Case Timeline of Events as reported by ABC Channel 7 News - TheDenverChannel.com, 08/15/2013 13:30
(This is the lastest timeline of events that has been released so far to date in any news media by law enforcement officials.)
-- Case Timeline --
- Nov. 18 - Dylan Redwine flies into Durango-La Plata County airport to spend Thanksgiving with his father
- Nov. 19 – Dylan Redwine reported missing
- Nov. 20 - Search teams start searching for Dylan
- Nov. 24 – Search dogs pick up Dylan’s scent at Vallecito Reservoir
- Nov. 25-26 - Dive teams and teams on boats equipped with sonar search Vallecito Reservoir
- Nov. 28 – Authorities announce Dylan Redwine did not run away. Asking people who drove from Vallecito to Durango if they had spotted him
- Nov. 29 – Authorities execute a search warrant at Mark Redwine’s home
- Dec. 2 – Prayer vigil for Redwine at Lewis-Palmer Middle School
- Dec. 4 – Both parents take polygraph tests
- Dec. 5 – Pictures from a surveillance camera are released, showing Dylan at a Durango Walmart hours before he disappeared
- Jan 24 – Reward for Dylan grows to $50,000
- Jan 26 – Protestors show up at Vallecito Reservoir saying Mark Redwine needs to be more active in the search for his missing son
- Feb. 23 – Cadaver dogs show up on iced-over Vallecito Reservoir
- April 24 – Authorities drain part of reservoir and build berm dam to look at area where search dogs got numerous hits
- June 25 – Authorities spend several days searching the steep and rugged Middle Mountain Road
- June 26 - Authorities tell Dylan's Parents that some of the child's remains have been found
- June 28 - Officials tell 7NEWS Redwine wasn't killed by animals and they are searching for a killer
- July 3 - Coroner announces he can not determine how Dylan died
- August 14 - Mark Redwine's home searched again
- See a history of the search for Dylan Redwine in photos: https://ch7ne.ws/11QFGQg
- See a map of the locations related to the case:https://goo.gl/maps/Ns0lr)
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-- Case Background --
Dylan arrived at Durango-La Plata County airport on Nov. 18, 2012 and was picked up by his father for a court-ordered Thanksgiving holiday visit. His father said he went to run errands the next day and when he came home, Dylan was gone.
Dylan mother, Elaine Redwine, his brother, Cory Redwine, and Elaine's fiance, Mike Hall, stayed in Colorado Springs while Dylan flew to Durango alone.
Investigators confirmed that Dylan arrived at his father's home at about 8 p.m., after the two stopped at Walmart and McDonald's in Durango.
Mark Redwine contacted the Bayfield Marshal's Office on the day of the disappearance to ask if anyone had seen Dylan, then contacted Dylan's mother to ask if she had heard from the boy. Elaine contacted the La Plata County Sheriff's Office at about 5:30 p.m. that day and reported that Dylan was missing from his father's home in Vallecito.
A local postal worker reported that he thought he saw Dylan walking with another boy in Vallecito at about 2 p.m. on the day of his disappearance, according to the sheriff's office.
Investigators identified the postal worker and the boys, but determined Dylan was not among them and none of the three are connected to the boy's disappearance. Other sightings have been reported in other areas of Colorado, but none have been confirmed, the sheriff's office said.
In February, with help from the public, investigators identified a man who was seen in Vallecito looking for gas on the day of Dylan's disappearance. Investigators say the man was in the area on legitimate business, and he has not been connected to the case.
Prior to Dylan's disappearance, his parents hadn't spoken for years. The first time they spoke was in a Feb. 27 appearance on the Dr. Phil talk show.
Elaine asked her ex-husband if he'd hurt the boy. Mark replied he had not.
"I really have a concern that you hurt him and his bones are out there just laying and you don't even care," Elaine Redwine said.
"I've done everything that I know how to do to be involved in every aspect of what's going on to find him," said Mark Redwine.
Weeks after Dylan disappeared, investigators said they determined the teen did not run away, but members of the task force searching for Dylan will not disclose what led them to that conclusion. Investigators would only say they are treating his disappearance as a criminal investigation.