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La Plata County Sheriff's Office
Members of the New Mexico State Police Search & Recovery Team scour Colorado's Vallecito Lake on Monday for any clues in the disappearance of Dylan Redwine.
The search for a 13-year-old Colorado boy who went missing last Monday during a court-ordered visit with his father has been suspended, according to authorities.
The La Plata County Sheriff's Office announced it was suspending its search for Dylan Redwine after a two-day sweep of a lake near his father's house yielded no clues, officials said. The investigation into the teen's disappearance will continue.
Dylan was reported missing on Nov. 19 by his father, Mark Redwine, who said he left the house in Vallecito, La Plata County, about 7:30 a.m. and returned several hours later to find his son gone.
"After 8 days of searching in Vallecito, all areas have been covered by ground, by air, by water," La Plata County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Dan Bender told NBC News on Tuesday by email.
The boy had been visiting from Colorado Springs, where he moved with his mother and brother over the summer, NBC station KUSA of Denver reported.
La Plata County Search and Rescue K-9s flagged an area on the southern end of Vallecito Lake on Saturday and again on Sunday, prompting scuba divers from the New Mexico State Police to search the area. But the lake search ended "after extensive sonar sweeps found nothing," according to a press release from the sheriff's office.
No further dives of the lake bottom or field searches are planned unless there are new leads, police said.
Dylan is 5 feet tall and 105 pounds, with blonde hair and blue eyes, according to authorities. He may be carrying a black backpack.
"Every time someone sees a young male child with light hair or with a black backpack, we're getting calls," Bender said Monday, adding that the lake search was "devastating" for the family.
The Redwine family told NBC affiliate KUSA they are still holding out hope Dylan is alive.
"It's been killing me. It's been hard for our whole entire family," Cory Redwine, Dylan's 21-year-old brother, said Monday. "He was my hero just as much as I was his."
While the Redwine family doesn't believe Dylan ran away, La Plata Sheriff Duke Schirard told KUSA, "The fact that he may have run away is our hope. Because at the other end of the continuum would be foul play or he could have been abducted by someone."
As the hunt for a missing 13-year-old boy enters a second week, dive teams search a lake for clues. KUSA's Kevin Torres reports.
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While troubling that this boy is still missing I believe that he was simply upset with his court mandated visit with his father and took off. At least this is what the story started off as. No Amber Alert. No foul play noted. He was just upset. Now what happened to him after he took off is the real question.
Really? Wouldn't you think if he was just taking off that he would have contacted his mom or brother and let them know he was upset?
The story started off with his father saying that, but the mother was singing an entirely different tune about the dad. And if you read reports since, the dad won't even talk to the mom or brother about what is going on now.
No one should be rushing to judgement. And divorced couples often make crap up about each other. If the dad is involved, it will come out eventually.
He's dead.
I feel bad for his family.
I still cannot understand why dad is not considered a person of interest and formally questioned since he is the last person to have seen Dylan or why his home and vehicle have not been searched. Why is that? Nor do I understand why there has been no reports concerning Dylan's cell phone records or dad's phone records. Why is that? I don't believe for one moment that Dylan ran away and only one person knows what happened and where Dylan is: Dad.
Maybe it's because you don't have all the information the police have.
You're not entitled to know every detail of this, or any other, open case. Deal with it. Or buy the Enquirer.
katy katy - do you really think that the police haven't thought to check his cell phone, his home, the car, etc.? Really? They know what they are doing, how to perform a search for a missing child, etc. Part of the investigation is not to publish every known detail in order to avoid alerting a suspect. Jeez!
Hey -god: Anyone home? In EVERY case of a missing child the last person to have been with the child IS considered a *person of interest.* In EVERY case there are reports that the home, where the child was last seen is searched so why would this info be withheld in THIS case. Details ARE important for the public to know what is missing besides Dylan's cell phone and charger in case items are found. The National Center for Missing and Exploited children have an investigative check list for first responders. I doubt if most of what they recommend has been done. Why? Because the focus is on Dylan being a run-away and/or stranger abduction. You -god can deal with your ignorance or buy a Bible.
This article is more of a call for information on the kid or anything about the kid and his family: leads. I hope he is found safe and sound.
I pray for his safe return. The Non-Profit Charity called Feels Good To Help (www.feelsgoodtohelp.org) provides a free GPS device to families. This device sends an instant alert whenever a child leaves certain boundaries. Then you can log on and see where they are. Every child should have one of these and every parent should insist on putting one in a Kids backpack or clipping it to their belt. This charity relies on donations (the devices cost $200 each) from generous folks so please spread the word to everyone you know.
Cell phones have GPS devices on them anyway. If I became worried about either of my children, for any reason, I could activate the GPS portion of their cell phone and track them at any time. I wouldn't have to rely on a non-profit charity - that you are supporting and obviously initiated (nice self promotion by the way). The other fact about the GPS devices and your device is the cell phone has to be turned on and has to be near the kid in question. It this kid has been abducted or murdered (and I hope that's not the case), who knows what happened to his cell phone.
