01-04-2011, 09:18 PM
i am just hearing about this case. will add more as i get it.
COLORADO CITY, Texas -- Officials with the city of Colorado City tell KTXS News that the reward has been upped from $10,000 to $25,000 for the return of missing teen Hailey Dunn.
The city manager of Colorado City also told our crew on the scene that the city has three times asked that an Amber Alert to be issued, but the request has been denied three times.
Dunn was last seen Dec. 27. The Colorado Middle School student told her mother's boyfriend she was spending the night at a friend's house. However, she did not spend the night there, and she hasn't been seen since.
If anyone has any information on her whereabouts, they are to contact the Colorado City Police Department at 325-728-5294.
Hailey Dunn: Texas cheerleader goes missing, considered 'endangered missing'
COLORADO CITY, Texas -- Hailey Dunn is a 13-year-old Colorado City, Texas, middle-school cheerleader who went missing walking to a friend’s house in broad daylight at 1 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 27.
Scroll down for a description of Hailey, and the tipline phone number.
Fliers can be found just about everywhere in Colorado City, Texas, where Hailey lived before her disappearance.
According to Radio Owner Jim Buam, there are not many runaways in Colorado City. "It is so uncommon to have a runaway in Colorado City and I suspect this is true in other smaller towns. So, as much as we could put her name, her weight, her description and her height and weight and phone number of the mother, then that's what we did."
Everyone in town is worried about the missing teen who vanished after walking to a friend’s house. “To tell you, this is the first time, and I’ve been here 30 years, that we’ve had a runaway like this. It’s so uncommon,” Baum said.
Initially people believed Hailey had run away. Now, they’re just not sure. Her mother and friends say she is a happy girl. She took nothing with her the day she disappeared.
As of Sunday, no Amber Alert had been issued because police did not believe Hailey met with foul play. According to an article posted Friday on the Colorado City Record website, Bivins said his department considers Hailey a runaway. “That’s what the evidence shows at this time,” Bivins said.
But as the days since her disappearance pass, concern continues to grow.
“To me, I think it’d be more than just considered runaway,” Mitchell County Sheriff Patrick Toombs told the Reporter-News on Sunday night. His agency has interviewed several of Hailey’s classmates to help Colorado City police. Toombs said Texas Rangers also have assisted in the case.
While Toombs said his agency was only assisting Colorado City, Hailey’s disappearance remains a mystery, he said.
“It’s really unknown,” Toombs said. He said he wasn’t aware that anything has been ruled out, calling some sort of abduction or coercion “still a possibility.”
“But, right now, we have not been able to confirm or deny that, of how she disappeared from town,” Toombs said.
However, the Mitchell County community, Baum said, is gravely concerned for the teen’s safety.
“The people who knew her and her character do not believe she’d just take off and run away,” he said. “It doesn’t fit.
“They feel like there is foul play.”
Baum said Hailey’s mother became alarmed about her daughter’s whereabouts when she did not return home Tuesday.
“It just wasn’t like her” to vanish, Baum said. “She is real popular with her teachers and with those she goes to school with.”
Interim Police Chief John Bivins told Colorado City radio station KVMC/KAUM that Hailey intended to spend the night with her friend the day she went missing.
“Officers are working this as a missing person’s investigation and we are pursuing leads night and day to find Hailey,” Colorado City Police Chief, John Bivins, said. “We will not rest until Hailey is found.”
Multiple agencies have joined in the search, including the Colorado City Police, Snyder Police, Mitchell County Sheriff’s deputies, Texas Rangers, and the District Attorney’s Office.
They are now calling her case a missing person’s case. Her parents are beginning to fear the worst.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children lists her disappearance as “Endangered Missing.”
“There’s a chance somebody abducted her,” Hailey’s mother Billie Jean said. “That’s in the back of my mind because of the fact that she didn’t take anything and because this is so out of character. I’m pretty terrified of that.”
Baum said, “First couple of days for sure a runway. Next several days you stop and think and now after a week as a parent myself, I worry it’s not a runaway,” Baum said.
Description:
Name: Hailey Dunn
Age: 13
Height: 5’1”
Eyes: Hazel
Hair: Brown
Last seen: 12/27/2010
From: 1804 Chestnut Street, Colorado City, Texas
Reward: $10,000
Note: Last seen wearing navy blue sweat pants, a short sleeved light colored T-shirt, and flip flops. She has pierced ears and was wearing red hoop earrings. Her left upper ear is pierced.
