HAILEY DUNN - 13 yo (2010) - Colorado City (W of Abilene) TX

We are scant days away from this case becoming a year old. Hence the move to the Long Term room.

Like so many cases that we have seen develop over the past several years we are being asked to believe that this victim has literally vanished. Disappeared into thin air. Nobody has any idea what happened or who was involved.

I am calling BULLSHIT!

In this case, and Kyron's, and Brittanee's, and Gabriel's, and Patrick's, and Lyndsey's and Adji's and so many, many others we are being asked by those closest to the victim (and to a certain extent, LE as well) that some alien swooped down from an unknown planet and transported them like on Star Trek.

I am calling BULLSHIT!

It's time for LE and the justice system to turn up the heat. Turn whatever thumbscrews are necessary to bring these families (the extended ones, not the ones involved) some resolution.

I do not go off on this forum very often but enough is enough and we have to start demanding action. Perpatrators cannot get the impression that we will sit idly by and just let these cases wallow in uncertainty.

I urge to join this fight! If you live in the area where any of these cases took place-YOU have the most clout! You can demand action!

We have to do it...for the children!

TomTerrific0420 wrote:We are scant days away from this case becoming a year old. Hence the move to the Long Term room.

Like so many cases that we have seen develop over the past several years we are being asked to believe that this victim has literally vanished. Disappeared into thin air. Nobody has any idea what happened or who was involved.

I am calling BULLSHIT!

In this case, and Kyron's, and Brittanee's, and Gabriel's, and Patrick's, and Lyndsey's and Adji's and so many, many others we are being asked by those closest to the victim (and to a certain extent, LE as well) that some alien swooped down from an unknown planet and transported them like on Star Trek.

I am calling BULLSHIT!

It's time for LE and the justice system to turn up the heat. Turn whatever thumbscrews are necessary to bring these families (the extended ones, not the ones involved) some resolution.

I do not go off on this forum very often but enough is enough and we have to start demanding action. Perpatrators cannot get the impression that we will sit idly by and just let these cases wallow in uncertainty.

I urge to join this fight! If you live in the area where any of these cases took place-YOU have the most clout! You can demand action!

We have to do it...for the children!

Ditto Tom! when a child is missing it's absurd that suspects can hide behind lawyers and lie. If we don't put our children first, what sort of community are we? It should be mandatory to take a lie detector test and if the results are dodgy then we should use whatever means necessary to get the truth out of them to find the remains and convict these people. I'd love to know how defense lawyers can justify protecting these people's rights as if it's more important than finding the truth.

I'd love to know how defense lawyers can justify protecting these
people's rights as if it's more important than finding the truth.

---Exactly! What about the rights of the missing or murdered?
No one is required to self-incriminate, however, the information could be given to a third party (namely the defense lawyer or a priest or a psychiatrist) who is bound by privacy laws.
I just want to throttle these so-called caregivers and shake the truth out of them!

COLORADO CITY- Hailey Dunn, now 14-years-old
went missing last December 27th. This Saturday doesn't mark the
exact one year anniversary of her disappearance, but friends and family
found that meeting up about two weeks early meant more people could show
up to the vigil. They were probably right. When NewsWest 9 showed up,
we saw dozens of folks coming together and hoping for Hailey's return.

Hope for Hailey Supporter, Diana Bien, says,
"Somebody knows something and we don't know who that somebody is but I'm
hoping and praying somebody will step forward and say, 'I saw something
and I know something,' she's there, somewhere. Somewhere."

Since she vanished, countless search teams have covered Mitchell County in hopes of finding any trace of her.

Searches have dwindled over the months, but a
strong force in the community is still holding onto hope, like Hailey's
best friends.

"That's why I'm here tonight. I'm not giving
up because I know she's out there and she's going to be found," Hailey's
best friend, Heather Ruth, said.

"She was the nicest person I knew," Hailey's best friend, Beth Gutierrez, said.

On Saturday night, dozens of hopefuls
gathered in the lot across the street from Hailey's Colorado City home,
where a makeshift tribute lies. Tattered teddy bears hang across the
fence. Many of them have been there now for a full year.

These folks know that one year later, others
have given up the fight. However, they say there's no way they're doing
that. They know Hailey is still out there.

Organizers planted a tree for Hailey and
decorated it with lights. It's their way of keeping the Christmas spirit
alive for the girl. A pastor from the local church was there to offer
to words of support.

