It is possible that a sexual predator that he met online could have provided him one.
Thanks for your reply and that absolutely is a possibility..with the FBI involved I would presume a very thorough forensic search is being done on any and all electronic communications that Dylan had with anyone.. He from what little we have found in sleuthing Dylan's online presence doesn't seem to be heavily communicating via the social media sites we've seen..and what I mean by heavy and regular use is for instance what we see in some of the other missing teenager cases that we've followed there is a very big, wide ranging online presence seen for many of them with the main sites being Facebook, twitter, tumblr, and gaming handles and sites..just to name some of the more current and/or popular ones..
as in Sierra Lamar's case she was extremely, heavily involved in communicating via these social media sites and we found had hundreds of "friends" and people with whom she regularly had contact and convos with(a good amount we sleuthed and found to be pretty much strangers only known from their crossing paths online).. her case IMO really had some of the markings of a very good possibility of being targeted by someone she had crossed paths via online..
So, when I say from what we have searched and sleuthed out on Dylan I just don't see the chances being very great of his being targeted via online chats and communications..but of course just cause my opinion is that the chances aren't that great does not in any way equate that the perp in this case is NOT an online predator..I am just merely explaining why it is that I have this particular opinion..
From what I can tell actually Dylan is just a tad bit younger than the teens we've seen that have been heavily immersed with an online presence(again not saying there aren't 13yr olds who are extremely immersed and have large online presences).. just that from many of the teen cases we've seen that they tend to be just a little older than Dylan(Sierra LaMar was 15yoa)..
IMO when I say that Dylan's main source of communicating with friends and fam was via electronic communication what I am referring to is via cell phone text/SMS..at the onset I believed it possibly that he was more involved online, but after really digging and sleuthing..as well as learning what we have from his fam and friends my opinion is that the MAIN EXTENT of electronic communication for Dylan was via his cell phone texting..we also learned that he did not have internet access via his cell phone which imo is a huge factor in whether a teen is moderately to heavily active on the
www..with Dylan imo it was mostly texting with some interest in FB, but more so than anything his FB even wasn't for chatting and meeting people but rather playing some of the FB games..
moo is just as mom said that the plan was for Dylan to be getting a smartphone for Christmas IMO that would have been when he began to really get more involved via social media sites and with an online presence in general..moo is he was right there on the cusp of getting into more involvement online..jmo, tho..
Sexual predator is a possibility and IMO likely one of the very first avenues FBI searched which would have involved locating any/all convos and/or chats Dylan had engaged in online..
jmo,tho..