Part 1 covered the afternoon of March 24th, 1991 — the playground, the fifty people who saw nothing, the boy who was there and then wasn't. Part 2 picks up where that left off, with 35 years of investigation, the leads that closed without answers, and where the case stands in 2026.
 
The investigation that followed Michael Dunahee's disappearance was one of the largest missing child responses in Canadian history. Nearly 100 officers from agencies across British Columbia were mobilized within days. The FBI provided support. America's Most Wanted covered the case multiple times. And the tip system they built on the fly — tips written on carbon paper, sorted by hand — crashed under the weight of calls before a dedicated line could be established.
 
Victoria Police have since acknowledged that if modern technology had existed in 1991 — video surveillance, computerized tip management, advanced DNA analysis — the case might have been solved in those first few days. It was not a failure of effort. It was a description of the environment.
 
In 2009, police in Milwaukee searched the home of a man named Vernon Seitz — a 62-year-old who had confessed to his psychiatrist that he killed a child in 1959 and had knowledge of another killing. When they searched the home, they found child pornography, files on missing children cases from the late 1980s and 1990s, and a missing person poster of Michael Dunahee. Alongside the poster: a map labeled "Mill Stream Park," north of Victoria. Victoria Police were contacted. Before the connection could be fully resolved, Seitz was found dead, apparently of natural causes. No definitive link to Michael was ever established.
 
DNA tests in 2006, 2011, and 2013 each ruled out men who bore physical similarities to Michael. A tip through a Vancouver Canucks fan forum in 2013 led investigators to Surrey. On September 9, 2013, VicPD confirmed that man was not Michael either.
 
11,000 tips. Multiple serious DNA leads. Not one confirmed connection.
 
Kevin covers the Amber Alert question directly — what the system requires, why it would not have applied to Michael's case, and what that means. He draws the parallel to Morgan Nick, who disappeared from a little league parking lot in Arkansas in 1995 under strikingly similar circumstances — a public place, a parent nearby, no witnesses, no resolution. And he explains what Child Find BC is, what Crystal Dunahee built from it, and what the annual Keep the Hope Alive Fund Run in Esquimalt means to the Victoria community.
 
The case is still open. A detective is still assigned. And the tools available to investigators in 2026 are categorically different from 1991: forensic genetic genealogy, advanced facial recognition, and the ability to digitally cross-reference 11,000 tips in ways that were impossible when they were written on carbon paper.
 
Michael Dunahee would be 40 years old today. His family has never given up hope.

If you have information about Michael Dunahee's disappearance:
Victoria Police Department tip line: 250-995-7444
Online tips: vicpd.ca

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On March 24th, 1991, Crystal Dunahee drove to a women's flag football game in Victoria, British Columbia. Michael — her four-year-old son with blonde hair, blue eyes, and freckles — asked if he could play at the park. She looked. There were a couple of kids already there. It was a normal Sunday afternoon.
 
She said yes. It was the first time she had ever let him go to the park by himself.
 
When his father Bruce walked to the playground minutes later, Michael was gone.
 
In this Witness Wednesday, Crystal Dunahee sits down with Kevin to share who Michael was — not the case, not the timeline, but the boy. The four-year-old who was learning to ride his bike without training wheels and had taken a wipeout. Who was getting ready for kindergarten in September. Who was so excited about his baby sister Caitlin, who had just been born six months earlier. Who was a trusting, innocent kid who would follow his friends into the trees and come home covered in rashes from the spiders.
 
 Crystal talks about what that afternoon looked like from where she was standing. About the investigation that followed — one of the largest missing child responses in Canadian history — and what it was like to go through it as a mother while also being questioned as part of the family investigation that every case requires. About the toll of 35 years of leads and dead ends, and why the detectives eventually stopped telling the family every detail of every tip — not because they stopped working, but because the emotional weight of each false lead was too much.
 
She talks about Caitlin, who grew up living in the shadow of her brother's disappearance, seeing herself as an only child.
 
