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​

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.


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Family desperately searching for missing son living in rural Utah​

The family of a missing teenager is asking for the public's help in the search for their son.

Nineteen-year-old Dylan Rounds lives in Lucin, Box Elder County. His family said he was last seen Memorial Day weekend in Montello, Nevada — 30 miles west of his home.

It’s been almost a week and a half since Dylan was last seen at the Saddle Sore Bar.

“I’m convinced it’s foul play. Every vehicle he has, every tractor, is accounted for and in place,” said Justin.

One of the last conversations Dylan had with his dad was about his excitement for the crop he had just planted.

“He wanted to see it grow. He wasn’t going to leave. There’s nothing that was going to take him away from here,” he said.

Justin said both the Box Elder County Sheriff’s Department and Weber County Search and Rescue searched the area last week. Three helicopters, a plane, and cadaver dogs were part of the search. Search parties were also out and about all week helping out.

“They called off the search — Box Elder [County Sheriff’s Office] — because they were 95 percent sure there’s no sign of Dylan out in the 3-to-5-mile area,” said Justin.

Law enforcement found his boots five miles west of his camper.
 

The boots of a missing young man have been found, and his mother is speaking about his disappearance​

The boots of a young man missing for nearly two weeks have been found behind a dirt pile on his property, but there’s still no sign of 19-year-old Dylan Rounds.

Rounds attended Rigby High School and began farming grain a few years ago in the desert town of Lucin, Utah, near the Utah/Nevada border. He lives by himself in a camp trailer on a remote piece of land, and family members last heard from him when he called his grandmother the morning of Saturday, May 28.

“He said he couldn’t talk. He had to get his grain truck in the shed because he had seed in it,” Candice Cooley, Rounds’ mother, tells EastIdahoNews.com. “He was planting, and he couldn’t get his seed wet.”

Nobody heard from Rounds over the weekend, and by Monday, May 30, his family became concerned and went to the farm. They called police and Box Elder County Search and Rescue when Rounds was not there. Crews arrived and began scouring the property.

“Within the first hour and a half, they found his boots. From where his grain truck was parked, his boots were about 100 yards south behind a pile of dirt just casually tossed out,” Cooley says. “He was very particular about his boots. He wears a pair, and it’s always the same pair. When they wear out, he goes and buys exactly the same boots.”

The boots did not look faded and had dirt on them. Cooley says detectives told her there was a spot of blood on the footwear and they would be sent to a lab for testing, but late last week, she says the family was informed that police were hanging on to the boots in case cadaver dogs needed them for a scent.

Another suspicious discovery was there were no tire tracks in the dirt leading to or from Rounds’ red pickup truck, Cooley says. The weekend he disappeared, it was raining in Lucin, so had he left and come back, there would have been markings in the ground. But Cooley also says it appears the truck was pressured washed as it was noticeably clean.

“There is no mud on the tires, there’s no mud on the rims but the wheel wells are full of mud like they’ve been driven in the rain,” Cooley says. “It’s been cleaned except the wheel wells … And when I got in the pickup…the seat was scooted up to the point I didn’t even have to move it to drive. I’m 4’11”, Dylan is 5’11” and every time I’ve ever gotten in Dylan’s pickup, I can’t reach the pedals.”

Cooley also noticed the truck was in four-wheel drive but she and everyone else in the family knew the four-wheel drive had not been working since Rounds got a new transmission transfer case several months ago. He often complained about not being able to use the feature and having to drive his truck without it.

Rounds’ wallet and phone are missing, but everything else appears normal at the farm. Cooley says police got a ping on the phone that was at or within 15 miles of his property on Saturday at 3:41 p.m.

Rounds often visited Montello, Nevada, which is 26 miles from Lucin, and it’s the last place someone physically saw him.

“He’d go into the bar in Montello and meet up with friends, but they never came out (to Lucin) with him. There’s no reason to come out there because there’s nothing there,” Cooley says. “We don’t even know if he made it back to Utah (that Saturday).”

Cooley says search crews, family and friends have done a thorough search of Rounds’ property and around Lucin to the Nevada border. Utah officials have been helpful, and now she hopes the focus can shift to Nevada.

