Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Billie Dunn's Account: Part 9 "Awesome!"

January 19, 2011   Here, the Nancy Grace Show played the 911 call in which Billie Dunn reported Shawn Adkins as violent and dangerous...5 weeks later, she moved him into Hailey's home.  

BILLIE DUNN, HAILEY`S MOTHER: I really need to file a report on somebody, and I don`t have a car to get down there.

911 OPERATOR: What exactly happened?

BILLIE DUNN: I broke up with this guy a couple of days ago, and he`s a little MHMR (ph). And he`s telling me that he`s going to kill me and my ex-husband and that it`s going to be remembered for a long time. And he keeps on texting me and texting me. And I`ve texted back just to try to calm him down a little, but he said it`s going to happen.

911 OPERATOR: I`ve got a lady at 1804 Chestnut who wants to file a report on her ex-husband that`s threatening to kill her.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, God! She`s been going all day.

BILLIE DUNN: My boyfriend and I just broke up yesterday, but he`s saying he`s going to go into my house to get his T-shirts, and I don`t want him in there while I`m gone because I don`t know what he`ll take.

(END AUDIO CLIP)

GRACE: Good evening. I`m Nancy Grace. I want to thank you for being with us. Bombshell tonight. Multiple 911 calls, death threats by live-in Shawn Adkins, threatening to kill Hailey and her mother. We have the 911 calls.


(BEGIN AUDIO CLIP)

BILLIE DUNN: Hello. My name is Billie. My boyfriend and I just broke up yesterday.

911 OPERATOR: And what is his name?

BILLIE DUNN: His name is Shawn Adkins. And he`s telling me that he`s going to kill me.

911 OPERATOR: He wants to go get his T-shirt?

BILLIE DUNN: Yes. Apparently, he left his T-shirt over there when he spent the night one night. And I just don`t trust him enough to go in there. Is there any way anybody can keep an eye over there?

He`s wanting to go in there. He knows that I don`t lock up, like, my windows. Sometimes, I don`t even lock the doors. And he knows that. So I`m kind of worried he could walk out with a TV or anything, my son`s XBox.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK, we`ve been having a big problem with those two all day.

BILLIE DUNN: And he`s telling me that he`s going to kill me. He said it`s going to happen.

911 OPERATOR: Colorado City Police Department. Jeremy (ph) speaking.

BILLIE DUNN: Jeremy, I really need to file a report on somebody, and I don`t have a car to get down there.

911 OPERATOR: OK. Where are you at?

BILLIE DUNN: I`m at 1804 Chestnut.

911 OPERATOR: Hold on one second. What is your name?

(END AUDIO CLIP)



(BEGIN AUDIO CLIP)

911 OPERATOR: Colorado City Police Department. Jeremy speaking.

BILLIE DUNN: Jeremy, I really need to file a report on somebody, and I don`t have a car to get down there.

911 OPERATOR: OK, where are you at?

BILLIE DUNN: I`m at 1804 Chestnut.

911 OPERATOR: Hold on one second. What is your name?

BILLIE DUNN: Billie Dunn.

911 OPERATOR: Billie Dunn? What exactly happened?

BILLIE DUNN: I broke up with this guy a couple of days ago, and he`s a little MHMR. And he`s telling me that he`s going to kill me and my ex- husband and that it`s going to be remembered for a long time. And he keeps on texting me and texting me, and I`ve texted back, just to try to calm him down a little, but he said it`s going to happen.


GRACE: Joining us tonight, Billie Dunn. This is Hailey`s mother. What led you -- can you hear me, Billie? Billie, can you hear me? OK, I`m not -- she can`t hear me. Try to fix the satellite.

What I don`t understand, Rupa Mikkilineni, is why, after he had threatened to kill her and the daughter, she let him back in the house. And what brought the whole thing about, Rupa?


BILLIE DUNN: I broke up with this guy a couple of days ago, and he`s a little MHMR. And he`s telling me that he`s going to kill me and my ex- husband, and that it`s going to be remembered for a long time.


BILLIE DUNN: Hello. My name is Billie.

I`m scared to death that somebody hurt her.

His name is Shawn Adkins.

SHAWN ADKINS, MOTHER`S BOYFRIEND: We all get along just fine. I would never do nothing to that little girl.

GRACE: I just wonder who that officer was that says, "Oh, God," basically using the Lord`s name in vain, "she`s been calling all day," like what a pain she is. Well, Officer, whoever you are, Hailey`s missing now. And that boyfriend, calling, threatening to kill her, is the number one suspect.

