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The Disappearance Of Dylan Rounds · Beyond The Horizon

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Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the program. On
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Speaker 1: May 30th, a young man named Dylan Rounds was reported missing. Now,
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Speaker 1: Dylan has always wanted to be a farmer, and recently
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Speaker 1: he was able to do that very thing. With the
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Speaker 1: help of his grandfather, he was able to purchase a
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Speaker 1: little bit of land, and he was living out on
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Speaker 1: this piece of land in a trailer in a relatively
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Speaker 1: desolate area. Well, he disappeared after a quick conversation with
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Speaker 1: his grandmother, where he told her that he had to
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Speaker 1: bring his seed truck in so it didn't get ruined.
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Speaker 1: He said he would call her back. And now nobody
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Speaker 1: has heard from Dylan Rounds. At first, it was being
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Speaker 1: treated as if it was a missing person case, meaning
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Speaker 1: this kid could have just ran off. He could have just,
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Speaker 1: you know, decided I had enough. But when you listen
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Speaker 1: to his parents speak and you listen to his parents
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Speaker 1: and those who knew him talk about him, there's just
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Speaker 1: no way that that was in his makeup or that
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Speaker 1: would be something he'd be interested in doing. He was
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Speaker 1: about to have his first crop yield since he's been
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Speaker 1: a farmer. And according to the people who knew him,
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Speaker 1: that is all this kid wanted to ever do was
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Speaker 1: be a farmer. So does it make sense that he
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Speaker 1: would up and leave as his first yield is about
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Speaker 1: to come to fruition? Certainly doesn't make sense to me.
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Speaker 1: So now, recently I was reading an article just before...
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Speaker 1: I came into the studio to record this one about
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Speaker 1: this case, and the police are looking at this in
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Speaker 1: a criminal fashion now. So they're opening an investigation, a
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Speaker 1: criminal investigation into this, and hopefully it will yield some
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Speaker 1: more answers. Because as of now, the parents have hit
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Speaker 1: a roadblock, and the people searching for Dylan, they've come
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Speaker 1: up with nothing. So with it now being a criminal matter,
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Speaker 1: the hope is that more information will be found by
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Speaker 1: the investigators, and the parents will get some more answers.
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Speaker 1: This article was authored by Keanu Reid. He had a
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Speaker 1: lot of goals, Justin Rounds told Dateline about his son Dylan.
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Speaker 1: He had a future in mind. Dylan Rounds was last
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Speaker 1: seen on Thursday, May 26th. 2022 in Montello, Nevada, getting
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Speaker 1: a bite to eat at the Saddle Sore Bar. So
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Speaker 1: first things first, if you're an investigator, you definitely have
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Speaker 1: to go to this bar, right? And speak to everybody
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Speaker 1: who was present, who was willing to speak with you.
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Speaker 1: Got to look at surveillance video, all of it. And
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Speaker 1: my guess is now that it's a criminal matter, this
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Speaker 1: is exactly what the investigators are doing. But how many
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Speaker 1: times and how much Opportunity is lost when you have
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Speaker 1: situations such as this, people going missing, and authorities thinking
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Speaker 1: that it's no more than a kid who wants to,
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Speaker 1: you know, run away or wants to start over. Now,
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Speaker 1: I understand that there is a balancing act that authorities
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Speaker 1: have to maintain. They can't just go running after every
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Speaker 1: single person who's reported missing if they're an adult because
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Speaker 1: people have the right to just disappear. But you have
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Speaker 1: to use a little bit of discretionary behavior if you're
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Speaker 1: the authorities. And if a parent is adamant that their
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Speaker 1: child is not somebody who's mixed up with bad people
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Speaker 1: or somebody who is the kind of person that might
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Speaker 1: run off, then I think that the police, it should
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Speaker 1: be up to in their discretion. To how hard they go.
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Speaker 1: And if they look into these things as more than
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Speaker 1: just a missing person, because when they approach everything as
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Speaker 1: just somebody who is missing with no criminality involved, then
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Speaker 1: I think we miss a big opportunity to perhaps find
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Speaker 1: some of these people and perhaps prevent some of these
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Speaker 1: people from ending up being murdered or killed. Two days later,
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Speaker 1: on Saturday, May 28, 2022, the 19-year-old spoke with his
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Speaker 1: maternal grandmother on the phone. Dylan's mother, Candace Cooley, told
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Speaker 1: Dateline that her mother said Dylan had to hang up
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Speaker 1: because it was raining and he needed to move some equipment.
