Missing White Woman Syndrome: Cops Locate Kiely Rodni's Body

Kiely Rodni's remains found.

The junk food media will kick it up a notch. The authorities may have found the body of a 16-year old who went missing in a Northern California campsite.

A search and rescue team that recently joined the hunt for Kiely Rodni said they found a car and human remains in a lake on Sunday afternoon near the campground that Rodni vanished from about two weeks ago.

Adventures with Purpose, a popular YouTube channel that assists in missing persons cases, said they found her car upside down in 14 feet of water with her inside of it. 

A spokesperson for the Placer County Sheriff's Office said that they are working to confirm the reports and their dive team is on the way to the lake. 

Rodni vanished from a party at a campground in Truckee, California, in the early morning hours of Aug. 6. 

Authorities spent weeks searching wooded areas near Prosser Family Campground in Tahoe National Forest that locals call "The Campground," where Rodni was last seen around 12:30 a.m. on Aug. 6 at an estimated 300-person party that began on the night of Aug. 5.

Officials began picking up and bagging evidence in the camping area on Aug. 11.

The party Rodni attended at the campground on the weekend of Aug. 6 before she vanished included hundreds of attendees, as well as drugs and alcohol. 

Authorities believe she may have been abducted and are treating their investigation as an abduction. After her disappearance, Placer County officials activated the CodeRed Alert System, which sends alerts to the some-100,000-person Placer County population.

Rodni's vehicle, a silver Honda CRV, which she drove to the party, also disappeared from the campground on the morning of Aug. 6. 

Police said she last spoke with friends and family shortly after midnight on Aug. 6 and that her phone was turned off around 12:33 a.m.

Did you know that a man and woman were missing and their remains were found? They went missing around the same time Kiely went missing. Not much coverage of them.

The junk food media barely covered missing California couple.

A California woman and her ex-boyfriend have been found dead after they disappeared the same day that teen Kiely Rodni went missing from a campsite, police said.

The bodies of Janette “JJ” Pantoja, 29, and her ex-boyfriend Juan Almanza Zavala, 36, were found Wednesday outside a vehicle that crashed down an embankment in Nevada County, the sheriff’s department said. 

The former couple, who broke up years ago but remained friends, was last heard from on their way home from the Hot August Nights car show in Reno, Nevada.

The crash site is about 70 miles from the Prosser Family Campground in Tahoe National Forest, where 16-year-old Kiely Rodni was last seen at a party shortly after midnight Aug. 6.

Although police said there is no evidence that the cases are connected, Pantoja’s sister expressed frustration at the disparity in law enforcement attention to the two cases.

While Rodni’s disappearance sparked at least 10 days of extensive searches — including almost 16,000 man-hours by land, air and water — Alejandra Pantoja claimed she was struggling to get a call back from police.

“I thought the police were pretty rude,” she told Fox 6 NOW. “I called them … because I wanted to know about my sister, and they were like, ‘We can’t keep in contact with you every day.’”