She talks about the 2021 age-enhanced sketch of Michael at 34 — and how strange it is to watch your child age through a forensic artist's rendering instead of through life.
 
She talks about Child Find BC, the advocacy organization she helped bring back from dormancy — the Hope Alive run, the education work, the belief that the conversation about personal safety with children has to start young and be repeated often. If something doesn't feel right, trust your body. Those are her words.
 
And when Kevin asks what she thinks happened that day, Crystal says what she has said for 35 years: wrong place, wrong time.
 
And when he asks what she would say to Michael — wherever he is — she says: we never gave up hope. That motherly instinct. He's out there. It's just a matter of time for something to trigger, to make him realize this is not who I am. This is who I am.
 
 **If you have information about Michael Dunahee's disappearance: **
 Victoria Police Department tip line: 250-995-7400 ext. 44
 Online: vicpd.ca

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A few things to catch you up on before the week ahead - and it is a big one.

The Gina Bos case is officially wrapped. If you have not yet heard last Wednesday's Witness Wednesday with Jannel Rap, Gina's sister, go back and listen before you do anything else this week. It was one of the most meaningful interviews Kevin has done for this podcast. Jannel took her grief over Gina's disappearance and turned it into 411gina.org, an advocacy organization that has helped locate more than 3,000 missing people. Kevin says it out loud in this episode: that conversation is a big part of why he does the Midnight Mystery Archive.

On Friday, Part 1 of the Michael Dunahee case dropped. Michael was four years old when he disappeared from a playground at Blanchard Elementary School in Victoria, British Columbia on March 24th, 1991. It was a Sunday afternoon. His mother Crystal was nearby playing in a women's flag football game. His father Bruce was keeping watch. There were approximately fifty people in the area. Not one of them saw Michael leave. He has not been seen since. Kevin draws the parallel to Morgan Nick - the young girl who disappeared in 1995 at a public event in Arkansas under similar circumstances. Public place. A crowd of people. And somehow, not one witness.

THIS WEDNESDAY - Witness Wednesday: Crystal Dunahee, Michael's mother, joins the Midnight Mystery Archive. She has spent 35 years advocating for her son and for missing children across Canada through her work with Child Find BC. Kevin says she is one of the most heroic people he has ever had the pleasure of speaking with.

THIS FRIDAY: Part 2 of the Michael Dunahee case, the 35-year investigation, leads, and a closer look at Child Find BC.

If you have information about Michael Dunahee's disappearance:
Victoria Police Department: 250-995-7400 ext. 44 | vicpd.ca

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On March 24th, 1991, a four-year-old boy named Michael Dunahee disappeared from a school playground in Victoria, British Columbia. It was 12:30 in the afternoon. There were approximately fifty people in the immediate area. He vanished within meters of his parents. Not one of those people saw it happen.

Thirty-five years later, Michael Dunahee has never been found.

Michael Wayne Dunahee was born on May 12th, 1986. He was blonde-haired and blue-eyed with freckles beginning to appear across his nose. He was a happy, physically outgoing four-year-old who had a baby sister named Caitlin and parents named Crystal and Bruce who brought him to Blanchard Elementary School that Sunday afternoon for a women's flag football game.

Crystal said yes when Michael asked if he could go to the playground. She told him to wait for his father. She has spoken in interviews about a nagging feeling that something wasn't quite right that day - nothing specific, nothing she could name. She let it go. When Bruce walked to the playground minutes later, Michael was gone.

The detail that makes this case almost impossible to process is the one that repeats in every account: not one person out of fifty saw anything. No one saw him leave. No one saw him approach a vehicle or be approached by a person. No one heard anything unusual. A child was taken from a populated public park in the middle of a Sunday afternoon and left no trace.

