TX - Hailey Dunn, 13, Colorado City, 27 Dec 2010 - #13

[Kamille]

I'm just constantly amazed with this missing child case. BD's friend on here says to please not believe what Byerley has stated to news crews, but here it seems as if BD herself is is saying that at least some of what this woman says is true. So which part are we not to believe??
BBM

http://www.reporternews.com/news/2011/jan/10/officials-teenager-likely-a-runaway/
Locals who claim to know the family say Hailey’s life is more complicated than the version that is being pushed given to at the media.
Donna Byerley, who was introduced to the family after a friend dated a relative of Billie Jean, has described the girl’s home life as “volatile at times.” She said Hailey didn’t get along with her mother’s boyfriend and described Hailey herself as wandering “here and there,” coming and going largely “as she pleases.”
Byerley said in an interview Friday that Hailey stayed with her and her boyfriend off and on, including the final two weeks of the 2009-10 school year.
“The last few weeks, perhaps month, she was living with her dad because she doesn’t like (Billie Jean’s) boyfriend,” Byerley said.
Billie Jean said Hailey also stayed at her dad’s house for less than a month at a time but has always wanted to come back home and that her daughter had at one point moved to Snyder and enrolled in school there while staying with extended family.

“I let her try it out for a minute,” she said in reference to Hailey staying with family members. “I couldn’t let her stay longer than that and, really, she didn’t want to anyway.”

Then we have this statement that leaves me wondering. Was HD not allow her to live with him right now because of the HUD, because there was no room where he was? What does he mean that he had to work hard to be a half a block away? Why was she going to live with CD? Was it just because that's where HD wanted to be or for some other reason?

Clint said the couple had plans for Hailey to move in with him in the future yet had no comment as to why. “I had to work hard to get to be a half a block away so I could see her from my back door,” he said. “I tried to stay as close to her as I could.”

How does the ex-boyfriend of one of your relatives classify as "extended family"? :waitasec:

And you let your 12yr old try living with him and his new girlfriend in another city? This really is so confusing. Where were the grandparents in all this? :waitasec:

Anyway, it seems to me like Hailey was trying desperately to tell people something about SA but no one was listening. She didn't just dislike him IMO, she had an intuition about him and he made her "uncomfortable". If she really wanted to move to another city to avoid him, then he was likely spending most weekends at her mother's house. Probably a lot of weeknights too. Even though he was "officially" moved in 4 months ago, I'll bet it wasn't much of a change from what was going on in the 2 years prior to that. Sounds like Hailey might have been giving him a pretty hard time about "dating" her mother too.

He's back at the top of my list of what may have happened to Hailey.

MOO

 

[peeples]

WHAT??

:thud:

I guess I better just stay speechless. Poor Hailey

But Billies friend said not to believe this woman she should be looked up etc....... I don't know what to say now......:banghead::banghead:

 

[passionflower]

final two weeks of the 2009-10 school year (May-June?)
that is when something started that made Hailey want to move in with
Byerley.
SA wasn't suppose to be living with BD at that time period.
BD said he moved in just months ago.
so 20 months (off & on) she was shipped around to dad (and extended family)
Her age 11-13??? very young!
Was she being molested? or afraid of being molested?

 

[curiousgirl2010]

Are we sure SA is the one who posted on that Michael Meyers forum? Who is Michael Meyers?

 

[winterrose]

She was allowed to wander anywhere and as I read on her ms she had friends that drove,she would drive to other cities and stay up all night.There could be anyone hiding her,because either she wanted to leave or something happened to her while she was wandering.A pretty young girl out on the streets,anything is possible,this is so sad.

 

[mahoneys07]

Authorities said Monday that leads in the case are in the triple digits and reach beyond the state of Texas.

"Some of them, most of them, might even be on the criminal side," said Colorado City Manager Pete Kampfer.

On the criminal side, KTXS confirmed Monday that DNA was collected from people close to the case.

It's not clear how many people have given DNA samples, but Hailey's father, Clint Dunn, confirmed that he gave a sample.

"We need to be working two angles," Kampfer said. "One of them is that she's a missing person and is alive. Another part of the investigation is criminal that something has occurred where Hailey is deceased."

http://www.ktxs.com/news/26440202/detail.html

 

[sreshowtime]

Oriah...I may be wrong, But I seem to remember a local mentioning that a lot of the 'bodies' of water are low, or pretty dried up. I recall many areas in Texas experienced drought this past summer/fall.
Maybe a local can verify the condition of local bodies of water. The depth could be an indicator of whether of not it would be a possible....ah dump site.

 

[passionflower]

How does the ex-boyfriend of one of your relatives classify as "extended family"? :waitasec:

And you let your 12yr old try living with him and his new girlfriend in another city? This really is so confusing. Where were the grandparents in all this? :waitasec:

Anyway, it seems to me like Hailey was trying desperately to tell people something about SA but no one was listening. She didn't just dislike him IMO, she had an intuition about him and he made her "uncomfortable". If she really wanted to move to another city to avoid him, then he was likely spending most weekends at her mother's house. Probably a lot of weeknights too. Even though he was "officially" moved in 4 months ago, I'll bet it wasn't much of a change from what was going on in the 2 years prior to that. Sounds like Hailey might have been giving him a pretty hard time about "dating" her mother too.