"Hailey's out there. Somebody knows something
and I believe firmly that we need to know. The family needs closure.
Everyone needs closure. The city needs closure. The town needs closure,"
Bien said.

Shawn Adkins, Hailey's mother's boyfriend,
remains the only person of interest. Investigators say Hailey's case is
still a top priority.

If you have any information on her whereabouts, please call (325) 728-5294 or 911.
http://www.newswest9.com/story/16347655/vigil-held-for-one-year-anniversary-of-hailey-dunns-disappearance

COLORADO CITY — The memorial that stands across the street from the
house where 13-year-old Hailey Dunn lived before her still-unexplained
disappearance is a stark reminder of how much time has passed.


Almost one year today.


New Christmas decorations hang next to faded and matted Valentine's Day teddy bears, Easter Bunnies and Fourth of July ribbons.


The toys had been bright, colorful and new when they were tied to the
railings of a bridge near Dunn, a collection of homes and a post office
10 miles north of Colorado City. That's when the hundreds of volunteers
who were searching for Hailey assumed she would be coming home — or
would be found — soon.


The bridge just outside Dunn had been chosen for the memorial because
it was near where Shawn Adkins — the only person of interest named in
the teenager's disappearance and the live-in boyfriend of Hailey's
mother a year ago — was living. Stephanie Boyd, a friend of Hailey's
father, Clint Dunn, said searchers wanted Adkins to have something to
think about every time he drove across the bridge.


But Boyd said defacing of the memorial began and transportation
authorities deemed it a traffic hazard, so it had to be moved. Colorado
City officials allowed the use of the empty lot across from Dunn's home
on Chestnut Street, and today the memorial stands just yards away from
the place Hailey Dunn last was seen.


The stuffed animals and other items were left before revelations of
drug abuse and domestic violence came to light. Before hundreds of pages
of printouts about serial killers and mass murderers were discovered.
Before child pornography was found.


The items were left months before Hailey's parents moved away — Clint
Dunn reportedly to Houston, Billie Dunn reportedly to Travis County,
with Adkins.


Almost a year has passed, and there are no answers. But law
enforcement officials believe the case will be resolved — some say
within a year.


Detective Kelsey Alexander, the Colorado City policewoman who took
the call the day Hailey was reported missing, has been the lead
investigator on the case since the start.




"Nobody hides forever, eventually everything comes to light. One day
we'll have definite answers, and every day we're getting closer," she
said.


DAYS AFTER CHRISTMAS


Hailey Dunn was reported missing by her mother at 2 p.m. Dec. 28,
2010 — a Tuesday. The day before, she was supposed to have walked to her
father's house, just a few blocks away, and then go to a friend's house
to spend the night. She never arrived at either location.


Even though it was late December, she was reportedly wearing
sweatpants, a T-shirt and flip flops. Her MP3 player and her favorite
jacket — something friends said she would never leave the house without —
later were found at her home.


No witnesses saw her walking anywhere between the two houses.


The last time law enforcement officials can confirm she was alive was
the early morning of Dec. 27. Police have not revealed their source
but are sure of that fact.


What happened to Hailey Dunn between that Monday morning and Tuesday
afternoon — from the last time police know she was alive to the time she
was reported missing?


Billie Dunn told police that Adkins had left the Dunn home for work
in Snyder around 5:30 a.m. Dec. 27. Sometime before leaving for her job
in Snyder at 6:20 a.m., Billie Dunn said she checked on Hailey, who was
asleep in her room with the TV on. According to court documents, Delbert
David Dunn, Hailey's older brother, was spending the night at a
friend's house, and after Billie Dunn left for work, Hailey was alone in
the house.


The same court documents state that Adkins arrived at work at Weaver
Services Inc. at 6 a.m. Adkins told police he was fired that morning
after an altercation with a supervisor. Adkins' employer, however, said
he arrived at work, got a drink from a machine in a break room, and
left.


There was no altercation, and Adkins was not fired, the document states.


Adkins left the premises by 6:10 a.m., the documents state. He told
police he traveled straight to his mother's residence in Big Spring,
about 50 miles away.


Cellphone records obtained by police could tell a different story.


Adkins' phone "pinged" a Verizon cell tower — Tower 724 — in Colorado
City from 6:35 a.m. to 6:56 a.m. According to court documents, Verizon
cellular tower records indicate Tower 724 would be used by someone at
Dunn's home in the 1800 block of Chestnut Street.


Adkins' phone did not "ping" Tower 730 — which the cellphone company
said someone at Adkins' mother's home in Big Spring would use — until
9:38 a.m.


