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Facebook Rumors Hinder Hailey Dunn Investigation

By: Bigcountryhomepage.com Staff Reports
Updated: August 10, 2011
One of the lead investigators into the disappearance of Colorado City 13-year-old Hailey Dunn says internet rumors have been one of the biggest hindrances for detectives looking into the case.

In an interview with the Colorado City Record, Detective Kelsey Alexander of the Colorado City Police Department said rumors slow the investigation by forcing officers to confirm or discredit information.

Alexander said one recent example was a Facebook page claiming that someone had Hailey and offered to trade her for passage to America. Colorado City Police worked with Facebook to shut down the page.

"Facebook is public enemy #1 because it is a site of gossip and internet bullying from one person to the next," Alexander told the Colorado City Record. "People take what they see on Facebook as real."

"We haven't heard anything on Facebook that's brought us any closer to Hailey," Alexander added.

Dunn has been missing since December 2010. The only named suspect in the case has moved out of the area. He was never arrested.

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Can someone respectfully ask investigators to give a statement to the public on the state of this case? Has the computer forensic evidence been completed? Will they be sharing or not be sharing that completion act itself with the public? Out of all the possible people to have used SA's mom's and grandma's computer, who do we have connected to the child [censored] and WHEN WILL THEY BE ARRESTED? What was the deciding factor in allowing BD to move far out of county jurisdiction while she is on probation? Who OK'd this? Has the new Colorado City Chief of Police honed in on any new leads or gotten any closer to learning about what happened to Hailey? Other hard questions to ask that cannot be asked publically for fear of hindering the investigation...

Audra r. August 11, 2011 at 2:53 am

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