237:(VicPD) were called in. Hundreds of tips began coming in every hour from across North America, and during that time had to be written on carbon paper and sorted out manually. Police believe that if they had current technology, such as video surveillance, DNA techniques, and a computer system to sort out tips, the case might have been solved.
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Victoria residents recalled the day of Dunahee's disappearance as a "loss of innocence" for the city, as the fact that a child had been abducted in their community came as a shock. Fears and concerns about child abduction quickly began to rise among parents, kids and schools in the months after
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by the name of "Shangerdanger" reportedly found the shirt
Dunahee was said to be wearing at the time of his disappearance. The rare Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle shirt was found submerged underwater, but after Dunahee's family reached out to the Tiktoker, they saw the shirt and realized it was not the
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and interviewed anyone who had been in the area around the time of
Dunahee's disappearance, but were unable to find much information except a witness report that "a man in his late 40s or early 50s" with a brown van was near the playground. A month after Dunahee was last seen, police staged a
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there he had to "stay there and wait for Daddy to come." However, when
Dunahee's father came to the playground, the boy was not there. Around fifty people began to look for Dunahee, and his parents immediately notified police.
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the disappearance. Dunahee's mother became an advocate for missing children's issues in
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system in the province, as she believed that her son would have been found if such a program had existed in 1991. The system has since been implemented in most regions of Canada. The community of
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