VICTORIA – Twenty years after the disappearance of a four-year-old British Columbia boy – which prompted one of the largest missing-persons investigations in Canadian history – his parents were to make a desperate plea for new information.
Bruce and Crystal Dunahee will speak at a news conference at Victoria police headquarters Wednesday, about the March 24, 1991 disappearance of their son, Michael Dunahee.
Michael disappeared around 12:30 p.m., 20 years ago, from a park at Blanshard Elementary school, now University Canada West, in Victoria.
Neither he nor a body has ever been found. If he is still alive today, he would be 24 years old.
The Dunahee case remains among the most famous missing-person cases in the country.
Detectives have chased thousands of tips and leads, and the investigation remains active. Recently, there was talk of a possible link between the disappearance and a possible child killer in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
In January 2009, a Milwaukee TV station reported that U.S. police found a missing-person poster of Michael inside the home of 62-year-old Vernon Seitz, who confessed just before dying, to killing two children in 1958. Victoria police dismissed any connection.
In 2006, officials offered a $100,000 reward for information on the case, but no solid information was presented.
A man in Port McNeill, B.C., was rumoured to be Michael until DNA tests proved otherwise.
Michael’s parents say they have never given up hope that their son might one day turn up alive.
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