Billie Dunn said Hailey had told Adkins about 3 p.m. that she was
going to her father's house, and she then would spend the night with a
friend. Billie Dunn told police that around 6:20 p.m., she and Adkins
drove to Snyder to make two withdrawals from an ATM. Billie Dunn later
told police that the money was to buy illegal narcotics for herself and
Adkins from someone in Scurry County.


They returned to the Dunn home in Colorado City to watch movies, she said. Then, she said, they went to bed about 9 p.m.


She learned around noon the next day that Hailey never had arrived at
Clint Dunn's house. After contacting Hailey's friend, Billie Dunn said
Hailey had not shown up there, either.


Billie Dunn reported her daughter missing to police at 2 p.m.


MASSIVE SEARCH EFFORT


It did not take long for scores of volunteers to begin searching
Colorado City and the surrounding area for the missing teenager. As
days and weeks passed with no sign of the girl, the story spread across
the nation.


Reporters and satellite trucks from national media outlets such as
"The Nancy Grace Show" descended on the town. Local law enforcement
officials fielded calls from as far away as New York and Australia.


National organizations such as Klaaskids and the Laura Recovery
Center for Missing Children arrived with trained searchers. Billboards
in the area showed a large photo of the teenager wearing her
cheerleading uniform and "MISSING" in huge letters.


Hundreds of square miles were searched on foot, on horseback and
off-road vehicles. Planes and helicopters searched from the air.
Officials with cadaver dogs searched landfills as far away as Lubbock
and Abilene. Whether to search nearby Lake Colorado City was debated.


But without success and as a cold February turned into a warm spring,
then hot summer, the daily searches became weekly, then held monthly.


Finally, searches were held whenever a group could get together.


A release of balloons in late August coincided with Hailey's birthday.


The number of searchers has dwindled, as have vigils and other
events. Now just a handful of people away from law enforcement remain
committed to finding out what happened to a popular teenager.


SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS


A year after the 13-year-old's mysterious disappearance, people in
town can be divided into three groups as to their relationship to the
case, said Mitchell County Sheriff Patrick Toombs.


"There are those who have moved on, there are those who are still
totally fixated on the case, and then there's those somewhere in the
middle," he said.


Boyd, one of the first people to organize searches for Hailey, still
is fixated. Searching for Hailey is her full-time job. She lives with
her parents and works as much as she can on following up on leads.


"I keep searching because I want her found. I don't want a bad name
for Colorado City. I have to keep searching and assuming she's alive,"
she said.


But she said it was a "kick in the gut" when Billie Dunn and Clint
Dunn both appeared to give up hope and moved from Colorado City.


"What mother in her right mind is going to up and move 500 miles away
from the home your daughter knows? That goes for Clint, too," she said.
"It really sucks that Clint left, because he told me in the beginning
he would never give up."


Even though she said she feels alone in her search, and feels that
most of the town has lost hope and interest, she's not quitting.


"Until there is some physical evidence, I'm not giving up. I'm not
giving up until Hailey is brought back here, one way or another."


REMEMBERING HAILEY AT HER SCHOOL


Mark Merrell, principal of Colorado Middle School, said moving on does not mean forgetting.


"This is not something you'll ever forget. We'll by no means forget
Hailey, but there are hundreds of other kids at the school that need our
attention. You've got to move on somehow," he said.


Hailey's eighth-grade classmates moved on to high school this fall,
but Merrell said she still had a lot of friends at the middle school.


There's a photograph of Hailey taped to the dry-erase board in Andra Maxwell's eighth-grade history classroom.


"I'm not planning on taking it down any time soon," Maxwell said.


She said students will still walk up to it, and say a quiet prayer for their friend.


Tammy Johnson, another of Hailey's teachers, said the lack of closure is the hardest part.


Emily Strain, the school's counselor, said she still gets visits from
students who are having a hard time coping. Not knowing exactly what
happened to Hailey makes it hard to move on, she said.


"I can't believe there are still no answers," said Joni Lacefield,
Hailey's former math teacher. "It feels like something from a TV movie. I
just can't believe it happened here."


WHAT HAPPENED TO HAILEY?


People around town have their theories about what happened to Hailey —
ones they're willing to share and others they keep close to the vest.


Was she kidnapped? Did she run away? Was she sold into slavery to pay off a drug-related debt?


Alexander, the Colorado City detective, said the case had generated
all sorts of stories and rumors — "white noise," she called it, that had
to be sorted through to get at the truth.


