Boots of missing Utah man found, his family pleads for help in his mysterious disappearance

BOX ELDER COUNTY, Utah (ABC4) – The boots of a lacking 19-year-old who’s been lacking for nearly two weeks had been discovered on his property.

In keeping with East Idaho Information, the sneakers of Dylan Rounds had been discovered behind a mud pile on the 19-year-old’s property.

Rounds lives by himself in a camp trailer on a distant piece of land and members of the family say they final heard from him when he known as his grandmother on the morning of Might 28.

Rounds went to Rigby Excessive Faculty in Idaho and commenced farming grain just a few years in Lucin.

“He mentioned he couldn’t discuss. He needed to get his grain truck within the shed as a result of he had seed in it,” Candice Cooley, Rounds’ mom, tells EastIdahoNews.com. “He was planting, and he couldn’t get his seed moist.”

After not listening to from Rounds over the weekend, his household grew involved, went to the farm, and found he wasn’t there. They known as the police and so they started looking the property.

“Throughout the first hour and a half, they discovered his boots. From the place his grain truck was parked, his boots had been about 100 yards south behind a pile of filth simply casually tossed out,” Cooley informed East Idaho Information. “He was very specific about his boots. He wears a pair, and it’s at all times the identical pair. After they put on out, he goes and buys precisely the identical boots.”

There have been additionally no tire tracks within the filth resulting in or from Rounds’ truck which is suspicious as a result of the weekend he disappeared, it was raining the place he lived, so if he left and got here again there would have been markings within the floor.

Rounds’ mom says it seems that his truck was strain washed as a result of it was “noticeably clear.”

His mother additionally factors out that together with her being 4’11 and her son being 5’11 she will by no means attain the pedals in her son’s automotive. When the automotive was discovered, she didn’t have to maneuver nearer to the pedals to drive.

Rounds’ additionally visited Montello, Nevada which was the final place somebody bodily noticed him.

“He’d go into the bar in Montello and meet up with pals, however they by no means got here out (to Lucin) with him. There’s no cause to come back on the market as a result of there’s nothing there,” Cooley says. “We don’t even know if he made it again to Utah (that Saturday).”

For now, Cooley is pleading with Nevada officers to assist with the search.

Rounds’ household is providing $20,000 to anybody who finds him or is aware of the place he could also be. The household can also be posting updates on the Discover Dylan Rounds Fb web page.