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Speaker 1: He said,' It' s raining. I can't talk to you right now,'
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Speaker 1: Candace told Dateline.' I gotta get my seed truck.' And
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Speaker 1: what he means by that is he had to move
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Speaker 1: the seed truck into an enclosed area so the rain
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Speaker 1: and the water didn't ruin his seeds. And if you're
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Speaker 1: a farmer, what's more precious to you than those seeds, right?
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Speaker 1: You have to keep planting your harvest. You have to
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Speaker 1: replant your harvest. You have to make sure that you're
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Speaker 1: yielding crop to turn a profit, to feed your family.
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Speaker 1: So it is crucial that you're guarding and safeguarding those
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Speaker 1: sorts of materials and especially your seeds. So he couldn't talk.
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Speaker 1: He told his grandma, look, I got to go get
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Speaker 1: this seed truck and put it away. I'll give you
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Speaker 1: a call back. How many of us have been in
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Speaker 1: that situation? I know I've been working here in the
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Speaker 1: studio before. And I have a phone call from my
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Speaker 1: mom or my dad or my sister or whatever. And
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Speaker 1: I'm relatively short in the conversation. Hey, look, I can't
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Speaker 1: talk right now. I'm working. And I can only imagine
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Speaker 1: if I was trying to secure my seed truck. But
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Speaker 1: the problem is this kid never called back. Dylan is
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Speaker 1: a farmer and Candace told Dateline he needed to move
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Speaker 1: his truck into the shed so the seeds wouldn't get ruined.
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Speaker 1: No one has heard from Dylan since. Dylan Rounds grew
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Speaker 1: up in Idaho with a younger brother and sister. Justin
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Speaker 1: told Dateline that when Dylan was about four years old,
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Speaker 1: he and Candace divorced. The kids then split their time
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Speaker 1: between Idaho Falls, where Justin lives, and Twin Falls, where
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Speaker 1: Candace lives. So, a very typical story, unfortunately. in America,
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Speaker 1: and I guess around the world in a lot of cases,
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Speaker 1: of a broken home, where a kid is spending partial
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Speaker 1: time with his mom or his dad on one weekend,
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Speaker 1: then the flip on the next weekend, and back and
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Speaker 1: forth and back and forth for the kid's whole entire life. Now,
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Speaker 1: one thing I'm thankful for, and I say this quite
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Speaker 1: a bit, is that I never had to deal with that.
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Speaker 1: My parents have been married forever, and honestly, in my
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Speaker 1: whole entire life, I can count on one hand how
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Speaker 1: many times I actually saw my parents even mad at
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Speaker 1: each other, really. Now, I'm sure they were mad at
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Speaker 1: each other a lot more than that, but they did
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Speaker 1: a good job compartmentalizing it, so it didn't have any
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Speaker 1: effect on my life. According to Justin, Idaho life meant
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Speaker 1: outdoor life. He told Dateline the family would often go
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Speaker 1: fishing and dirt biking. But those activities came second to
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Speaker 1: what Justin says is the most important part of Idaho living. Farming.
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Speaker 1: And if you're going to be a farmer, hell, what
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Speaker 1: better place to go and do it than Idaho? And Justin...
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Speaker 1: Saying about Dylan how he grew up in the outdoors
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Speaker 1: how he grew up in this area So they the
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Speaker 1: idea that he's missing per se that you know He
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Speaker 1: got lost or something like that or he didn't know
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Speaker 1: the area he was in that falls flat with me
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Speaker 1: Because if you're somebody who's an outdoorsman and somebody who
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Speaker 1: is familiar with the area getting lost it would only
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Speaker 1: happen in the most extreme circumstances a whiteout a some
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Speaker 1: kind of a boob, something like that. But normal circumstances,
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Speaker 1: even if you're hurt or damaged, you can find your
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Speaker 1: way home. Justin told Dateline that almost every conversation he
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Speaker 1: has with Dylan is about farming. He's just done that
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Speaker 1: all his life, Justin said. That's all he thought about.
