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Nearly two months after officers knocked on their door to tell them their son was dead, an Alberta family is still searching for answers.

23-year-old Dylan Perry was killed in high-speed crash on September 13th just northwest of Calgary. He was just days away from finishing his second-class ticket in power engineering and had been promoted to a higher position in his oil and gas job.

“I am so proud of him; he was the best; he’d give you the shirt off his back – would do anything for anybody,” says his mother Angie Perry. “He had a heart of gold.”

The night he died, Dylan Perry had taken a cab with some friends to a Calgary bar just blocks from his home.

Perry left the bar at 1 a.m. – his childhood friend Luke Helland was the last to hear from him, talking to Perry on the phone.

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“He didn’t sound like he was in any kind of trouble or was panicking or anything like that,” says Helland.

An hour later, Perry was found dead in a stolen vehicle that had crashed in a field in Bearspaw, nearly 25 kilometres from the bar.

Angie Perry says she hasn’t really had time to mourn her son’s death because she is still desperate for answers.

“I want to know what happened, what my son went through the last two hours of his life – I know he went through hell.”

She says it would be out of character for her son to steal a car and Helland agrees.

“So that was the first red flag, the fact that he was in a stolen car – something was wrong. None of it fits together.”

RCMP say they don’t believe the circumstances are suspicious

“We hope that the public can certainly close the gap from 2 a.m. in the morning until the time of the collision – if there’s anything suspicious or any information they can provide,” says Mel Calahasen of the RCMP. “But right now we are looking at it as a fatal collision.”

Police say Perry was the only one in the vehicle and didn’t know the owner of the car. The fob needed to start the car was never found at the scene or on Dylan Perry.

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Friends and family say it doesn’t add up.

“None of it really fits together,”says Helland. “Because of that, there’s definitely a missing link.”

“Someone knows something out there,” adds Angie Perry. “Someone saw something.”

She remains convinced there is more to her son’s death than police believe.

“I don’t care how long it takes, I’m fighting for Dylan,” she says.”I’m not giving up.”