The recent arrest of a woman accused of abducting her infant daughter 18 years ago is giving new hope to the family of Michael Dunahee.
54-year-old Patricia O’Byrne was arrested in Victoria on Thursday after police received a tip from the Missing Children Society of Canada.
She’s accused of abducting her 20-month old daughter in Toronto during a bitter custody battle in 1993.
The case has many Victoria residents and police thinking once again about Michael Dunahee, the little boy who vanished from a playground in 1991.
“That kind of thinking motivates us, I know you’re thinking about the Dunahee case and so am I,” said Cst. Roger de Passe. “That motivates us to keep working on it and we are every single day of the week.”
Michael’s mother Crystal agrees the O’Byrne case has renewed hope that her son will one day be found. “Most definitely this case has been going on for 18 years, being a parental abduction, and it does give us hope that the end of the day,” she said.
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