Mark and Dylan Redwine

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Hello, welcome to ten Minute Murder, Brief and bingeible true crime. My

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name is Joe. I'm the host, and thank you for joining today.

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And in a conversation I was having
today, someone whipped out the word titilating

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on me. It turned into one
of those situations where the persons still talking,

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but I'm completely tuned out and fixated
on something completely different. And hopefully

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I'm not a weirdo and I'm the
only one that does that. But for

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real, titilating is not a word
that real people use, right. I

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know a handful of people lose their
minds when they hear the word moist,

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But why isn't titilating given them moist
treatment? Moist is like the nickelback of

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words. No one seems to like
moist, and no one really knows why.

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At this point, I'm just saying
it because I know the effect that

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it has on people. Moist.
Okay, I'm done. Probably, if

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well as at ten minute murder dot
Com. Now to today's story. How

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far do you think you would go
to prevent someone from sharing your most embarrassing

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secret. In the case of Mark
RedWine, his secret wasn't just embarrassing,

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it was completely disgusting, but he
made sure would never see the light of

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day. But Mark made one crucial
mistake. He had taken photos of himself

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engaging in this fetish. In the
photos, Mark could be seen wearing women's

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lingerie, a wig and makeup while
eating something that appeared to be human feces

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out of a diaper. He was
careful with the photos, which he kept

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on his computer, but not careful
enough. Mark had divorced Elane, Corey

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and Dylan's mother, and he was
currently engaged in a vicious custody battle.

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The last thing he needed was for
his kids to turn against him, but

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that's exactly what happened. Dylan and
Corey were understandably disgusted by the images,

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but Corey took photos of the photos
just in case the boys decided to confront

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their father or show the pictures to
their mom. Dylan tried not to think

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about what he had seen in the
photos, but those photos had caused his

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relationship with his dad to become strained. When he went to visit his father

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in November twenty twelve, he asked
Corey to send him copies of the pictures

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so that he could confront Mark in
person. His mama, Lane, was

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worried about Dylan's visit to see his
father in the rugged part of Laplata County

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where he lived. She didn't know
about the photos, but she'd noticed how

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anxious and upset Dylan had been around
his dad over the past year, but

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she didn't have the option to forbid
him from going. Her attorney assured her

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that if she prevented Dylan from visiting
Mark, she might face prosecution. Had

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she known about the photos, it
might have been a different situation. At

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the time of Dylan's visit, Mark
already knew that at least one of his

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children had seen the photos. Corey
had revealed that he'd seen the photos during

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an argument with Mark and used this
knowledge to antagonize his dad, sending a

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text that read quote, Hey,
beautiful, you are what you eat.

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Look in the mirror. It was
the eighteenth of November twenty and twelve when

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Mark picked up Dylan from the Duringo
La Plata County Airport. It wasn't a

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artfelt reunion. In fact, the
airport's CCTV cameras showed that the pair barely

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interacted at all. Dylan didn't want
to stay with his father that night and

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asked if he could have a sleepover
with a friend, but Mark said no.

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Dylan texted his friend instead, saying
that he would come over to hang

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out the next morning. The last
text message Dylan RedWine ever sent was at

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nine thirty seven pm that night.
Nobody except for his father would ever see

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him again. The next morning,
Dylan's friend sent him a text asking where

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he was, but there was no
reply. Mark told the authorities that he

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left home early that morning to do
errands and when he got back home,

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a half eaten bowl of cereal was
left on the table and the TV was

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still playing Nickelodeon, but there was
no sign of Dylan at all. Dylan's

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mom, Elaine, didn't believe this
story for one second. Investigators and locals

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came together to search the sprawling woods
and alpine terrain that surrounded Mark's house,

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but there was no sign of Dylan. While volunteers in search and rescue teams

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combed through the woods in the area, there was one person who did not

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join them, Mark red Wine.
Instead of searching for his missing son,

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Mark turned off his house lights at
eleven p m. And went to bed.