If you have any information about Hailey’s disappearance, or saw anything suspicious the days surrounding her disappearance, police are asking you call them at 325-728-5294
COLORADO CITY, Texas -- Officials with the city of Colorado City tell KTXS News that the reward has been upped from $10,000 to $25,000 for the return of missing teen Hailey Dunn.
The city manager of Colorado City also told our crew on the scene that the city has three times asked that an Amber Alert to be issued, but the request has been denied three times.
Dunn was last seen Dec. 27. The Colorado Middle School student told her mother's boyfriend she was spending the night at a friend's house. However, she did not spend the night there, and she hasn't been seen since.
If anyone has any information on her whereabouts, they are to contact the Colorado City Police Department at 325-728-5294.
Hailey Dunn: Texas cheerleader goes missing, considered 'endangered missing'
COLORADO CITY, Texas -- Hailey Dunn is a 13-year-old Colorado City, Texas, middle-school cheerleader who went missing walking to a friend’s house in broad daylight at 1 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 27.
Scroll down for a description of Hailey, and the tipline phone number.
Fliers can be found just about everywhere in Colorado City, Texas, where Hailey lived before her disappearance.
According to Radio Owner Jim Buam, there are not many runaways in Colorado City. "It is so uncommon to have a runaway in Colorado City and I suspect this is true in other smaller towns. So, as much as we could put her name, her weight, her description and her height and weight and phone number of the mother, then that's what we did."
Everyone in town is worried about the missing teen who vanished after walking to a friend’s house. “To tell you, this is the first time, and I’ve been here 30 years, that we’ve had a runaway like this. It’s so uncommon,” Baum said.
Initially people believed Hailey had run away. Now, they’re just not sure. Her mother and friends say she is a happy girl. She took nothing with her the day she disappeared.
As of Sunday, no Amber Alert had been issued because police did not believe Hailey met with foul play. According to an article posted Friday on the Colorado City Record website, Bivins said his department considers Hailey a runaway. “That’s what the evidence shows at this time,” Bivins said.
But as the days since her disappearance pass, concern continues to grow.
“To me, I think it’d be more than just considered runaway,” Mitchell County Sheriff Patrick Toombs told the Reporter-News on Sunday night. His agency has interviewed several of Hailey’s classmates to help Colorado City police. Toombs said Texas Rangers also have assisted in the case.
While Toombs said his agency was only assisting Colorado City, Hailey’s disappearance remains a mystery, he said.
“It’s really unknown,” Toombs said. He said he wasn’t aware that anything has been ruled out, calling some sort of abduction or coercion “still a possibility.”
“But, right now, we have not been able to confirm or deny that, of how she disappeared from town,” Toombs said.
However, the Mitchell County community, Baum said, is gravely concerned for the teen’s safety.
“The people who knew her and her character do not believe she’d just take off and run away,” he said. “It doesn’t fit.
“They feel like there is foul play.”
Baum said Hailey’s mother became alarmed about her daughter’s whereabouts when she did not return home Tuesday.
“It just wasn’t like her” to vanish, Baum said. “She is real popular with her teachers and with those she goes to school with.”
Interim Police Chief John Bivins told Colorado City radio station KVMC/KAUM that Hailey intended to spend the night with her friend the day she went missing.
“Officers are working this as a missing person’s investigation and we are pursuing leads night and day to find Hailey,” Colorado City Police Chief, John Bivins, said. “We will not rest until Hailey is found.”
Multiple agencies have joined in the search, including the Colorado City Police, Snyder Police, Mitchell County Sheriff’s deputies, Texas Rangers, and the District Attorney’s Office.
They are now calling her case a missing person’s case. Her parents are beginning to fear the worst.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children lists her disappearance as “Endangered Missing.”
“There’s a chance somebody abducted her,” Hailey’s mother Billie Jean said. “That’s in the back of my mind because of the fact that she didn’t take anything and because this is so out of character. I’m pretty terrified of that.”
Baum said, “First couple of days for sure a runway. Next several days you stop and think and now after a week as a parent myself, I worry it’s not a runaway,” Baum said.
Description:
Name: Hailey Dunn
Age: 13
Height: 5’1”
Eyes: Hazel
Hair: Brown
Last seen: 12/27/2010
From: 1804 Chestnut Street, Colorado City, Texas
Reward: $10,000
Note: Last seen wearing navy blue sweat pants, a short sleeved light colored T-shirt, and flip flops. She has pierced ears and was wearing red hoop earrings. Her left upper ear is pierced.
If you have any information about Hailey’s disappearance, or saw anything suspicious the days surrounding her disappearance, police are asking you call them at 325-728-5294