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Speaker 1: And how many of you out there who have jobs
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Speaker 1: right now or careers, I should say, it's the career
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Speaker 1: that you thought about your whole life. It's what you've
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Speaker 1: wanted to be. I know some of us have been
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Speaker 1: able to get to that point. And I'll tell you what, me,
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Speaker 1: I feel blessed every single day, folks, when I wake
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Speaker 1: up and I'm able to hop behind this microphone and
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Speaker 1: talk about these stories with you and talk about the
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Speaker 1: news and just the general situation of the world and
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Speaker 1: whatever else. And to be able to, you know, afford
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Speaker 1: to do this for a living, I am blessed every
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Speaker 1: single day that I'm able to do this. And I'm
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Speaker 1: sure that's how Dylan felt as well. Able to farm now.
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Speaker 1: This is what he wanted to do. This is his
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Speaker 1: lifelong dream. And when you get to a point where
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Speaker 1: you're doing what you want to do and you're able
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Speaker 1: to do it for a living, it's not even work anymore.
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Speaker 1: You're just doing what you want to do and you're
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Speaker 1: blessed enough to get a couple of bucks to live
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Speaker 1: your life on the back end of all of that.
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Speaker 1: And this kid was living that dream. So him disappearing
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Speaker 1: or running off again, it just doesn't seem like a
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Speaker 1: likely scenario for me. He's one of those people that
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Speaker 1: was born to be a farmer, Candace Cooley told Dateline.
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Speaker 1: The kid could drive a tractor before most kids knew
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Speaker 1: how to ride a bike. In 2019, Dylan was finally
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Speaker 1: able to secure a farm of his own in Lucerne, Utah,
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Speaker 1: which is right on the Utah-Nevada border. So it's about
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Speaker 1: six hours and 40 minutes or so from where I'm
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Speaker 1: at in Las Vegas. And there's a lot of little
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Speaker 1: areas like this. in Nevada and the neighboring states. Areas
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Speaker 1: where relatively desolate, but if you're hard charging and you
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Speaker 1: know what you're doing, you could set up a farm,
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Speaker 1: you could set up a homestead and you could be
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Speaker 1: profitable and have a good life doing it. and there
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Speaker 1: is a lot of land in Nevada for that to
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Speaker 1: happen now I digress here a bit with what I'm
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Speaker 1: about to say but It's my belief that if we
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Speaker 1: really want to deal with the housing crisis and the
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Speaker 1: rent problem, we could use these areas, kind of like
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Speaker 1: where Dylan was, to give people homesteading opportunities. But the
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Speaker 1: point is, where Dylan was at, it is a very,
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Speaker 1: very desolate area. You know, there's not the things that
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Speaker 1: you're used to, the local comforts. Everything you get out here,
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Speaker 1: or out there I should say, you have to work for.
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Speaker 1: whether it be water or anything else. Justin said his father,
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Speaker 1: Dylan's grandfather, purchased the land with Dylan, who spent his
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Speaker 1: days cultivating the crop and his nights living alone in
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Speaker 1: a camper on the property. It's sandy desert, Candace said,
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Speaker 1: describing Lucen. It's literally people who want to be off
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Speaker 1: the grid. This year was his first crop, Candace said.
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Speaker 1: She told Dateline that Dylan's farm had to be built
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Speaker 1: from the ground up. There was a lot of preparation
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Speaker 1: that needed to be done. And I have zero experience
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Speaker 1: with doing anything like that. But I have a friend
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Speaker 1: who was homesteading and the lengths that he and his
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Speaker 1: wife had to go to get that place into a
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Speaker 1: living condition for them is pretty insane. But boy, oh boy,
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Speaker 1: was it worthwhile when they were all done. What a
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Speaker 1: what an awesome way to live, in my opinion, anyway.
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Speaker 1: I would love to be able to live in an
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Speaker 1: area that is really pretty much underdeveloped. And you're able
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Speaker 1: to just be out in the wide open spaces. That's
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Speaker 1: a dream come true for me. Justin said that while
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Speaker 1: the farm was Dylan's top priority, his son would often
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Speaker 1: return to Utah and stay with either of his parents
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Speaker 1: because of the lack of running water in his camper.
