Crime Solvers Central
Crime Solvers Central
302 Cases Solved. Advancing justice for missing persons, unsolved homicides, unidentified and unclaimed remains.

Forum Posts for Michael Wayne Dunahee:
Be respectful. Abuse of these forums will not be tolerated.

On a Sunday afternoon, March 24, 1991, four-year-old Michael Wayne Dunahee disappeared from the playground at Blanshard Elementary School in Victoria, British Columbia. He had been with his parents—his mother, Crystal, at a nearby flag football practice and his father, Bruce, watching—and was last seen about 12:30 p.m. when he asked to go to the playground. Minutes later, his father checked and Michael was gone. At the time he vanished he wore a blue-hooded jacket with red lining, a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles t-shirt, multi-coloured rugby pants, and blue sneakers.

The Victoria Police Department quickly classified the case as an abduction and mounted an exhaustive investigation that involved hundreds of volunteers, multiple police agencies, thousands of tips and inquiries into known sex offenders. A witness described a man in his late 40s or early 50s with a brown van near the school that day. Over the decades the family has led publicity efforts, including an annual Keep the Hope Alive walk/run; police released an age-enhanced sketch in 2021 and set up an online tip portal, and several people have provided DNA for comparison with no match. The disappearance remains unsolved.

If anyone was at Blanshard Elementary on March 24, 1991, or has information about the man with the brown van, please come forward.