Missing in Utah: Searching for Dylan Rounds

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4 Utah) – Quickly after graduating from highschool Dylan Rounds got down to full his plan.

He needed his personal land to farm.

And that’s what he was doing alongside the Nevada-Utah border when he abruptly vanished.

“This started on Monday, Memorial Day, Could thirtieth after we found out that no person had seen my son for a few days,” mentioned his mom Candace Cooley.

For the previous yr, Rounds lived in an RV camper on his property in Field Elder County alongside the Nevada-Utah border.

“Dylan’s been engaged on this farm, in Utah, his personal farm on getting the bottom torn out and getting ready for his crop,” mentioned Cooley. “This yr was going to be his first crop. That farm was his complete life.”

On Memorial Day weekend his Idaho household traveled to the farm after failing to listen to from me. The place was deserted.

“We’ve been looking out, been wanting in every single place,” Cooley mentioned. “Search and rescue got here out that first weekend and we positioned his boots.”

His mom mentioned the boots have been a brief distance away from his RV camper and it was the one pair he owned.

“At that time, it ought to have been handled as foul play,” thought Cooley. “You simply don’t see somebody’s boots within the desert that’s lacking.”

On the Field Elder County sheriff’s Fb web page, they thought of it a “lacking individuals case.” They’ve acquired suggestions and proceed to “search the Lucin (close by city) space.”

The sheriff’s submit mentioned his pickup truck was discovered on his property and believed he was on foot.

Cooley mentioned regardless of current rains earlier than his disappearance, it appeared to not have been moved, elevating extra suspicions.

“It’s prefer it by no means moved within the rain or took it anyplace on Saturday like they initially thought,” she mentioned.

Wednesday earlier than he was final seen within the city of close by Lucin, he instructed his mom of a person strolling barefoot alongside the highway.

“He mentioned ‘mother you wouldn’t consider this man who jumped out of the desert,’” Cooley mentioned. “‘He was bloody, didn’t have any footwear on. He needed a trip. I didn’t give him a trip.’”

In Lucin, the household realized the identification of the person. However she mentioned the person referred to as her voluntarily and didn’t know the place Rounds could possibly be.

Cooley mentioned the person claimed to have an alibi. She equipped the identify to the sheriff and is uncertain whether or not he’s been cleared. She is uncertain if authorities really feel likewise.

Search and rescue models from each Field Elder County and close by Nevada have continued to go looking the realm. However there’s nonetheless no signal of him.

“He was so excited after I talked to him Thursday,” Cooley recalled. “‘He mentioned my grain’s rising and it’s arising. I’m going to get a crop this yr.’ (He was) simply ecstatic, excessive on the world and (then) simply vanished, not a hint.”

Cooley mentioned they discovered no less than three individuals of curiosity on their very own. Two have been former workers of Rounds. She forwarded the names to the sheriff’s workplace.

In the meantime, the household has a $20,000 reward for any data that may assist clear up the place Dylan Rounds is. Name 208-604-3838 or 208-604-3839.