#7 - Hailey Dunn Missing in Colorado City, TX

Oh, OK. It's actually good to look at some old articles because back in December and January, there was so much coming out, we could have missed something we though insignificant at the time when it really wasn't. Hope that makes sense!

Boston_Lady wrote:Very nice post TBT !! Calling Billie Jean Dunn, Casey's Soul Sister is perfect !!

I am so afraid this case is heading to the cold case files. I really didn't think this was going to go this long and believed that Billie & Shawn would have been arrested by now. Now I read that there is corruption in C City LE and that the case may have been compromised because of this. I think it is the Child Porn that has tentacles and reaches into LE. Cover up is a word that is being thrown around also.

Sorry Charminglane, nothing has been said on FB about what may have been found in the landfill.

It's so unbelievably frustrating.

Boston_Lady, the part that I bolded, do you have a link? I would be real interested in reading that. It's not that I don't believe it, I DO and have thought so for quite a while. I do think Hailey's case is in the cold files, maybe unofficially right now but there. JMOO.

Heat not slowing search for girl, 13

A search was conducted Sunday, she said. Jenkins would not say where the search was conducted.
Jenkins said reports that searches were not being conducted because of the extreme heat gripping West Texas are not true.
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raine1953 wrote:

Boston_Lady wrote:Very nice post TBT !! Calling Billie Jean Dunn, Casey's Soul Sister is perfect !!

I am so afraid this case is heading to the cold case files. I really didn't think this was going to go this long and believed that Billie & Shawn would have been arrested by now. Now I read that there is corruption in C City LE and that the case may have been compromised because of this. I think it is the Child Porn that has tentacles and reaches into LE. Cover up is a word that is being thrown around also.

Sorry Charminglane, nothing has been said on FB about what may have been found in the landfill.

It's so unbelievably frustrating.

Boston_Lady, the part that I bolded, do you have a link? I would be real interested in reading that. It's not that I don't believe it, I DO and have thought so for quite a while. I do think Hailey's case is in the cold files, maybe unofficially right now but there. JMOO.

Raine, I was reading here and there are allusions to police corruption in the comments.
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I only Googled "police corruption in colorado city, texas"

Search for Hailey Dunn Continues
July 21, 2011 01:30 AM EDT

Hailey Dunn is still missing after she vanished a couple days after Christmas of 2007. Since her case is still unsolved, volunteer searchers are still trying to locate clues pertaining to the young girl's disappearance. With it being nearly four years since she vanished, finding Hailey Dunn seems impossible at this point.

With a heat wave passing through the midwest on its way to the East Coast, it may prove dangerous for volunteers to be out and about the Texas wilderness searching for the missing teenager. Heat exhaustion and stroke are factors, as are dehydration and extreme sunburn. The volunteers have intended on searching for Hailey every Saturday since her disappearance, but haven't quite kept up with that promise, and it isn't necessarily anyone's fault. Nobody expected this case to go unsolved for as many years as it's been. It probably also makes it worse now that the mother and "stepfather" of Hailey Dunn are no longer at the address the girl shared with her so-called family.

The volunteer search group claims to only need about five people to conduct their searches, and they even performed a ground search this past Sunday; however, the volunteers refuse to share the whereabouts of the areas they search. They work with police and follow leads just as investigators do, and they're playing their searches close to their collective chests.

It's probably a good idea that this group of searchers aren't sharing the details of their endeavors, because it could complicate their efforts. Just in case someone knows something about the area and the girl's disappearance, knowing about the area beforehand could give a person opportunity to sully the search. It's a good thing people are still interested in finding this missing Texas teen, and hopefully interest won't die off any time soon.

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WTH??? 4 Years? Are they high?

And it gets worse Wrap, with this:
"Nobody expected this case to go unsolved for as many years as it's been. It probably also makes it worse now that the mother and "stepfather" of Hailey Dunn are no longer at the address the girl shared with her so-called family."
This case is bad enough all on it's own w/o someone reporting it wrong!

OMG, I was starting to think I was going crazy, like 4 years just came and went in a blink of an eye :crystal ball:

Poor HL, I wish they would just find her and bring her home, well NOT home, but you know what I mean!

I almost didn't post the article at all but did just to show how screwed up this case really is!

