CANADA Canada - Michael Dunahee, 4, Victoria, BC, 24 March 1991

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I was reading about that little sweetheart that went missing in Portugal recently, then i thought," wonder if anything has happened with the Micheal Dunahee case" ??? About a month ago someone had posted on facebook there had been an update in the case, so i looked all over the internet and i found nothing new...<modsnip> IMO its weird no screaming from Micheal as he was carted away, and I wonder if maybe he knew this person...but he could have been lured over to a car ("i have a bunny over here")...But with 50 people around playing some kind of football or watching, its hard to think no one saw or heard anything!!! That game must have been very intense and all eyes focused!!! Its very strange that no one seems to know anything...My Dad use to say he could have been whisked away by an airplane...even to a foreign place (plane lands to fuel up, and plane belongs to some sheik)..Maybe it was even a person in law enforcement(sorry cops)...Maybe this is why some who might know, are keeping their mouths shut, cause its someone with clout..(maybe he was kidnapped for them?) Someone knows something for sure...its time they should tell (give MIchaels family peace)....
When i lived in Victoria and going to Nurse school in the late 70's, i was told there is a big Dev cult thing there...I was into horoscopes, and this other student told me to be very careful what and who you trust with things like astrology etc. in Victoria(most of the Island has stuff like that)...I dont know if they would take a child for anything, but they might...They do have rituals or celebrate around Easter, oh hey thats when around abouts the little guy disappeared too ,March 24th...
Im not going to say if i think he is alive or gone..I hope for his Mom he is out there somewhere...
How could anyone hurt a cute little person is beyond me...pure evil !!! Like that dude in the crows nest pass...lock him up and toss the key!!!
PS? they caught that man that raped and killed around San Fran the other day, and he committed those crimes ages ago...The way they caught him, was a relative had submitted her DNA to a ancestory site or family heritage site...I guess they had some old DNA from his crimes, and some how that was submitted to data base, and they had a hit!!! His niece or something matched up with his DNA..bingo!!! He also was an x cop...ok rant over...Sorry for bad sentence structure and spelling errors..:)
 
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Dunahee family marks National Missing Children's Day - NEWS 1130

It was March 24, 1991 when a then four-year-old Michael Dunahee vanished from his parents’ sight as they unloaded the family car at a Victoria park.

More than two decades later Crystal Dunahee, Michael’s mother, says after all these years, she has never — and will never — give up hope. “Until we have the answer that tells us otherwise… We just know that some day something will happen and the right piece of information will be brought forward to help us put the pieces together as to what happened.”
 
This case, and the Nicole Morin case, drive me absolutely crazy. How can someone just disappear!?

Do you think either of them will ever be found?
 
I might have found a good lead for the authorities tonight. Keeping the details quiet at this time but promise to give an update with a yay or a nay.

Kittymama said:
This case, and the Nicole Morin case, drive me absolutely crazy. How can someone just disappear!?

Do you think either of them will ever be found?
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EPeel said:
I have to comment on this thread, as there are so many inaccuracies and I am really surprised at how cruel some of the comments are. Unusual for this forum. I wasn't there when Michael Dunahee disappeared, so I don't know what happened exactly - none of us do except the person who took him. However, I live just a few minutes from where this happened, have seen/read all the local coverage, know police officers that investigated and have seen the location first hand. I also know that his parents have spent 15 years looking for any information at all about their son, and that their manner and behaviour don't seem any different from other parents whose children have been taken.

I don't even know where to start to correct all the misinformation. First, Michael is the Dunahee's oldest child. His only sibling, a sister, was an infant at the time of his disappearance. He was not left in the charge of an older child. His family was at the field attached to an elementary school, where his mother was playing in a women's football game. His father was watching from the sidelines. The playground, which is clearly visible from the field (there are no trees or other obstructions in between) is maybe 20 yards away from where his father was. Other children were playing there as well, so it may have been that the family figured that he would be OK seeing that he was in their sight and in the company of others. As so many children do, Michael disappeared in the blink of an eye.

