ColdHands
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Lots of searching and very little is coming up. In the cases I can find with older teens most had the parent hiding with the kid.
But here's an older case I found. This is a 14 year old girl that was taken by her father, driven an hour away and left with his mother for two weeks in 1997. There is no indication that the girl or the grandmother ever contacted anyone. This does predate cell phones but in 1997 most people would have had landlines and most teens would have had phone numbers memorized. IMO
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1997-07-09/news/9707090235_1_abduction-father-brown
There aren't any details that I could find. The dad ran and I can't find that they ever caught him. There's no indication that the grandmother was ever charged.
This is not intended to be a one-to-one comparison of Dylan's case, but it shows that it is not impossible.
I'm not discarding this theory, because #1-MR has tried this before #2-the family thinks it is possible and #3-I'd like to keep some hope that Dylan is alive. I think this theory relies heavily on the receiving person to be able to control the situation with Dylan. I think it is less necessary to assume that MR feels the need to stay in contact with the receiving person, if it is someone he trusts.
But here's an older case I found. This is a 14 year old girl that was taken by her father, driven an hour away and left with his mother for two weeks in 1997. There is no indication that the girl or the grandmother ever contacted anyone. This does predate cell phones but in 1997 most people would have had landlines and most teens would have had phone numbers memorized. IMO
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1997-07-09/news/9707090235_1_abduction-father-brown
There aren't any details that I could find. The dad ran and I can't find that they ever caught him. There's no indication that the grandmother was ever charged.
This is not intended to be a one-to-one comparison of Dylan's case, but it shows that it is not impossible.
I'm not discarding this theory, because #1-MR has tried this before #2-the family thinks it is possible and #3-I'd like to keep some hope that Dylan is alive. I think this theory relies heavily on the receiving person to be able to control the situation with Dylan. I think it is less necessary to assume that MR feels the need to stay in contact with the receiving person, if it is someone he trusts.