Bet you they mixed up HaLeigh Cummings with Hailey Dunn.
Idiot, Plain and Simple.

I am writing to that paper right now.

"Please correct your article regarding how long Hailey Dunn has been missing. It has not been four years. It has been just shy of seven months.
Those of us that truly care and wonder where she is would like to see truth in the articles and updates that concern her.

Thank you!"

Just sent it to Chelsea Hoffman's email.

WTH?????? 4 yrs missing and Hailey now has a STEP FATHER? Who wrote this piece of bs?

Also, Holly Jenkins is Billie Jean's friend and Holly is doing these searches. Is she feeding this information right to Billie & Shawn???

Just unbelievable. It gets more and more convoluted as time goes on.

charminglane wrote:"Please correct your article regarding how long Hailey Dunn has been missing. It has not been four years. It has been just shy of seven months.
Those of us that truly care and wonder where she is would like to see truth in the articles and updates that concern her.

Thank you!"

Just sent it to Chelsea Hoffman's email.

Even our little Haleigh Cummings hasn't been missing for four years. WTH are they talking about?

Charm, you DO Rock!! I cannot wait to see the response you get! And, what step-father? Sean??????

Wednesday will be seven months since Colorado City teen Hailey Dunn vanished.

Investigators say they are still continuing to follow leads, but some are giving up hope she will be found alive.

"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."

Jones says it's hard to face the possibility that Hailey could be dead. However, she says it's harder simply not knowing anything at all.

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

In the past month, search teams have called off their efforts. Not enough volunteers were showing up, money was running out, and the heat was making it difficult.

"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. However, no charges have been filed.

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BJ wrote:Wednesday will be seven months since Colorado City teen Hailey Dunn vanished.

"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.

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I don't believe what Kampfer says. I must have a bad attitude about it but I think local LE just want this whole thing to go away. The bad thing about that is, I think they're getting their wish.

I agree, Raine.

I also wonder what Connie thinks of her daughter and her daughter's bf.

Still thinking Hailey was sold to human traffickers. This is Texas. It happens all the time here.

BTW, I am NOT a Texan..just happen to be living here.

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Family Losing Hope as Search for Hailey Reaches 7 Months

Reported by: Bigcountryhomepage.com Staff Reports

Wednesday, July 27 2011




Wednesday marks seven months since the disappearance of Colorado City 13-year-old Hailey Dunn.
For Hailey's grandmother, Connie Jones, it's a grim reminder that she may never know what happened to the young girl who investigators just can't seem to find. When asked by a KCBD reporter if Jones believed Hailey was still alive, she answered: "No ma'am. I don't."

For the past seven months, Jones says she wakes up each morning sad and terrified, according to a report on KCBD.com.

"She's all I think about - I don't think of anyone else. Thinking that I may never see her again," Jones said. "Not knowing if she's alright, if she's hurting, if she's hungry, if she's cool, if she's alive."

Investigators say they continue to track leads. However, they don't appear to be any closer to finding Hailey. Since she went missing in December, Hailey's mother Billie Dunn has moved to the Austin area. The only named suspect in the case, Billie's live-in boyfriend Shawn Adkins, has moved away as well.



Affidavits released in February revealed child pornography was also found on devices at Billie Dunn's house in Colorado City and at Adkins' mother's home in Big Spring.

Dunn is currently serving a year-long probation sentence after she pleaded no contest to a charge of making a false report to a police officer. When law enforcement came to her Colorado City home March 17 looking for her former live-in boyfriend, Shawn Adkins, she lied and said he wasn't there.

The child porn case is still under investigation. No arrests have been made, much to the frustration of the public.

"You have to show a direct link between the user and the operator of the machine. It's kind of a difficult aspect to prove," said City Manager for Colorado City, Pete Kampfer.
Over the last few weeks, volunteers searchers have decided to stop searching. The groups blame not enough volunteers taking part piled with money for the search efforts running out.

Are you kidding me? Something fishy is going on in CC.
IMO, someone else is involved and they don't want to open a new can of worms.
A lot of people are going to rot in hell over this.

So if you can't prove it, just let it go?

"You have to show a direct link between the user and the operator of the machine. It's kind of a difficult aspect to prove," said City Manager for Colorado City, Pete Kampfer.
Over the last few weeks, volunteers searchers have decided to stop searching. The groups blame not enough volunteers taking part piled with money for the search efforts running out.