As far as I know (and this case has been featured in the local media frequently over the last 15 years), the parents were never serious suspects. Of course, they were thoroughly investigated, but my LE friends say that no one ever really thought they were guilty of anything except the naiviety of thinking their child would be safe a few feet away. Victoria has a very low serious crime rate, and prior to this incident, I don't think there had ever been a child abduction of this type. After Michael's disappearance, many parents (like myself) had sleepless moments remembering times just like this, when we assumed that nothing bad could happen here and let our children play a few feet further away than maybe we should have.

I love this forum, and I think that many of the participants are really great people who truly want to find out the truth about what happened to these victims. However, I've also noticed that some big assumptions get made based on some very flawed information. None of us can be sure about what happened to Michael until by some miracle the case is closed, but we do all owe it to the family (and common sense) to get more facts before making the kind of statements I've read here. I also don't understand why these parents should be singled out as villains. I don't know the Dunahees, but as someone who has seen this case unfold since the beginning, attacking them makes as much sense as attacking John Walsh - how could he have let his young son out of his sight in a department store? How do we know he ever took him there? If that case was less well documented and known, you could say the same kind of outrageous things. Docwho3, I appreciate your caution in asking for confirmation that the statements are true - that's more like what I expect from forum members here.

It's not exactly easy to become a welcomed member of any board, and I don't imagine my little rant about comments made by a regular is going to help my case much here, but I just couldn't let this go.
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EPeel said:
Well, I'm off to a great start here, aren't I? My third post and I'm already in trouble.

First, let me apologize for overreacting. I only intended to correct some facts, not to insult anyone or insinuate that blueclouds was being intentionally malicious or misleading. I've always found blueclouds' contributions to be fair and well thought out - maybe that was why I responded a bit heatedly to what I saw as an unecessarily harsh post, especially when much of the opinion given seemed to be based on things I know are incorrect. The expression of the opinion is valid - we all know that parents do terrible things to their children all the time - the words just made me wince. A simple "I think the parents were negligent and I don't believe their story at all" would not have provoked a reaction in me. I guess as someone who has seen the Dunahees on the news and out in the community campaigning for child safety and the use of Amber alerts every year, and trying to be normal for the sake of their daughter despite their obvious grief, it's hard to deny them compassion. The point of my post (including my inaccurate reference to the Walsh case - sorry about that, but you could just change my reference to his mother) was that without all the information, it would be easy to see the parents as negiligent villians in a lot of cases, even where we know that it isn't true. I was just hoping to add some information so that people could see another perspective.

Unfortunately, this is an old story and most local people know it well, so details are hard to find in online newspaper reports etc. You'll have to take my word for it that some things are accepted fact. You are all free to discount any or all of it. It was a huge news story as nothing like it had ever happened here, and thank God, not often since. At the time of the abduction, I can remember seeing television interviews with people who were also at the park that day, and it seems that they and their children saw and/or spoke to Michael. If I remember correctly, the time between the last sighting and his father realizing Michael was missing was just a few minutes, a fact that absolutely terrified local parents. Other children were around the playground, but didn't see anything. Much later it was revealed that there might have been a witness, but I never heard anything else about that.

I do have to respectfully disagree with blueclouds about the layout of park, as the description just does not match what I've seen there. I can't attach a picture of the park or I would to prove what I'm saying (I don't have the computer capacity to do that right now), but I'm looking at an aerial shot from Google Earth as I write and I drove past there twice in the last week. The playground no longer exists, as the school building and grounds were sold and now form part of a University, but the park is otherwise just as it was 15 years ago. The open field is 160 yards across and there are 130 yards between the school building and the main street that crosses in front of it to the north. The playground was directly in front of the school building right next to the field. The other two sides of the field are small streets/parking areas. Spectators at games usually stand or sit in chairs they bring themselves along one of those two sides or in front of the school by the playground. In all cases, the playground is less than 200 feet from the usual specator areas. The only trees are to the north on the far side of the field, some 110 yards from the playground area, and are spaced about every 20 feet across. Today, you can clearly see the school and entire field from the road as you drive by, and 15 years ago the trees were smaller. There are some low rocks which stick up out of the ground near the school, but these wouldn't obstruct the view significantly from any area.

