Scurry County Sheriff Trey Wilson said six years after Hailey Dunn was reported missing, and her remains found in March 2013, his department still looks into any information the public provides.
“It is still under investigation. There is just nothing new we can report on,” Wilson said. “Any new leads we get from the public, we will look into. We encourage the public to come forward with information we may not already have and let us know.”
On Dec. 27, 2010, Dunn was last seen walking from her mother’s home in Colorado City to a friend’s home. She never arrived.
On March 16, 2013, the remains of the teenager were found at Lake J.B. Thomas in Scurry County.
On April 26, 2013, Wilson confirmed the remains found at Lake J.B. Thomas were those of Dunn.
At the April press conference, Connie Jones, Hailey Dunn’s grandmother, spoke out.
“I had a feeling all along that she wasn’t kidnapped, she was murdered,” Jones said. “When they found the remains, I knew it was Hailey.”
Mitchell County law enforcement, on Jan. 14, 2011, named Shawn Adkins, the former live-in boyfriend of Dunn’s mother, Billie Jean, as a suspect. He remains the only named suspect in the case.
Over the first few months of the investigation, volunteers helped law enforcement look for Dunn.
Searches were held in Scurry, Mitchell, Nolan, Howard and Taylor counties.
The case also made national news when Billie Jean Dunn appeared on CNN Headline News to discuss her daughter’s disappearance.
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