Victoria Police classified it as an abduction from the first hours - a four-year-old with no reason to wander, no way to go anywhere, and a speed and silence of disappearance that was inconsistent with a child who simply walked away. The response was immediate and massive: every available detective, search teams, hundreds of volunteers, helicopters with heat-seeking technology, the RCMP, and eventually the FBI. It became and remains one of the largest missing child investigations in Canadian history.

The one physical lead was thin: a witness reported a man in his late forties or early fifties near the playground, associated with a brown van. A reenactment one month later produced nothing. The man was never identified.

More than 11,000 tips have been received and investigated over 35 years. The case appeared on America's Most Wanted five separate times. DNA tests in 2006, 2011, and 2013 each ruled out men who resembled Michael. A $100,000 reward still stands. A detective is still assigned.

In 2009, police in Milwaukee discovered Michael's missing persons poster at the home of Vernon Seitz, a man who had confessed to his psychiatrist that he had killed a child in 1959. Seitz died before investigators could establish any definitive connection.

Victoria Police stated in 2025 that all it would take is one person deciding to come forward.

Michael Dunahee was wearing a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles t-shirt, dark track pants, and white sneakers on the day he disappeared. He weighed approximately 40 pounds. Today he would be 39 years old.

If you have information about Michael Dunahee's disappearance:
Victoria Police Department tip line: 250-995-7400 ext. 44
Online tips: vicpd.ca

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Jannel Rap built a foundation that has helped locate over 3,000 missing people. Her sister Gina Bos disappeared twenty-six years ago. Gina's case is still open. Jannel joins Witness Wednesday for her full interview and the complete conversation behind the clips you heard in Part 2 of the Gina Bos series.

She talks about growing up in a family of seven kids, four girls who sang together at church, a grandfather who played the fiddle, a father who played guitar, a mother who played the clarinet and accordion entirely by ear. And she talks about Gina: not just one gift, but all of them. Painting. Drawing. Designing dresses. Cutting hair. Molding clay and wire. In a conversation not long before Gina disappeared, Jannel told her to just pick one thing to focus on. Gina's answer: "That's easy for you, you only have one thing."

She shares details that aren't in any public record. Gina named her guitar "Harley", because she loved Harleys, and she never left it in a car unattended because temperature changes affect the wood. The open trunk isn't just a detail. It means something interrupted a habit she'd kept without fail. Gina had also been hesitant to go back for the open mic that night: one son was due home from Florida, and it was another son's birthday. She worked it out. She went back. She walked out the door, and nobody heard anything.

She talks about how Lincoln PD responded, immediately, seriously, unusually, and how a prior relationship with Tom Osborne allowed her to get Gina's photo on the Husker jumbotron the Saturday after she disappeared, generating so many tips that LPD had to assign a full unit just to follow up.

And she talks about what she built in the twenty-six years since. Six months of pushing for national media. Every outlet said no. The last "no" was instant depression, she fell asleep. She woke up at two or three in the morning and heard one clear thought: just do what you already do. Thirteen events from Los Angeles to New York City. A CD with thirteen missing persons' faces. Three days after the New York City event, a seventeen-year-old from Indiana was handed that CD and recognized his own face on it. He came home alive.

The GINA for Missing Persons FOUNDation has since helped locate over three thousand missing people, while Gina's own case remains open.

At the end of the interview, Jannel says something she has never said publicly before. About value. About what it means that someone thought they could take her sister's life and throw her away like garbage. And about why the person who did it couldn't have understood the value of a human life, because if they had, they never could have done it.

If you have information about Gina Bos's disappearance:
Lincoln Police Department: 402-441-6000
Crime Stoppers (anonymous): 1-800-222-8477
411gina.org | namus.gov

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TONIGHT - AMY BRADLEY LIVE Q&A (8:30PM ET)
The Amy Bradley series just wrapped, and the questions since the finale have been significant. I will be going live tonight at 8:30pm Eastern to answer them. Watch live (or the replay) on YouTube.