"This is still an open, active missing person case. We are following
up on all leads and tips, and we're backtracking and reviewing things
that have already been done," she said.


The investigation into the child pornography seized on several
electronic devices owned by Adkins also is ongoing, but in another
jurisdiction.


Images depicting bestiality and other deviant sexual acts may be
disgusting, she said, but as long as they're not being done in public,
they're not illegal. No child pornography was seized in Colorado City,
she said.


Although Boyd believes there's only a 50/50 chance that the truth
about what happened to Hailey will come out, law enforcement officials
are confident the case will be resolved.


Sheriff Toombs said he believes the case will be resolved within a year.


Colorado City Police Chief Roy "Tinker" Owens, who joined the
department in July and has been working to get up to speed on the case,
is similarly confident.


"Eventually something is going to break. We firmly believe that at
some point in the future, we will have some closure," he said.


He also believes police haven't been given all the help they can from Hailey's family.


"It's my opinion that, whether or not she was involved in Hailey's
disappearance, Billie knows something, and she's not saying," he said.
http://www.reporternews.com/news/2011/dec/25/gone-a-year-colorado-city-teenagers-disapperance/

Cadaver Dogs Used To Search For Missing Teen Hailey Dunn

7:23 pm CST January 12, 2012

ABILENE, Texas --
After months of little organized effort to find missing Colorado City teen
Hailey Dunn, cadaver dogs were out Thursday searching a property north
of the town.Many viewers called KTXS Thursday after seeing searchers on private property near the airport.KTXS
immediately traveled to Colorado City to find out if officials
discovered anything, and officers said they came up empty handed.The
tip involved dreams, but no matter how far fetched, Roy Owens, chief of
Colorado City Police, said authorities check into all tips about
missing teen Hailey Dunn.One such tip spurred the search Thursday morning of a private property near the airport using cadaver dogs."These are seasoned dogs that were used in this case from the beginning," said Owens.The tip came from a person who specializes in finding grave sites on large private properties."We checked his track record on a couple of different things," said Owens, "and he's been successful in finding those."Thursday's search turned up nothing.Wednesday
marked the one-year anniversary since another big break in the case
when KTXS obtained affidavits used to secure search warrants that
included details about Hailey's mother and live-in boyfriend.Owens said anniversaries play no role in the frequency of their searches."It
could appear that way," said Owen, "but we've been working this thing
the whole time and will continue to work it until we get answers we feel should be answered."
http://www.ktxs.com/big_country_news/30200444/detail.html

Spokesman In Hailey Dunn Case Is Leaving Colorado City

7:41 am CST February 3, 2012
COLORADO CITY, Texas -- The man who was synonymous with the search for missing Colorado City teen Hailey Dunn is leaving his post.Pete Kampfer, Colorado City's city manager, has accepted a position in a New Mexico town as its city manager.He'll be going to Raton, N.M., a town of about 7,000.Kampfer said an opportunity came up in his line of expertise."I
think this is the right opportunity now, and I'm going to engage it, go
forward, so I wish the best for Colorado City," Kampfer said.Kampfer will be the city manager and heavily involved in a project to bring a casino and racetrack to that city."Some
of the aspects they're prioritizing have lined up better, and I think
the opportunity is going to be a good one to line up with my skill
sets," he said.It was the search for missing teenager Hailey Dunn that brought Kampfer regional recognition.Viewers almost never saw a story about the investigation without hearing from the city manager.Kampfer's decision wasn't something the city expected."This was a surprise to me," said Colorado City Mayor Carol Sue Dakan.Dakan said she has yet to receive Kampfer's formal resignation; he was in New Mexico this week.Regarding the search for Hailey Dunn, Kampfer said there has been a full-time investigator for the case for some time now.He signed a contract as the city manager of Raton earlier this week.KTXS asked Mayor Dakan about the future of the city manager position in Colorado City.She said an interim city manager will take Kampfer's place while they search for a new one.Dakan said it took two to three months to fill the position last time it was vacant.
http://www.ktxs.com/news/30364561/detail.html

Another search for missing Colorado City Teen Hailey Dunn occurred on Saturday afternoon.

One band of searchers spent five hours searching around the South Mountain and Comanche Trail areas of Big Spring.

Searchers told NewsWest 9 those are areas that haven't been cleared yet and they're looking for more people to volunteer to search in Big Spring.

