Utah squatter takes plea deal in teen farmer’s murder; leads detectives to ‘skeletal remains’ [Video]

When Dylan Rounds went missing just shy of two years ago, the 19-year-old farmer from Idaho had just planted the first crop on his own Utah land.

Local investigators and the FBI found skeletal remains, presumed to be his, in a remote area of Lucin, Utah, a 200-mile drive from Salt Lake City, the Box Elder County Sheriff’s Office announced.

“It’s another thing to work through,” his mother, Candice Cooley, said Wednesday morning.

The family had been notified that a plea deal had been reached last Monday after a month of negotiations, she said, and the FBI recovered her son’s remains Tuesday morning.

UTAH FARMER DYLAN ROUNDS REMAINS MISSING AS PRIME SUSPECT CHARGED WITH MURDER

Dylan Rounds, 19, was last seen in Lucin, Utah, on May 25, 2022, authorities said.

She said she’s been preparing for the discovery after a month of back and forth before prosecutors and the defense agreed to a three- to …