Are you kidding me? Something fishy is going on in CC.
IMO, someone else is involved and they don't want to open a new can of worms.
A lot of people are going to rot in hell over this.

So if you can't prove it, just let it go?

Amen! What a load of bull. Translation:
1) We are bumbling idiots and have no leads and no clue what we are doing.
2) There are many of we city officials involved in this porn ring and we are doing our best to try to get people to FORGET about it!
3) We know who a)killed Hailey or b)know she was traded off but since they are also involved in #2, we are doing our best to try to get people to FORGET this case.
MOO!

p.s. good to see you here, gnreed!

Is there any way they can arrest all of the people that had access to the computer with the cp and play it from there?
Or do they just not Want to?

Thanks for coming back, gnreed.

charminglane wrote:Is there any way they acan arrest all of the people that had access to the computer with the cp and play it from there?
Or do they just not Want to?

Thanks for coming back, gnreed.

Good question. I would think they could arrest the owner of the computer and charge him/her then see who talks.

(Glad to be back)

Today it is 7 months since Hailey was reported missing. Most of us believe she went missing on 12/26. At least that was the last time she was seen alive.

I can't believe what I'm witnessing with this investigation. How can they just drop it? So many open ended issues with this case. So the skanky BJD and her creepy boy toy are going to get away with this? No CP charges?

How can we put pressure on this corrupt little town? Shouldn't the FBI and Texas Rangers be looking into all of this? They were involved from the beginning.

So frustrating.

Good to see you gnreed!

Just out of curiosity, is John Young still not practicing or did his little intoxicated assault episode get swept under the rug too?

TIA!

The last I heard it is still ongoing. I won't be shocked if it is all dropped.

His latest post on Facebook states how much he loves his wife and daughter and they are his world.

Maybe I (WE?) need to call and write LE in Colorado City and remind them of this statement from their webpage:

Colorado City Police Department Mission Statement



“It is the mission of the Colorado City Police Department to provide excellence in police service to the citizens of Colorado City. Our goal is to safeguard the lives and property of the people we serve and to reduce crime, with the highest standards of ethical conduct and integrity”.

Here is my latest letter to the powers that be~
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Email the Chief

201 W. 3rd St.
Colorado City, TX 79512

(325) 728-5294
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First off ~ Congratulations on your new position of police chief.
While reading the home page for your fine city I came across the Mission Statement for the police department:

“It is the mission of the Colorado City Police Department to provide excellence in police service to the citizens of Colorado City. Our goal is to safeguard the lives and property of the people we serve and to reduce crime, with the highest standards of ethical conduct and integrity”.

With Hailey Dunn missing and presumed dead, how are the citizens of your town feeling regarding their own safety and that of their young children? What is being done to ensure that the investigation goes forward?

In regards to child pornography/child pornography ring and the arrest of Bill Fry: What is being done to make absolutely certain that Shawn Adkins and Billie Dunn were in possession of CP and are not also involved in a porn ring? If there is no child porn on any of their devices, why did this statement get released, and also, will it be retracted?

Is there any way that all of the people that had access to the computer with the child porn be arrested and play it from there? To see who turns on one another?

Having had a good friend of mine that was kidnapped and tortured/murdered as a teenager is the impetus for me to actively pursue justice for Hailey Dunn. Any help you could lend in this manner would be greatly appreciated, not just to the few family members that appear to love her well enough to want her back.

Thank you for your time and I wish you much success as Chief.

Charm, that was a very good letter that you wrote. I was thinking the same thing this morning, to write to the City of Colorado City, LE and whoever else.
I'm sure they're trying to sweep this under the rug and I'm angry. They should have to answer to another agency that's above them, I'm thinking the state. MOO.

Great letter Charm! Man it would be great if you actually got a response and some answers to your questions....

Even if you don't get a response, if the Chief simply reads the letter it's worth the effort, imo. Minimize the possible temptation to just let the case die by reminding those in charge of the investigation that advocates for Hailey are still watching and waiting...

Great letter, Charm, You definitely have a way with words. Like TBT said, it will give the COP cause for pause. He has to know that we the people are not stupid. I hope he turns CC inside out not only looking for Hailey, but If there is corruption..gets to the bottom of it and quickly.

