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Dylan Redwine didn\u2019t want to visit his father in November 2012. But he didn\u2019t have a choice.<\/p>\n
A court order granted Mark Redwine visitation rights over the Thanksgiving holiday, and Redwine chose to exercise those rights in 2012.<\/p>\n
Dylan, who was living with his mother in Colorado Springs, decided to make the best of it. He planned to spend as much time as possible with friends in Bayfield, where he used to live. He boarded the plane Nov. 18, 2012, with mixed emotions.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe gave me a big old hug, and I told him I loved him,\u201d his mother, Elaine Hall, said during an interview Sunday with The Durango Herald.<\/p>\n
It was the last time she would see her son alive.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think about it every day,\u201d Hall said.<\/p>\n
Mark Redwine was arrested Saturday in Bellingham, Washington, 4\u00bd years after his son\u2019s death. A La Plata County grand jury indicted Redwine last week on suspicion of second-degree murder and child abuse resulting in death.<\/p>\n
A booking photo released Saturday shows Redwine with disheveled hair and blood-shot eyes. He is expected to face extradition proceedings in Washington before being brought to Durango, where he will be advised of the charges.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s evil, he\u2019s always been evil and he looks evil,\u201d Hall said, referring to her ex-husband\u2019s booking photo. \u201cI\u2019m sure the guilt over the last couple of years had to eat at him.\u201d<\/p>\n
The four-page indictment includes several details never before made public, including:<\/p>\n
Dylan\u2019s blood was found in Mark Redwine\u2019s living room.<\/p>\n
A cadaver dog detected the scent of a deceased body in the living room and in Redwine\u2019s pickup bed.<\/p>\n
Dylan\u2019s skull was found in November 2015 just off Middle Mountain Road with what appeared to be knife markings.<\/p>\n
The skull appeared to have been moved from a previous location where remains had been found.<\/p>\n
Nearly all of the details contained in the indictment are several years old, leading some to question why an indictment wasn\u2019t issued sooner.<\/p>\n
Pete Klismet, a former FBI criminal profiler, told the Herald on Sunday that when he was asked to build a profile around a suspect, it did not take him long to identify Redwine.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was an inescapable conclusion,\u201d Klismet said.<\/p>\n
In an interview Saturday, La Plata County Sheriff Sean Smith said it was a \u201ccumulative\u201d effort that led to Redwine\u2019s arrest, including recent developments, which he declined to expound upon.<\/p>\n
Hall has a different view: She credits a new sheriff and a new district attorney for giving the case new life.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like the former DA \u2013 this is not something he wanted to do on his watch,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd in retrospect, I\u2019m grateful. I\u2019m grateful we waited for a new DA.\u201d<\/p>\n
District Attorney Christian Champagne said he looks forward to resolving the case.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re working to bring justice to Dylan Redwine and his family and work toward bringing closure and resolving this case for our community,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Former District Attorney Todd Risberg said his office worked the case since the day it happened. \u201cEverybody who knows this case is glad we waited,\u201d he said. \u201cThere are reasons we waited.\u201d<\/p>\n
Klismet said Sunday he was surprised to learn about Redwine\u2019s arrest on Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI actually wondered at times if there was going to be a charge,\u201d Klismet said. \u201cI was wondering if they had evidence to charge him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Klismet worked on the case before Dylan\u2019s skull was found Nov. 1, 2015. Newly elected Sheriff Sean Smith told him the Redwine case would be his \u201csingle most important priority.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hall described Dylan as a typical 13-year-old boy in some respects: He liked video games, playing catch with his older brother and exploring the outdoors. But he also had a heightened awareness for other people\u2019s feelings, his mother said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was easy to raise, because he was so compassionate,\u201d Hall said.<\/p>\n
Dylan and his father had a normal relationship leading up to his parents\u2019 divorce in 2007. But over the years, Mark Redwine rarely exercised his visitation rights and became out-of-touch with his son\u2019s interests, she said. (Redwine told investigators Dylan was watching Nickelodeon the morning of his disappearance, but Dylan hadn\u2019t watched Nickelodeon for years, she said.)<\/p>\n
Dylan wanted to spend Thanksgiving with his mother, brother and grandmother, who had been ill, she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe knew he had to go, unfortunately,\u201d Hall said Sunday. \u201cHe knew this is what the judge had decided.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hall does not blame former 6th Judicial District Judge Dickinson for the visitation order \u2013 \u201cJudge Dickinson didn\u2019t kill Dylan, Mark did,\u201d she said \u2013 but she said mature 13-year-olds like her son should have more say when it comes to visitation.<\/p>\n
Surveillance video obtained Nov. 18, 2012, from the Durango airport and Walmart show little to no interaction between Dylan and his father, the indictment says.<\/p>\n
Hall suspects Dylan stood up to his father and didn\u2019t hide that he was upset with Redwine for \u201cbashing the family.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dylan probably had no idea how violent his father could become, Hall said.<\/p>\n
Redwine called Hall the next day to say Dylan was missing. Hall knew right away something was wrong.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf he ran away from his dad, he would have called us,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Earlier that year, Dylan had seen \u201ccompromising pictures of Mark Redwine,\u201d according to the indictment. Dylan had asked his older brother, Cory Redwine, to send the pictures so he could confront his father about them.<\/p>\n
Hall declined to discuss the nature of those photos Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not something that I think is appropriate,\u201d she said. \u201cEverybody has their own vices. I\u2019m very sad that my sons had to see that and had to see their father in that light.\u201d<\/p>\n
Redwine told investigators Dylan may have seen a contempt of court document on his kitchen table that was unfavorable to his mother, which may have upset him, according to the indictment.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think anyone will know what happened that night, unfortunately,\u201d she said. \u201c\u2026 Mark will never say.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was such a senseless crime,\u201d she said. \u201cI hate the way it\u2019s ending; I hate the way it\u2019s unfolding. He (Dylan) put a bright spot in our lives, and now that\u2019s gone.\u201d<\/p>\n