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GINA BOS - SERIES WRAP
Two parts. Three interviews. Twenty-six years. The case of Gina Bos is complete: after going through the research, I agree with Jannel Rap and the Lincoln Police Department. Someone Gina knew is almost certainly responsible for what happened to her in the early hours of October 17th, 2000. The open trunk, the guitar she never left unattended, and a window that comes down to seconds. If you have information about Gina's disappearance:

Lincoln Police Department: 402-441-6000
Crime Stoppers (anonymous): 1-800-222-8477
411gina.org | namus.gov

WITNESS WEDNESDAY THIS WEDNESDAY - JANNEL RAP
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NEXT SERIES - MICHAEL DUNAHEE, CANADA
The show's first Canadian case. Kevin has been in contact with Michael's mother, Crystal, and is hoping to bring her on for a Witness Wednesday. The case shares notable similarities to the disappearance of Morgan Nick in Arkansas. Canada - you've been patient. You're on deck.

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Eighteen years after Regina "Gina" Bos vanished outside Duggan's Pub in Lincoln, Nebraska, Detective Greg Sorensen said on the record: "Do I think I know who killed her? Yes." Then, in the same conversation: "We don't have enough probable cause to arrest somebody." This episode is built around the gap between those two statements.

Gina Bos — a 40-year-old single mother of three and musician — walked out of an open mic on October 17, 2000, and was never seen again. Her car was found across the street. Her guitar, which she never left unattended, sat in a trunk that never closed. No body. No crime scene. No footage — the pub's cameras were off that night.

In Part 2 of this series, with new interview audio from Gina's sister Jannel Rap, founder of the GINA for Missing Persons FOUNDation, we examine:

• Why the open trunk reframes every piece of physical evidence in the case
• The four structural conditions that have shaped this investigation for 25 years
• What "probable cause" actually means — and why a detective who believes he knows the answer still can't make an arrest
• State v. Keadle: the Nebraska Supreme Court ruling proving murder can be prosecuted without a body
• How Jannel turned the worst night of her search into a foundation that has helped find more than 3,000 missing people — while her own sister's case stays open

Gina's case is the oldest unsolved missing persons case at the Lincoln Police Department. Nebraska law is not the wall. The evidence is the wall. And evidence can change.

Have information about the disappearance of Regina "Gina" Bos?
Lincoln Police Department: 402-441-6000
Crime Stoppers (anonymous): 1-800-222-8477
NamUs: namus.gov

Links & Resources
GINA for Missing Persons FOUNDation & the Squeaky Wheel® Tour: 411gina.org
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Patrick Kane punched a cab driver over 20 cents. Pat McAfee was arrested shirtless and soaking wet at 2am trying to break into the wrong car. One guy was arrested over 100 times. Another had no pants, no underwear, nothing. Five clues. Five athletes. Can you name them?

The Halls of Mediocrity launches July 14th, the second show from the Archive Podcast Network. In this preview clip, Kevin and his brother Jeff run a training camp drill: five clues, a running clock, and Jeff doing his best to identify the perp before time runs out.

Clue #1 - NFL Running Back: A career backup who never started more than four games in a season, arrested at Barry University for breaking into a dorm room and using a woman's laundry basket as a toilet.

Clue #2 - NHL, Three-Time Stanley Cup Champion: One of the most recognizable names in the sport, arrested in Buffalo at 5am for punching a cab driver in the face over a 20-cent fare dispute.

Clue #3 - MLB Gold Glove Second Baseman: A .254 career hitter pulled over in Tampa with seven cans of beer, a gram of cocaine, and leaving the scene of an accident. Police could not administer a field sobriety test at the side of the road. You'll understand why when you hear the clue.

Clue #4 - NBA Backup Point Guard: Played for six teams in ten years. Never averaged more than eight points a game. Arrested over one hundred times in his life. Best known as a Phoenix Sun.

Clue #5 - NFL Punter: Found shirtless, soaking wet, at 2am, trying to break into a car that wasn't his. Told police he thought it was. Now one of the most prominent media personalities in sports.