I wish Sean and Billie would get arrested for something in Travis County. This is the capitol and they don't play like these little tiny towns. It really is a matter of time until one or both w/do something stupid again. I doubt they can keep their noses clean for long.

That is what I was thinking-that just as long as he reads the letter that the chief knows there are people out there willing to ask the questions.
My next one will be to the Rangers and the State. FBI wouldn't hurt either. I did not want to bring police corruption into the first correspondence. I definitely will in the second-with the intent on letting the chief know to whom my letters about that subject will go to above him.
Thank you for your support. (Bartles&James)

Next letters should go to Travis County, too. Keep the officials aware that the nation is patiently waiting for SA and BJD to slip up.

When the CP was first found we were told it was found at SA's mother's residence in Big Spring. Then CP was found at the BD residence on memory sticks found in a dresser drawer. (Including beastiality)
Then CP was found at SA's Grandmother's residence in Dunn.
Now PK tells us they cannot prove anything???
SA lived or stayed at all three residences and was living at BD's residence where the memory sticks were found.
CORRUPTION IN A SMALL TOWN IN TEXAS.

CC officials need to come forward with the truth.

gnreed-I would mail that response directly as is.
If you don't want your name on it I will send it on.

SOooooooooooo, first I want to say to Charming that the letter she has written above is awesome. Hits on the strong points and is direct! Thank you

GnReed, I think you should send your post above to follow Charming's letter.


And last, I found this article in the Daily Mail from the UK on Hailey Dunn. This is pretty big to be getting out internationally. I know the Daily Mail can many times print crazy stuff, i.e. vampires , lochness monster but this was a great article. I'm sure it will piss Billie Jean off because they have a picture from her arrest.

But the one line that I was shocked to see is:

Adkins continues to be the only person of interest in the case and a warrant is out for his arrest.


Do I think it's probably a mistake on the article, yes, but I am hoping not.

It doesn't get better with time': Grandmother of cheerleader, 13, speaks out seven months after she vanished without a trace

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It has been more than seven months since her disappearance, and police are no closer to finding missing 13-year-old cheerleader Hailey Dunn - who vanished without a trace last Christmas.

Her grandmother left an emotional message on the Help Find Hailey Dunn Facebook page to mark her seven month anniversary, saying that time has not made it any better.

On the post, Connie Jones wrote: 'They say it gets better with time [but] whoever said that does not know what they are talking about.

'No my friends, it doesn't get better. I know everyone is saying I have [given] up. No, I haven't given up but seven months is a long time.'

Hailey, a student at Colorado City Middle School in Texas, was last seen on the afternoon of December 27, 2010, when she reportedly told her mother's boyfriend, Shawn Adkins, 25, that she was leaving to spend the night with a friend.

She never made it to her friend's house, who said she was not even aware Hailey was coming over, and her mother reported her missing the following morning.

Her mother Billie Dunn, 33, was arrested three months after she disappeared for lying about her boyfriend's whereabouts, who has been named as a person of interest in the case.
Accused: Billie Dunn leaves court after her arraignment this morning on charges of obstructing justice, three months after her daughter went missing

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If someone wants to copy the entire article with pics, that would be great. I couldn't seem to get it to work!

Also, (sorry about the multiple posts) someone is getting Hailey's story out there even more than when this first happened. AOL has an article when you sign onto their page. CNN had a report on the Nancy Grace Blog and now the Daily Mail picked it up.

What I don't understand is how the CP is going ignored. I've been sort of patient waiting for them to sort thru 109,000 deviant images but in all this time they couldn't find ONE to arrest them with?

It is outrageous and sickening that everyone EXCEPT for Hailey's mother and father are fighting for information about this little girl. Connie Jones is the only member of Hailey's family who has been unafraid to speak out about what may have happened to Hailey.

Shawn & Billie know where and what happened to Hailey. I wish they would arrest them and waterboard the info out of them !!!

So should we contact Connie Jones and invite her here?

Do we write more letters and demand to know if there is truly ooly a warrant out for SA's arrest?

