Case Signal's List: Hailey Dunn - Reference Info - May & June 2011

• "She's all I think about - I don't think of anyone else. Thinking that I may never see her again," Connie Jones, Hailey's Grandmother, said.

   

• For the past seven months, Jones says she wakes up every morning terrified and sad.

   

• "Not knowing if she's alright, if she's hurting, if she's hungry, if she's cool," Jones said. "If she's alive."

   

• "Imagine what hell is like - just imagine someone in your family missing and not knowing where she's at," Jones said.

   

• "We haven't forgotten about Hailey. We are going to continue to work the case," Colorado City Manager Pete Kampfer said.

   

• Kampfer says several different law enforcement agencies are working to find Hailey.

   

• "As a basis of what's going on, there are leads that are always being developed," Kampfer said. 

   

• Meantime, Connie says she hasn't given up hope of finding Hailey.  However, she worries she won't be found alive.  When asked if she believed Hailey was still alive, Connie answered: "No ma'am.  I don't."

   
• Investigators say Hailey's mother's boyfriend, Shawn Adkins, remains a person of interest in the case.

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• Tuesday was the first day of work for Colorado City's new chief of police Roy Owens.
• But the question on everybody's mind, how will Chief Owens handle the investigation of Hailey Dunn, the 13-year-old Colorado City girl missing since December.
• "Visit with the folks heavily involved," Chief Owens said. "See if we can see what's coming-up fresh that we can get a new perspective on."
• With the hopes he could give the case some closure, something this town has waited for.
• Chief Owens replaced Interim Chief John Bivens who took over just as the Hailey Dunn case broke. <!--stopindex-->

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• According to Shawn Adkins’ attorney, Barrett Thomas, Adkins left the area because he could not find a job.
• Thomas told KTXS in a statement that he has personally assured district attorney Ann Reed that he can get her in touch with Adkins if she needs any information from him.
• Adkins was the live in boyfriend of Billie Dunn, Hailey's mother, during the time of her disappearance. <!--stopindex-->

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• Shawn Adkins, the only named suspect so far in the disappearance of Colorado City teen Hailey Dunn, has moved away from the area, according to his attorney.
• "Mr. Adkins has left the immediate area due to his inability to find work in Colorado City. He is now working full time. Mr. Adkins remains accessible to investigators through my office," Thomas said

• Thomas did not indicate where his client had moved to in the email.

    

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• At this weekend's candle light vigil to mark that anniversary Billie Dunn, Hailey's mom said after six months she decided move to South Texas because of all the attention and hatred surrounding her.
• Questions were raised last week about her mother, Billie Dunn's, move to South Texas.
• Billie said it was for the best.
• "For employment reasons, and to be closer to family and just away from all the hatred," said Billie. "All the ugly negative speculations everyone's had since the beginning.We've always wanted to go back there, Hailey has too, so when she's found that's where she'll be also."
• Sunday, eight different law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, Texas Rangers and local police are still investigating.
• KTXS spoke with Pete Kampfer, Colorado City's City Manager who said Sunday there are no new leads in the case.
• Colorado City did hire a new police chief, and starts Monday and will be leading the investigation.<!--stopindex-->

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• Billie Dunn, the mother of missing Colorado teen Hailey Dunn, was sentenced on Wednesday, for lying to a police officer.
• You'll recall Dunn was arrested by the Mitchell County Sheriff's Office back in March.
• That's after she told authorities, her boyfriend, Shawn Adkins, was not at her home.

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• Billie Dunn, the mother of missing Colorado City teen Hailey Dunn, will reportedly serve probation for a charge of making a false report.
• Mitchell County authorities arrested Dunn in March, after they say she lied about the whereabouts of Shawn Adkins. Adkins was Billie Dunn's live-in boyfriend at the time of Hailey's disappearance, and has since been named a suspect in the case.
• According to the KTXS report, Dunn received a year of probation, and she has moved from Colorado City to the Austin area where she will serve her probation. As part of the plea agreement, authorities dropped additional charges against Dunn.

