Searchers have found the remains of Dylan Redwine, a 13-year-old boy who disappeared while spending a court-ordered Thanksgiving week visit with his father last year, the LaPlata County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday.
Sheriff’s Department spokesman Dan Bender said a variety of items, including bones, have been identified as Redwine’s.
Bender said the Colorado Bureau of Investigation positively identified the remains Thursday and notified Redwine’s family. The bones were found during a five-day search in the Vallecito area along 12 miles of USFS Middle Mountain Road.
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Middle Mountain is north and within sight of Vallecito Lake. The search area ranged from 8,000 to 11,000 feet altitude amid deep canyons and dense forest, the sheriff’s department said in a news release.
Bender would not identify the other items found with the bones.
About 45 law enforcement and search and rescue workers were deployed, working more than 1,600 man hours during the search, Bender said.
The latest searches, through steep drainages with extensive ground cover, were not the result of new information, Bender said. They were part of a series of followup searches conducted after the snow melted.
Redwine disappeared while spending a visit with his father, Mark, in Vallecito, near Durango. He lived near Colorado Springs with his mother and her boyfriend.
Dylan’s parents have blamed each other for their son’s disappearance. In appearances on the “Dr. Phil Show,” Elaine Redwine said she believed Mark had something to do with their son’s disappearance, while the husband reiterated his unsubstantiated but strong belief that his wife was involved.
Searches for the boy were called off during the winter months, but resumed in the spring.
Mark Redwine claimed he left Dylan at home alone while he was out running errands, and when he returned, his son was gone.
