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Elaine Hatfield Hall, the mother of Dylan Redwine, is tired, happy, confused and missing her son.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been a long day,\u201d Hall said Saturday afternoon, hours after she had learned about the arrest of her ex-husband, Mark Redwine. \u201cThe media\u2019s been all over it. I\u2019m tired.\u201d<\/p>\n
Most of all, she\u2019s grateful an arrest has been made.<\/p>\n
\u201cI knew from the beginning I was right,\u201d she said of her suspicions of her ex-husband. \u201cIt supports my feeling about this all along. We always wanted the correct killer to be tried, and I think that\u2019s exactly where it was at.\u201d<\/p>\n
While waiting more than four years for an arrest has been frustrating, \u201cI don\u2019t blame anybody but Mark,\u201d she said. \u201cHe\u2019s the one who did this to Dylan. The blame needs to be put squarely on his shoulders.\u201d<\/p>\n
She, her husband, Michael Hall, and her oldest son, Cory Redwine, have experienced a mix of feelings in the past day.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut this whole journey has been a basket of emotions,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
She believes it took a new sheriff and district attorney to get an arrest in the case.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf the old people were still there, we wouldn\u2019t be where we are today,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m grateful we had a new change of leadership, and the new people who have come in and actually cared about Dylan\u2019s case.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hall said she did not know about some of the specifics that were included in the indictment, but in a way, having the case laid out in public \u201cis kind of comforting,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to thank everybody who has been working on this case, law enforcement, and everybody involved on that end.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hall is sad her friend Denise Hess, who organized the first searches for Dylan and was a tireless advocate for him, is not able to know about this latest development. Hess died in October of cancer.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe keeps me strong still,\u201d Hall said.<\/p>\n
Hall\u2019s friends, who call themselves Dylan\u2019s Warriors, were shocked and thrilled to hear about the arrest.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of the Warriors have been here since day one,\u201d said Anne Cook, a Bayfield mother whose daughter was a friend of Dylan\u2019s. \u201cWe\u2019re elated that the next step is going to happen. It\u2019s a new beginning, a new chapter, and justice will prevail.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cook and a handful of friends take care of a memorial bench with Dylan\u2019s name on it in the Pine River Cemetery. The family and some of Dylan\u2019s friends from childhood had an 18th birthday party for him there on Feb. 6.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe knew the time was coming,\u201d Cook said of the indictment. \u201cTime was on our side. It\u2019s been 1,706 days since he was killed, or 243 weeks and five days. We\u2019ve never stopped looking, and we\u2019ve never stopped praying for justice.\u201d<\/p>\n
The indictment is a relief to Dylan\u2019s friend and residents of Bayfield and Vallecito.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m glad justice is finally coming to Elaine and Cory and everyone who has been waiting so long,\u201d said Jackson Sibley, who has been friends with Dylan since kindergarten. During Bayfield\u2019s graduation in May, his classmates wore blue-and-silver ribbons in Dylan\u2019s memory. A chair with his photo, a class flower and a graduation cap was set up amid other members of the graduating class.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s very good for the community and everyone who has been so involved in this investigation for so long,\u201d Sibley said. \u201cI couldn\u2019t be more glad.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sibley said when his friend first disappeared, he didn\u2019t think Mark Redwine was involved. But as the weeks passed, he talked frequently with Hall, \u201cand we never heard a thing from Mark about anything. I pretty much thought it was Mark.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hall\u2019s friend Lisa Bourque, of Vallecito, said residents in the small lakeside community feel better with the latest development.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can\u2019t put it behind us, but at least it gives us closure that there\u2019s not a murderer running around,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Redwine has rarely been at his Vallecito home since his son\u2019s disappearance, but he would return occasionally and stay for a few days at a time.<\/p>\n
Bourque and Cook also thanked the investigators for pursuing the case for the past four years.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is so great that we finally have a DA that wants to do his job, and a sheriff that believed he didn\u2019t run away,\u201d Bourque said of District Attorney Christian Champagne and Sheriff Sean Smith. \u201cThey did their jobs. They are the heroes to that family.\u201d<\/p>\n
She also thanked Tonya Golbricht, the lead investigator on the case for the La Plata County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe stuff that girl did,\u201d Bourque said. \u201cIt was amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark Redwine arrested in connection with son Dylan\u2019s death<\/a><\/p>\n