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Mark and Dylan Redwine · 10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories

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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.