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Dylan Redwine was last seen in November 2012 in southwest Colorado. He was last seen visiting his dad during a court-ordered visit. The family appeared on Dr.Phil.

In July a La Plata County jury convicted Mark Redwine of killing his son during a Thanksgiving visit to the Vallecito area in southwest Colorado.

.  Months later, in June 2013, the first remains and some personal items belonging to Dylan were found on Middle Mountain, just a few miles from his father's home. The top portion of his skull, which has been presented as a key piece of evidence during the trial, was not found until November 2015 in another area of the mountain. Experts from both sides testified that there was a fracture on the cranium, but at issue is exactly when and exactly how that fracture occurred.  "It's the very reason the defendant wanted to hide this part of Dylan's body. He didn't want anybody to find it. But it ...

Because only bones were left behind, Kurtzman said he was unable to determine how the boy died. During cross-examination, the defense highlighted how much of his background about the case came from a probable cause statement from the La Plata County Sheriff’s Office that was drafted at the time of Mark Redwine’s 2017 indictment and subsequent arrest. The defense has theorized that Dylan Redwine wandered off from his father’s home and that his body had been picked apart by scavenging animals. During cross-examination, Mark Redwine’s attorneys questioned Kurtzman about this point, as we...