disappeared_status disappeared_place birth_place nationality name disappeared_date parents birth_date article_title birth_name
1991 3 24 blanshard park elementary school playground victoria , british columbia , canada , canadian michael dunahee 1991 3 24 1986 5 12 crystal dunahee bruce dunahee 12 may 1986 michael dunahee
 michael dunahee
michael dunahee

michael wayne dunahee -lrb- born may 12 , 1986 -rrb- is a missing child from victoria , british columbia , canada , who disappeared when he was four years old , and has never been found .
he disappeared from the playground at blanshard park elementary school , also known as the blanshard street playground , in victoria , british columbia on march 24 , 1991 .
michael was last seen around 12:30 p.m. playing at the school playground as his mother , crystal dunahee , was participating in a female football practice event to which his father was a spectator .
michael disappeared metres from his parents , but no witnesses to michael 's disappearance have ever been identified .
michael 's disappearance spawned one of the largest police investigations in canadian history and to date , over 11,000 tips have been received by police .
the case was a major story for many years , being reported across canada and in the us .
despite the large number of tips , and a $ 100,000 reward , police do not have any solid leads in the case .
michael 's mother crystal has become an advocate for missing children 's issues in british columbia , and currently serves as the president of child find british columbia .
in 2002 , crystal lent her voice to support the royal canadian mounted police -lrb- rcmp -rrb- in calls to introduce an amber alert system in bc , stating that she believes her son would have been found had such a program existed in 1991 .
the system has since been implemented in most regions of canada .
the community of esquimalt , part of the greater victoria metropolitan area , holds an annual charity event called the michael dunahee `` keep the hope alive '' fund run to raise money for child find .
2006 marked the 15th annual run .
in 2006 , strong tips , and reports of a young man who would be michael 's age now , living in the interior of bc who arrived there in 1991 , who looked like michael , breathed new life into the case .
for several weeks , news stations carried the story that the michael dunahee case had been re-opened after several strong leads , perhaps bringing a conclusion to what happened to michael .
however , nothing came out of the leads , and the report of the young man in the interior of bc was determined not to be michael after dna testing was done .
in early 2009 , new life was once again brought to the dunahee case .
u.s. police found a `` missing person '' poster of dunahee at the milwaukee home of a possible child killer .
vernon seitz , 62 , confessed to his psychiatrist that he had killed a child in 1959 and knew of another child killing .
seitz was later found dead by milwaukee police , apparently of natural causes .
in 2013 , another possible big break first surfaced when a man with the username canuckels posted on the message boards of canucks.com , the official website of the vancouver hockey team , that the cops were coming for a dna test .
they requested a blood sample from a surrey , b.c. man who could potentially be the boy .
on september 9 , 2013 , dna testing has determined that the surrey , b.c. , man is not michael dunahee , the victoria police department says .
