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Hello, friends.

Steve Stockton here with you.

Welcome to our latest video.

In this episode we bring you

empty boots,

the strange disappearance of Dylan Rounds.

Join us.

On June 11, 2022,

volunteers gathered along with friends and family members

at Centennial Park in Montelo, Nevada,

ready to search for missing 19-year-old Dylan Rounds.

Who disappeared on May 28th.

Rounds has been living in

Lucen, Utah, formerly known as Umbria Junction.

Lucen is a ghost town in the Northwest corner of Utah

near the Nevada border.

It was abandoned in 1990 and has a population of one.

Dylan Rounds was farming grains

while attending Rigby High School in the remote area

where he lived alone in a small travel trailer.

It was reported that police found

Rounds pickup truck outside his trailer,

but his wallet and phone were missing

and presumed to be with him.

On May 26th,

Dylan Rounds was last seen in a restaurant

and later returned home where he talked to his family

later that night.

This is the last time the family had

contact with him.

In an unrelated incident,

a hostage situation was called in by another family.

When Elk Old County Sheriff's Office arrived to check the call out,

it was soon realized that the call was a false alarm.

However, while authorities were on the scene,

they learned that missing teen Dylan Rounds

was last seen around the same area.

Other police agencies joined the hunt shortly after,

including Box Elder County Sheriff's Department,

the FBI, Equal Search, and several canine units.

Several days of searching turned up nothing.

Then, days turned into weeks.

Authorities were using every piece of equipment

they had to look for the missing teen.

Several days were too windy to use aerial drones,

but operators were able to use them a couple of times.

Volunteers logged more than 300 hours of searching

over a 3,000 mile area.

This is in conjunction with the over 650 hours

the Sheriff's Department put into the search.

Dylan Rounds is known as a very responsible young man.

He had been living in the area for over three years,

working the farmland and harvesting grain.

Dylan had a farm, Dylan had a goal,

and he had a drive-in life so that he would absolutely not let

anything, anything, take him away.

This is a kid that the last three years

has been out in the desolate desert tearing out new ground,

stated Candace Cooley, Dylan's mother.

She also said that Dylan had farming in his blood,

and was working his land when other guys

his age were out parting, dating, playing video games,

and on social media.

Not Dylan though, he was very determined to succeed as a farmer.

Now here's where it gets a little strange.

Dylan's boots were found near his home.

100 yards away from his truck are the police.

These boots were his favorite footwear,

and he was always wearing them.

With the boots to be found without Dylan inside them

was definitely not a good sign.

But June 16, 2022,

authorities were seeking help from the public

locating the missing teen.

His mother said she suspected foul play,

but said she doesn't know who would want to harm her son.

Box Elder County Sheriff's Office

released a statement asking,

if you have knowledge regarding the circumstances

surrounding the disappearance of Dylan Rounds,

or know his current location,

please contact the department.

Dylan's family left Idaho and headed straight

for the farm in Utah after realizing no one had heard

from him in a few days.

After arriving and contacting the authorities,

the family decided to start looking into people

that could have been dead against their son.

His mother passed along two former employee names,

along with another person's interest

to the Sheriff's department.

The employee said worked for Dylan,

although it was never said in what capacity.

In an interview with Dateline Justin Rounds,

Dylan's father, said of his son,

he had a lot of goals.

He had a future in mind.

The day he went missing,

Dylan spoke as maternal grandmother

but cut the call short as it had begun to rain

and he needed to get the farm equipment put away

as well as his grain seeds.

The grandmother said Dylan's last words to her was,

I can't talk right now,

I need to get my seed truck.

Dylan's grandfather had helped

the teen purchase the property in 2019.

His family stated that Dylan had grown

up around the farming life and knew

how to drive a tractor before most kids

knew how to ride a bike.

Dylan Rounds knew that he would be living

and working the land alone

and that was part of the allure for the young man.

Living off-grid is becoming more and more popular

these days as people are leaving cities

for more rural areas,

than it became even more appealing to people

since the health scare that happened in 2019.

This was his first crop,

Dylan's mom said.

