I wanted to bring up the fact *again*, that Hailey had never stayed the night with MBG previously. But MBG had been to Hailey's home and also spent the night.
Was she the only friend who had been to Hailey's home? It always seemed strange to me, that in all the interviews, Hailey's social life has never really been demystified, all the comments made by Billie have always been so vague. No other friend or parents of a friend, (that I have seen) has ever stepped up and said anything about Hailey spending the night with them or vice-versa.
Was MBG the only friend which came to mind for Shawn Adkins? The only one who's cell phone number was easily identified on Billie's phone? The only friend they knew with any certainty was home during the Christmas holidays and not out of town?
IMO I believe that MBG was quite likely Shawn's only real option to use as far as her being a friend, not relative, not only just knowing her by name(as well as by phone # that was stored in Billie's cell phone that she often times shared with Hailey), and that she lives basically down the street, but also knew who she was due to the fact that MBG had actually spent a night there with Hailey in the home Shawn shared with Billie..
IMO it is that basic knowledge that Shawn had of Hailey's friend, MBG that was the reason he chose her to use in his alibi regarding Hailey's disappearance..
As far as Hailey's social life and lack of other friends and mothers coming forward to speak about their spending time and/or overnight with Hailey at her home or vice versa I personally have a pretty definite opinion on this issue or lack thereof.
IMO Hailey did not spend alot of time at other classmates homes, nor did many of them spend much time in Hailey's home. I believe for the absolute most part that Hailey stuck very close to family and relatives. IMO the family ties for Hailey were especially strong and special and also why she had continued to struggle with mom and dad's splitting up even long after both mom and dad had moved on to new significant others.. Hailey IMO was very much grounded in being family oriented..family IMO meant alot more to Hailey than what it does for most typical young teens who are going thru the phase of wanting as much time as possible, as far away as possible from their parents who they're beginning to think are "not cool" to be around.. IMO Hailey for whatever reasons was a bit different and for whatever reasons family connections remained the strongest and most important for her..
With daddy being IMO the MOST SPECIAL OF ALL to Hailey.. IMO Hailey very much spent any free time she had away from school and practice with family members rather than outside of the family friends.. IMO nothing at all wrong with this and IMO is only a testament to what a sweet little caring soul that Hailey truly was..
I am not saying that HAILEY NEVER SPENT TIME WITH FRIENDS, because I do believe that she did...BUT IMO BY FAR AND WIDE SHE SPENT THE VAST MAJORITY OF HER TIME WITH FAMILY..different family members and relatives ranging from dad and Naomi and baby sis, and who had become basically a step sibling Naomi's little boy...to spending time at Clint's mom's house whom Hailey was especially find of and favored greatly.. To her hanging at Billie's house with brother, DD who Hailey thought the world of and looked up to.. Hailey was very much a young woman who family meant absolutely everything to her..
I believe that she did not spend too many nights away from home staying at her little girlfriends houses(not saying she NEVER stayed with friends) BUT AM SAYING that the majority of nights that Hailey spent away from home were spent staying the night with family members, with daddy's house definitely being the choice for the most part..IMO this is where she most often spent the night at when away from Billie's home.
Note below in the snipped quote that Billie whether intentional or not basically states exactly what I described above as being accurate..(*last statement by Billie in the quote below)
GRACE: Billie, when your little girl would go for a sleepover, didn`t the family typically know she was coming?
DUNN: She usually asked me first and then would ask the other family. Sometimes she would ask them first. I thought, yes, they knew she had intentions of spending the night. They should have known.
GRACE: So was there ever time a time she took off for a sleepover without Marybeth`s family or you knowing?
DUNN: No. I always knew where she was. If she had been at a friend`s too long and not asked to spend the night, I did get ahold of somebody.
GRACE: SO Billie, is this the first time she has ever gone away for a sleepover without asking you specifically?
DUNN: She`s left notes or -- no, she`s let us know.