“We are begging for Nevada officials to help us. I think he was taken, and he did not leave his place willingly. We need Nevada to help us out,” Cooley says.

Days before Rounds vanished, he had an encounter with a suspicious barefooted man who asked him for a ride. Cooley originally thought this man might have something to do with Rounds’ disappearance, but she has since spoken with the man and he is now in police custody.

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One thing bothers me a little bit, but probably nothing, is the aunt specifically says he isn't interested in partying but he was last seen at a bar he frequented.
Being that he’s 19, that bar better not have been serving him. Haven’t seen what the bar is specifically, but there’s a good chance it’s a restaurant that has a bar inside.
 
Being that he’s 19, that bar better not have been serving him. Haven’t seen what the bar is specifically, but there’s a good chance it’s a restaurant that has a bar inside.
"Hopefully" they didn't serve him, but from the rural bars I am familiar with, they would have.

I'd say better chance it's more of a pool hall type of bar, but absolutely only going by the area and no real info.
 
"Hopefully" they didn't serve him, but from the rural bars I am familiar with, they would have.

I'd say better chance it's more of a pool hall type of bar, but absolutely only going by the area and no real info.
Bars in rural towns around here have pool tables, card tables, etc. They serve food until 10 PM or midnight and as long as you’re 18, you can stay in there and play games until the food isn’t being served anymore. Young adults gather there to eat and play games if the town has nowhere else for them to gather.

I have to wonder though, did he meet up with a diabolical stranger there?
 
Bars in rural towns around here have pool tables, card tables, etc. They serve food until 10 PM or midnight and as long as you’re 18, you can stay in there and play games until the food isn’t being served anymore. Young adults gather there to eat and play games if the town has nowhere else for them to gather.

I have to wonder though, did he meet up with a diabolical stranger there?
the ones by my parents "quietly" serve minors. It's infuriating! They know people in the bar are buying for them, but they do absolutely nothing to stop it. They don't even hide it! I've never seen them actually serve them, but have way too often seen them give multiple drinks to one person that happens to be sitting with underage and then that underage person suddenly has a glass in front of them. You know the servers know what is happening, but they keep letting it happen. I am NOT saying that is what happened here, just my experience with rural bars.

It does seem like he made it home though after the bar, just nobody known actually laid eyes on him after the bar, so i don't think he is missing from the bar itself.
 

Volunteer search planned to help find Dylan Rounds​

A volunteer search is planned this weekend to help find a missing 19-year-old from eastern Idaho.

Volunteers interested in searching for Rounds are asked to meet at Centennial Park in Montello, Nevada at 8 a.m. Saturday. Drone operators, ATV drivers, hikers and search dog teams are encouraged to attend but organizers stress the area is very remote.

“Bring extra gas, water, food and snacks. There are no services or food down there,” says Candice Cooley, Rounds’ mother. “We need well-running ATVs and equipment that won’t break down and we want to keep this organized. Please don’t come just to joyride.”

Cooley is meeting with the Elko County Sheriff’s Office Friday and hopes investigators, along with professional search and rescue teams, will join the group.

Attendees are asked to wear long pants and sturdy boots. Hot desert conditions are expected and the search, which will focus on the Nevada side of the border, is planned to last all Saturday and into Sunday if needed. Cooley met with the Elko County Sheriff’s Office Friday and they plan to join in the search.

“We need people on ATVs driving slowly, yelling for Dylan, looking for any clues,” Cooley says. “We appreciate all the help and support we’ve been given and we want to make sure people know it’s a hot and miserable place so be prepared for the conditions.”

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VERY rough timeline as not much as been officially confirmed. Please let me know if anything looks wrong or if there is anything that we know that should be added.

Wednesday, May 25 - "Weird" run-in with barefoot man at/near his farm in Lucin, Utah
Friday, May 27 - Last seen at the Saddle Sore bar sometime in the evening
Saturday, May 28 - Called grandmother in the morning, said he had to put the truck away
*Unconfirmed?? - Strange man from the 25th possibly seen in Montello NV and possibly got ride to Dylan's
Monday, May 30 - Search begins, Dylan's boots found

Dylan is missing along with his wallet and cell phone. His truck is at home. His boots (that he always wore?) were found.
 
