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

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.