Jeff gets four out of five. Kevin gives him a solid B. July 14th is coming.

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Darsha Dodge has known about Gina Bos's case for 15 years. Last October, she stood at the Nebraska State Capitol in the rain and watched Gina's sisters sing for her under a rainbow umbrella. This is what she saw.

Darsha Dodge is the senior reporter at 1011 News (KOLN) in Lincoln, Nebraska. She grew up in Arkansas and, as a teenager going down internet rabbit holes about missing persons, stumbled across Gina Bos's disappearance roughly 15 years ago. When she moved to Lincoln and saw Nebraska Missing Persons Day come up on the calendar, an event Gina's sisters helped push through the state legislature, designating October 17th each year, she knew immediately she was going to be there.

In this Witness Wednesday, Darsha describes walking up to the state capitol that October morning: storm clouds, thunder, rain on and off, and Gina's sisters Jannel, Leanne, and Tammy standing under a bright rainbow umbrella, holding their instruments and singing for a sister who has been missing for 26 years. When Darsha asked Jannel about the rain, Jannel said something she hasn't been able to forget: "It's been raining since October 17th."

She also talks about meeting Jannel for the first time - the warmth, the hug, the email Jannel sent after the story ran that Darsha printed out and keeps on her desk. She talks about looking at Gina's photos and what a person's smile tells you about who they were. And she talks about driving past the building where Duggan's Pub used to stand, at 11th and K in downtown Lincoln, two or three times a week, and how she can't drive by without thinking about Gina.

She also reflects on the 411 Gina Foundation: what it takes to build something like that out of grief, to help hundreds of families find their missing loved ones while your own sister's case remains open, and what Jannel's email revealed about the kind of person you have to be to do that work.

If you're looking for a reason to believe in people, Darsha says, look at what Jannel Rap built in her sister's name.

If you have information about Gina Bos's disappearance:
Lincoln Police Department: 402-441-6000
Crime Stoppers (anonymous): 1-800-222-8477
411gina.org | namus.gov

Darsha's Piece on Gina and Nebraska Missing Persons Day
https://www.1011now.com/2025/10/17/25-years-after-she-vanished-family-regina-bos-marks-nebraska-missing-persons-day/

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The Amy Bradley series is done. Gina Bos is next. And this week is one of the most important weeks of the Summer Series and here's what's coming.

Gina Bos was 40 years old when she disappeared from Lincoln, Nebraska on October 17, 2000. She had just finished an open mic night at Duggan's Pub. Her guitar and sheet music made it into the trunk of her car. The trunk never closed. She has not been seen since. This past Friday's episode covered who Gina was and what happened that night. If you haven't heard it yet, start there.

This week: on Wednesday, Darcia Dodge, senior reporter at KOLN News in Lincoln, Nebraska, joins Witness Wednesday. Darcia was familiar with Gina's case before she got into journalism. Last fall, she attended Nebraska Missing Persons Day at the state capitol and met Gina's sisters firsthand. What she experienced on that day is something you need to hear before Friday.

Because on Friday, Gina's sister Jannel Rap joins the podcast. Jannel didn't just grieve, she built something. Her foundation, the GINA for Missing Persons Foundation at 411gina.org, has been connected to the recovery of more than 600 missing men, women, and children while Gina's own case remains open. This is that conversation.

Also, this week: The Halls of Mediocrity, the Archive Podcast Network's second show, launches July 14th. Sports, true crime, and the athletes who had everything and threw it away. Two trailers are live now wherever you get your podcasts.

And Echo 1953, Book One of The Hollis Files Mystery Series, launches July 27th. The early reader reviews are coming in and they are genuinely knocking me out. Pre-order is live on Amazon now, link in the show notes.

If you have information about Gina Bos's disappearance:
Lincoln Police Department: 402-441-6000
Crime Stoppers (anonymous): 1-800-222-8477
411gina.org | namus.gov

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