Not only are they looking for people to volunteers to look in Big Spring but Hailey Dunn searchers also need volunteers for their booth at an upcoming event in Sweetwater.

The Hailey Dunn search center has a booth that will be at the annual Sweetwater Rattlesnake Roundup next week.

They'll be passing out fliers and keeping the girl's search in people's minds.

The roundup opens in Sweetwater next Friday, March 9 and ends next Sunday.

If you live in Big Spring and would like to join the searchers there or help man the booth in Sweetwater, one searcher named Erica said you can call her at (219) 221-7027.

http://www.newswest9.com/story/17074052/searchers-come-together-to-search-for-missing-colorado-city-teen

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Human Body Found Near Shawn Adkins's Mother's Home

http://seamusoriley.blogspot.com/2012/03/human-body-found-near-shawn-adkinss.html

Source: Big Spring Remains Likely Hailey Dunn's
By: Nick Ochsner
Updated: March 21, 2012

All eyes were on Big Spring Tuesday as investigators made what could be a big discovery in the case of missing teen Hailey Dunn....

...On Tuesday, workers at the Big Spring airport discovered human remains laying in an open field. The man who found the remains declined to speak on camera but did tell reporters he thought the remains belonged to a child...

http://everythinglubbock.com/fulltext?nxd_id=102062

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

FBI Evidence Collectors to Texas Wednesday Morning

BIG SPRING - A FBI evidence recovery team will be headed to Big Spring on Wednesday morning after human remains were found on Tuesday afternoon....

http://seamusoriley.blogspot.com/2012/03/chat-room-open-for-breaking-news.html

Hailey Dunn's Grandmother Speaks About Remains
By: Jessica Reyes
Updated: March 21, 2012

Connie Jones, the grandmother of Hailey Dunn, says she hasn't been contacted by law enforcement about the remains found near the McMahon-Wrinkle airport in Big Spring Tuesday afternoon.

She adds she's still hopeful her granddaughter will be found safely.

"I really can't tell you exactly how I feel. I want her to be found alive but still we need some closure to just get on with everything," Jones said.

The girl's grandmother says she hasn't heard from either of Hailey's parents, Clint or Billie Dunn.

Video at Link

http://bigcountryhomepage.com/fulltext?nxd_id=480222

UPDATE 10:56 AM: We have just learned that a press conference will be held at 11:30 AM. We will broadcast the conference live on CBS 7 News.

UPDATE 10:54 AM: CBS 7 Crews have just spotted John Young, Billie Jean Dunn's attorney at the scene.

UPDATE 10:06 AM: We are seeing signs that investigators are preparing to be on the scene for an extended period of time.

UPDATE 10:00 AM: Mitchell County Sheriff Patrick Toombs has arrived at the scene. The FBI Evidence Response Team Unit has also arrived and begun to investigate.

UPDATE 9:11 AM: BigCountryHomePage.com is reporting that one of the men who first discovered the body says that although the body was decomposed the remains of a hand appeared to belong to a child.

UPDATE 9:07 AM: We are hearing multiple reports that the body found in the Desert Tanks area of Big Spring has been identified as a girl. This has not been confirmed by officials.

http://www.cbs7kosa.com/news/

Sources say police 90% sure body found is Hailey Dunn
Posted: Mar 20, 2012 7:19 PM CDT Updated: Mar 21, 2012 11:34 AM CDT
By Christie Post - bio | email

Provided by KWES NewsWest 9 Provided by KWES NewsWest 9

BIG SPRING, TX (KCBD) -

The FBI and DPS investigators were on the scene in Big Spring Wednesday morning after a body was discovered Tuesday. KCBD NewsChannel 11 has learned from multiple sources that officials were 90 percent sure that the body was that of Hailey Dunn, 13, who turned up missing from Colorado City in late December of 2010.

An official announcement is expected Wednesday afternoon. The body was found by workers of a company called Desert Tanks in a pasture near the McMahon Wrinkle Airpark on Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. The company used a tank lid overnight to protect the body from rain.

Big Spring is less than an hour west of Colorado City. Volunteers searching for Dunn had searched the Big Spring area in the past.

The body was found about a block away from the home of Shawn Adkins' mother. Adkins had been referred to as a suspect in Hailey's disappearance. Adkins was the boyfriend of Hailey's mom, Billie Jean Dunn, at the time and he has steadfastly denied any involvement.

Multiple sources have said that the hair color and height of the body match that of Hailey Dunn. We also learned Wednesday morning that items discovered on the body seem to be consistent with Hailey.