From a post on the Facebook page:

---Dylan’s boots were found behind a dirt pile about five miles west of his farm on May 30th. The Box Elder Sheriff took custody of the boots and turned them over to Box Elder Detectives. The Box Elder Detective told Dylan’s mom that they found a drop of blood on one of the boots. We learned that the boots were not shipped to the laboratory until June 6th.

---Dylan's maroon colored Ford 4x4 4-door pickup was found parked at the farm, freshly pressured washed on the outside and in the bed. The tires were also pressure washed and did not have any mud on them. Given the muddy roads from the thunderstorms the day prior, the pickup and pickup tires should have had a large amount of mud on them. This indicates that the truck and truck tires were pressure washed at the farm where the truck was found. Additionally the ground around the truck appears to have been smoothed out by the pressure washer leaving no tracks from the pickup or from humans. The only sign in the dirt is from a trail of water that drained out of the pickup bed. Dylan is 5’10” and when his mother Candice who is 4’11” got in the truck, the seat was too far forward for Dylan to have been able to drive and the transfer case was found to have been placed in 4X4 mode. This indicates that Dylan was not the last person to drive the pickup truck. The pickup had recently had a rebuilt transmission installed and the transfer case was not working operating properly. The 4x4 mode was not working and had been this way for quite some time. Dylan knew it was not working and would not have put it in 4X4 mode.
 
From a post on the Facebook page:

---Dylan’s boots were found behind a dirt pile about five miles west of his farm on May 30th. The Box Elder Sheriff took custody of the boots and turned them over to Box Elder Detectives. The Box Elder Detective told Dylan’s mom that they found a drop of blood on one of the boots. We learned that the boots were not shipped to the laboratory until June 6th.

---Dylan's maroon colored Ford 4x4 4-door pickup was found parked at the farm, freshly pressured washed on the outside and in the bed. The tires were also pressure washed and did not have any mud on them. Given the muddy roads from the thunderstorms the day prior, the pickup and pickup tires should have had a large amount of mud on them. This indicates that the truck and truck tires were pressure washed at the farm where the truck was found. Additionally the ground around the truck appears to have been smoothed out by the pressure washer leaving no tracks from the pickup or from humans. The only sign in the dirt is from a trail of water that drained out of the pickup bed. Dylan is 5’10” and when his mother Candice who is 4’11” got in the truck, the seat was too far forward for Dylan to have been able to drive and the transfer case was found to have been placed in 4X4 mode. This indicates that Dylan was not the last person to drive the pickup truck. The pickup had recently had a rebuilt transmission installed and the transfer case was not working operating properly. The 4x4 mode was not working and had been this way for quite some time. Dylan knew it was not working and would not have put it in 4X4 mode.
so somebody brought their own pressure washer there and took it away, too? Did he have one and if so, where is it now?
 
Couldn't it have possibly been that the truck was parked there before it rained? That would make sense for no tracks and no mud. What evidence of actual power washing is there? (I realize they might know the answers to this)

thinking about this though, fresh mud in the wheel wells and the truck being clean would be pretty good evidence of some kind of washing going on.
 
Couldn't it have possibly been that the truck was parked there before it rained? That would make sense for no tracks and no mud. What evidence of actual power washing is there? (I realize they might know the answers to this)

thinking about this though, fresh mud in the wheel wells and the truck being clean would be pretty good evidence of some kind of washing going on.
Dylan apparently told his grandmother on the phone Saturday morning that he needed to park the truck under the shed so the seed didn't get wet. So it was either raining or going to rain. Was the seed still in the truck when it was found? If there was a lot of rain and thunderstorms, and it was parked in the open, it would make sense that there would be no mud on the truck, tires, etc. if he hadn't driven it since then. That being said, the seat being forward is still strange. And his boots being found miles away.
I get the feeling that LE has their eyes on someone. Maybe someone he was at the bar with the night before. Maybe a "friend". Maybe that no-shoes guy. But someone.
 
