{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Midnight Mystery Archive","title":"50 People Were There. A 4-Year-Old Vanished. No One Saw a Thing. | Michael Dunahee | Part 1","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1117,"description":"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.\nThirty-five years later, Michael Dunahee has never been found.\nMichael 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.\nCrystal 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.\nThe 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.\nVictoria 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.\nThe one physical lead was thin: a witness reported a man in his late...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/JhFVuE-xAb0ydWIP0tTwyNSjGGXUQr64w-4hdQP9SN0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80MzEz/MzBkYjc5OGViYTdk/ZjhjMTZmZDJhMDc1/OGU3NS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}