Adkins and Billie Jean lived together in Colorado City. They now live in Austin.

Watch KCBD NewsChannel 11 at noon for the latest updates.

http://www.kcbd.com/story/17205156/fbi-to-investigate-human-remains-found-near-big-spring-airport

poor Hailey I have a feeling it's her too, just waiting for an update. I expect this thread will be moved from Missing to Murdered by the end of today - and HOPE that Shawn and Billie will be behind bars!!

Update: Human Remains Removed, Authorities Wrap Up Crime Scene Investigation
By Brittany Molinar, KTXS News

POSTED: 9:05 am CDT March 21, 2012
UPDATED: 2:19 pm CDT March 21, 2012

BIG SPRING, Texas -- The human remains found Tuesday have been removed, and dozens of law enforcement officials have concluded their investigation Wednesday afternoon at the crime scene in Big Spring.

Sgt. Tony Everett of the Big Spring Police Department told KTXS News the body will be transported to the Tarrant County medical examiner's office in Fort Worth for an autopsy.

Several law enforcement authorities combed the area from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. The scene was behind an oil field production facility named Desert Tanks in Big Spring.

Several officials wearing khaki pants and dark blazers swarmed the area, crouching and bending to examine soil samples and take photos of the ground in the area surrounding where human remains were found.

The remains and the crime scene had to be covered to preserve the remains from a rain storm that hit the area overnight.

The deterioration of the remains indicated the body was likely at the scene between six months and two years.

Heath Acrey, the owner of Desert Tanks, told KTXS News that the property where the remains were found, a vacant field, had been leased to the city of Big Spring.

A helicopter circled the scene to take aerial photographs, and dozens of officials from Dallas and Austin conducted the investigation.

The remains were found about 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in an open field behind the oil facility, near the 2500 block of Apron Drive, by workers in the area, Everett said.

The scene is located on property owned by the oil tank production facility with large metal tanks, metal shops and a warehouse on the property. There are barrels, fork lifts, cinder blocks and oil field equipment across the property.

Several officers were on the property searching an area that appears to be behind a metal shop and interviewing workers in a warehouse.

There has been no official word whether the remains found Tuesday are those of missing Colorado City teenager Hailey Dunn. Authorities are just beginning their examination of the remains.

At least one news organization released an inaccurate headline Wednesday morning indicating the remains were of Hailey Dunn. Officials, however, have not yet identified whether the remains are male or female.

Mitchell County Sheriff Patrick Toombs, involved since the beginning in the investigation of Hailey's disappearance, told KTXS News that it would be at least a week before any positive identification could be made.

Big Spring is an area of interest in the Hailey Dunn case because suspect Shawn Adkins told authorities that on the day Hailey disappeared that he left his job in Snyder and went to Big Spring, where his mother lived.

Although the remains are of interest in the Hailey Dunn case, there are also another five people allegedly missing in the Big Spring area.

The unidentified remains were found Tuesday in the 2500 block of Apron Drive, about two blocks east of the airport.

Several law enforcement authorities arrived at daybreak Wednesday to begin examine the scene in a field just east of the McMahon-Wrinkle Airport in Big Spring.

Several marked police cars were at the scene, along with several black SUVs with other authorities. The FBI agents involved in the Hailey Dunn case were requested to come to the scene.

Several members of the news media are stationed just outside a large area that has been marked off with crime tape.

Hailey Dunn, then an eighth-grader at Colorado Middle School in Colorado City, has been missing since Dec. 27, 2010. Her disappearance sparked a massive search by law enforcement and by hundreds of volunteers over the next few months searching through rugged areas in Mitchell and Scurry counties and surrounding areas.

She has never been found, and there have been no arrests in connection to her disappearance.

The last person who claimed to see her alive is also the only named suspect in the case: Shawn Adkins. Adkins was the live-in boyfriend of Hailey's mother, Billie Jean Dunn, and lived in the same house with Hailey.

Adkins left his job the morning that Hailey disappeared, and Adkins' story about where he went that morning has raised questions among law enforcement, but he admitted to authorities that he traveled to his mother's house in Big Spring on that day.

Billie Jean Dunn admitted that both she and Adkins have failed lie detector tests during the initial stages of the investigation in January 2011.

About five months after Hailey's disappearance, the couple moved to the Austin area.

http://www.ktxs.com/big_country_news/30729981/detail.html

Didn't LE search that area early on in this case because they thought he may have buried her somewhere around his mom's house???