Boston-it is vital that this story stay out there-even better if it gets bigger than before. People are sick of the lying slut--well, her nearest and dearest-- BJD is just as bad and the people of this world are not going to stand back and let these ignorant twits of parents get away with treating their children like the scum on the bottom of their shoes.

Okay. Another Friday night at home.
On my mind tonight:
Remember when we heard that the searchers were warned regarding rumors of evidence tampering? This was back in April. What ever became of the "tampering?" gnreed-did you ever hear what could have been obstructed/changed/removed?

charminglane wrote:So should we contact Connie Jones and invite her here?

Do we write more letters and demand to know if there is truly ooly a warrant out for SA's arrest?

Boston-it is vital that this story stay out there-even better if it gets bigger than before. People are sick of the lying slut--well, her nearest and dearest-- BJD is just as bad and the people of this world are not going to stand back and let these ignorant twits of parents get away with treating their children like the scum on the bottom of their shoes.

If there is a way to contact her, I say YES! What do we have to lose? She may need to vent.

I am going to write to Travis County. I want to check out just WHO I should write to. Most definitely the COP. Also, City of Buda PD. Any other suggestions?

'It doesn't get better with time': Grandmother of cheerleader, 13, speaks out seven months after she vanished without a trace

It has been more than seven months since her disappearance, and police are no closer to finding missing 13-year-old cheerleader Hailey Dunn - who vanished without a trace last Christmas.
Her grandmother left an emotional message on the Help Find Hailey Dunn Facebook page to mark her seven month anniversary, saying that time has not made it any better.
On the post, Connie Jones wrote: 'They say it gets better with time [but] whoever said that does not know what they are talking about.
'No my friends, it doesn't get better. I know everyone is saying I have [given] up. No, I haven't given up but seven months is a long time.'
Hailey, a student at Colorado City Middle School in Texas, was last seen on the afternoon of December 27, 2010, when she reportedly told her mother's boyfriend, Shawn Adkins, 25, that she was leaving to spend the night with a friend.
She never made it to her friend's house, who said she was not even aware Hailey was coming over, and her mother reported her missing the following morning.
Her mother Billie Dunn, 33, was arrested three months after she disappeared for lying about her boyfriend's whereabouts, who has been named as a person of interest in the case.

Both Dunn and Adkins - the last person to see Hailey before she disappeared - failed polygraph tests set by investigators in January.
A police affidavit at the time also revealed Adkins told a relative hurting a teenager would be like 'killing a deer', and he and Dunn were fixated on serial killers and slasher movies.

Colorado City Police, along with the Texas Rangers, the Mitchell County Sheriff's Office and other law enforcement departments in the region have conducted several searches for Hailey but have found no sign of her.
Colorado City manager Pete Kampfer told the Huffington Post: 'It is an open investigation. Detectives are still perusing leads and doing follow up on the investigations.
'Our new [police] chief is in training this week and we will be working on it aggressively in the weeks to follow.'

Volunteers are planning on meeting up this Saturday to post flyers in the area and remind people that she is still missing.
Speaking with KTXS News, volunteer organizer Kristy Lloyd said the group's efforts are intended to 'keep her face up as good as we can -- so people won't forget her.'
Adkins continues to be the only person of interest in the case and a warrant is out for his arrest.
In February police found almost 109,000 images and videos showing 'deviant acts' on a computer and hard drive at Adkins' mother's house. The images included child pornography and bestiality, according to the Abilene News-Reporter.
Adkins and Dunn have both denied any involvement in Hailey's disappearance. Adkins told police he last saw the girl on December 27, when she told him she was going to her father's home and then to spend the night at a friend's house.
But she never showed up at either house, and left home without any belongings, cash or her new iPod.

Her disappearance brought anguish to her small home town. Friends and neighbours held candelit vigils for Hailey and volunteers combed through fields, woods and landfills, retracing steps taken by police in their search.
More than 100 billboards bearing her image have been put up along the interstate in West Texas and neighbouring states.
Sniffer dogs had tracked the girl's scent to a motel in Colorado City and a downstairs room, but no further evidence was found.
There is a $15,000 reward for any information which helps find the teenager.

