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Michael Wayne Dunahee (born May 12, 1986)[1] is a absent child from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, who disappeared
when he was four years old, and has never been set up. He departed from the park
at Blanshard Park Elementary School, also known as the Blanshard Street
Playground, in Victoria, British Columbia on March 24, 1991. Michael was last
seen around 12:30 p.m. playing at the school park as his mother, Crystal
Dunahee, was chip in in a female football live out occurrence to which his
father was a spectator. Michael moved out meters from his parents, but no
witnesses to Michael's loss have ever been notorious.
Michael's
disappearance spawned one of the largest police investigation in Canadianhistory and to
date, over 11,000 tips have been received by police. The case was a major story
for many years, being report across Canada and in the US. Despite the large
number of tips, and a $100,000 reward, police do not have any solid leads in
the case.[2]
Michael's
mother Crystal has become an advocate for absent children's issues in British
Columbia, and at present serves as the president of Child Find British Columbia.[3] In 2002, Crystal lent her voice to
support the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in calls to introduce an Amber Alert system in BC, stating that she
believes her son would have been found had such a program exist in 1991.[4] The system has since been implement in
most regions of Canada.
The population
of Esquimalt, part of the Greater Victoria metropolitan area, holds an annual
charity event called the Michael
Dunahee "Keep the Hope Alive" Fund Run to raise currency for Child Find. 2006
marked the 15th annual run.
In 2006,
strong tips, and reports of a young man who would be Michael's age now, living
in the interior of BC who arrived there in 1991, who looked like Michael,
breathed new life into the case. For several weeks, news stations carried the
story that the Michael Dunahee case had been re-opened after several strong
leads, perhaps bringing a termination to what happened to Michael. However,
nothing came out of the leads, and the report of the young man in the interior
of BC was determined not to be Michael after DNA testing was done.[5]
In early
2009, new life was once again brought to the Dunahee case. U.S. police found a
"missing person" poster of Dunahee at the Milwaukee home of a
possible child killer. Vernon Seitz, 62, confessed to his psychiatrist that he
had killed a child in 1959 and knew of another child killing. Seitz was later
found dead by Milwaukee police, it seems that of natural cause.[6]
In recent
weeks, an online forum user that goes by the name “Canuckels” thought there was
a opportunity that he may be Michael Dunahee. He claims he was contacted by the
Victoria Police Department and is now awaiting the results of a time intensive
DNA test for a possible match. in a statement on the online forums
"Canuckels" posted: "I was contacted by Victoria police because
there has been tips that I have a amazing resemblance to micheal dunahee, I’m
freaked out right now and there coming to get a DNA sample!!!I’m pretty sure
I’m not, but what if I am?!?"
See also[edit]
References[edit]
6.
^ "Mysterious
U.S. man was 'familiar' to family of missing Michael Dunahee". CBC News. January 7, 2009.
Retrieved 16 October 2010.
External
links[edit]
·
CBC
Current Interview Constable
Rick Anthony of the Victoria City Police and Crystal Dunahee, the mother of
Michael Dunahee are interviewed on on the CBC radio program The Current on July
14, 2004
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