Dylan apparently told his grandmother on the phone Saturday morning that he needed to park the truck under the shed so the seed didn't get wet. So it was either raining or going to rain. Was the seed still in the truck when it was found? If there was a lot of rain and thunderstorms, and it was parked in the open, it would make sense that there would be no mud on the truck, tires, etc. if he hadn't driven it since then. That being said, the seat being forward is still strange. And his boots being found miles away.
I get the feeling that LE has their eyes on someone. Maybe someone he was at the bar with the night before. Maybe a "friend". Maybe that no-shoes guy. But someone.
the boots...are they sure they are his CURRENT pair? They said he always gets the same kind time and time again, so couldn't they have possibly been and old pair. Were they proven to be his to start with since it doesn't sound like they even sent them in for testing until a few days ago? Who found them? Was where they were found part of the property he was farming on or had a connection with?

SOOOOOOO many questions!
 
Long interview with Dylan's mother.



Have not watched this but I know some of you are HeavyD fans.


So I finally watched these two videos and now have even more questions. But it's also a bit more clear.

The family has a video of the truck. To me, it does not appear to be of a truck that was power washed. It is relatively clean, yes. But it could also be a truck that sat in the rain and "washed" by the rain. Again, unless it was covered and not exposed to the rain. Then obviously that's different.

So apparently his boots were found near his truck and where he would have parked it. But not near where he lived on the property. They assume he would have planned on walking back the five miles. This seems to be where the discrepancies between his boots being found "100 yards away" or "5 miles away" comes from.

To add to the timeline - Last cell phone ping Saturday May 28, 3:41 pm. Narrows to a 15-mile radius, but his farm IS in the radius of that ping.

The barefoot man who was on Dylan's property is C.V. Dylan told his mother he did not give him a ride. Other witnesses say Dylan DID give him a ride. (Maybe lied to mom so she wouldn't worry.)

Apparently Dylan sometimes stayed in Montello. Very vague about where he stayed. Obviously no hotels there. So who would he stay with? One of the friends who he'd hang out with at the bar? The friend that notified mom they were searching for him? What does this person have to say?

Dylan bought the farm from his grandpa. Grandpa had workers that helped on the farm. Seems like some of these workers are still employed and some may be the squatters referred to. One of these workers, D, was fired by Dylan a few weeks ago. D is the person grandma called first to check on Dylan when she didn't hear back from him, because D was a good friend of grandpa. D and J were supposedly the first ones looking for him. Also supposedly the only other guys with connections to the farm or a reason to be out there. Apparently they have not been interviewed by LE.

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So I finally watched these two videos and now have even more questions. But it's also a bit more clear.

The family has a video of the truck. To me, it does not appear to be of a truck that was power washed. It is relatively clean, yes. But it could also be a truck that sat in the rain and "washed" by the rain. Again, unless it was covered and not exposed to the rain. Then obviously that's different.

So apparently his boots were found near his truck and where he would have parked it. But not near where he lived on the property. They assume he would have planned on walking back the five miles. This seems to be where the discrepancies between his boots being found "100 yards away" or "5 miles away" comes from.

To add to the timeline - Last cell phone ping Saturday May 28, 3:41 pm. Narrows to a 15-mile radius, but his farm IS in the radius of that ping.

The barefoot man who was on Dylan's property is C.V. Dylan told his mother he did not give him a ride. Other witnesses say Dylan DID give him a ride. (Maybe lied to mom so she wouldn't worry.)

Apparently Dylan sometimes stayed in Montello. Very vague about where he stayed. Obviously no hotels there. So who would he stay with? One of the friends who he'd hang out with at the bar? The friend that notified mom they were searching for him? What does this person have to say?

Dylan bought the farm from his grandpa. Grandpa had workers that helped on the farm. Seems like some of these workers are still employed and some may be the squatters referred to. One of these workers, D, was fired by Dylan a few weeks ago. D is the person grandma called first to check on Dylan when she didn't hear back from him, because D was a good friend of grandpa. D and J were supposedly the first ones looking for him. Also supposedly the only other guys with connections to the farm or a reason to be out there. Apparently they have not been interviewed by LE.

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have not been interviewed??? It's sounding more and more like LE hasn't taken this very seriously at all, then add that they didn't send the boots in, too.
 

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