After homicide prices had been filed within the case of a lacking teenage farmer, prosecutors in Utah revealed that a essential piece of proof was mysteriously captured on the sufferer’s cellphone.
James Brenner, 59, was charged on March 3 with aggravated homicide in reference to the disappearance final 12 months of Dylan Rounds, 19, who lived by himself on his small farm close to Lucin, in Utah’s northwest nook.
In his final cellphone name to household, on Could 28, Rounds advised his grandmother it was going to rain and he wanted to place his grain truck in a shed that was 5 miles from the place he was residing. Brenner lived in a camper close to that shed.
Rounds’ boots, noticed along with his blood, had been discovered close to the shed on Could 30, the primary day his household went on the lookout for him. Three weeks later, his cellphone was recovered from a close-by pond.
A forensic examination of the cellphone yielded a startling clue: video that reportedly confirmed Brenner carrying a bloody shirt whereas he cleaned blood from his fingers and from a gun. That shirt was seized by investigators, and it was discovered to have Rounds’ DNA on it, the Field Elder County district lawyer’s workplace mentioned.
Rounds’ mom, Candice Cooley, advised the East Idaho Information that the video was time-stamped 7:27 a.m. on Could 28 — half an hour after her son ended his name to his grandmother. She mentioned the household was shocked to listen to that the cellphone captured the scene when Rounds was believed to have been useless.
“How did that cellphone begin recording? It has pushed us loopy,” Cooley advised the Information. “I’m fairly certain when Brenner took the cellphone, he simply hit the improper button or had a improper swipe and had no clue.”
Brenner is to be arraigned April 24. He has been in custody on firearms prices since final summer season.
The seek for the younger man’s stays continues.