name Stephanie Fasthorse, was granted custody of Chaskah and his 9-year-old half-brother in 2015, the filing states. This came as a surprise to Davis’ relatives, who said Davis’ biological kids had already been taken away from her long ago.
“She lost her own four children when she was in her 20s, they went into the custody of our father,” Davis’ brother Terry told The Daily Beast on Wednesday from his home in Minnesota. “She got married for a while, and her husband died on her. Then she met this younger gentleman who worked with our brother, and that’s her husband now,” he said, referring to Desharnais. “We tried to tell him that she’s not very stable, you’ve got to be very mindful, very careful, around her.”
Davis’ family didn’t think the two boys were still under her care “until this happened,” Terry Davis, a 49-year-old county employee
, continued, explaining that he and his siblings “kind of distanced ourselves” from their sister after she disappeared and later resurfaced in Arizona. “It didn't make any sense why the county gave her custody of these kids.”
“She’s a very chaotic mess,” he said, claiming that Davis, whom he described as having endured frequent bouts of homelessness, once moved into a family friend’s vacation cabin and refused to leave until the homeowner went to court. “She has a long history of chronic lying, she makes it look like she’s done nothing wrong... She’s done that her entire life.”
Another close relative, who did not want to be identified publicly, told The Daily Beast that the alleged “abuse from Stephanie to her own children...had a negative impact on all of their lives.”
Years after the four kids were taken away from her, Davis tried to reconnect with them, “each time ending in a disaster,” the relative said.
The relative, who now lives abroad, said the family is “devastated at the loss of Chaskah,” and is now working closely with detectives and state officials to ensure Chaskah’s half-brother’s safety.
“I have been waiting for years to see my nephews,” said the relative. “I hope soon we can reunite with Chaskah’s brother now that Stephanie is out of the picture for good... This time is so difficult for us. I haven’t heard a word about those boys for years, then [was] just shocked [learning of Chaskah’s] death... I am losing sleep thinking what could have been done differently to save those boys.”
“It’s terrible that it had to come to this,” Terry Davis told The Daily Beast. “Look at what she's done her entire life, all the chaos she's caused, all the mayhem, all the damage she’s done. Finally, this could be the time for her to pay for her crimes.”