GRACE: I`m talking about you. Did she always tell you, her mother, that she was going to go spend the night?
DUNN: Well, no. Usually, she if stayed somewhere, it was with Clint and she would tell David or Shawn, if mom was at work, Let Mom going to -- I plan on spending the night with So-and-So.
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Moving in a bit of another direction and not directed at Knoxy's above quoted post...
I also agree with those that mention there was absolutely lack of parenting and supervision of Hailey, period.. And that over the course of the last year she seemed to be spending more and more time away from Billie's home due to her uneasiness, discomfort, dislike, or whatever else anyone wants to label it as..but IMO bottom line it was due to Shawn Adkins living there that IMO Hailey absolutely was spending more and more time away from Billie's home.. In the last months leading up to her disappearance she had shared with more than one person(both family and non-family) some of the uncomfortable and/or inappropriate issues regarding Shawn..as well as was seeking to live full time with dad and Naomi..which apparently led to further discord in Billies's home within just mere days of Hailey disappearing...
There is nothing IMO that in any way indicates or even merely suggests in any way that Hailey was often or even regularly staying the night ANYWHERE OTHER THAN WITH FAMILY, MAINLY DAD..much less indicative of Hailey having this secret life of running around and playing the field with wild people and parties.. Nothing at all and its exactly the reason that IMO its a moot point to continue running with the notion that Hailey lied to Shawn that day, left out with nothing but the tshirt on her back and flip flops, heading to a secretive life she had on the sly ..and that it is in someway that lifestyle she was secretly living that holds the answers to who is responsible for her disappearance and death..
I've looked at the various avenues of possibilities in this case and WRT the possibility described above involving Hailey's lying and deceiving everyone all the while sneaking off to this covert, hidden lifestyle which led to her disappearance...its just NOT A POSSIBILITY..IN LOOKING AT THIS AVENUE MORE THAN ONCE(as its brought up more than once) there is absolutely nothing whatsoever that even begins to be a basis for this theory..nothing..not one fact supports this secret, hidden lifestyle theory..
Much the total opposite emerges about who and what Hailey Dunn was.. From them all..friends, family, teachers, neighbors it is the total opposite .. Strangely even tho in truth Hailey Dunn had IMO not only every reason to possibly act out in a rebelious or wild way..but more importantly Hailey Dunn absolutely had every opportunity to go and do completely as she pleased..no one to answer to, no one to supervise..Hailey had free rein at any and all times to go and be as wild as she wanted to.. Yet what she really was is anything but wild, rebelious, acting out ..she was not perfect and no holier than thou individual as she had experimented with smoking weed, but Hailey for whatever reasons just very much seemed to not be drawn to the wilder or darker elements that were always very much available to her...she imo was a soul much wiser beyond her young 13 years..a soul that was genuinely warm and such warmth radiated from the inside out of Hailey..
So, tho she had every opportunity to be as wild as she wanted, with wilder, darker elements literally surrounding her, yet Hailey was very much just the opposite..
Byerley characterized the 13-year-old as not getting along with her mothers boyfriend, and Hailey herself as always wandering here and there, coming and going largely as she pleases.
But rather than a little girl lost, Byerley painted a picture of a compassionate person, whether it was taking care of a mutual friend or a family pet, a girl who remained very much an individual, with an honest style of communication whether talking about school, family or friends.
For as dysfunctional and quite possibly even abusive(with claims of Adkins behaviors that Hailey feared and complained of)..along with drug use scattered all through both sides of Haileys family.. Despite all of this, along with opportunity beyond belief to go and do anything at all that she pleased...
Yet still 13year old Hailey Dunn was anything but wild, hiding a lifestyle that in the end proved dangerous.. She was none of that but rather much the opposite in that she was firmly grounded, kept extremely close the bonds between family, and spent the majority of her free time away from school, practice, and games, was spent with those whom Hailey's young, yet little wise ol' soul cared for and loved the very most...her family.. Her family IMO was 13yo Hailey Dunn's world..