I have worked tirelessly on this ever since the start. My son has not been found. I have filed a missing person report on him a couple of days ago. I'm trying to put it all together.
My stepson in the beginning was saying how afraid and scared he is. He said he was on the pier. He would then soon after say he will message back in the morning. If you were terrified for your life would you message back in the morning? This went on for at least a day and a half and no one was ever able to get a location from him.
I found a girl they went with and contacted her. She seemed sent from heaven...
"Hi Morgan! I'm so sorry I did not know the situation at all. Yeah they are in California, Devin is in Santa Cruz California for the moment, but I'm not sure where he is planning on going next. I know though he is doing well!! I, however, am at my house in California. So I am safe. If there's anything else you need from me I'm so willing to help!"...
and her FB profile she looks like any regular girl with a regular stereotypical American life. She was so helpful and then not. Now she said she saw my son yesterday and told him how worried we are and that he needs to get a hold of someone. I asked her where she saw him but no answer and the message shows it has been read by her. My stepson is saying he still needs help getting home. He's asking his mom for money for a bus ticket and he's asking his dad for money to pay a friend for gas to drive him home. His dad asked him if my son is coming back with and he said...
" Me and Devin parted ways for good. Sorry I couldn't get him to come with me. He chose really quick what was more important."
Previously his mother told me he had said...
"I asked Dakota what happened with them and he said theat they were two different people trying to live the same life and didn't work out so Devin left with some hippies to go to Arizona"
I'll write more late. It's so much to deal with and the people that have the most info can't tell the truth. The police have talked to the girl and said they know she is lying and believes she knows that we know. My stepson has been back online now and posting humorous posts to his timeline and deleted the previous posts that had my mom and others voicing concern over where my son might be. I've caught him in so many lies and her. Why can't they just be truthful and answer a question. He keeps saying my son is happier than he has ever seen him.
I wish I could go down there and and figure more of this out my self but funds are incredibly limited to do so. I live in in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. I also have a 5 year old daughter. I don't even know if I would be going to the right place. Dakota's cousin who works with that girl the boys went to Cali with said when asked last night if she knew anything...
"The car belongs to Sierra. I haven't talked to either of them for about 2-3 weeks. She was supposed to drop them off about an hour away from Santa Cruz but ended up taking them to her parents house where they all got kicked out. Last thing I heard from Sierra was that they were in la because they ran out of gas and money and they were all living in her car. Unless she was lying to us they stranded. But Devin sent me a snapchat about a week ago and he was inside of a house"
They actually left for Cali on the 17th of this month.
Now Dakota is finally responding to me. I've been insisting to him and everyone else who says he is contacting him that he needs to talk to the police. He is the last person we know of who saw Devin. He says today...
"I told the officer that I had nothing to say. Why does it sound like you are accusing me of something that isn't a crime? I don't understand Morgan. Devin is 18 and can go somewhere without telling me. He wanted to travel. That's what he told me. I say him on west cliff in Santa Cruz the last time I saw him. I told him goodbye and got driven away. He was the happiest I have ever seen him. Why is that so bad?"
and I asked...
"What people were around you and him?
Why is it so bad to ask for details?"
he replied..
"They were a bunch of hippies with names like green thumb and sun dancer. I don't think that will help the police. I only hung out with his group of hippies for 1 night and I slept most of the time"
I asked him if saw any vehicles they were driving and he said,
"I think they had a white car
I'm not sure of the model. I only walked everywhere"
So I said,
"Thank you. May I ask who that cars belongs to on your profile showing you and Devin sitting in it?"
I have compiled these messages into a file for the police. I asked them today if I could send it to them. They told me no but to send it to the officer who is in charge of this case and he will be back in a couple of days.
How lovely.
I also forgot to mention Dakota was rejected by his mom his entire life. His dad raised him. When we stopped hear from Dakota for a time period in the beginning when he was supposed to be picked up she said she would file the missing person report on him when she got off work. So his his dad called it in right then. She wouldn't answer any messages for the rest of the night and day after this.
Dakota us to draw gruesome disturbing pictures when he was young I'm told. Like pictures of his family being killed.
He has said he wants to kill our dog.
He has this way of turning off all his feelings for people.
My son and I have talked a few times about how clingy Dakota is with him and my son had told me that sometimes he feels like Dakota wants to be him.
Dakota's mom and dad seem to think that because Dakota has made contact and said Devin is fine then we can all relax now.
I feel like I'm the only one now seeing something seriously wrong with this picture. I had to call the mental health crisis hotline today to confirm I'm not crazy.
I'll get back to this soon as I can.