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Speaker 1: So my friend out in Arizona who was homesteading, he
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Speaker 1: had to dig a well. And thankfully, he has the
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Speaker 1: technical know-how to do all of this stuff. He built
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Speaker 1: a pump house, all of that. And he ended up
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Speaker 1: having water on his property because of it. On May 26, however,
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Speaker 1: Dylan was not visiting either of his parents, but he
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Speaker 1: did speak with each of them on the phone. He
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Speaker 1: was so excited, Candace recalled. He said, Mom, I'm getting
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Speaker 1: my first crop this year. Justin remembers speaking to Dylan
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Speaker 1: that day, too. He was talking about the different types
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Speaker 1: of tractors that he was running, Justin said. The service
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Speaker 1: was spotty. That was the last time Justin or Candace
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Speaker 1: spoke to their son. On Monday, May 30th, Candace said
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Speaker 1: she received an alarming call from J.D. Wilde, Dylan's best friend.
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Speaker 1: Candace told Dateline that J.D. informed her that no one
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Speaker 1: had heard from Dylan since Saturday. I instantly knew we
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Speaker 1: had a problem, Candace said. I mean, imagine being the
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Speaker 1: mom and getting this phone call. You're sitting there doing
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Speaker 1: whatever it is you do throughout the day. And you
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Speaker 1: get a phone call from your son's best friend who
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Speaker 1: says to you, hey, ma'am, your son is missing. Nobody
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Speaker 1: has heard from him. And you know he lives out
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Speaker 1: here in this desolation. So I would be freaked out.
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Speaker 1: Like I've told you folks I've been very upfront about,
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Speaker 1: I have a problem with anxiety, so I'd be freaking
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Speaker 1: out until I had some resolution. I don't like leaving
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Speaker 1: things unresolved. I have to have resolution, and if I
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Speaker 1: can't find resolution, I drive myself insane. Candace told Dateline
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Speaker 1: it was extremely unusual for Dylan to go so long
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Speaker 1: without speaking to anybody. Dylan breaks his phones. He loses
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Speaker 1: phone chargers, Candace said, but he shows up at his
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Speaker 1: father's house or my house within a matter of hours
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Speaker 1: to get a spare one. Candace said since neither she
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Speaker 1: nor her husband had seen her son, she immediately thought
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Speaker 1: something bad might have happened. Especially if you know how
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Speaker 1: your kid is. If you know your kid's not someone
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Speaker 1: who goes missing. If it's somebody who talks to their
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Speaker 1: parents all the time. Then this is the sort of
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Speaker 1: scenario where I think police should get involved right away,
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Speaker 1: at least at the cursory level, to get the ball rolling.
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Speaker 1: Go out and talk to some people. Later that day,
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Speaker 1: Candace reported Dylan missing, and they immediately began the search.
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Speaker 1: The boots were found within the first hour, Candace told Dateline,
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Speaker 1: on Dylan's property. Candace told East Idaho News reporter Nate
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Speaker 1: Eaton that the boots were behind a pile of dirt
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Speaker 1: just casually tossed out. She noted that Dylan was very
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Speaker 1: particular about his boots. He wears a pair and it's
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Speaker 1: always the same pair. When they wear out, he goes
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Speaker 1: and buys exactly the same boots. I know a lot
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Speaker 1: of people that do that with sneakers even. So when
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Speaker 1: you got yourself a good pair of work boots that
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Speaker 1: you can rely on, why wouldn't you keep buying them?
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Speaker 1: So the fact that he had the boots just tossed
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Speaker 1: about in such a disheveled manner is another tell for
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Speaker 1: me that something's off here. Officials found the boots 100
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Speaker 1: yards south of where Dylan's grain truck was parked, which
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Speaker 1: Candace told Dateline is in the opposite direction from his camper.
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Speaker 1: Our hearts dropped, Candace said. A kid doesn't go walking
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Speaker 1: in the desert without his boots, Justin told Dateline, that
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Speaker 1: finding his son's boots like that threw everyone for a loop.
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Speaker 1: Our brains were going a million different directions, he said.
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Speaker 1: He didn't know what to do. And again, it would
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Speaker 1: be very concerning for me as well. if I was
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Speaker 1: the parent or the friend of Mr. Rounds, and we
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Speaker 1: found just these boots like this. For those of you
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Speaker 1: who don't know the desert, it's hard for me to
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Speaker 1: explain just how bad it would be on your feet.
