Time Line: Dunn's Disappearance and Search Efforts
By: Laura Kellerman, bigcountyhomepage.com
Updated: January 7, 2011
The following time line of events was compiled by Bigcountryhomepage.com based on information gathered each day during the search for Hailey Dunn, interviews with Hailey's mother both conducted by our reporters and by Headline News' Nancy Grace, and by reports published by other local media outlets, such as ccitynews.net. This time line is not meant to be a point of reference, not a fact guide.
Anyone with information about Hailey Dunn is asked to contact the Colorado City Police Department at 325-728-5294.
Sunday, Dec. 26
• Hailey spent the night with her dad, Clint Dunn, on Christmas, so the morning of Dec. 26 was the last time he saw her
Monday, Dec. 27
• A neighbor sees Hailey talking on the phone in her backyard
• Hailey's mother, Billie Dunn, says live-in boyfriend Shawn Adkins is fired from his job after some sort of blow-up
• Shawn comes home at 3 p.m.
• Hailey tells him at 3:15 p.m. that she is going to her dad’s, then to Mary Beth’s for a sleepover, but neither Clint nor Mary Beth see or hear from her.
Tuesday, Dec. 28
• Billie calls her son, David, and asks him to tell Hailey to come home
• Hailey is reported missing
Wednesday, Dec. 29
• Bigcountryhomepage.com reports the story and airs a description of Hailey, saying police are treating it as a missing person
Thursday, Dec. 30
• A description and photo of the missing girl have been entered in the TCIC NCIC Region 5 broadcast system which covers surrounding counties. Also, the information has been put on the CopSync system providing anyone in the state with the CopSync system a picture and information on Dunn.
• Bigcountryhomepage.com reports interim police chief John Bivens is treating the case as a runaway
• Searches begin in Colorado City
Friday, Dec. 31
• Bloodhounds follow Hailey’s scent through her neighborhood and to the general vicinity of the Western Suites Motel
• Friends set up a Facebook page to spread the word
• A donor creates a $1,000 reward
Sunday, Jan. 2
• The reward is increased to $10,000
• Hundreds show up for a candlelight vigil
Monday, Jan. 3
• Nancy Grace takes Hailey’s disappearance national and interviews Billie Dunn
• Grace and guests criticize the initial treatment of the case as a “runaway”
• FindHaileyDunn.com is created
Tuesday, Jan. 4
• Reward is increased to $25,000
• Billie Dunn and Adkins planned to take a polygraph test, but were told it would have to be delayed because of the anti-anxiety medication they’d taken
• The case is changed with “missing person”
Wednesday, Jan. 5
• Billie Dunn, Adkins take polygraph tests. Both fail, according to Dunn.
• Adkins leaves town to stay with relatives
• Dunn is interrogated for more than 10 hours
• ABC News airs story about disappearance
Thursday, Jan. 6
• Texas Rangers search Dunn home and seize evidence
• DPS helicopter conducts aerial search
• Investigators say the search is intensifying and they’re narrowing leads
• Billie Dunn appears again on Nancy Grace, saying she was told Adkins failed the polygraph prior to her test, then failed herself.
• Lamar unveils donated missing person billboards
• CBS News, Fox News air stories about disappearance
Friday, Jan. 7
• Volunteers are asked to gather at 2 p.m. at the Mitchell County Court House to begin a county-wide search
• Law enforcement conducts door-to-door interviews in Colorado City
• The polygraph administrator says he did not release the results to anyone
Anyone with information about Hailey Dunn is asked to contact the Colorado City Police Department at 325-728-5294.
Sunday, Dec. 26
• Hailey spent the night with her dad, Clint Dunn, on Christmas, so the morning of Dec. 26 was the last time he saw her
Monday, Dec. 27
• A neighbor sees Hailey talking on the phone in her backyard
• Hailey's mother, Billie Dunn, says live-in boyfriend Shawn Adkins is fired from his job after some sort of blow-up
• Shawn comes home at 3 p.m.
• Hailey tells him at 3:15 p.m. that she is going to her dad’s, then to Mary Beth’s for a sleepover, but neither Clint nor Mary Beth see or hear from her.
Tuesday, Dec. 28
• Billie calls her son, David, and asks him to tell Hailey to come home
• Hailey is reported missing
Wednesday, Dec. 29
• Bigcountryhomepage.com reports the story and airs a description of Hailey, saying police are treating it as a missing person
Thursday, Dec. 30
• A description and photo of the missing girl have been entered in the TCIC NCIC Region 5 broadcast system which covers surrounding counties. Also, the information has been put on the CopSync system providing anyone in the state with the CopSync system a picture and information on Dunn.
• Bigcountryhomepage.com reports interim police chief John Bivens is treating the case as a runaway
• Searches begin in Colorado City
Friday, Dec. 31
• Bloodhounds follow Hailey’s scent through her neighborhood and to the general vicinity of the Western Suites Motel
• Friends set up a Facebook page to spread the word
• A donor creates a $1,000 reward
Sunday, Jan. 2
• The reward is increased to $10,000
• Hundreds show up for a candlelight vigil
Monday, Jan. 3
• Nancy Grace takes Hailey’s disappearance national and interviews Billie Dunn
• Grace and guests criticize the initial treatment of the case as a “runaway”
• FindHaileyDunn.com is created
Tuesday, Jan. 4
• Reward is increased to $25,000
• Billie Dunn and Adkins planned to take a polygraph test, but were told it would have to be delayed because of the anti-anxiety medication they’d taken
• The case is changed with “missing person”
Wednesday, Jan. 5
• Billie Dunn, Adkins take polygraph tests. Both fail, according to Dunn.
• Adkins leaves town to stay with relatives
• Dunn is interrogated for more than 10 hours
• ABC News airs story about disappearance
Thursday, Jan. 6
• Texas Rangers search Dunn home and seize evidence
• DPS helicopter conducts aerial search
• Investigators say the search is intensifying and they’re narrowing leads
• Billie Dunn appears again on Nancy Grace, saying she was told Adkins failed the polygraph prior to her test, then failed herself.
• Lamar unveils donated missing person billboards
• CBS News, Fox News air stories about disappearance
Friday, Jan. 7
• Volunteers are asked to gather at 2 p.m. at the Mitchell County Court House to begin a county-wide search
• Law enforcement conducts door-to-door interviews in Colorado City
• The polygraph administrator says he did not release the results to anyone
