The PI hired by Hailey's Dad wrote a fantastic article about that. In 2020...The evidence has always been there and it hasn't changed.
But people retired and switched jobs, so all the people who had been refusing to charge the killer all this time are now out of the way. And finally it has moved forward.
Apparently, Shaun had close family being protected by some LE and some in DA's office. And so even though there was valid evidence, no one would prosecute him.
An apology letter to the parents of Shawn Adkins’ next victim
Within days of Hailey Dunn’s disappearance, the police said they knew who was responsible: the live-in boyfriend of Hailey’s mother, Shawn Casey Adkins. Statistically, he was guilty – the mother’s boyfriend is always the prime suspect. In this case, he met the criteria and then some: he was the last person to see Hailey, he suspiciously quit his job the day she disappeared, and he lied to the police about all of it.
So affidavits for search warrants were issued: for the mother’s vehicle and cell phone, for Adkins’ cell phone, for every digital media device known to exist in his world, and to search his Mom’s house and that of his Grandmother.
Evidence was discovered in every single corner of those searches. 100,000+ images of child *advertiser censored*, we were told. Bestiality. Pics of mom having sex with animals. Homemade videos of Shawn Adkins wearing a mask, holding a hunting knife, scaring the **** out of everyone he could.
And then, there were the cell phone pings.
Shawn Adkins’ phone pinged near the very location where Hailey Dunn’s scattered remains were located two-and-a-half years later.