The other things is not every 13-year-old has a cell phone. It's a time when not all parents feel their teen needs a cell phone. Whether from a charity or not, the 13-year-old may not be responsible enough to use the cell phone correctly and responsibly.
I think it is a shame that with very few facts, that people on this site, are already pointing fingers and making accusations. Unless someone was reading a local paper, or watching the news locally, there were so few facts that indicated more than a child disappearing. Divorce is ugly, but when children are being yanked around by jerky parents, it is a thousand times worse. Not one of us does not know someone that used their children to get an exacting "gotcha" moment , while competing with the soon to be ex-spouse.This is much more likely to happen when they are very young. Unless there was more local reporting, not much of anything accusatory was in this article. Vellecito is a beautiful spot, heavily wooded, with some beautiful lwater views, campsites and a scattering of homes. There is also a damn and years ago, there was a great restaurant on the lake. I have camped there a couple of times, getting advice on the site from locals stopping for gas on a motorcycle trip through the area. It is a well kept secret if you love quiet and nature. I still have a picture of the view from the damn on my desk. It was taken probably 8 yrs ago. It was a wonderful set of memories for both myself and my man. I will pray for a safe return of a young man out there in the middle of nowhere. Peace
Exactly, why was it that the dad had to go to court to at least be able to get visit? For sure, there are two sides to each divorce.
Dylan went *missing* on dad's watch and there is NO information provided that dad checked on him before he left for *those errands* nor is there any public information of the exact time frame when dad last saw Dylan and where. If the home/vehicle/cell phone records have been checked out, why not give the press this info since in the majority of cases they do in cases of missing/exploited children. Otherwise, the last person to have been with the child IS the person of interest. That person is dad and there are NO reports that dad has even undergone formal questioning which is the NORM. A red flag is a contentious divorce & custody issues. All dad did was report a child missing hours after he came from *errands* and the Center for Missing & Exploited Children consider this *suspicious* because if you don't know where your child is, that is considered neglect and if you don't immediately report a child missing that is what is considered cause for alarm. Had dad woke up that morning and found Dylan missing I would have an entirely different OPINION.
I'll join the Sheriff in hoping that he ran away.
I'm with you. Hoping that he just took off. While we are having unseasonably warm days the nights are very cold. He could have gotten himself into a pickle by taking off and not being prepared. Only hope that this mystery is solved and hopefully a good ending.
Also, there are days off of school around this time. He might have chosen to visit friends without discussing it with either parent. Teenagers are tricky to raise, especially when divorce is involved. My hopes are that Dylan returns home (to either house) safely.
there's not a lot of facts just yet, but in my gut, this will turn out just like 99% of missing child cases, especially recently...he will turn up, dead, and likely a family member will be charged.
The punishment for abducting, raping, molesting, killing a child needs to be changed to automatic death penalty, once convicted, out of here
any "person" that would harm a child is a monster, not a human
This is a parents worst nightmare. I have worked with many runaway children, some from other states. I have always told them, they are far better working with adults to try and get help with problems, then running away and exposing themselves to possible dangers they can't foresee. But youth don't have the mental maturity to understand the dangers or see the consequences that can happen. The impulsiveness which is normal for that age can over rule their thinking can be their undoing. Unfortunately some of those children I worked with ended up dying, or critically injured, left disabled for life.
One just can't predict what teenagers will do sometimes, nor get them to listen to reason. It can break ones heart when tragic results follow. I pray this young boy is found safely.But the longer he goes missing the more unlikely the chances of a good outcome. Of the 1.8 million people who go missing each year, 800,000 are children. 100,000 will never be found. We know about 280,000 are by family members, while others are runaways. Then there are abductions. Some will end up in prostitution, but most just simply vanish.
I feel so badly for this family. I live in Colorado and there is not a lot of information in the news about this case. It is not a crime to leave a 13 year old home alone for a few hours, but who know what happened in that time.
You sadly can assume anything here. I guess that the police must assume that this kid just left his father's house, having been forced into the visits by court order and then left alone. Why is it that the kids get so little say about their own fates? A kid is not a possesion, not a thing that is owned to be divided up or shared. One thing is clear: the father did not value his "share" of time with his child enough to commit to spending that court-ordered or agreed upon time with him. If he had something more important to do, he should have just said so instead of dragging his son out of his normal environment just to leave him alone. A thirteen year old child of a divorced couple is not generally going to be especially stable in the first place. Children, especially children in their early teens, tend to blame themselves for their parent's differences, and after a divorce are very susceptible to any sign of rejection by either parent, but especially by the estranged parent. In this case, this child might have just run away from the whole situation, and might turn up unharmed within the week. I hope. But what was this father thinking, leaving his child alone during a visit? If he didn't value shared custody, he should never have fought for it. The mess that it is is stressful enough for a kid without it just being a powerplay over a former spouse. I hope this turns out the kid is just hiding out somewhere.
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