Let`s try to go back out to Billie Dunn again. Liz, do we have that satellite fixed? Billie, can you hear me?

BILLIE DUNN: Yes.

GRACE: Billie, what happened surrounding your 911 calls regarding Shawn Adkins threatening to kill you and Hailey?

BILLIE DUNN: OK. He didn`t threaten to kill Hailey. They weren`t frantic 911 calls. I called the police from work because Shawn had been threatening me, and he said he was coming to my house while I was at work and I didn`t want him in here. And he was making threats to my life.


Note that he didn't threaten to kill "Hailey" as qualifying who his threat of violence is towards, as if this would matter in the choice of letting him move in. 
Note that Shawn threatened her, but then she said he would go to her house while she was not there.  This doesn't pose a risk to her. 
GRACE: OK. In the affidavits, the police affidavits, it states that you said he had threatened to kill you and Hailey. So were you telling the truth...




BILLIE DUNN: He said that. I never said that.


Billie Dunn affirms that Shawn did told police that he threatened to kill Billie and Hailey, she does not deny it, but denies that she said it. 
GRACE: Who said that?

BILLIE DUNN: I was, and I didn`t say that in the affidavit. I think it says Shawn actually admitted saying that.

GRACE: So tell me why you called 911?

BILLIE DUNN: I called the police station from work because he was threatening -- he was threatening my life. He was saying he was going to come to my house and get a T-shirt. I didn`t want him in here getting anything when I wasn`t here.

GRACE: I`ve got the police affidavit right here. Colorado City police respond to 1804 Chestnut. Adkins alleged to have threatened to kill Billie Jean (ph) Dunn and Hailey Dunn during the dispute. Adkins informs investigators he never did that, but later confirmed he did threaten both of them. So the call was not made by him. The information was given by you. He first denied it. And then he confirmed it.

BILLIE DUNN: Well, I did, too. I denied it, too, because if he had ever told me that he was going to kill Hailey or David, he wouldn`t have been anywhere around.


He only said he was going to kill Hailey and David's mother, which was okay to let him move in.  

GRACE: So all of your 911 calls were just because you were afraid that he was coming into your house without your authority?

BILLIE DUNN: Yes. And he was threatening me. I didn`t want him here.

GRACE: He was threatening you, saying what?

BILLIE DUNN: I can`t even remember now, but I know he was threatening to kill me and Clint, Hailey`s dad.     


Deception indicated.  The number one lie is "I don't remember" but she adds in two words:  "even" and "now"

GRACE: Well, in this police affidavit, it says that Adkins alleged to have threatened to threatened to kill Billie Jean Dunn and Hailey Dunn during the dispute. And my question is, even if he hadn`t threatened to kill Hailey and the police have it all wrong, why did you think it was OK to take him back in?

BILLIE DUNN: We had a rocky relationship. The last year, things have been really good. The last six months, things have been awesome.


In her previous 8 appearances, she is quoted as saying she does not trust him, why won't he tell the truth, and that she even went with Texas Rangers to get him to tell the truth.  Now she uses the word "awesome" to describe the past 6 months.  

Within this awesome time frame, Hailey Dunn went missing. 
GRACE: What can you tell me about that earring, Billie, the earring that was found on Clint Dunn`s living room floor? Did it match what Hailey was wearing when she went missing?

BILLIE DUNN: Yes. I reported when she was missing that I thought she was wearing those red hoop earrings. She had been wearing them for about a week. She was actually trying to stretch out her earlobe, and I told her she could use those, but that`s the biggest she could go and she had been wearing them. And David found the earring on the floor whenever Clint and Naomi (ph) were moving out and brought it home.


GRACE: You know, that`s a good question. To Billie Dunn. Does Shawn Adkins have access to a boat?

BILLIE DUNN: No. I know his grandma used to have that boat. It doesn`t run. And we do have the -- sorry -- the game warden out at the lakes has been looking.

GRACE: You have what at the lake?

BILLIE DUNN: The game wardens.

GRACE: So they have been looking in the lakes. OK.

I want to go to Lillian Glass, Dr. Lillian Glass, psychologist of body language expert, author of "Toxic People." Lillian, I`ve got in my hand and I`m reading verbatim where the police say they`ve gone to the home, Adkins alleged to have threatened to kill Billie Jean Dunn and Hailey. First he denies it, then he admits he threatened both of their lives. So why tonight am I hearing it wasn`t like that?