He's back at the top of my list of what may have happened to Hailey.

MOO

ITA with you.......

 

[msteach]

It's possible that the family didn't celebrate x-mas for personal, religious or even financial reasons.

i know many people who never have and several who didn't this year, because they couldnt afford to....and those who couldn't afford to would be too ashamed to share that among friends, not to mention people they don't know.

imo, i don't think they have anything to be ashamed of and / or its any of my business to know what they got their children, etc.

while i can see the potential significance of the activites that day in this situation, i can understand it blending in with other days as there are no shopping malls, major shopping places, etc in colorado city.

Do we even know if BD was off on Christmas Day or Christmas Eve or working? Since she works in a healthcare facility of some sort, they need to be staffed 24/7 and 365 days a year.

I think I remember something about Hailey spending Christmas at her dad's.

I also remember seeing a post of hers a few days before Christmas counting down. "3 days..." I think it said. Speculating that might have been 3 days until Christmas...but in light of all that we have recently learned, maybe it was 3 days until she got to spend the night at dad's again and out of the house.

Also...I know I keep bringing him up...but where was her brother living when she was doing all of this moving around? I believe that boys tend to be a bit more resilient in situations than do girls, so maybe he was just coping with it, whereas, a young girl needed to get out of the house for a bit.

Poor things...bouncing here and there. They just wanted the same thing that we all want...some place to feel safe and loved.

 

[Amster]

But Billies friend said not to believe this woman she should be looked up etc....... I don't know what to say now......:banghead::banghead:

I can't say what I want to say....:furious:

EXCEPT....I think Hailey was being abused....and, not by a RSO.

 

[mahoneys07]

But Billies friend said not to believe this woman she should be looked up etc....... I don't know what to say now......:banghead::banghead:

All I can say is..SHe does have an arrest record. I can't say anymore without breaking TOS

 

[passionflower]

I wonder why we were led to believe this was not true? Told we needed to sleuth this lady because she was bad news, oh and so is the friends mom, seems like everyone is bad news...except the people who she was with when she disappeared. :waitasec:

I thnk LE can look into this ladies story and have school records etc to
find out the truth. These little lies could be why some family did not pass poly's.

 

[MD MOMMY]

How does the ex-boyfriend of one of your relatives classify as "extended family"? :waitasec:

And you let your 12yr old try living with him and his new girlfriend in another city? This really is so confusing. Where were the grandparents in all this? :waitasec:

Anyway, it seems to me like Hailey was trying desperately to tell people something about SA but no one was listening. She didn't just dislike him IMO, she had an intuition about him and he made her "uncomfortable". If she really wanted to move to another city to avoid him, then he was likely spending most weekends at her mother's house. Probably a lot of weeknights too. Even though he was "officially" moved in 4 months ago, I'll bet it wasn't much of a change from what was going on in the 2 years prior to that. Sounds like Hailey might have been giving him a pretty hard time about "dating" her mother too.

He's back at the top of my list of what may have happened to Hailey.

MOO

So Hailey lived with this Donna B who is not extended family but knows JD through a relative? I'm so confused but then again what's new in this case geesh. Today I'm riding on the blue horse on this carousel of a hot mess.

 

[mahoneys07]

I can't say what I want to say....:furious:

EXCEPT....I think Hailey was being abused....and, not by a RSO.

I hope not..but very very possible. Cause honestly we don't know sqaut about the Familt dynamics other than a seperated couple, dad has a new baby and mom has a new live in...

 

[Beyond Belief]

i really think theres a lot of information we don't have, things shared with LE but not with the public. their reasons would be understandable.

 

[nursebeeme]

just pointing something out:

4 months ago was around August... 4 months ago is when BF moved in, right?

BUT

She allegedly lived for a few weeks/changed schools at the end of last school year. BF was not living there at the time.

SO

What else is going on here?

 

[msteach]

I wonder why we were led to believe this was not true? Told we needed to sleuth this lady because she was bad news, oh and so is the friends mom, seems like everyone is bad news...except the people who she was with when she disappeared. :waitasec:

...and if we are to believe what we are being told by the family, it doesn't sound as though the lady who commented in the paper about her living with her is a close personal friend of BD. Don't know about any of you, but I know that I would not have let my kids move in with acquaintances if the situation were bad. I would think that the pecking order would be dad, grandma, aunts, and maybe (way down the line) a close personal friend...but not a casual friend or acquaintance.

 

[passionflower]

All I can say is..SHe does have an arrest record. I can't say anymore without breaking TOS

more of a reason not to let your child live there!

 

[tehcloser]

Well I can certainly see why LE is having fits with these people.

 

[Amster]

Seems Billie had a choice....consider the feelings of Hailey and distance herself from SA. OR, ship Hailey around and choose to keep SA in her home. IF, IF, IF SA is the reason that Hailey was bouncing around.....

Billie said last night on NG that all of Haileys bags were in her room. What bags? Packed bags? Since she just got home from dads house?