The evidence collected seems to match with my theory. Something happened on the couch.
If the police arrest MR, I'll change my tune.
So far on the Dr. Phil show it seems the mother is hell bent on blaming the father. It seems she has an axe to grind from before this whole thing happened and she's using this to get back at him.
It appears the mother <modsnip> and the father was trying to protect them from her and asked his lawyer to help. I think that incensed her. She claims that Mark put a dead rodent in her truck and I find that hard to believe. I get the feeling that the mother has it out for him because he tried to keep Dylan and his brother away from her.
When Dr. Phil asks whether she called him or not, he says she didn't and she says she did. Then she says "Why should I have to call you?". To me that sounds like she was lying about calling him. JMO
Then we have the father admitting to domestic violence in his first marriage. However, Dylan's mother never says Mark was physical in his discipline of the boys.
What MR said on Tricia's show is that he couldn't talk to his wife because all she'd do is yell and accuse him. I'm seeing that in this Dr. Phil interview. The mother sent him without a coat in November and all she can say is; "Why is it always my fault."
His lie detector test was "incoclusive". That doesn't mean he's failed. He also says the person who did the polygraph wasn't qualified.
I think there are good reasons to suspect the father, but I wouldn't let the mother off the hook totally. Personally, I think it was probably someone Dylan knew.
As far as his taking a nap when he got home, that's a little hinky, but to me not unbelievable. When I was a kid there was a big wooded area across the street from our house and my mom would let us go out for hours and then call us in for dinner. There are a lot of people on this board who've said they don't lock their doors because of the town they live in. It appears that Dylan disappeared from a very small town. The father probably thought that Dylan being abducted wasn't a worry.
Those are my thoughts on part 1. I'm starting to watch part 2 now.
Dr. Phil part 1;
Dr. Phil - The Search for Dylan Redwine: Part 1 (Feb. 26th, 2013) - YouTube
Dr. Phil part 2;
Dr. Phil - The Search for Dylan Redwine: Part 2 (Feb. 27th, 2013) - YouTube
If my kid disappeared soon after arriving at the home of my ex, with whom I had battled custody for years, who had abducted my kids and his other kids in the past, who had a history of domestic violence and a temper, I would be all over him as well.
The only evidence that mom had a drinking problem is from dad. The evidence she didn't is that she was awarded custody and dad was awarded very limited rights to see his kids. The drinking issue was litigated for certain.
Mom not sending the child with a coat is crummy behavior. In my line of work, however, this is not uncommon when one parent is sick of the other not returning costly clothing items or never purchasing any for their child. Mom's question, "Why is it always my fault." could either indicate she is constantly deflecting blame for her failings in the co-parenting arena or it could indicate that dad always has an excuse for his failings to parent at all. I choose the latter because as a family law attorney, well familiar with these types of cases, I note that dad had limited rights not only to these kids from his marriage to Dylan's mom, but also to his kids from previous marriages.
Dad says he was told by LE that he failed his lie detector test "miserably."
It has been established that mom, Dylan's step-dad and Corey did not leave the area of Colorado Springs, 6 hours from Dad's house, in the time Dylan went missing. She has been a panicked, tearful presence all along, demanding answers, in close contact with LE, setting up websites, forming vigils, search parties, facebook pages and giving media interviews.
This is in very stark contrast with dad's behavior, a man who had to pledge to be more involved in the investigation and search only after mediators got involved.
Dylan is dead. Given all the above, are you suggesting she somehow had Dylan abducted from his father and killed from 6 hours away? I love ya' Steely, but that makes no sense.
Let me add that I deal with personality disordered people often, in my work, and also seriously angry and hateful parents, on a daily basis. I see a history of bitter litigation but mom's demeanor makes sense to me in the context of the disappearance of her son while at his dad's. Dad's demeanor strikes me as that of clever man who knows how to lie and subtly turn things around on the mother. He has learned the language of the court system well and what he is supposed to say, but his simmering rage is directed, IMO, not at the mother in connection with his son's disappearance, which would be illogical, but at the mother in general. He makes outrageous statements meant to severely wound with no moral basis for that outrage as it is clear that the mom did not abduct her son.
For example, he accuses of her alcohol abuse. Yet the fact that custody of the kids was granted to her refutes that. He says, "What kind of mother are you that would accuse me of harming Dylan." He wants to hurt her where it counts to any mother. But her accusation has nothing to do with the type of mother she is and everything, according to her, to the dad's other ex-wife and to Corey, with the type of man dad is.
I won't say mom is a perfect angel. The coat thing indicates she played a part in the bitter litigation. However, her anger on this show seems in the context of her baby disappearing shortly after he was reluctantly delivered to his father's custody after a court ordered the visitation as a compromise between regular contact with dad and no contact at all. That is a logical anger.
Dad's anger on the show seems in the context of general rage and resentment of the mother, his other son, his ex wife, etc. Big difference in my opinion.