LILLIAN GLASS, PSYCHOLOGIST: Because it seems like Billie`s in denial. It seems like she hasn`t wrapped herself around the truth at this point in time because she is in denial. And it also sounds like she`s a victim of somebody who has been very abusive in the relationship. And this is typical behavior. They try to protect the person that they allegedly love. And even though somebody`s been threatened, they ignore it.


GRACE: Billie, you have a 16-year-old son. What time did he leave the house the night before? 

BILLIE DUNN: I thought he left around -- he says he left around can 9:00 and Hailey was in his room playing his Xbox. I thought he left a little earlier. 

GRACE: Now, what time did you see her last, the night before? 

BILLIE DUNN: I saw her about 10:00 or 11:00 in her bedroom. 

GRACE: Was she still playing games? 

BILLIE DUNN: No, she was watching TV, laying in bed. 

GRACE: Now, the next morning, you checked in on her before you left, and you believe you saw her lying in her bed, around 6:00 a.m., right? 

BILLIE DUNN: Right. 

GRACE:    Also tonight we learn the 16-year-old boy has been taken out of the family home and put into state custody. 

Back to Billie Dunn, this is Hailey`s mother. I noticed in that 911 call you say "Sean Adkins is a little MHMR." Is that a mental health term? 

BILLIE DUNN: I was calling him retarded. 

GRACE: Can you tell me about that earring, Billie Dunn? The earring you think she was wearing? 

BILLIE DUNN: It was a red hoop earring. 


GRACE: I want to go to Billie Dunn. Billie, I can see that you are angry or upset. You`re on the verge of tears. Look, we want to find Hailey. We want to find who`s responsible for her missing. And everything -- 

BILLIE DUNN: I want to be somebody looking for a live Hailey. 


Billie Dunn "wants" to be "somebody" looking for a live Hailey.  It is what she wants to be.  It is not who she is. 
GRACE: I agree. Of course you do. That`s what everyone`s hope is. I know you don`t want to hear these 911 calls that happened in the past. I know you don`t want to think about all this. But every single thing matters, every little detail. 

I
SHAWN IN CALIFORNIA: Hi, Nancy. I have two questions. 

GRACE: OK. 

SHAWN: My first question is, early on we know that Hailey spoke to Clint`s mom and mentioned that Sean Adkins made her uncomfortable being outside of the door at night. And without being judgmental to Billie -- and Billie, you`re in my prayers all the time -- I want to know, did you notice any changes in your little girl? Was there a change in her behavior? Was there change in her sleep patterns? 

Because usually if a child will speak out to an adult and say, you know what, I am uncomfortable, there`s something going. And I just want to know, was there any changes in Hailey that could help all of those around you to try to put all the pieces together as to what may have been going on when she disappeared? 

GRACE: What about it, Billie Dunn? Any change at all in her behavior that you noticed? 

BILLIE DUNN: No. Like I said, in the beginning, three years ago, she was very upset her dad and I broke up, but I don`t think Hailey feared Sean in the least. And she wouldn`t have been afraid to come to me. She knows that she was number one, her and David are number one. And I don`t think she would have been afraid to come to me. 

And she didn`t sleep in her room until about a week ago. She slept in the living room on the couch. I think Clint`s mom is just upset. She wants someone to blame also, and that`s understandable. But I really believe Hailey would have come to me or her father. And I don`t think she was afraid of Sean. 


GRACE: Why was your son, David, taken into state custody? 

BILLIE DUNN:  He wasn`t taken into state custody. From my understanding, it`s normal for CPS to come in and interview you, which they did. I placed David at my brother`s house. That`s best for him. I have people driving by, hollering awful things. But there was no courts involved. He`s not in state custody. He`s at my brother`s house and here every day



GRACE: What do you know, Rupa? 

RUPA MIKKILINENI, "NANCY GRACE" PRODUCER: Nancy, that`s what I was told by a police spokesperson, Pete Kempner. He told me yesterday that David was in child protective services, as far as he knew. He confirmed again that as far as he knew today, that was still the case. 

GRACE: And why was the son taken? 

MIKKILINENI: He said that typically in these circumstances, when an investigation is going on and they consider the home is not exactly a safe environment, per se, they tend to reassess or assess whether the home is a proper environment for a child. 

