The physique and automobile of Kiely Rodni, the 16-year-old woman who went lacking in early August and was final noticed at a celebration close to Truckee, have almost certainly been present in a reservoir, authorities mentioned Monday.
At a information convention Monday morning in Truckee, Nevada County Sheriff Shannon Moon mentioned her company was notified Sunday night time {that a} automobile matching the outline of Kiely’s 2013 Honda CRV was present in Prosser Lake with a deceased individual inside, simply 5 miles north from the place Kiely was final seen.
“Final night time, we did obtain some info of the restoration of a automobile that we’ve been looking for, and it was positioned inside Prosser Lake,” Moon mentioned. “It was positioned inside a search zone that we had been looking because the very starting of our operation.”
The automotive, which was the wrong way up in 14 ft of water, was found by an Oregon dive workforce that focuses on looking for lacking individuals and property.
The dive workforce, Adventures With Goal, introduced on Fb round 2:30 p.m. Sunday, “WE JUST FOUND KIELY RODNI… Automobile is the wrong way up in solely 14′ of water. We have now CONFIRMED Kiely is inside.”
The group wrote that Kiely’s household had been notified, and video footage of the automotive being pulled from the water was revealed on-line.
At Monday’s information convention, Moon informed reporters that the Sheriff’s Workplace had not positively recognized the physique as the lacking teen, although it’s “greater than possible” to be her.
“It’s nonetheless an lively investigation,” Moon mentioned, “and I perceive we are going to proceed to obtain numerous questions relating to our investigation, and we are going to launch what we will.”
Capt. Sam Brown of the Nevada County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned no official company had requested Adventures With Goal to help within the search. The workforce expressed curiosity on-line in serving to, and the Placer County Sheriff’s Workplace coordinated with the group, he mentioned.
Brown couldn’t clarify why official businesses have been unable to search out the automobile, however famous that the search, which concerned greater than 15,000 man-hours,
“eradicated a whole lot of areas that we’d nonetheless be looking if we didn’t have all the good folks on the market.”
Brown mentioned the automobile being the wrong way up within the water sophisticated the search course of.
Lt. Josh Elhers, assistant chief of the California Freeway Patrol Valley Division, confirmed that the CHP is conducting a fatality visitors investigation and that Kiely’s automobile was taken by the FBI.
Kiely went lacking within the early morning hours of Aug. 6 after she attended a celebration close to the Prosser Household Campground within the Tahoe Nationwide Forest.
