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Search for Logan Dunne paused, waiting for more clues
Illinois parents desperately searching for son Logan Dunne, who escaped from a Peoria hospital nearly three months ago
He was last seen that Friday morning at 5:30 a.m. when he escaped from Carle Health Methodist Hospital in Peoria, Illinois.
Logan had been admitted as a patient at the hospital on Monday, May 29. His parents, Heather and Brian, told Dateline that they brought him to the hospital to receive treatment for bipolar disorder. They added that Logan also has Type 1 Diabetes.
“We called every day,” Brian Dunne told Dateline. “Somebody — family members, couple of friends — called every day, called the hospital to talk to him, ask how he’s doing.” However, according to the Dunnes, each time they called, the hospital was “unable to confirm or deny” that Logan was a patient.
They said they always received the same reply until the morning of Friday, June 2. They called around 8:00 a.m., but this time, Heather said something was different.
“I was put on hold for quite a while, which in the past, it’s like, nobody was ever put on hold,” Heather told Dateline. “My name and number was taken. I was told that a clinician would call me later in the day, and that never happened.”
Dateline spoke with Lieutenant Bryan Sylvester of the Peoria Police Department, who said that their office received a call from Carle Health Methodist Hospital on the morning of Friday, June 2, to report a missing patient and that they dispatched officers to search the surrounding area.
According to Heather and Brian, that same day officers also visited Logan’s home in Brimfield, Illinois, which is about 20 minutes away from the hospital. “I got a text message from [a] neighbor saying, ‘Hey, the county police are in Logan’s driveway,’” Brian said. The Dunnes assumed it was a follow up visit to the 29th when Logan had originally been brought to the hospital. They explained that law enforcement usually accompanies counselors to a scene “because they don’t know what kind of situation they’re getting into,” Brian said.
As a result of that assumption, the Dunnes said they continued to call the hospital throughout the weekend of June 2, unaware that Logan was actually missing. According to the Dunnes, when calling the hospital, the response went back to what they said they had been hearing all week long -- that the hospital was unable to confirm or deny if Logan was there.
It wasn’t until Monday, June 5, that the Dunnes would learn that their son was not at the hospital.
“A family friend called us — whose son is a police officer in Peoria and saw Logan’s name on a report and called his dad and told him that, ‘Hey, he escaped,’ — and then that friend called us,” Brian said. “So we went down to the Peoria Police Department and filed a missing persons report.”
Illinois parents desperately searching for son Logan Dunne, who escaped from a Peoria hospital nearly three months ago
He was last seen that Friday morning at 5:30 a.m. when he escaped from Carle Health Methodist Hospital in Peoria, Illinois.
Logan had been admitted as a patient at the hospital on Monday, May 29. His parents, Heather and Brian, told Dateline that they brought him to the hospital to receive treatment for bipolar disorder. They added that Logan also has Type 1 Diabetes.
“We called every day,” Brian Dunne told Dateline. “Somebody — family members, couple of friends — called every day, called the hospital to talk to him, ask how he’s doing.” However, according to the Dunnes, each time they called, the hospital was “unable to confirm or deny” that Logan was a patient.
They said they always received the same reply until the morning of Friday, June 2. They called around 8:00 a.m., but this time, Heather said something was different.
“I was put on hold for quite a while, which in the past, it’s like, nobody was ever put on hold,” Heather told Dateline. “My name and number was taken. I was told that a clinician would call me later in the day, and that never happened.”
Dateline spoke with Lieutenant Bryan Sylvester of the Peoria Police Department, who said that their office received a call from Carle Health Methodist Hospital on the morning of Friday, June 2, to report a missing patient and that they dispatched officers to search the surrounding area.
According to Heather and Brian, that same day officers also visited Logan’s home in Brimfield, Illinois, which is about 20 minutes away from the hospital. “I got a text message from [a] neighbor saying, ‘Hey, the county police are in Logan’s driveway,’” Brian said. The Dunnes assumed it was a follow up visit to the 29th when Logan had originally been brought to the hospital. They explained that law enforcement usually accompanies counselors to a scene “because they don’t know what kind of situation they’re getting into,” Brian said.
As a result of that assumption, the Dunnes said they continued to call the hospital throughout the weekend of June 2, unaware that Logan was actually missing. According to the Dunnes, when calling the hospital, the response went back to what they said they had been hearing all week long -- that the hospital was unable to confirm or deny if Logan was there.
It wasn’t until Monday, June 5, that the Dunnes would learn that their son was not at the hospital.
“A family friend called us — whose son is a police officer in Peoria and saw Logan’s name on a report and called his dad and told him that, ‘Hey, he escaped,’ — and then that friend called us,” Brian said. “So we went down to the Peoria Police Department and filed a missing persons report.”
