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A 59-year-old Colorado man was sentenced last week to 48 years in prison for the 2012 murder of his 13-year-old son.
Online records confirm Mark Redwine was sentenced Friday for killing his son,Dylan, who was last seen alive on Nov. 18, 2012, after being dropped off with his father for a court-ordered visit.
Redwine was convicted in July of second-degree murder and child abuse resulting in death, after being indicted on those charges back in 2017.
At trial, prosecutors argued the father and son had a tense relationship,after the boy allegedly discovered graphic, compromising sexual photosof Mark Redwine — including several depicting him cross-dressing, wearing a diaper and handling human waste.
Dylan’s mother and friends testified at trial that the boy was not looking forward to the visit.
Evidence presented during the trial showed that Dylan’s phone and iPod were last used at 9:37 p.m. on Nov. 18, 2012.
Those devices, along with his backpack, have not been recovered.
Redwine reported Dylan missing on Nov. 19, 2012. The boy’s body was located June 2013 during a search of Middle Mountain on the Vallecito Reservoir.
Experts testified that the boy likely died from a skull fracture as well as sharp force injuries.
Redwine’s attorneys theorized the boy wandered off and either died from the elements or from an animal attack.
KUSA covered Friday’s sentencingand videotaped the proceedings.
Footage of the sentencing shows Judge Jeffrey Wilson remarking on Redwine’s lack of remorse, and telling the killer he failed his teenage son.
“As a father, it’s your obligation to protect your son and keep him from harm,” Wilson told Redwine ahead of the sentencing. “And instead of that, you inflicted enough injury on him to kill him in your living room. After the passion of whatever caused you to act the way you did subsided, you didn’t think about Dylan. You thought about yourself. You sanitized the crime scene. You hid Dylan’s body, and you went so far as to remove the head from the rest of his body.”
He further chastised Redwine for showing no emotion in court.
“After all this time and listening to what was heard in this courtroom, you still take absolutely no responsibility for what you did to Dylan,” Wilson said. “I have trouble remembering a convicted criminal defendant that has shown such an utter lack of remorse for his criminal behavior.”
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Elaine Hall, Dylan’s mother, also spoke at Friday’s sentencing.
“You knew where Dylan was the whole time we were looking for him,” Hall said. “And not once did you offer up any advice or suggestion as to where he would be. The night that you hurt Dylan, you should have done the right thing and called 911, and let them figure out instead of taking his body and letting it be scavenged on a mountain.”
Redwine maintains his innocence and announced his plans to appeal the judge’s decision, calling it “fake justice.”
source: people.com