GRACE: And so a safe place could, in fact, be the brother, as Billie Dunn is telling us, be with the brother-in-law? 

MIKKILINENI: That is absolutely correct. 


GRACE: You know, I have not seen her with a black eye in any photo. Not only me but to the New York control room, have you observed that? What about it, Billie? 

BILLIE DUNN: She doesn`t have a picture with a black eye. 

GRACE: Yes. No one`s able to confirm a black eye in any photo. Now, we can clearly see one on Zahra Baker. There`s no doubt about that. But believe me, I`ve looked over these photos with a fine-toothed comb. I have not seen any black eye on Hailey Dunn. 

Theo in Michigan. What`s your question? 

THEO IN MICHIGAN: Hi, Nancy. I love you. I was so happy when you became a mom. 

GRACE: Me too. 

THEO: I was very happy. Everybody knows that I love you and I follow you. Anyw
ay, why did she file a police report on her boyfriend in the first place? 

GRACE: Her account is that he threatened her and her ex-husband, Clint Dunn. The affidavit says he threatened all three of them, and that`s why she called. Everyone, the tip line, 325-728-5294, a $15,000 reward. 

3 comments:

Lis said...

I noticed, after denying that Shawn had threatened Haily, then denying she had said that he had, Billie says:

BILLIE DUNN: I was, and I didn`t say that in the affidavit. I think it says Shawn actually admitted saying that.

"ADMITTED saying that."

Vita said...

GRACE: What about it, Billie Dunn? Any change at all in her behavior that you noticed?

BILLIE DUNN: No. Like I said, in the beginning, three years ago, she was very upset her dad and I broke up, but I don`t think Hailey feared Sean in the least. And she wouldn`t have been afraid to come to me. She knows that she was number one, her and David are number one. And I don`t think she would have been afraid to come to me.
And she didn`t sleep in her room until about a week ago. She slept in the living room on the couch.
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Question: Any change at all in her behavior that you noticed? Removing the added words said. The question is a direct question, Any Change in Her( Hailey's) Behavior? The answer portion relative to Hailey, all the added word removed.

three years ago, she was very upset her dad and I broke up,

I don`t think Hailey feared Sean in the least.

she wouldn`t have been afraid to come to me.

She knows that she was number one,

I don`t think she would have been afraid to come to me.
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The response is not changes in Hailey's behavior but changes that happened that created a change in Billie's behavior.

Hailey and Billie became " separate"

Her answers are fragmented, "3yrs ago/past/present/recent"

Answer is of the PAST
3 yrs ago, She was upset, her dad and I broke up, *jumps to recent* with a polar finish
How does she and her relationship break up, 3 yrs ago, meld with I don't think Hailey feared Shawn (?) left field here.

Past present or in the recent:
I don`t think Hailey feared Sean in the least.
And she wouldn`t have been afraid to come to me.
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AND she Would not have been afraid (Had what? something changed) to come to me, it is not a complete thought.

She knows that she was number one,
WAS? she was replaced? SHE KNOWS she Was number one, then she and David are equally number one. (?) *She KNOWS she WAS, she then knows she is no longer number one?

"She knows that she was number one, her and David are number one."

And I don`t think she would have been afraid to come to me. * is she answering or asking her own self? again left field.

It's a weak admittance since she herself is questioning her own thought of, IF Hailey was afraid to come to her. Not speak but go to her.
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And she didn`t sleep in her room until about a week ago. She slept in the living room on the couch.

This would be behavior related. AND to add, or to ANSWER the actual question: "she didn't sleep in her room until, about a week ago.
(what changed? not said) She slept in the living room on the couch."

The common repeated sensitive is Fear, Afraid, Betrayal, She Knows She WAS number one. None of these are behaviors but emotions, were these the emotions of Hailey prior to her
" vanishing into thin air"

Anonymous said...

Here's my take:
Hello,911...
He was threatening to kill ME,MY DAUGHTER, and EX. Please go over to MY house and protect the TV and X-box.

O'tay.......

If the TV and Xbox were more important than an actual life, I am curious as to whether or not the daughter picked up on this little fact or not. If so, why confide in her if she keeps going back to the split of she and the father and spent the last two years and a half years in a rocky relationship only to find that 6 months out of 36 months were AWESOME.

Were the last 6 months AWESOME because he finally bent her to his will?

It is understandable that she was a working mother whose paycheck more than likely barely covered necessities. Did she keep him around for additional resources?