He's one of those people that was born to be a farmer.

It's a sandy desert.

It's for people that want to be off-grid.

Dylan returned home to Idaho

to visit family often and to shower

as the trailer he was living in

didn't have running water.

However, Dylan hadn't been home in a while

as his crop was about to start sprouting.

He was so excited, his mother said.

I'm about to get my first crop this year,

she recalled him saying.

May 26 was the last time

either parents spoke with Dylan.

On May 30th, his mother received a phone call

from one of Dylan's best friends

with the name of JD Wild.

He told the mother of the 19-year-old

that no one had heard from Dylan

since Saturday the 28th of May.

That's when I knew we had a problem,

his mother said.

The family immediately left Idaho for Utah.

When they arrived, all seemed

to be in order at first glance,

but Dylan was nowhere to be found.

Candice contacted authorities

later that day and the search was on.

Dylan's boots were found behind a pile of dirt,

which concerned both parents

as Dylan was very particular about his boots

and only wore one pair,

same kind, same brand, same style.

When they wear out, as mother said,

he would go buy another pair,

exactly the same kind, same color, same style.

They were just casually tossed out there.

That's when our hearts dropped.

The kid doesn't go walking in the desert

without his boots.

It was reported that a red substance

was found on one of the boots

and will be sent to the lab for further testing.

Also, when looking closer, Dylan's truck

his family said it looked like it recently

been washed and the seat was moved forward,

suggesting someone shorter than Dylan

had at the very least sat behind the wheel.

His mother said,

I'm 411 and Dylan is 511.

I always have to move the seat up to drive it,

but when I got in, the seat was scooted up so far

I didn't have to move it to drive.

The truck was also found

to have the four-wheel drive engaged,

which didn't work.

The whole family knew it didn't work

and Dylan often complained about it.

Police haven't released everything

that they found and marked as evidence

to keep the scene as secure as possible.

Dylan Rounds went missing on May 28, 2022.

No one has heard from him nor seen him since.

Box Elder County Sheriff,

Elko County Sheriff,

and the FBI are asking the public

that if you or anyone you know

may have seen Dylan or talked to him

in the days before he was reported missing,

please contact either their offices.

The Box Elder County Sheriff's Office

is at 435-723-5227.

The Elko County Sheriff's Office

is at 775-738-3421.

Or the FBI Salt Lake City Branch

801-579-1400.

You can also contact James,

who's a family friend,

at 813-993-2242.

Email address find Dylan Rounds

at gmail.com.

Currently, there's a $20,000 reward

for information leading to the whereabouts of Dylan.

Dylan Rounds is described as

5 foot 11 inches tall,

weighing 160 pounds,

as brown hair and brown eyes.

Fileplay is suspected,

but Dylan is still listed

as a missing person

as of the time of this video.

And as a side note here,

before Dylan disappeared,

he told his mother that he had counted

a man walking down a road,

barefoot, hitchhiking.

The man asked Dylan for a ride

and Dylan declined.

After Dylan was reported missing,

his mother reported this incident

to the police.

There's an article

in the local paper,

labeled family offering $20,000

reward for man disappeared

after weird run-in was stranger.

Dylan had told his mother

the encounter and said

the man was acting erratically

and may have been high on something.

In another report,

a witness told police

the stranger was in Montelo,

asking about Dylan a few days later,

and reports say the man

got a ride to Dylan's trailer.

Police have yet to confirm

or deny these allegations.

Detectives working on the case

didn't immediately respond

to requests for updates

nor comments of status changes.

However, the stranger's name

was one of three

given to police

as possible suspects

in the missing 19-year-old's case.

Well, there you have it, folks.

What do you think

of this strange disappearance

in the desert?

I look forward to reading your comments,

but please keep it friendly

and respectful.

Many times,

the family of the missing

will read these comments.

So don't say anything

you would want to read

if it was your family

member or loved one

being discussed.

Until we meet again,

be good to yourselves

and each other.

Stay safe out there.

As for me,

I'll see you a little farther

on down the trail.

I'm Steve Stockton,

and I'll talk to you next time.

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