Following on from earlier posts, I got interested in what exactly BD and co said at their earliest interviews, so I read the
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1101/04/ng.01.html (I think this is the first one she gave - it is about a week after HD went missing). Anyway, it would have been before the polygraphs and warrant affidavits, so it should give us the best idea of what the principals views at the time were.
1. What about the dogs?
This is the first mention we have of search dogs. This is what BD had to say:
GRACE: I want to go back to Billie Dunn. Billie, you`re Hailey`s mother, and tonight you are making a public plea for her return. What can you tell me about these bloodhounds? We are learning police have brought bloodhounds out to your home, and they went from your home to a local motel?
BILLIE DUNN: Yes. I kind of don`t know what to say now since I heard police were being tight-lipped about it, but I`ll go ahead and say they started toward her dad`s house. They didn`t go there. They stopped, turned around, went to her friend`s, went to that motel, where they told me they`re reviewing video surveillance. There was video surveillance there. But didn`t have much luck there.
Keep in mind that earlier in the show NG spoke to a local radio person who said by and large the same thing. So it was not just BD saying this. Presumably she observed at least some of this if they started at her home, and the rest she would have been told by various LE. The alternate version subsequently put out by elements of LE doesn't make sense. If they had dogs why would they take them to specific locations, such as motels, but not more obvious places, such as the homes of CD and MB (places HD supposedly visited)? I am more inclined to believe BD over LE in this instance, because her version is logical whereas the other is not. The LE version came from Kampfer, who was the CC city manager at the time, not a member of the investigative team. There is no reason to believe him to be credible.
2. Why did SA leave work that day?
There has been lots of debate about this, most people are using the affidavit as the statement of fact. But, as I have pointed out, the affidavit does not detail what exactly SA claimed about that morning, it only details what his boss observed. So why? Let's look at what BD had to say on NG's show about this:
BILLIE DUNN: No, I said that. He went in Monday morning, but there was an argument. He was fired or there was just a big blow-up there. He walked out. He left his job by 6:30 in the morning and went to Big Spring (ph) to his mom`s house.
GRACE: OK. What was the blow-up about?
BILLIE DUNN: I don`t even know. I just know he didn`t get along with one or two of the co-workers.
As you can see, she does not know the specifics of exactly what happened,
as she says so. But what she does know is that he did not get along with some of his co-workers. In other words, the events leading up to him quitting did not occurr that morning, but long before that. And they did not involve the boss directly, it was a conflict with other people.
3. What about MB and how does she play into this?
A number of points here. BD says that she contacted MB and asked about what was going on that day, and MB denied knowing about anything, including texts and such. But, we know that there was a text. BD claims she did not speak to MB's mom. Later, the mom comes out and says that her daughter had no contact (which is contary to the text) and that HD was not there that day.
GRACE: Now have you -- have you spoken with Mary Beth? Did that in fact happen?
B. DUNN: I hadn`t asked her about that. I`m letting the police handle Mary Beth. I do call her to ask her hey, what did Hailey say to you on Monday, did she call you Monday, did you guys text, did she say she was going somewhere else Monday, or with another friend Monday, and she tells me no.
GRACE: Did she say she even saw Hailey on Monday?
B. DUNN: She hasn`t told me that she did. No.
GRACE: OK. So to your knowledge, Hailey never went to Mary Beth`s?
B. DUNN: Right. That`s what she says.
There are three issues with this:
A) There is the text message, so there was at least some contact
B) The dogs (allegedly) followed a track to MB's house
C) There was a witness that (allegedly) observed HD, MB and an unknown boy in town that evening.
LE would have interviewed her for sure, but presumably she denied knowing anything, as she did to her mother and to BD.
4. Other odd stuff from the interview.
CD was also interviewed on this show. One odd thing I noted here:
GRACE: OK. Let`s back it up a little bit. Did you see her at all that day?
CLINT DUNN: I didn`t see her at all that day.
GRACE: When did you first learn she was missing?
CLINT DUNN: I seen her the day before. Later on that night, David came over -- my son came over and asked me...
BILLIE DUNN: Tuesday.
CLINT DUNN: ... or Tuesday, he came over asking me if I had seen her, if she`d came over that day. And I hadn`t.
GRACE: OK.
CLINT DUNN: So it was the next day.
Not sure what to make of that, but it seems to be in the same ballpark of oddness as the GF first saying that HD as there that day, then changing her mind and saying that she was mistaken, it was another day. And the whole earring affair. You would think that with such an important event in their lives they would have the chronology in order without requiring correction.
5. The text message and did HD make it?
We know about the text message, and that it was sent at around 2PM. But, also in this NG show they talk to another reporter who says the following:
BOARD: This was about 3:00 o`clock on Monday, December 27th, that the boyfriend, from what we know, came home. That`s where he met with Hailey, at his home. Hailey at that time told the mother`s boyfriend that she was going from her mom`s house to her dad`s house, then her dad`s house to a friend`s house.
Now, earlier in that day, we had a neighbor confirm that she saw Hailey in the back yard speaking on some sort of a phone. We don`t know if that`s a home phone or a cell phone. They weren`t sure. That witness wasn`t sure at that time what Hailey was speaking on. But it was about 3:00 o`clock Monday, December 27th was the last time anybody saw Hailey alive.
Note that this is not from BD, but independent of her version of events. No specific time of the observation was given. The witness also talks about her speaking, not texting, but I guess if you were not paying particular attention a person observed using a phone might be percieved as speaking.
So, I guess the question is, how would all of these things fit what this woman claims to have heard and seen at the crack house?