A child who loved Matchbox cars, math and P.E.
Nine-year-old Dylan Groene loved to play with Matchbox cars, teased his classmates by keeping a bottle of cheap cologne in his desk that he occasionally put on, and was “having a good year” in the third grade when he disappeared, his 3rd grade teacher at Fernan Elementary, Tim Marks, told the court. “His best subjects were math and P.E. – he loved P.E.,” the teacher said. “Reading was a more difficult subject for him … but he was progressing with his reading, he was improving.”