Search continues for 16-year-old girl last seen at party in Truckee
Authorities are searching for a 16-year-old girl who went missing over the weekend after she was seen at a party attended by more than 100 people in Truckee, according to the Placer County Sheriff’s Office.
Kiely Rodni was last seen at a party near the Prosser Family Campground on Saturday at around 12:30 a.m., authorities said. Her vehicle — a silver 2013 Honda CRV with California license plate 8YUR127 — is also missing. Her phone hasn’t been in service since the party.
Authorities haven’t been able to locate her car and are treating the case as an abduction, according to Angela Musallam, a Sheriff’s Office spokesperson.
Kiely’s mother gave an impassioned plea for the public to help find her daughter.
“We just want her home, we’re so scared, we miss her so much,” Lindsey Rodni-Nieman said in a Sheriff’s Office Facebook post. “And Kiely, we love you so much and if you’re seeing this, please just come home. I want nothing more than to hug you.”
Connerjack Oswalt was 16 when he went missing from Clearlake, Calif. This month, deputies found him shivering in the early-morning cold in Utah.
Kiely is described as white, around 5 feet 7 and 115 pounds with blond hair and hazel eyes, according to authorities. She was last seen wearing a black tank top, Dickies pants and piercings and jewelry including a nose ring.
Placer County detectives are using a Falcon 30 helicopter to help the Nevada County Sheriff’s Office in the search, according to authorities. Air operations crew are flying over Interstate 80 between Donner Summit and the Nevada state line. California Highway Patrol and Sheriff’s Office helicopters will continue to conduct aerial searches for Kiely on Tuesday.
Authorities have received more than 200 tips as of Tuesday afternoon, the Sheriff’s Office said at a news conference.
“We want to leave no stone unturned until we bring Kiely home to her family,” Musallam said at the conference, urging anyone who was at the party with Kiely to come forward with information. “We take this case just like any other missing person’s case, extremely seriously.”
A downtown Los Angeles warehouse became the site of a possible kidnapping Tuesday night, leading to an LAPD investigation.
Local law enforcement is also working with the FBI. An Amber Alert hasn’t been sent out, but authorities said they’ve sent bulletins to nationwide resources and local law agencies.
Anyone with information on Kiely’s location has been urged to contact the Placer County Sheriff’s Office at (530) 886-5375.
Kiely’s family and friends have set up a website to help search for the teen. A $50,000 reward, raised from her friends, family and a GoFundMe page, is also being offered for any information that leads to finding Kiely.
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