Dylan Rounds, 19, disappeared from his farm in the remote desert town of Lucin, Utah. He was last heard from on May 28, 2022, after a phone call with his grandmother. The last signal from his phone was traced to a pond near the trailer of a man named James Brenner, who had been squatting on property near Rounds’s farm.

Investigators recovered a pair of Rounds’s boots near a dirt mound; one boot had a bloodstain that later matched Dylan’s DNA. Rounds’s phone was recovered from the bottom of the pond; a time-lapse video on the device showed Brenner cleaning a gun while wearing clothing with what appeared to be blood stains, and DNA on the shirt later matched Dylan. Brenner was arrested in June 2022 on federal firearms violations and in March 2023 was charged with aggravated murder and abuse or desecration of a human body.

Several key questions remain about what happened between May 28 and the discovery of those items, and the location of Dylan’s remains had not been disclosed in these early court filings. Did anyone in Lucin see Dylan in the days before he vanished?