Mark Redwine trial: Evidence from skull key during opening statements

By Patrick Armijo The Durango Herald June 21, 2021 | updated 5 years ago

FILE - In this Aug. 15, 2017 file photo, Mark Redwine makes his first appearance in district court in Durango, Colo. Opening statements are expected sometime Monday, June 21, 2021, in the delayed trial of a man accused of killing his 13-year-old son in southwest Colorado nearly a decade ago. Dylan Redwine disappeared during a court ordered Thanksgiving visit in 2012 and his remains were later found. (Jerry McBride/The Durango Herald via AP, File) (Jerry McBride)

DURANGO — Interpreting the marks left on the skull of 13-year-old Dylan Redwine proved central to opening statements Monday in the long-delayed trial of Mark Redwine, who is charged with second-degree murder of his son during a 2012 Thanksgiving Day visit to Vallecito.

Prosecutor Fred Johnson, a special district attorney with the 20th Judicial District in Boulder, said fractures on the skull of the Monument boy showed clear evidence of blunt-force trauma leading to the boy’s death, and, additionally, other smaller cut marks on the skull look as if it was tampered with using human tools.

Sordid photographs Dylan discovered on Redwine’s computer showing his father consuming fecal matter from a diaper while dressed in women’s underwear, Johnson said, were the trigger that sent Redwine into a rage that led him to kill his son.

Mark Redwine, 59, has long protested his innocence in the death of Dylan, who vanished while visiting his father near Durango at a time of discord between Redwine and his ex-wife, who lives in Monument.

Patrick Armijo The Durango Herald

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