CO- Dylan Redwine, 13, Vallecito, 19 November 2012 - #9

[Ronso]

Was Dylan on Facebook? I can't remember. tia

Yes, he has a Facebook page.

 

[Seek&Find]

Dylan was staying at his father's home because of a court order granting his father visitation rights for Thanksgiving.

Elaine Redwine told ABC News she believes her ex-husband was upset that she was the court-mandated primary custodian of their son.

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Evening: Dylan arrives in Durango from Colorado Springs after 6th Judicial District Judge David Dickinson issued a court order granting Mark Redwine, Dylan’s father, visitation rights during the Thanksgiving holiday.

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Hm. Seems we'd seen something more in depth about this...:waitasec:

 

[PaulR]

Why wouldn't he plug the phone in and charge it? It was one of his only means to contact his friends.

Mom said that the phone was physically "smoking", so it may have died on the trip.

 

[Ransom]

Was Dylan on Facebook? I can't remember. tia

For some odd reason he has two. One "friended" the other. Odd to me.

 

[SCHMAE]

Uhhh..no..not the case they shared joint custody for over five years that certai.ly is not indicative of the children being used by anyone..none of us know what took place so the using kids as pawns by either parent here are IMO unwarranted accusations.

Curiously I could swear ER said ' the last 3 years' regarding dad's visitation with Dylan. Something like he didnt' see him a whole lot the last 3 years. So if the divorce was done 6 or 7 yrs ago , I wonder why she would say that. Perhaps the first few years after divorce dad DID see him bi weekly and then it tapered off . Or maybe he didn't see him at all during that time. It was a curious statement and I almost wonder if it was a mistake and she meant to say 6 years.

 

[ttcRider]

The fact that Dylan had an older flip-phone could explain why Dylan's phone had no activity after Sunday. Those batteries don't last forever when there's heavy usage. My daughter even managed to fry 2 batteries on a Droid in less than 9 months.

And, just following this train of thought, she would not e-mail her friends because that's just not something she and her friends do. Half the time, she can't even remember her e-mail addy without logging onto her laptop to look it up.

And, as far as using 411 on a landline to get a phone #, I don't believe she is even aware of it. (I guess I should tell her about it)

I can understand that but if he really wanted to contact anyone and didnt have any numbers he could have easily called his mom and got the numbers from her. IMO I think we are just looking for excuses now. (by 'we' I mean all of us)

 

[mrsu]

For some odd reason he has two. One "friended" the other. Odd to me.

There are actually 4 if you go and look up the friends on those accounts. There are 2 DR's that have no profile pic.

 

[SCHMAE]

For some odd reason he has two. One "friended" the other. Odd to me.

Not so odd Ransom. Lots of young folks have more than one . They use one for family and another for friends and the like.

 

[Ronso]

Mom said that the phone was physically "smoking", so it may have died on the trip.

She said the phone was smoking by the time he was done with it, which I took to be a figure of speech that he would text on it until the phone died.

 

[Seek&Find]

Judging by the clear and continuous hostilities between the parents, I wouldn't be surprised at all if Dylan used this opportunity to get away from both of them.

LE has ruled out that Dylan ran away. Links on first page of this thread.

 

[PaulR]

I can understand that but if he really wanted to contact anyone and didnt have any numbers he could have easily called his mom and got the numbers from her. IMO I think we are just looking for excuses now. (by 'we' I mean all of us)

If you use your cell phone to make phone calls and so store phone numbers on it, and it dies on you, you probably don't remember the number.

I have a bunch of numbers on my cell (SO, parent's cell) and couldn't for the life of me know what they were if someone happened to my cell.

 

[cluciano63]

Mom said that the phone was physically "smoking", so it may have died on the trip.

Surely he would have told his dad? Especially if it happened Sunday evening, he probably would have been frantic. What if it did, in fact, blow up and he wanted to return to Walmart to get a replacement and it turned into an argument, I wonder. If his mother is correct, and there is no reason to doubt it, he was very attached to using his phone.

 

[OneLove]

This was not my interpretation of MR's comments, but maybe I missed a follow up interview? My understanding was that MR and Dylan tentatively agreed that Dylan would hang with his friends Mon & Tues (not spend the night) and Wed. Dad, Dylan and Dylan's friends would some sort of organized activity and Thurs. Dad and Dylan would spend together - but had not finalized just what they would do.

But I thought Dad was just saying Dylan would hang with his friends those 1st two days, but not necessarily spend the night. Where did the spending the night come from, or is that just a different interpretation (which is fine)?

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MR also stated in the video-store interview that one tentative plan was to drive on Wednesday to Castle Rock for Thanksgiving Thursday with his brother. But he didn't follow that with what they would then do Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. This also raised the question of whether his brother had invited him or whether he knew that Mark was planning on coming and bringing Dylan. I also wonder if Dylan had mentioned that to any of his friends before he arrived.

 

[ttcRider]

Not so odd Ransom. Lots of young folks have more than one . They use one for family and another for friends and the like.

you only need the one and you separate them with your settings... I would have to have 10+ diff fb pages if that was the case. :floorlaugh:

 

[cluciano63]

LE has ruled out that Dylan ran away. Links on first page of this thread.

True, but their reasoning is not 100% for me, although I do not think he did, at least not being able to hold out this long. I am uncertain how they can rule out anything, really.

 

[Ransom]

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Hm. Seems we'd seen something more in depth about this...:waitasec:

http://www.pinerivertimes.com/news.asp?artid=1091
She said she was awarded sole custody of Dylan on Sept. 21. Previously she and Mark Redwine had shared custody. On Nov. 18, Dylan flew here for his first visit with his father since that court decision, Elaine said.

I added the emphasis. That court decision was Sept. 21, 2012 in Durango (home turf of the divorce since 2007).

 

[jennapuppy]

Why wouldn't he plug the phone in and charge it? It was one of his only means to contact his friends.

What I'm saying is that the batteries just conk out - dead - won't hold a charge anymore. And you don't know that it's about to happen in advance. One day, your phone just can't be charged anymore and you have to replace the battery.

Been there, done that with a teen who was on the phone constantly during the daytime and kept it on the charger all night every night.

Oh, and dropping them frequently isn't good for them, either.

 

[ttcRider]

If you use your cell phone to make phone calls and so store phone numbers on it, and it dies on you, you probably don't remember the number.

I have a bunch of numbers on my cell (SO, parent's cell) and couldn't for the life of me know what they were if someone happened to my cell.

you dont remember your moms number?? :what: There was the lan line there he could have used.. thats if he even made it to the house. :twocents:

 

[PaulR]

True, but their reasoning is not 100% for me, although I do not think he did, at least not being able to hold out this long. I am uncertain how they can rule out anything, really.

I think they may be basing that on that he hasn't turned up by now and nobody saw him hitchhiking on the road. So no evidence that he voluntarily took off.

That doesn't mean he didn't and something bad happened, but police have to go on the evidence they have.

 

[kkdj]

Look! To me it is so obvious what happened!
And LE knows too IMO