Murder of Hailey Dunn

Hailey Darlene Dunn was born to Clint and Billie Jean Dunn on August 28, 1997. Clint and Billie were divorced, but Clint resided across the street in Colorado City, TX. Hailey and her older brother, David, lived with Billie, and her boyfriend, Shawn Adkins, but could see their father daily.

Hailey played volleyball, softball, basketball was a cheerleader, and played first chair saxophone in the school band. Her degrees were good and she was popular in school.

 

Hailey was 13 years old when she was reported missing on 12/28/10.

 

Hailey had spent part of Christmas with Billie and most of the day and overnight at her father's house.

Disappearance:

 

At 9 pm on 12/26, as David was leaving to expend the night at a friend's, he sees Hailey playing video games. Billie reports seeing her at 10 pm. Based on her skill level, it’s estimated that she played video games until midnight.

 

On 12/27 at 5:30 am, Shawn Adkins leaves for work. At 6:30 am, Billie checks on a sleeping Hailey; leaves her cell phone for the kids to use, and leaves for work.

 

Shawn later tells Billie that Hailey left around 3 pm saying she was going to live with her dad and then go to a sleepover at a friend's house. He also tells her he was fired from his job.

That night Billie and Shawn take out two different withdrawals amounting to $140. They later confessed to the police that they used the money to buy drugs.

 

December 28, 2010, Hailey doesn't come home from her sleepover. Billie calls Clint and the friend only to realize that they hadn't seen Hailey and hadn't made plans to. At 2:00 pm, Billie reports Hailey missing.

 

Originally, the police viewed Hailey as a runaway. It wasn't until 1/3/11 that she was officially a missing person.

 

On 12/29, law enforcement searches the homes of Bille and Clint Dunn.

 

On 12/31, bloodhounds track Hailey from Billie’s house to Clint’s house to the friend's house to a motel. There was no proof of Hailey being at the hotel.

That evening, Billie and Shawn had friends over for food, drinks, music, and to watch the ball drop. Later Billie would say that it ”most clearly was not an NYE party”. Interestingly enough, Clint was seeing the party through binoculars and was getting irritated.

 

There were searches for Hailey by law enforcement and the community. Billie, Shawn, and Clint did not contribute to any of the searches. Billie said she was taking care of flyers, social media, and talking to the press and Clint said he was searching dumpsters, alleys, and streets. Shawn did nothing.

 

In early January, the Texas Rangers and the FBI get involved. Klaas Kids and ”Hailey’s Angels ” a name given to the local searchers, scour the immediate area for Hailey. They concede that the amount of ground they have to cover is overwhelming. Billboards go up to raise awareness. There were hundreds of people searching for Hailey. There was a candlelight vigil with over 750 people in attendance. Nancy Grace takes the case nationally.

 

On 1/6, Billie concedes that she and Shawn failed the polygraph concerning Hailey’s location. It turns out that Billie had failed her first polygraph because she was under the effect and the second one showed deception.

 

Shawn failed 2 polygraphs and walked out during the 3rd. During questioning, Shawn said that Hailey could be found in Scurry County and when asked by LE who they should look at, he responded ”both of us”.

 

Billie and Shawn always had a rocky relationship, but Billie starts doubting Shawn had something to do with Hailey’s disappearance and asks him to leave.

 

On 1/12, Shawn is officially named a person of interest. According to the statement, Shawn had threatened the life of Billie and Hailey and that they found pages and pages of printed info on serial killers.

 

A later affidavit included a lot more information. According to David, on the day Hailey went missing, he came home and banged on the door for 5 minutes. When he went in through the window, he saw Shawn in the hallway with ”a deer in the headlights look”.

 

It further stated that Shawn had lied about his job and his location on that day. He told me he was fired, he quit his job. He went in to quit, turn in overalls, bought a Dr. Pepper and left. He told he went to his mother's house, but his phone pings said he was in Colorado City, to work, back home in Colorado City, then to where his mother lived in Scurry County. Those pesky phone pings.

 

Over 109,000 pictures of child pornography, Beastiality, and other pornographic pictures were found on electronics used by Shawn Adkins at home and his mother's house.

 

In March, Billie confesses she lied to police about Shawn’s whereabouts when they were trying to serve him a warrant. She has been the only person who obtained any charges about this case. She received a year of probation and she and Shawn moved to Austin, Texas.

 

In March 2013, human remains were found by Lake J.B. Thomas, nearly 2 miles from Shawn Adkins’ mother. Those remains were Hailey Darlene Dunn.

 

Over 350 people attended her funeral and celebration of life that May.

No one has been accused of the disappearance and killing of Hailey.

Update:

Person of Interest, Shawn Adkins was arrested and charged after 9-years.