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Accused: Billie Dunn leaves court after her arraignment on charges of obstructing justice, three months after her daughter went missing

Arrested: Billie Dunn is accused of lying about her ex-boyfriend's whereabouts when police tried to issue a search warrant on him

Last sightings: Hailey Dunn, left, is pictured with her mother Billie Dunn and her mother's boyfriend, Shawn Adkins, just three days before she went missing

Search: Police have previously named Shawn Adkins as a person of interest in the case, and they issued a search warrant for him in March

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"Police have previously named Shawn Adkins as a person of interest in the case, and they issued a search warrant for him in March"

Issued a search warrant? What are they searching?
When Law Enforcement is looking for someone of interest they issue a WARRANT for their arrest.
When Law Enforcement wants to search and seize inside of a residence, vehicle or property they issue a SEARCH WARRANT.
This is all very confusing to me.


FYI, Buda is less than 45 minutes from where I live.

NightSpinR, I think that article from the UK paper was wrong. I think (someone correct me if I am wrong) it's like a tabloid instead of a real newspaper. You're right there was a search warrant listed for the body of SA. This was when Billie was arrested for obstruction, she lied about him being in her home when LE came to the door.

New Photo Surfaces of Hailey Dunn


Seven months after Hailey Dunn went missing, the story has gone from a local search to taking over national headlines.

But the face that's been all over billboards and fliers everywhere, may not even look like the missing teen. A new picture has surfaced showing Hailey a week before she went missing, and when compared to the older photos, some are finding the differences alarming.

"It doesn't look like the same picture that we posted," exclaimed Patricia Trichel, the mother of Naomi Dunn, Hailey's Father's fianc.

It's reported this photo surfaced after a camera memory card was recently released by a person close to the family.

"This has not been put out on TV, where we can look for this little girl," added Trichel over the phone.

"We have wasted seven months."

When asked why other photos were never explained as old and out-dated, Trichel said, "So many people put out so many pictures. It became confusing."

However with a new picture out, some are finding a renewed hope for the missing girl.
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There's a video at the link, cannot embed but is a must see because this 'new picture' is shown on the video. the video.

I for one do not put any stock into what Patricia Trichel says. I do not think seven months has been wasted, plus she picks NOW, seven months later to say that the other photos released were old and out-dated?? And she was supposedly so close to Hailey (I don't believe she was)? She's just part of the FB bunch that shoots their mouths off with what I don't believe to be factual. MOO.

I agree but am confused about that pic. We have a pic of Hailey taken Christmas day..the day before she went "missing". So When was this new photo taken? She says a week before. Her hair is darker in it and she looks older. Something doesn't jive here at ALL!

Raine I never believe a word that come out of the mouths of anybody in Satsuma.

You are right wrap. When did this transformation take place?

I would love to know what they found on Haileys computer searches.

Maybe it's just me, but I don't see that big of a difference in the pictures. The hair does look darker, but that could have been because of the lighting. I think the face looks very much the same...I really don't see why Pat Trichel is making such a big deal about it.

Why would they latest photo not be released until now?

The photo of Hailey sitting with Billie and Shawn is a couple of days before she went missing. How much newer could this recently-discovered photo be?

I think that the cheer-leading photo was chosen as the primary one for the "missing" campaign because it creates a certain image of Hailey (and possibly her family). That "doting mother of the missing cheerleader who (the mother) was wrongly questioned by police" image that Billie was hyping when she first appeared on Nancy Grace was blown to smithereens months ago (and Billie was even called on the cheer-leading issue and admitted Hailey didn't really like it and it was something Billie had pushed upon her).

Still, I don't begrudge the family for releasing an older cheer-leading photo. Hailey does look younger in it than she does this newly released photo, but she is still quite identifiable imo, and the marketing approach worked. Nancy Grace covered Hailey's story for almost a month straight, with the cheerleader photo and tag line "13 year old cheerleader missing from Colorado City"... We don't know if Hailey had her hair done up and was wearing some make up when she left (like the new photo) or if she was more natural like the cheer-leading photo anyway.

I think Patricia T is making a mountain out of a molehill to stir up new drama. JMO.

ETA: I hope LE looks at the date of the photo on the memory card to verify the photo was taken BEFORE Hailey was reported missing; I don't trust the people in this case at all...

truthbtold wrote: I think Patricia T is making a mountain out of a molehill to stir up new drama. JMO.

Patricia T seems to enjoy stirring up as much s*** as she can and she's doing it again. MOO.