I can't remember who the PI was, but it was at the same time Carrie McGonigle came to Texas and was supporting Billie. I google around and see if I can find a name.
She said she has faith in
Mac Sanford, the Houston-based private investigator working on the case.
“That letter was just another rumor that has hindered the investigation and hindered what Mac was doing,” Billie Jean Dunn said. “My hope is to get my daughter home quickly — I’ve got a lot of faith in Mac and I’m dependent on him to find her and get her home.”
Sanford, who is working on the case pro bono, said he believes Hailey Dunn is still alive, but the prospects of her condition are still bleak.
“I have every hope that we’re going to find Hailey drugged up, held against her will, maybe being trafficked,” he said. “It’s sad that that’s the best hope.”
Sanford said a letter that became public last week has been discredited not only by conflicting information within the letter, but also by extensive interviews done by the FBI and Texas Rangers of people mentioned in the letter.
Investigators have exhausted their resources on the letter, Sanford said, and it has proven to be fruitless, with the determination that “this is the rambling of a meth’d-out lunatic.”
But some of the basic principles of the letter are ones that Sanford said he is following up on based on the information he has gathered.
“I think it’s very highly possible and probable that she was brought to the Odessa area,” Sanford said.
Based on the more than 70 reported sightings of Hailey Dunn shortly after her disappearance, Sanford said she’s likely been to many different locations, although he does not believe she is in West Texas anymore, dead or alive.
Despite Sanford’s claim that federal agents dug up land in Monahans looking for Hailey Dunn’s body, both the sheriff’s office and police department said they were never notified if such an operation had occurred, and both believed they would have been notified based on a good relationship with federal agents.
Sanford also said he believes that Hailey Dunn’s disappearance was in part due to a drug debt and partially because they had other reasons to kidnap the girl. But he said the drug debt was not from Billie Jean Dunn or Adkins, whom he said “were not meth addicts.”
Sanford said he still is not sure where Hailey Dunn may be, and that’s what he’s spent the last week and 4,800 miles of driving throughout Texas to find out.
Mother of Hailey Dunn disputes letter