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

[Florent B]

I asked a journalist a question on this thread about two years ago.
Whether anyone other than the parents had seen the little boy that day. But that part seems to have been deleted. I'm not dreaming because if I'm here it's because I've just had an alert on this thread.
To this day, my conviction hasn't changed. If the only sight of the little boy was in the parking lot when the parents arrived. Information that can't be found in any Mainstream press article (until 2022) (and since I had to ask this journalist here)(and not viewed on the stadium/field/ground), and if it's true (not to be confused with another little boy). Ask yourself.
I read about this brown van like a hope. But I still think Maddie.

 

[mjm076]

I asked a journalist a question on this thread about two years ago.
Whether anyone other than the parents had seen the little boy that day. But that part seems to have been deleted. I'm not dreaming because if I'm here it's because I've just had an alert on this thread.
To this day, my conviction hasn't changed. If the only sight of the little boy was in the parking lot when the parents arrived. Information that can't be found in any Mainstream press article (until 2022) (and since I had to ask this journalist here)(and not viewed on the stadium/field/ground), and if it's true (not to be confused with another little boy). Ask yourself.
I read about this brown van like a hope. But I still think Maddie.

Whose Maddie?

 

[Florent B]

Whose Maddie?

Sorry. McCann

 

[dotr]

33 years since Michael Dunahee went missing on Vancouver Island - BC | Globalnews.ca

Police said investigators continue to work and the case remains one of the largest missing person investigations in the country.

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By Darrian Matassa-Fung Global News March 24, 2024
''A few years ago, Victoria police created an online portal, hoping it would generate new leads in the search for Michael.
Michael’s family has turned their tragedy into a grassroots effort to protect other families.

The annual Michael Dunahee ‘Keep The Hope Alive’ walk/run has been a fixture in the community.

This year’s walk is on Sunday and is a five-kilometre route through the neighbourhood of Esquimalt.''

 

[Blurgle]

I asked a journalist a question on this thread about two years ago.
Whether anyone other than the parents had seen the little boy that day. But that part seems to have been deleted. I'm not dreaming because if I'm here it's because I've just had an alert on this thread.
To this day, my conviction hasn't changed. If the only sight of the little boy was in the parking lot when the parents arrived. Information that can't be found in any Mainstream press article (until 2022) (and since I had to ask this journalist here)(and not viewed on the stadium/field/ground), and if it's true (not to be confused with another little boy). Ask yourself.
I read about this brown van like a hope. But I still think Maddie.

Numerous credible witnesses saw him there that day, and one may have witnessed the abduction.

 

[Florent B]

Numerous credible witnesses saw him there that day, and one may have witnessed the abduction.

I don't mind, but I'm waiting for someone to come up with a press article, mainstream media as they say on WS, that indicates this.
Journalists can't have failed to report it.

 

[Andreee]

I asked a journalist a question on this thread about two years ago.
Whether anyone other than the parents had seen the little boy that day. But that part seems to have been deleted. I'm not dreaming because if I'm here it's because I've just had an alert on this thread.
To this day, my conviction hasn't changed. If the only sight of the little boy was in the parking lot when the parents arrived. Information that can't be found in any Mainstream press article (until 2022) (and since I had to ask this journalist here)(and not viewed on the stadium/field/ground), and if it's true (not to be confused with another little boy). Ask yourself.
I read about this brown van like a hope. But I still think Maddie.

I am not quite sure what you are saying re. the Maddie comment, but this little boy went missing at the park.

 

[mjm076]

A new episode of the Island Crime podcast on Michael Dunahee titled Missing Michael has been released. The episode is titled The FBI Profile. It is a discussion by FBI analysts Jim Clemente and Kathy Canning-Mello of the profile done by the FBI’s Behavioural Analysis Unit of the abductor.

Island Crime

Podcast · Laura Palmer · Season 7-'Evaporated' explores the disappearance of Victoria's Ian Indridson. Season 6: ‘Sweethearts’ examines the unsolved cases of three teenage girls who were murdered in Victoria, Canada between 1990 and 1991. Season 5: ‘Whiskey Creek’ is the untold story of a...

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People on Reddit who have listened to the podcast already seem to think Michael is dead and that the so-called ‘man in the brown van’ was involved.

Thoughts?

 

[UncoolNegated]

I postulated that the woman Norma described was a former abductee herself that's under the control of the man in the van. Female abductors 18-25 are so rare. Stockholm Syndrome and all factor in if she is a former abductee.

 

[TwinkieDefense]

March 24, 2024/August 18, 2024 article

Sunday marks the 33rd anniversary of Michael Dunahee’s disappearance. - - Missing People Canada

On March 24th, 1991, at approximately 12:30 p.m., four-year-old Michael Dunahee disappeared from the area of the Blanshard School playground, just a short distance away from his family. Many families and spectators were in the area at the time for a touch football game. An extensive search was...

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[…]

Each year, families run or walk to mark Michael’s disappearance and highlight the on-going search.

[…]

 

[emonix]

My mother was there the day he went missing. She was on the podcast too. I am haunted by Michael. I want answers for his family, and for everyone who was there that day.

 

[phillybarnes]

Several online searchers have been scouring the internet to try to figure out who the "Brown Van Man" was. The most I've been able to find is that his name was Tony.

 

[UncoolNegated]

Several online searchers have been scouring the internet to try to figure out who the "Brown Van Man" was. The most I've been able to find is that his name was Tony.

But is this based on something of substance?

 

[UpdatingHistory]

A few questions, based mainly on reading some news articles from 1991 about the initial investigation & listening to the Island Crime podcast:

1. The shape of the brown van -- early reports, including the sketch by the 10 yr old witness, of the dark brown van was a step-van type like a UPS delivery truck, with a protruding hood. But the ‘Brown Van Guy’ (per episode 11 of the podcast) had a VW Westfalia camper van -- is there any concern about this discrepancy? Or, does this difference just reflect the fact that police discounted the description of the van given by the 10 yr old?

Here's a link to the original sketch of the brown van, for reference, on the Island Crime site: Island Crime
And photos of VW Westfalias, on Wikipedia: Volkswagen Westfalia Camper - Wikipedia

2. The dog -- what happened with early reports that there was a caged, tan bulldog in the van? Again, I get that the police didn't consider it a strong lead after subsequent interviews with the original witnesses, but they didn't seem to discount it entirely, if I understand correctly. But now, it would seem like a stronger clue if the current (or any) brown van suspects were known to have ever owned a bulldog. It just seems like such a detailed clue that would be hard to dismiss.

3. ‘Motel Row’ -- did police or others question & search the nearby budget motels? The playground was just a few blocks away, & there was often sketchy activity around them per news reports in the early 1990s. Regardless of the brown van theory, or if the perpetrator was local or not, interviews with motel managers might have produced some helpful info.

 

[Aycheff]

Happy 39th birthday Michael

 

[mjm076]

Another new episode of Laura Palmer’s podcast Missing Michael about the Michael Dunahee case has been released. The episode is #14 of Season 3 titled The Brown Van Tip.

Island Crime

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