The attorney just wants his face on TV, IMO. An interview like this does not help repair Billie's image. JMO.
"There was a chilling effect (on our desire to cooperate) when this case became about 'who done it' rather than finding Hailey," Young said.
Admitting that they're a) not cooperating and b) not desperate to find the guilty ones if someone did something to Hailey is not a good move, IMO. Every mother with clean sheets in her bag would want her baby to have justice and have the guilty party punished IMO. And they would realize that it's the job of the LE to find out who did it and try to help them any way they can.
Dunn said that her run-ins with the law puts "a little bit of a barrier" between her and law enforcement, impacting her relationship with those investigating her daughter's disappearance.
Well, imagine that. The police don't usually appreciate being lied to.
"I'm out of my mind; I'm living in a nightmare," Dunn said when asked if her circumstances contributed to her poor decisions. Young explained that the charges against Dunn have kept her from being able to return to her job as a hospital employee.
So, according to her attorney Billie's nightmare is finding herself unfairly out of a job, not having a child missing?
Dunn said she'd rather spread the word about Hailey's disappearance through fliers and communication than look for physical evidence.
Nothing wrong with staying way out of the searches for physical evidence, she's a POI and in love with the suspect for goodness' sake. Nobody wants her there searching and possibly contaminating the evidence, IMO, unless she's able and willing to help lead the search party to Hailey. But does she do the other thing? Spread the word through fliers and communication?
"I'm just not going to look in the fields for my daughter," she said, explaining that she'd rather hold out hope that Hailey is alive. "I feel selfish hoping that she's alive and going to come home, because I worry about what (she is) going through."
Okay, we care about how you feel. (I guess.) IMO there is nothing particularly selfish in a mother's hope that her child is alive and going to come home because it gives their child a chance but maybe the thought about Hailey coming home is primarily about her for Billie since it would clear her of murder suspicions. But IMO there is a little bit of a contradiction here. Since her attorney implied that Billie would want Hailey found, wouldn't it make sense to look for her in all the possible places that she could be and not rule out searching in the places she would prefer not to find her in?
"I still love Shawn. I can't help who I'm in love with," said Dunn. "Hopefully, I want all four of us to be back home again and be a family."
You really want your teenaged daughter and son living with a man with child *advertiser censored* in his computer? And your atty let you say that?
