La Plata County Sheriff Duke Schirard said Saturday that two sheriffs investigators were dispatched to Denver in an effort to interview Redwine.
Were hopeful we can gain some information from this incident, Schirard said. This open case is one of our number one priorities. Any leads or potential leads, were going to respond.
Interesting re a weapon.
Dispatch reported one, but one not found when LE arrived.
Misreporting...or...??
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Sometimes citizens will say that a subject has a weapon to get a faster response from LE. The fact that Mark was not armed is what is important, not what someone claimed. MOO.
Not armed by the time the police got there does not necessarily mean that there wasn't a weapon at the time of the call. He's said on video interviews that he takes his shotgun with him. (Melissa Blasius interview in January, and I think also Tricia's radio show last summer.) MOO
I would imagine they're surveilling him and that could send someone off the deep end, regardless of any previous psychological issues. He was likely trying to lose the tail, whether for nefarious reasons or just because he's paranoid. If my child were missing and half the free world thought I disappeared him, I might lose my mind too. I can't imagine that kind of pressure, guilty or not. I'm not typically a fence-sitter but nothing in this case has convinced me to jump off either side. I will say that 'driving around looking for a place to live' is a load of crap IMO. He was doing something else ... but what?
Apparently he called the news reporter and told her where he would be. Just in time for the cameras to be there and record the whole thing. WHY did he call her? Is he setting up a mental health defense? :moo:
Apparently he called the news reporter and told her where he would be. Just in time for the cameras to be there and record the whole thing. WHY did he call her? Is he setting up a mental health defense? :moo:
I have two thoughts on this: one is that MR knew what he was doing and wants Elaine to know that he is searching for a place to live and that he might just "end up" somewhere near where she lives; that he's trying to present himself as being messed up so if he says anything incriminating, he can just say he's having delusions, and/or to try to set up some kind of harassment suit ("stalked" by "haters") against anyone he can manage to file a suit against OR too much drink and a guilty conscience is getting him, whether because he killed Dylan or because the thinks his actions contributed to Dylan's death (either side can take their pick). IMO. He even says he is self medicating in the first article SurfieTX posted on this thread.Why was he armed while he was driving around looking for a new place to live? Why would he look for a place to live that is closer to where ER now lives? And WHY would he call a news reporter at 2:30 in the morning to tell her that he thinks he is being followed by police? I'm guessing he wanted this in the news, but why? Does he want the general public (and potential future jury) to know he is "confused" enough not to be able to stand trial? All conjecture.
Yes and no, IMO. If you read the article SurfieTX posted, MR says that he had two guns in his truck nearby. "After he was picked up, no weapon was found on Redwine. However, Redwine tells 9Wants to Know he had two guns in his truck nearby." I think he was near his truck and whomever called it in saw the weapons (in my experience, a lot of trucks have a gun rack and people openly carry their shotguns and rifles in the truck on the rack), or he might have even had a weapon out at one point, but put it back in his truck. The fact that MR did not have a weapon on his person at the time LE arrived is a good thing, but that doesn't mean he might not have been waving a gun around. So it is important if a paranoid man, by his own admission-again it is in the article, has access to a loaded weapon (not that I have any idea if the guns were loaded or not, but LE would not take that chance when a person is reported as having a weapon).Sometimes citizens will say that a subject has a weapon to get a faster response from LE. The fact that Mark was not armed is what is important, not what someone claimed. MOO.