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At Mark's trial, this is what
the prosecution had to say about his

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behavior that night. Quote at a
time when most people would have been out

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in the woods with a flashlight,
a time when most people would know to

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leave the light on in case a
child was lost in the woods, at

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eleven PM, the defendant's house went
dark that night. Mark RedWine knew something

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that the search party and investigators did
not. Dylan was already dead. During

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the early days of the investigation,
a second ex wife of Marks came forward

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to talk to investigators. She told
them that during their divorce, Mark had

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told her that he'd rather kill the
kids than let her have custody of them.

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Her being Mark and Corey's mother Lane. She also remembered a conversation with

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her ex husband that chilled her to
the core. He told her that if

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he ever killed someone, he'd dispose
of the body in the mountains. More

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than half a year later, this
statement would come back to haunt. It

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was the twenty eighth of June twenty
thirteen when human remains were found eight miles

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away from Mark's house. The location
of the body was significant, as Mark

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red Wine was familiar with the surrounding
area, in particular the ATV trails around

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Middle Mountain Road where the remains were
found. There was something else significant about

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the body. Dylan's head was missing, which wouldn't typically occur with an animal

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attack or death due to exposure.
Dylan Redwine's cause of death had to be

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murder. When cadaver dogs scoured Mark
red Wine's house, they indicated the scent

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of human remains throughout the living room, inside the washing machine, and on

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specific articles of Mark's clothing. As
it turned out, these were the clothes

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he had been wearing on the eighteenth
of November two thousand and twelve, the

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night before Dylan's supposed disappearance. Traces
of Dylan's blood were also found in the

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house, and the same cadaver dog
handlers found that cadaver scent was present throughout

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the dodged truck that Mark drove.
Now that Dylan's body had been found,

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the cadaver scent and blood began to
paint a picture of what happened that night.

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Two years passed and there was still
no closure, and Dylan's head was

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still missing. On the first of
November two thousand and fifteen, almost three

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years after Dylan's death, his skull
was found by hikers more than one mile

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away from where his body was found. Finally, forensics were able to determine

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the cause of the boy's death.
His skull was broken just above his left

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eye, and there were scratch marks
that had likely been caused by a knife

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wound at around the same time Dylan
died. The cause of death appeared to

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be blunt forced trauma to the head. Wildlife experts were consulted and asked whether

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any animals in the local area could
be responsible for the death. The answer

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was immediate no. There was no
known animal that would pick up a human

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skull and carry it that far away
from the rest of the body. The

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evidence was clear no animal had killed
Dylan and then dragged his head more than

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a mile up the mountain. Dylan's
blood had been found in Mark's living room,

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and cadaver dogs indicated that he'd been
killed there, then transported in the

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truck. After a grand jury indictment, in July twenty seventeen, Mark RedWine

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was arrested for the abuse and second
degree murder of his son Dylan. The

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coronavirus pandemic delayed the beginning of this
trial, which finally took place in two

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twenty one. The judge remarked on
Mark's behavior during the trial, saying,

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quote, I have trouble remembering a
convicted criminal defendant that has shown such an

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utter lack of remorse for his criminal
behavior. Almost a decade after Dylan's murder,

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his killer was finally brought to justice. Mark was sentenced to forty eight

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years of jail time, the maximum
sentence available to him. While the defense

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argued that Dylan had still been alive
the morning after his visit began, the

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cadaver sent down the closed Mark had
been wearing the previous night indicated something else.

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Dylan had been murdered before he even
went to bed. To the prosecution,

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the motive was clear Dylan had confronted
Mark about the sword pictures he'd found,

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and Mark had gotten defensive and angry. Somehow that anger and shame turned

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into violence and then murder. During
the sentencing, the judge summarized the case,

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speaking directly to Mark. Quote,
first of all, you killed your

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son, a thirteen year old boy. At thirteen, he's still a little

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boy. As the father, it
is your obligation to protect your son and

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keep him from harm. Instead of
that, you inflicted enough injury on him

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to kill him in your living room. After the passion of whatever caused you

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to act the way you did,
subsided. You didn't think about Dylan.

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You thought about yourself. You sanitized
the crime scene. You hid Dylan's body,

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and you went so far to remove
his head from the rest of his

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body. Mark red Wine declined to
comment, but his ex wife Elaine didn't

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hold back. She said, hopefully
he'll die in prison.