UT DYLAN ROUNDS: Missing from Lucin, UT - 28 May 2022 - Age 19 *Found Deceased**GUILTY PLEA*

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Family offering $20,000 reward for man who disappeared after 'weird run-in' with stranger - East Idaho News

IDAHO FALLS – A 19-year-old man with ties to eastern Idaho has been missing since Saturday morning and his family is working with law enforcement to find him. Katie Wells of Rigby tells EastIdahoNews.com her nephew, Dylan Rounds, was last seen Saturday in Lucin, Utah, on the farm where he is...
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Family offering $20,000 reward for man who disappeared after ‘weird run-in’ with stranger​

Katie Wells of Rigby tells EastIdahoNews.com her nephew, Dylan Rounds, was last seen Saturday in Lucin, Utah, on the farm where he is working. Rounds apparently called several family members last Wednesday after having a “weird run-in” with a guy on a gravel road.

“The man was walking down the gravel road barefoot. He flagged Dylan down, who was in his truck. He asked to use Dylan’s phone and was acting erratically. Dylan felt the man was dangerous and may have been high. When he asked Dylan for a ride, (Dylan) did not give him a ride,” Wells explains.

Wells says the man was spotted in Montello, Nevada several days later asking about Dylan and there are reports that the man got a ride to Dylan’s trailer on Saturday.


“We don’t believe anything was ransacked,” Wells explains. “Dylan is missing, his phone is missing and his wallet.”

Noting Dylan’s age, Wells says some people seem to think Dylan ran off, but she suspects foul play.

“He is an old soul, farm boy at heart. All he wants to do is get up and work all day every day. He isn’t interested in partying, he isn’t interested in travel. He never dated in high school. He’s not your typical 19-year-old,” Wells says.

Dylan’s mom, Candice Cooley, lives in Twin Falls and his dad, Justin Rounds, lives in Ucon. They are actively involved in the search and are offering a $20,000 reward to anyone who finds him or knows where he might be.


MEDIA - DYLAN ROUNDS: Missing from Lucin, UT since 28 May 2022 - Age 19
 
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Regina said:
Yeah, it's inexplicable that if it appeared to be blood, why it wasn't properly collected and analyzed (and to my point, once confirmed, DNA tested and compared), but apart from that circumstance and despite the environment and that it was days later, there should have been an attempt to collect some other source of DNA.
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They did so much wrong, then try to claim they do know how to do things correctly because "they are a large county" is not helping them at all. It's like doing their jobs in that part of the county is just too much of a bother for them. It also makes one wonder if somebody with pull there is involved.
 
Guess Who said:
They did so much wrong, then try to claim they do know how to do things correctly because "they are a large county" is not helping them at all. It's like doing their jobs in that part of the county is just too much of a bother for them. It also makes one wonder if somebody with pull there is involved.
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It sounds like an odd and interesting area and quite possibly a dangerous one... Not my opinion, that comes from Dylan's mother. Anti-government types etc. I think she said and yeah, I imagine if so, they wouldn't take too kindly to LE...
 
Regina said:
Re the boots, I recall it (do you?) in that video where it was said that the spot on the boots was positively blood, yet there was no mention/question as to whether it was compared.:confused:
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I think I remember the mom briefly stating that it was being tested.
 
Regina said:
Yeah, it's inexplicable that if it appeared to be blood, why it wasn't properly collected and analyzed (and to my point, once confirmed, DNA tested and compared), but apart from that circumstance and despite the environment and that it was days later, there should have been an attempt to collect some other source of DNA.
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Wouldn’t it be terrible if the blood was tested and they couldn’t use it in court because it wasn’t collected correctly? I’m afraid of the same scenario.
 
GrandmaBear said:
It sounds like an odd and interesting area and quite possibly a dangerous one... Not my opinion, that comes from Dylan's mother. Anti-government types etc. I think she said and yeah, I imagine if so, they wouldn't take too kindly to LE...
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The high crime rate could have something to do with the lack of law-enforcement protection. Sounds to me like it’s pretty scarce out there. Talk about the wild wild West!
 
Kimster said:
Wouldn’t it be terrible if the blood was tested and they couldn’t use it in court because it wasn’t collected correctly? I’m afraid of the same scenario.
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I imagine that sheriff had better say goodbye to his job if that happens... At least the family will definitely have something to say about it.

It seems likely though if the evidence truly wasn't protected.
 
GrandmaBear said:
I imagine that sheriff had better say goodbye to his job if that happens... At least the family will definitely have something to say about it.

It seems likely though if the evidence truly wasn't protected.
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These guys have just been plugging along doing their job blah blah blah every day with all the crime in the area and now the whole country is looking at them. I hope this does help the citizens in that area have some better law-enforcement. I don’t usually call them out like this, but this time it just seems really bad. Not marking the area where the boots were as a potential crime scene? Are you kidding me?
 
Kimster said:
These guys have just been plugging along doing their job blah blah blah every day with all the crime in the area and now the whole country is looking at them. I hope this does help the citizens in that area have some better law-enforcement. I don’t usually call them out like this, but this time it just seems really bad. Not marking the area where the boots were as a potential crime scene? Are you kidding me?
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All sorts of things. And then letting the family break into and take the truck? I did think it is a bit unfair for the family to make that choice and then complain LE let them but even so, she has a point and family would be upset at the time and cops should know better and stop it...

I know what you mean about calling them out and some of it seems a bit unfair to me, I mean I do think the mom is not realizing some of what she is seeing would be standard practice by most LE agencies... Share little with others, even family--don't assume family is not involved and so they feed different info to each, and I guess to a point cover their butts and make it sound like something has been done when it hasn't, etc...

