Dive Group Adventures With Purpose Says It Found Body of Kiely Rodni, Truckee Teen Who Vanished From Party

Just over two weeks later Kiely Rodni A group of divers have mysteriously disappeared after a high school graduation party at a northern California campground, Sunday a team of divers said they had found the dead 16-year-old girl in the boat. her overturned SUV.

Adventures With Purpose, a search and recovery group known for tackling about two dozen cold cases, said a six-person dive team affiliated with the team found the vehicle in a reservoir. Oregon investigators reported the finding in a Facebook post Sunday afternoon.

The group wrote: “Vehicle flipped upside down in just 14′ of water. “We have CONFIRMED that Kiely is inside. Family informed. Law enforcement on their way. “

The “astronomical” search for Rodni, which spans at least two states and thousands of acres, found that police had accumulated 19,951 cumulative hours of work and reviewed 1,871 tips, according to shared figures. by the Placer County Sheriff’s Office Sunday.

Fears that Rodni might never be found increased 10 days after the search, when local authorities announced that they would be narrowing search efforts to focus on the investigation.

Purposeful adventures hit the area early Saturday, according to the Sacramento outlet Fox 40. Using sonar, divers scanned several bodies of water, including Lake Donner and Lake Boca before the team said they made the tragic discovery in Prosser Creek Reservoir, just a short distance from the site where Rodni was last seen the end of a few hundred meters on August 6.

The 16-year-old disappeared without a trace just after midnight Attending a high school graduation party at Prosser . Family Campground in Truckee. Authorities said more than 200 teenagers and young adults were there, drinking and high on drugs.

Magdalene Larson, who said Fox 40 She is Rodni’s best friend, saying the high-profile farewell party was “the way, the bigger way than ever,” with attendees coming from outside of Truckee — something that wasn’t originally planned.

“There were a lot of people who approached us,” said Larson, who was traveling with Rodni. “Certainly, I had a gut feeling that there was something about that party, something was wrong with the number of people there and the ages of some of these people.”

At the age of 16, Rodni had just graduated from Truckee Charter High School in June, her family said. In a video shared by police in the early days of the search, her mother, Lindsey Rodni Nieman, held back tears as she begged someone for information.

“Kiely, we love you, and if you see this, come home,” said Rodni Nieman. “I want nothing more than to hug you.”

The girl was last seen around 12:30 a.m. at the party, with her last cell phone activity three minutes later near a lake. She texted her mother around 12:15 a.m. to say she’d be on her way home soon but Sami Smith, another close friend of Rodni, told Fox News she was “partying” with Rodni, and Rodni was too drunk to drive home. She thought Rodni would stay overnight at the campsite, she said.

At least 1,200 tips flooded law enforcement’s phones, but police struggled to get a significant amount of leads.

About a week after the search, police spotted Rodni in a video of the party. She is wearing a pink hoodie with the words “Odd Future” embroidered on it. Police released photos of the hoodie in the hopes that someone would spot it — either on Rodni or somewhere abandoned in the thousand-acre forest surrounding the campsite she disappeared into. pass away.

Photos also circulated of Rodni’s silver 2013 Honda CRV, which has been missing with her since the party.

Authorities begged more than 200 partygoers to provide any information they might have about Rodni. With most minors in attendance, police promised that no one would be disciplined for drinking or using drugs – two things the police spokesman said “they knew happened.”

“Our sole purpose in this investigation and search is to get Kiely home to her family and we need the community’s help,” said Angela Musallam, a spokeswoman for the Sheriff’s Office. Placer County, said at a Press Conference August 15th.