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Speaker 1: You want to talk about an absolute disaster? Try walking
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Speaker 1: around in the desert with no shoes. According to reporter
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Speaker 1: Nate Eaton, Candace told East Idaho News that detectives found
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Speaker 1: the spot of blood on the boots and they would
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Speaker 1: be sent to a lab for testing. East Idaho News
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Speaker 1: said that the family was told police were hanging on
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Speaker 1: to the boots in case cadaver dogs needed them for
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Speaker 1: a scent, which is why they were not sent for
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Speaker 1: testing until a week later. East Idaho News also reported
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Speaker 1: that Dylan's wallet and phone are missing, but everything else
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Speaker 1: seemed normal on the farm. Everything but Dylan's maroon Ford
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Speaker 1: pickup truck. So whatever happened, he lost his wallet. They
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Speaker 1: took his cell phone and he the rest of his
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Speaker 1: stuff was left untouched. My question is, what does he
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Speaker 1: have in there that they would want to steal? And
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Speaker 1: even with the wallet and the phone, how much are
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Speaker 1: you going to get out of a guy's wallet? So
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of things that just don't make sense here.
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Speaker 1: Candace told Dateline it looked like the truck had been
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Speaker 1: pressure washed and that the seats had been moved. Candace
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Speaker 1: told Nate Eaton of East Idaho News that because she
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Speaker 1: is 4'11 and Dylan is 5'11, she always has to
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Speaker 1: move the driver's seat up. But Candace said when she
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Speaker 1: looked in Dylan's truck on May 30th, the seat was
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Speaker 1: scooted up to the point. I didn't even have to
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Speaker 1: move it to drive. So that sounds to me like
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Speaker 1: somebody was certainly in the truck, right? Why would he
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Speaker 1: have the seat that that far up? That makes no sense. Again,
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Speaker 1: another thing that doesn't make sense. And another thing that
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Speaker 1: the police should take into account when they show up
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Speaker 1: to something like this. Candace added that Dylan's truck was
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Speaker 1: in four-wheel drive, but that was a feature of the
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Speaker 1: truck that didn't work. Candace told Nate Eaton that everyone
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Speaker 1: in their family knew the four-wheel drive wasn't working because
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Speaker 1: Dylan often complained about not being able to use the
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Speaker 1: feature and having to drive his truck without it. There
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Speaker 1: was some fishy stuff going on, Candace told Dateline. on
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Speaker 1: top of the red flags involving Dylan's truck. She also
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Speaker 1: said it had rained the weekend before Dylan was reported missing,
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Speaker 1: but there was no mud on the tires. There's no tracks,
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Speaker 1: no nothing. Huh, that's interesting. So somebody washed the truck?
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Speaker 1: I guess we can't rule out that maybe it was
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Speaker 1: Dylan who washed it, but who knows? The Box Elder
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Speaker 1: County Sheriff's Office is investigating Dylan's disappearance. On May 31st,
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Speaker 1: they posted on their Facebook page that Dylan's case continues
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Speaker 1: to be an active missing persons investigation. It goes on
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Speaker 1: to say that they are working diligently to locate Dylan
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Speaker 1: and continue to follow up on tips that we receive.
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Speaker 1: As of June 3rd, there has been no updated information
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Speaker 1: on new locations to search, but are still searching the
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Speaker 1: Lucen area. Candace told Dateline that she is extremely frustrated
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Speaker 1: with how her son's case is being handled. She said
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Speaker 1: although deputies have been helpful with the search, she feels
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Speaker 1: like Dylan's case is being pushed to the side. They
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Speaker 1: left us out there with no assistance, no help, no guidance,
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Speaker 1: she said. And this is a reoccurring theme with the police.
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Speaker 1: A lot of times you'll see it with these missing
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Speaker 1: persons cases. The police just don't want to be bothered
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Speaker 1: with it. Either they don't have the willpower or they
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Speaker 1: don't have the manpower to deal with it, but either way...
