Residence : Chestnut Street, Colorado City, Texas, 79512.
Mother: Billie Jean Dunn
Live in boyfriend: Shawn Casey Adkins
Brother: David Dunn
Father of Hailey: Clint Dunn
Shawn’s place of employment: Snyder
Billie’s place of employment: Snyder
Hailey reported missing in: Colorado City
Shawn’s mother resides in: Big Spring, Texas
December 26, 2010
9.00pm Hailey Dunn’s brother, David Dunn, leaves the residence to spend the night with a friend. David says when he left the residence, Hailey was playing a video game in the living room of the residence. Based on the progress on the game and Hailey’s skill level of the game, it is estimated that Hailey played the game until around 12pm that night.
December 27, 2010
6.00am Shawn Adkins arrives at work and quits his job. According to his employer, WSI in Snyder, Adkins arrived at work around 6am, walked into the break room, purchased a Dr Pepper from the vending machine, look at the supervisor without saying a word, then left the premises.
Adkins however, told others he got fired from his job. His employers denied that they fired him.
6.10am Adkins left his place of employment (Snyder).
6.20am Billie Dunn leaves the residence to go to work in Snyder, Texas.
Adkins says he then drove to his mother’s house in Big Springs, Texas, but according to the cell phone pings, he was in the Colorado City area, the same area where Hailey was reported missing. Eleven phone calls are captured between 9.38am-2.40pm.
Cell phone towers indicate that:
6.35 – 6.56am Adkins was in the area of Colorado City, Texas.
9.38am – 2.40pm, Adkins was in the area of Big Spring, Texas.
NOTE: According to Verizon Cellular Tower records a person at Chestnut would utilise or ping Tower 724 on the northern coverage area transmitter when using a Verizon cell phone, which is the same tower that Adkins was using from 6.35am until 6.56am. (Hailey was alone at the residence during this time).
In other words:
*** According to Shawn, he went from Colorado City to Snyder to Big Springs.
*** According to the Evidence, he went from Colorado City to Snyder to Colorado City.
4.00pm, David Dunn returns home from school and pounded on the door for 5 minutes, and nobody would let him in. David gained access to the residence through a window. He observed Shawn standing in the hallway with a “deer in the headlights” look.
Roger Ostrander (uncle of Hailey) and Adkins were discussing the disappearance of Hailey. Roger stated that he could not believe anybody would hurt a 13 year old little girl, to which Adkins replied “yah, it’s like killing a deer.”
Del Ostrander indicated that Adkins talked often about how he kills deer and cuts them up with a chainsaw. He also says that Adkins is obsessed with horror / slasher movies, watches them daily, he also collects movie memorabilia connected with the Halloween movie series.
6.19pm Billie Dunn made two cash withdrawals from an ATM in Snyder, Scurry County, Texas. First $60 then $80. The money was to purchase illegal narcotics from a person in Scurry County. These narcotics were for Adkins and Billie. (this info was confirmed by Billie).
According to Billie, Adkins tells her that Hailey left the residence in the afternoon to go to her father’s residence then to go to her friend’s house, for a slumber party.
Billie Dunn did not call the friend’s house to confirm Hailey spending the night there.
December 28
2.00pm Billie Jean Dunn reports her daughter missing to Colorado City police.
December 31
Shawn and Billie hosts a New Years Eve party at their residence AFTER Hailey was reported missing. Alcohol was consumed.
January 2
A candlelight vigil for Hailey is attended by at least 750 people.
January 3
Colorado City police announce that Hailey Dunn’s case, previously treated as a runaway, now is being called a missing person case.
January 4
Media coverage of Hailey’s disappearance goes national, with Nancy Grace’s television program focusing on the Texas case.
January 5
Billie Dunn and Adkins take polygraph tests, then Adkins is asked by Dunn to leave her home.
January 7 2011
Warrant is issued to compel Cellco Corporation DBA as Verizon Wireless to provide evidence of any text messages sent and received by the above telephone number from December 25, 2010 to January 7, 2011.
The Warrant includes that Billie Dunn surrenders her cell phone to search for text message content, attachments, including picture messages and any other files associated with the account that relate to the time period December 25, 2010 to January 1, 2011.
According to Billie Dunn, this phone was used by Hailey during the described period.
February 24
Authorities announce that nearly 109,000 images of child pornography, bestiality and deviant acts were discovered on numerous electronic devices at the home of Billie Dunn and that of Adkins’ mother in Big Spring.
March 17
Billie Dunn is arrested in Colorado City and acknowledges lying to police who came to her house to execute a search warrant on Adkins.
March 20
A skeleton is found in Big Spring about a mile from the home of Adkins’ mother, setting off speculation that it was Hailey Dunn. A few days later, authorities announced the skeleton was that of an unidentified male.
August 25
Three days before what would have been Hailey’s 15th birthday, a vigil is held in Colorado City.
March 16, 2013
Remains are found near Lake J.B. Thomas in Scurry County.
April 26
Law enforcement officials announce that the remains were those of Hailey Dunn. A vigil is held in her memory.
More Facts to the case:
- Investigators lay out their reasons for a search of a 2000 white Chevrolet Lumina owned by Billie Hean Dunn and Shawn Casey Adkins, the mother of the missing girl and her live-in boyfriend.
- Investigators describe “deceptive” polygraph (commonly know as “lie detector”) test results from both Dunn and Adkins. During one polygraph, Adkins claims the missing girl is in Scurry County, but when probed does not provide further information. Investigators describe that Dunn’s initial polygraph was cancelled due to their belief that Dunn was under the influence of narcotics.
- Investigators describe incident during which Adkins threatened to kill both Dunn and the missing girl.
- Investigators describe materials found at the Dunn residence, including several website printouts related to various serial killers.
- Investigators describe evidence collected from cell phone towers that places Adkins’ mobile phone at a different location than that which he told investigators he was located.
- Investigators describe alleged conversation between Adkins and missing girl’s uncle in which Adkins allegedly says hurting a child would be “like killing a deer.” Investigators claim Adkins also “talked often about how he kills deer and cuts them up with a chainsaw.”
- Investigators describe Adkins’ description of the missing girl as “promiscuous” and as someone who “participated in drug use.”
- Investigators note that valuables (including money, a new iPod and favorite clothes) were not missing from the missing girl’s room.
- Based on the testimony of the Affidavit for Search of the vehicle, a judge allows investigators to search and/or seize a 2000 white Chevrolet Lumina owned by Billie Hean Dunn and Shawn Casey Adkins and describes what potential evidence may be collected and for what purposes.
- Investigators lay out their reasons for searching the operator of a cellular phone provider which provided service to a phone surrendered to police by Billie Jean Dunn.
- Investigators describe evidence collected from cell phone towers that places Adkins’ mobile phone at a different location than that which he told investigators he was located.
- Investigators charge that Adkins deleted information from mobile device in view of investigators before turning over mobile device.
- Investigators describe incident during which Adkins threatened to kill both Dunn and the missing girl.
- Investigators describe materials found at the Dunn residence, including several website printouts related to various serial killers.
- Investigators describe alleged conversation between Adkins and missing girl’s uncle in which Adkins allegedly says hurting a child would be “like killing a deer.” Investigators claim Adkins also “talked often about how he kills deer and cuts them up with a chainsaw.”
- Investigators describe Adkins’ description of the missing girl as “promiscuous” and as someone who “participated in drug use.”
- Investigators note that valuables (including money, a new iPod and favorite clothes) were not missing from the missing girl’s room.
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