The group’s YouTube page, which has nearly 2.5 million subscribers, features heavily edited videos of their cases, as well as footage of dives for underwater treasure, missing cars, boats and guns. “I think we reached out to them after we read it online,” he said.Īdventures With Purpose announced on Facebook that divers had located Rodni just before 2:30 p.m. Yet Brown said he did not think the task force had been officially notified that the group had discovered Rodni’s car. Officials praised Adventures with Purpose, but said the group’s success was based on information that law enforcement shared with them, including maps and cellphone ping locations. Authorities did not know Monday if Adventures with Purpose would receive the reward. “If divers were searching from the shore, it would have been easier for them to be searching now versus when they first started,” he said.ĭozens of family and friends also searched and offered a $50,000 reward.
Rodni’s car probably traveled 75 feet (22.8 meters) from the shoreline on the day it went into the reservoir -– a long distance for divers to cover initially, Weinreis said.īut as the water level dropped several feet the shoreline expanded, meaning the distance in the water to the car, decreased to a more reasonable distance. “It’s not uncommon for agencies and teams to do a search and not find anything and then another team comes in and does find something,” he said. Water Rescue Dive Team, said such searches are akin to looking for a needle in a haystack. Shane Weinreis, president and dive officer of Montana-based U.S. The search grew to a wide area of California and Nevada and involved at least 16 local, state and federal enforcement agencies. Marine units from three local sheriff’s offices searched the reservoir. Her phone had been out of service since the party, and her 2013 silver Honda CR-V had not been found. The Oregon-based group says it has solved more than 20 missing persons cases using sonar and search-and-rescue techniques for its dive team.įriends and family feared she had been kidnapped.
Rinn said they were limited in the scope of details they could release. Volunteer divers with a sonar-equipped group called Adventures with Purpose said they found Kiely Rodni of Truckee on Sunday inside her car, which they said came to rest upside down under about 14 feet (4.2 meters) of water in Prosser Reservoir, about 55 feet (16.7 meters) offshore.Īdventures with Purpose search members Doug Bishop and Nick Rinn briefly described the search in a Facebook livestream Monday morning. “Kiely will surely remain with us even though we will not get her back.” “While we accept this sadness cast under death’s shadow, the rising sun shines light upon us, reminding us not to mourn our loss, but to celebrate Kiely’s spirit and the gift that we all received in knowing her,” the Rodni-Nieman family wrote in the statement. Rodni’s family thanked the searchers for their help in a statement Monday and said they would be grieving privately. Nevada County Sheriff Shannan Moon told a press conference that the body had not been identified yet but “we believe it is our missing person.” The body was found when the teen’s submerged car was located, but officials offered no theory of how it ended up in the water. (AP) - A body found in a Northern California reservoir is believed to be that of 16-year-old Kiely Rodni, who went missing weeks ago after attending a large party at a Sierra Nevada campground, authorities said Monday.
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