Search for Writer’s Son Intensifies After Car Spotted
CONTINENTAL, Ariz. — Dominick Dunne spotted his son’s missing car Wednesday parked near a trail head, and searchers, encouraged by a possible sighting, scoured the trails of a popular hiking area.
Rescuers, including some of the famous family’s Hollywood friends, converged on rugged Madera Canyon in the Coronado National Forest, 45 miles south of Tucson, looking for Alex Dunne, 38, of San Francisco.
Among searchers were his brother, actor and filmmaker Griffin Dunne, and a longtime family friend, Charlie Wessler, who helped produce “Dumb and Dumber” and “Bushwhacked.”
Searchers closed in on the area after the elder Dunne spotted the brown 1980 Toyota station wagon from a private plane.
Alex Dunne, 38, was last seen late Friday in his mother’s Nogales home and was believed to have left early Saturday in her station wagon to go hiking or mountain biking.
Search crews Wednesday were encouraged by a hiker’s report that he recognized a picture of Dunne as the man he spoke with while hiking a canyon trail Monday.
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