There's a good chance that at first maybe just maybe they did that same old thing of assuming he was an adult and he left of his own accord or was partying BUT with boots found, and all his vehicles accounted for, that should have elevated the concern...
 

Search for Box Elder farmer continues, 3 weeks after disappearance

BRIGHAM CITY — A young Box Elder County farmer remains missing three weeks after he was last seen just over the Utah line in Montello, Nevada, and a Box Elder County sheriff’s official said Thursday the case is an active criminal investigation. “We are looking at all avenues as to why he’s...
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Search for Box Elder farmer continues, 3 weeks after disappearance​

A young Box Elder County farmer remains missing three weeks after he was last seen just over the Utah line in Montello, Nevada, and a Box Elder County sheriff’s official said Thursday the case is an active criminal investigation.

“We are looking at all avenues as to why he’s missing,” Box Elder Chief Deputy Cade Palmer said of Dylan Rounds, 19, who lived in a trailer at his farm in the Lucin area on the county’s western edge.

“Our son did not walk into the desert and disappear,” Rounds’ mother, Candice Cooley, of Twin Falls, Idaho, said in a Facebook post. “His farm and everything he’s worked for is out there and someone knows something.”


Palmer declined to release further information about the disappearance due to the criminal investigation. But regarding the search, he said Box Elder deputies have covered 3,000 miles in their searching. Numerous law enforcement and search and rescue units have helped, such as the Box Elder County Horse Posse, the Elko County, Nevada, Sheriff’s Office, Weber County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue and the Utah Department of Public Safety’s Aero Bureau.
 
SheWhoMustNotBeNamed said:

Search for Box Elder farmer continues, 3 weeks after disappearance

BRIGHAM CITY — A young Box Elder County farmer remains missing three weeks after he was last seen just over the Utah line in Montello, Nevada, and a Box Elder County sheriff’s official said Thursday the case is an active criminal investigation. “We are looking at all avenues as to why he’s...
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Search for Box Elder farmer continues, 3 weeks after disappearance​

A young Box Elder County farmer remains missing three weeks after he was last seen just over the Utah line in Montello, Nevada, and a Box Elder County sheriff’s official said Thursday the case is an active criminal investigation.

“We are looking at all avenues as to why he’s missing,” Box Elder Chief Deputy Cade Palmer said of Dylan Rounds, 19, who lived in a trailer at his farm in the Lucin area on the county’s western edge.

“Our son did not walk into the desert and disappear,” Rounds’ mother, Candice Cooley, of Twin Falls, Idaho, said in a Facebook post. “His farm and everything he’s worked for is out there and someone knows something.”


Palmer declined to release further information about the disappearance due to the criminal investigation. But regarding the search, he said Box Elder deputies have covered 3,000 miles in their searching. Numerous law enforcement and search and rescue units have helped, such as the Box Elder County Horse Posse, the Elko County, Nevada, Sheriff’s Office, Weber County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue and the Utah Department of Public Safety’s Aero Bureau.
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Maybe I shouldn't nitpick but what is it with this department? He says they covered 3,000 miles in searching?? Not sure what he is referring to but let me just say this, if you traveled coast to coast in American from west coast to east coast, it is 2,500 to 3,500 miles depending. And this county department has searched 3,000 miles? Do they maybe mean acres?
 
GrandmaBear said:
Maybe I shouldn't nitpick but what is it with this department? He says they covered 3,000 miles in searching?? Not sure what he is referring to but let me just say this, if you traveled coast to coast in American from west coast to east coast, it is 2,500 to 3,500 miles depending. And this county department has searched 3,000 miles? Do they maybe mean acres?
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Square miles, most likely. Still a lot though. To put what they are saying in perspective, they are claiming to have searched the entire state of Connecticut (2k SF) and Rhode Island (1k SF) combined.
 
I'd like to be a little more clear regarding the misunderstanding surrounding the boots; the mother had been told on 5/2 that the boots were to be tested at the lab, but the comment from a detective on 6/4 caused her to question that.
 
Regina said:
I'd like to be a little more clear regarding the misunderstanding surrounding the boots; the mother had been told on 5/2 that the boots were to be tested at the lab, but the comment from a detective on 6/4 caused her to question that.
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I don't think I could blame the mom on that. It seems they constantly contradict themselves to where nobody knows what to believe.
 
Guess Who said:
Square miles, most likely. Still a lot though. To put what they are saying in perspective, they are claiming to have searched the entire state of Connecticut (2k SF) and Rhode Island (1k SF) combined.
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Yes, I was talking linear but to give an idea of just how many miles that is and to show the staggering thought/picture in one's mind that stretched out, one could travel across the continental US in that many miles.

They probably didn't put a lot of thought into the remark but this department has itself under enough scrutiny publicly and the mother has them there as well that they might want to think twice about such an outlandish (likely) claim such as that before uttering it.
 
Regina said:
I'd like to be a little more clear regarding the misunderstanding surrounding the boots; the mother had been told on 5/2 that the boots were to be tested at the lab, but the comment from a detective on 6/4 caused her to question that.
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I recall something on the order of it being said that days after they thought the boots were taken and being tested and processed, it was found that the boots were still in the back of a detectives car or truck or something like that. I remember feeling shocked at the fact they were not take care of properly and chain of evidence, etc. wasn't observed...
 
Regina said:
According to utah.gov, Utah consists of 84,900 square miles.

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That is a lot. Unless they have searched more since, his mother talked as if they did very little searching and quit after less than 24 hours from when they first came out, went home, came back the next day and then called it quits. Probably more has occurred though since that time. Maybe.
 
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