"The property is now owned by Desert Tanks. It was reported that American Limestone did not keep their gates locked, often leaving them open. It is believed that investigators never searched the area after it was gated."

More: http://www.examiner.com/missing-persons-in-national/human-remains-found-texas-could-they-be-missing-hailey-dunn#ixzz1pnHIVfIv

mom_in_il wrote:"The property is now owned by Desert Tanks. It was reported that American Limestone did not keep their gates locked, often leaving them open. It is believed that investigators never searched the area after it was gated."

More: http://www.examiner.com/missing-persons-in-national/human-remains-found-texas-could-they-be-missing-hailey-dunn#ixzz1pnHIVfIv

Well that was stupid of them.

I'm sure this is her. I have always hoped they would find her body. I hope and pray there is enough evidence on the body to prosecute.

I still think it is her mother and her boyfriend,

Poor Hailey, may she rest in peace.

Billie Dunn: Understanding Deception
Thursday, March 22, 2012

The case of Hailey Dunn, called a murder case by Nancy Grace, was highlighted on her show last night. The following is Statement Analysis of the transcripts of the show. Analysis is in bold type.

There is an expectation that a preliminary announcement will be made regarding the remains, and a secondary, "official" announcement when the DNA results are in. It is not known if arrests will be announced before the official results are in, but initial reports of Hailey's remains found wrapped in a trash bag, and possibly a blanket, would suggest a high yield of evidence for investigators. We should also expect charges on the child pornography to be addressed.

Statement Analysis of the case, to this point has shown the following:

1. Sleepover Account

The initial story of Hailey going to a friend's house is a deceptive story; that is, it did not proceed from memory.

This leads to a new question which can be answered:

Did the mother, Billie Jean Dunn, lie when she told the nation this story, or was she simply repeating what Shawn Adkins, mother's live in boyfriend, told her?

The answer is found in deception itself.

Deception is seen through intent.

If you repeat a lying story, without knowing it to be a fabrication, your language may not show deception, as you are repeating what you believe to be facts.

The story repeatedly told by Billie Dunn shows deception; that is, the intent to deceive. She did not enter into Shawn Adkins' language, but told the story of her own accord, during the free editing process. This was seen in her many appearances.

It is not that small details change, so much, as the actual language where analysis shows deliberately withheld information, or language that shows not coming from memory. Pronoun changes, for example, are instinctive and will reveal guilty admissions. True enough, memory should keep stories consistent, but it is the intent to deceive that was picked up more than a year ago.

2. That Hailey was deceased.

This was reported here in January of 2011.

Statement Analysis showed that while Billie Dunn spoke, she referenced Hailey in the past tense: something an innocent mother of a missing child will not do. The innocent parent holds hope and does not accept, particularly early on, her child's death, for a very long time: sometimes not at all.

Just days after reporting her missing, Billie Dunn took to the nation via the Nancy Grace Show, believing in her own ability to deceive, not thinking that her own words would entangle her.

This is the way of the deceptive: they have a strong self confidence and belief in their ability to deceive; something they have done since childhood, likely learned as a survival technique.

The analysis was posted and it was met with highly emotional responses.

Some were made sad, but accepted that the language was instinctive and were 'slips' by the mother, as she thought about Hailey during her time on the show.
Others responded with the word "hope" and "Hope for Hailey" became a buzzword.

Yet, as each

3. Drugs

Before anything else was known, Statement Analysis showed that drug use was a part of the life and death of Hailey Dunn.

Analysis could show drug use, but not to the extent that would be learned: it was far worse.

The mother of a missing child gave a fake story, but while doing so, felt it necessary to mention a "tooth ache".

Coincidence?

It is like anything in behavioral analysis: each single issue can be explained away, but when put all together, it becomes an important picture. For Billie Dunn, mentioning a tooth ache (like back pain) is something that addicts always seem to have. If she has a tooth ache, she needs narcotic pain medicine. The coincidence was not lost on us, as she told the nation this.

Later, we were to learn that she was not only out buying drugs that fateful night, but stopped off at her mother's to see if mom needed any drugs. (Her own mother is now in prison for drugs). Clint Dunn, Hailey's father (whom Billie tried to implicate) reported how severe Billie's and Shawn's drug issues were, including cocaine selling plans.

4. Child Pornography

Statement Analysis, early on, flagged the case with pornography. This analysis was born of a single word.

Billie Dunn and Shawn Adkins appeared together and were being asked about their reading material. Billie Dunn described it as crime stories, the kind Nancy Grace has, and that she would print them out at work and read them at home.