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• "I'm afraid somebody's going to run through my shop, hurt one of my employees or my granddaughter. I feel really bad for Hailey Dunn and her family, but it's a safety issue with the cars that stop on the bridge on the highway," he said.
• Witnesses said two men defaced the memorial at the bridge Tuesday afternoon, dumping stuffed animals and notes left in Hailey's memory into a dry creek bed below. 
• Volunteer searchers met early Wednesday morning to repair the memorial, sparking arguments with frustrated Dunn residents who feel the bridge is a dangerous distraction.
• The Texas Department of Transportation owns the bridge. TxDot fficials said no one asked permission to start the memorial there.
• "We would not have given them permission, because it is on our right of way. It is on one of our bridges," said Mary Beth Kilgore of TxDot in Abilene.
• "I've lived here all my life, and I'm tired of not enough concern for public safety," he said.
  
• TxDot officials said they have no immediate plans to remove the memorial.

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• Clint Dunn, Hailey's father, tells NewsWest 9 he took a polygraph test and passed.
• While the Mitchell County Sheriff's Office could not release the results of that test, they did confirm he was cleared as a suspect.

• According to Clint Dunn, his girlfriend also passed a polygraph test.

   

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• According to the Mitchell County sheriff's office, Del Ostrander, brother of Hailey's mother Billie Dunn, is in custody for multiple outstanding warrants.
• The charges range from DWI, possession of a controlled substance, as well as multiple times he failed to appear in court.
• Ostrander's bonds total more than $30,000.

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• Hailey's loved ones and residents of Colorado City have taken back "Hailey's Bridge."
• On Tuesday, those mementos were torn up, destroyed and thrown all over the bridge.

• On Wednesday, residents came together to put them back up.

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• Billie Jean Dunn appeared in court in Mitchell County on Wednesday, without her original attorney who is facing his own legal problems, and on the same day her brother was arrested on seven outstanding warrants from a nearby county.
• Dunn, the mother of missing Colorado City teen Hailey Dunn, was sentenced to 90 days in jail by Judge Ray Mayo after pleading no contest to a charge of giving a false report to law enforcement. The jail term was probated for a period of one year, and Dunn also was ordered to pay a $1,000 fine and $232 in court costs.
• She was arrested March 17 on that charge, along with possession of dangerous drugs and hindering apprehension or prosecution. The arrest came when law enforcement officials went to her home to execute a search warrant for Shawn Adkins, her live-in boyfriend at the time of her daughter's disappearance.
• Dunn reportedly had to make quite a trip to appear in court Wednesday. Mitchell County Sheriff Patrick Toombs said Dunn has moved from Colorado City, and currently is living in Travis County.
• Toombs said he could not confirm whether Shawn Adkins, the only named suspect in Hailey's disappearance so far, also is moving to Travis County.
• "There are rumors around town that he is moving to the Austin area, too, but we cannot confirm that at this point," Toombs said.
• Toombs added that even though Adkins is listed as a suspect, there are no restrictions on his movements.
• Dunn was represented in court Wednesday by Jeannie Fuller, an attorney with a firm that has a Colorado City office. Dunn originally was represented by Sweetwater attorney John Young, who was arrested early Monday morning in Sweetwater on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. He was taken to Nolan County Jail, where he was released after posting a $12,000 bond.
• According to a media release from Mitchell County Attorney Ty Wood, the drug charge against Billie Jean Dunn was dismissed after Dunn produced a valid prescription for the drugs found in her possession. The hindering apprehension charge never was accepted by Wood, a spokeswoman in his office said.
• Toombs also said that on Wednesday, Dell Ostrander, Billie Dunn's brother, was arrested on two drug charges, two failure to appear charges, and a charge of bail jumping, public intoxication and disorderly conduct.

• Ostrander was still in the Mitchell County Jail as of Wednesday afternoon.

     

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• Rebecca Hosler, a local resident, told KTXS: "Pretty much the whole town of Dunn feels that way: We all want to see this little girl found safe and sound. We really, really do. We're all parents, we're a family community -- but we don't want this in town."
• Search volunteers caught wind of the memorial removal, and they were out Wednesday morning putting the bears back up along the bridge railing.
• As volunteers were putting animals back up, residents were stopping by and venting their anger that the items were going back up.
• KTXS News talked with the Department of Public Safety, and officials said it is illegal to deface public property, but they're doubtful if any authorities will take action in this particular situation because of the delicate sensitivities surrounding the case of the missing 13-year-old from Colorado City.

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• "The intent all along was to hire a new chief. It's just kind of hard changing quarterbacks in the fourth quarter," he said, referring the search for Hailey.

• Kampfer said Owens would reopen parts of the Dunn investigation.

    

  "We're hoping he can re-energize that case," he said.