Greenwood Park mom still searching for her son
Sibilant said during the week of his birthday, she noticed a change in Dylan's mood. He seemed depressed so she said she spoke words of assurance to him to make him feel loved and appreciated.
A GREENWOOD Park mother, who has been looking for her son for almost two years, longs for the day when he will return home.
Dylan Fisher went missing a few days after his nineteenth birthday, after telling his mother, Lindray Sibilant, that he was continuing his birthday celebrations with friends.
She told Northglen News, that there isn’t a day that goes by when she doesn’t wake up crying and longing for her child’s return. According to Sibilant, although Dylan did engage in drug-using activity, he always kept in touch with her or his grandfather, Tony Fisher.
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“A few days after his birthday, Dylan told me he was going to have a late birthday celebration with his friends. He said goodbye and that was the last I ever saw or heard from him,” said Sibilant.
She said prior to his disappearance, there was an assault matter that Dylan and his friends were involved in, however, “nothing came off it” and she’s certain that that was not the reason for him leaving home.
“Dylan was addicted to Lean but he stopped using this for a long time. I could see it in his character, mood and behaviour.”
The teenager shared a home between Sibilant’s father and herself and “he always came home to either one of them.” There were cases where he stayed over with friends, but either Sibilant or Fisher knew of his whereabouts.
Sibilant said during the week of his birthday, she noticed a change in Dylan’s mood. He seemed depressed so she said she spoke words of assurance to him to make him feel loved and appreciated.
“I am not sure is he was using Lean again, if it was withdrawal symptoms or if it was other factors that has caused him to be so down and out. His birthday arrived and we bought him gifts to make him special. That brightened up his mood but the next day, he was down again.”
Lean is an illicit substance made with cough syrup containing codeine and Sprite. Codeine contains opioids, similar to morphine, making it highly addictive after a short period of time. Codeine short circuits the brain’s reward response system.
On Friday, 26 July, Dylan left with his friends and didn’t return home. By the Sunday afternoon, Sibilant said she was frantic with worry. She said she realised that it was not one of those weekends were Dylan stayed over with his friends.
“Something was definitely wrong and I started to feel uneasy. I had this feeling since Saturday morning, but by Sunday evening, it had gotten worse. Dylan didn’t have a cellphone at that time, so I called his friends and they confirmed they had seen him over the weekend. I felt a little better and still thought he would return the next day.”
Days turned into weeks and August had arrived, but Dylan was still nowhere to be found. “I went to the police station to open a missing person’s report over the long weekend in August [Women’s Day] and we have been looking for him ever since.”
“The police were not very helpful so my family and I reached out to family and friends. We visited shelters and mortuaries and so our journey began. There were leads but nothing led to finding Dylan.”
In the mean time Sibilant has joined various Facebook groups and has been circulating Dylan’s photo and details in the hope of finding him soon.
She said every day is battle for her.
“I can’t sleep. So many things go through my mind. There’s so much violence. So many people are missing and their bodies are being found. Our entire family misses Dylan, including his siblings. I want him to know how much we love him.”
“We are not a perfect family, but we are more of a broken family without him. If he doesn’t want to come home, that’s fine, but if he can just pick up the phone and say he is okay, then we will all be okay.”
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