Shawn, not the brains of the two, said he didn't "look" at that stuff much.

Had he said he didn't "read" it much, it would have meant one thing, but people do not "read" pornography, they "look" at it.

This led to an interesting discussion with law enforcement later on where they said, 'pornography? Yeah, just wait!'

When the news of 109,000 deviant images, including child pornography and bestiality came out, it was a stunningly large amount of material. Later on, in defending herself on a Facebook chat, Billie Dunn said she wouldn't deny that she had "some" bestiality, but 'who doesn't?', which raised a few eyebrows of her dwindling supporters. She even spoke of bestiality in the plural, which, based upon following comments, was not lost on her audience.

5. Threatened Law Suit


Billie Dunn's attorney threatened a law suit due to the analysis about Hailey dying. Interestingly enough, the analysis produced a scenario involving a sexual assault:

the very thing that Hailey's paternal grandmother told the nation on the Nancy Grace show back in January of 2011.

At the show, Connie Dunn could not explain why she believed it, and Nancy Grace spoke harshly to her, not allowing for a grandmother's instincts to be respected. You can see from the transcripts of last night's show, that the producers are attempting to woo Billie Jean back on to the show by having Marc Klaas go 'easy' on Billie, blaming mostly Shawn, though other guests were not in agreement as they strongly expressed.

The case has many more elements, and those new to analysis need only to search on "Hailey" to read the specifics.


Please note that some of the video cut backs are deleted here so that mostly dialog remains. No editing of statements for analysis is done. CNN.com/transcripts has it in full.

Transcript Of NG and analysis: http://seamusoriley.blogspot.com/2012/03/billie-dunn-understanding-deception.html

It's Not Hailey Dunn – Gender Of Human Remains

Found In Big Spring Is Male


POSTED: 11:57 am CDT March 23, 2012


BIG SPRING, Texas -- It
has been determined the remains found in Big Spring on Tuesday are not
the remains of Hailey Dunn. The remains are of a male victim, according
to Big Spring police.Det. George Oliver of the Big Spring Police
Department, who is attending the autopsy, relayed to Big Spring
officials Friday that the examination revealed that the remains were of a
male.He said that nothing else has been determined. He said a
news release will be sent out after the completion of the autopsy and
the preliminary report is released from the Tarrant County Medical
Examiner's Office.The announcement was startling news for many
who had speculated this week that the remains were that of missing
Colorado City teen Hailey Dunn.Dunn, then an eighth-grader at
Colorado Middle School in Colorado City, has been missing since Dec. 27,
2010. Her disappearance sparked a massive search by law enforcement and
by hundreds of volunteers over the next few months searching through
rugged areas in Mitchell and Scurry counties and surrounding areas.
She has never been found, and there have been no arrests in connection to her disappearance.The
last person who claimed to see her alive is also the only named suspect
in the case: Shawn Adkins. Adkins was the live-in boyfriend of Hailey's
mother, Billie Jean Dunn, and lived in the same house with Hailey.Adkins
left his job the morning that Hailey disappeared, and Adkins' story
about where he went that morning has raised questions among law
enforcement, but he admitted to authorities that he traveled to his
mother's house in Big Spring on that day.Billie Jean Dunn
admitted that both she and Adkins have failed lie detector tests during
the initial stages of the investigation in January 2011.About five months after Hailey's disappearance, the couple moved to the Austin area.
http://www.ktxs.com/big_country_news/30747442/detail.html

Human remains found at an airfield in Texas earlier this week
are not those of missing teen Hailey Dunn, who disappeared more than a
year ago from a nearby town.

The main suspect in Dunn’s disappearance was her mother’s boyfriend,
Shawn Adkins, whose mother lived less than a mile from the airfield
where the remains were found.

But an autopsy performed on the remains identified them as belonging
to a male, ruling out the possibility of closure for family and friends
of Dunn.

Dunn, 13, disappeared from her home in Colorado City, Texas, and the
investigation into her disappearance quickly turned to her mother,
Billie Jean Dunn, and Adkins. Both Dunn and Adkins failed lie detector
tests, admitted to taking drugs the night before Hailey’s disappearance,
and refused to cooperate with police.

Authorities consider them persons of interest.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/03/texas-remains-not-those-of-missing-teen-cheerleader-hailey-dunn/

The noose is tightening Billie and Shawn! Better tell the truth so they pull the death penalty off the table.