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Speaker 1: They end up pushing these cases to the side and
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Speaker 1: writing it off as a missing person, as if that
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Speaker 1: isn't something worthy of investigating either. But a lot of
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Speaker 1: times it falls on the family to hire private investigators
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Speaker 1: and the rest of it, at a huge cost to
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Speaker 1: their pocketbook, mind you, to go out and try and
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Speaker 1: look for these answers. Justin shares Candace's frustration. They would
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Speaker 1: never answer the phone, Justin told Dateline about the Box
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Speaker 1: County Sheriff's Office. They started helping out, I think, last Friday.
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Speaker 1: Candace told Dateline that since Dylan's Farm on the Utah-Nevada border,
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Speaker 1: the elk Police Department in Nevada is also assisting with
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Speaker 1: the search. Oh, good luck there. The Elko County Sheriff's
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Speaker 1: Office posted a press release on June 9th, 2022, which
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Speaker 1: confirmed Dylan was last seen in Montello before his disappearance
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Speaker 1: on the 26th of May, and that he ate at
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Speaker 1: a local establishment, and then returned to Utah. Montello, Nevada
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Speaker 1: is about 30 minutes away from the farm Dylan lived
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Speaker 1: on in Lucent. The release adds that cell phone data
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Speaker 1: was used to track Dylan's phone around his farm near Lucent, Utah.
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Speaker 1: It goes on to say that the last cell phone
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Speaker 1: communication from Dylan's phone was on the 28th of May
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Speaker 1: near his farm in Box Elder County, and that official
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Speaker 1: could confirm that that phone call was made from the
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Speaker 1: farm based off of cell phone data. So when you're
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Speaker 1: tracking all of it and tracing it, on the 28th
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Speaker 1: of May, he was still on the farm, according to
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Speaker 1: the cell phone data. So sometime after that phone call,
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Speaker 1: something real bad happened. According to the release, the Elko
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Speaker 1: County Sheriff's Office are directing people to Box Elder County
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Speaker 1: in this case. They also noted they are providing them
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Speaker 1: with the resources they need to help find Dylan. Candace
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Speaker 1: told Dateline... that the Weber County Sheriff's Office in Ogden, Utah,
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Speaker 1: also provided their resources. They had a cadaver dog. They
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Speaker 1: brought in the chopper, Candace said. They did an amazing
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Speaker 1: job with the area. But Candace said some of the
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Speaker 1: most valuable help has been from their own community of
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Speaker 1: people dedicated to helping bring Dylan home. We had between
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Speaker 1: 250 and 300 people out here, Candace said. Justin and
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Speaker 1: I both have a very large support group. That's awesome
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Speaker 1: to hear. and people who rally around their friends in
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Speaker 1: times like this, those are real friends. You know, you
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Speaker 1: might have people in your life that aren't around texting
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Speaker 1: you all the time or anything like that, but when
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Speaker 1: the shit goes down and people show up, those are
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Speaker 1: your real people. Keep that in mind, folks. Remember that.
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Speaker 1: Candace said she also runs the Find Dylan Rounds Facebook
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Speaker 1: page to share updates in the case, information about the
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Speaker 1: search parties, and photos of Dylan. She emphasized that there
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Speaker 1: are currently no fundraisers open for her son. Dylan is
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Speaker 1: 19 years old, 5 feet 11 inches tall, 160 pounds
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Speaker 1: with dark brown eyes and brown hair. Candace told Dateline
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Speaker 1: he typically wears blue jeans, a flannel t-shirt and a
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Speaker 1: ball cap. He did not walk away from his lifelong dream,
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Speaker 1: Candace said, referring to his first crop on his own farm.
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Speaker 1: Dylan has no drug abuse, no substance abuse, no mental issues,
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Speaker 1: no depression, no suicide thoughts, nothing, she said. I mean,
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Speaker 1: everybody loved him. The family is offering a $ 20, 000 reward
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Speaker 1: for information regarding Dylan's whereabouts. Anyone with information about Dylan
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Speaker 1: Rounds is asked to contact the Box Elder County Sheriff's
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Speaker 1: Office at 435-734-3800. That number, once again, 435-734-3800. Well, this
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Speaker 1: seems like a very disturbing one, folks, and one that
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Speaker 1: I fear is not going to have a good conclusion.
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Speaker 1: So we'll keep an eye on it, and we'll keep
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Speaker 1: following what's going on with Mr. Rounds and with the
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Speaker 1: search to bring him home. If you'd like to contact me,
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