A video played from the missing 19-year-old’s cell phone showed a man charged with murder wearing a bloody shirt and cleaning a gun, prosecutors said in court documents. made it
Dylan Rounds, who lived alone on a farm near Ruthin, Utah, was reported missing on May 30, 2022. According to the Box Elder County Sheriff’s Office, he is a human body. In a probable cause statement, prosecutors laid out key evidence. It was a time-lapse video taken from Rounds’ phone, which his mother said was filmed just 30 minutes after his family last heard from him.
Initial searches for Rounds after he was reported missing found his boots stained with blood. DNA analysis showed it was that of him and Brenner, prosecutors said in a probable cause statement.
“At that point, it should have been treated as cheating,” said his mother, Candace Cooley. told NewsNation“You just don’t see someone’s missing boots in the desert.”
Brenner was first named as a suspect in July 2022, after a joint investigation by the FBI and local authorities, but no criminal charges had been filed in connection with Rounds’ disappearance at the time, according to a joint statement. the statement said. statement From the FBI and the Box Elder County Sheriff’s Office.
According to court documents, Brenner was “crouching” in a trailer five miles from his Rounds home. Authorities searched Brenner’s trailer on June 16 and found a muzzle loader for his rifle ammunition. However, no gun was found at that time.
Authorities searched Brenner’s trailer again on June 21 and found an unserialized rifle. .