The park is next to a somewhat notorious apartment complex (one of the few low income housing places in town and where there has been some drug and petty crime activity over the years), and many people think that someone from there snatched Michael and took him inside the complex. The complex was searched and background checks done on its residents, but nothing concrete was found. At the time, the school was in full use during the week, and the field was used regularly on weekends by adult and youth sports leagues. It is in a busy commercial/residential area. I don't think anyone would have thought of there being much danger to kids in the area except maybe from traffic on the busy street.

I've probably said far more than anyone wants to hear from me about this, but I did feel that I needed to explain myself. Again, my apologies if I upset anyone.
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This case is one that has always haunted my family. My brother is the same age as Michael and has quite the resemblance to him. My mom said the moment the news broke about Michael her heart sank. It could have been anyone. Especially given that my parents went and played baseball all the time, at elementary schools and all - but they never brought my brother.

My aunt and brother were actually brought into the police station once to rule out that my brother wasn't Michael - they took it very seriously (as they should) and of course, my family was more than happy to assist, knowing full well my mom had carried my brother the whole nine yards. Even now, when my mom sees anything on the news, it nearly makes her sick to think of what the Dunahee's have gone through.

I really hope that he is alive and well, and living an oblivious life. It's possible. I'd like to remain optimistic about that. And I feel for the family, who have taken a lot of blame and anger from angry people. I'm pretty sure it's safe to say they feel awful and would reverse time if they could. It's not an uncommon thing, especially in those days, to send your kids over to the park. Especially in a place like Victoria, and the same where we lived in Vancouver. I never understood as a kid, why my mom was so strict about being at the playground with me and my friends when other parents would let their kids roam free. And now as I'm older, I completely understand. Michael's disappearance shook her to her core.

Someone knows something. I wish the Dunahee's could have some peace or a happy ending.
 
blueclouds said:
I have never ever ever felt remorse for this family at all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


only the fact that Michael was kidnapped, most likely murdered as well.

WHY?

THESE PEOPLE (THE PARENTS OF MICHAEL) left their 6 yr old in charge of their 4 yr old at a park SEPARATED BETWEEN A HUGE WIDTH OF TREES BETWEEN A BALL FIELD AND A PLAYGROUND while BOTH PARENTS played baseball tournament.

Sorry, THEY HAVE NEVER gotten my sympathy. Only hostility. THIS IS AN ABDUCTION THAT COULD CLEARLY HAVE BEEN AVOIDED ALL TOGETHER.

So when you talk about meters?????????????? meters away???

go to the actual park like I have. we're talking 600 feet PLUS width of SPRUCE AND PINE TREES that you cannot see through.

WHO THE FRICK leaves their 6 yr old in charge of their 4 yrold?

why were the parents never charged with clear neglect and abandoment?

This has always burned my skin. Especially when I went to the same park.
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I can't help but wonder where you got your information. Michael was not left in the care of a 6 year old sister. In fact, he only has one sister that was a baby at the time of his disappearance. It was a football tournament, not baseball, and both parents WERE not playing in the tournament.

There is also NO width of SPRUCE AND PINE TREES between the field and the playground, which also leaves me wondering if you were ever actually at the park.

I lived in Victoria when this happened and am very familiar with the school yard.
 
JoHyphen said:
I can't help but wonder where you got your information. Michael was not left in the care of a 6 year old sister. In fact, he only has one sister that was a baby at the time of his disappearance. It was a football tournament, not baseball, and both parents WERE not playing in the tournament.

There is also NO width of SPRUCE AND PINE TREES between the field and the playground, which also leaves me wondering if you were ever actually at the park.

I lived in Victoria when this happened and am very familiar with the school yard.
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Wow, I have never seen such a lack of compassion on this site as the bl.cld. poster! As a BCer myself, I like everyone else followed this case closely. I have NEVER seen a hint of the thought that the parents were to blame or didn't deserve sympathy throughout the years. JoHyphen, your comments are so right on! This family no doubt feels continual grief and only deserves support, which they have had in spades.
 

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