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Dylan Rounds, a 19-year-old farmer from Idaho who was working his own farm in Utah, has been confirmed dead. He had been missing for almost a year.

The alleged killer is James Brenner. The 59-year-old ex-con has been charged with the teenage farmer’s murder.

Box Elder County authorities brought charges last week after they found Rounds' phone. And recovered an incriminating video. The video images are of Brenner wearing bloody clothes and cleaning a gun. Moreover, they found Rounds' DNA on the clothes.

According to court documents, Brenner was squatting on land next to Rounds' property, where authorities also found the missing man's boots and farm truck. They found blood on one of the boots, as well as Brenner's DNA. 

Deputies first identified Brenner as a suspect over the summer after his arrest on firearms charges in July. He now faces a charge of aggravated murder, as well as abuse or desecration of a body, and is accused of concealing Rounds' remains.

Brenner shot a man at a Maryland campground in the 1980s over a work dispute. Court records show his past criminal history includes malicious wounding, malicious shooting, and three prior convictions for being a felon in possession of a firearm.

Dylan Rounds remains still missing

As part of their search for Rounds, investigators served several search warrants. Two of them led to federal cases against men who had interacted with Rounds before his disappearance. This includes Brenner and Chase Venstra.

When police announced the murder charge against Brenner last week, they ruled out the potential involvement of Venstra or any other suspects in the disappearance and murder.

Rounds, who loved farming, spent no time playing video games or on social media like others his age. He had gone out on his own as a teenager to build up his own farm in Utah, according to Candice Cooley, Rounds' mother. And was farming in the town of Lucin near the Utah/Nevada border.

She suspected foul play almost immediately when family members lost contact with him on May 28.

The search for Rounds remains ongoing. The search is concentrated in a rural area with a number of abandoned mines and cave systems.

 According to Sheriff Lynn B. Palmer, "We are hopeful that they will be found." 

Anyone with information regarding Rounds' disappearance is urged to contact the Box Elder County Sheriff’s Office at 435-734-3800.