Monday 15 August 2022 03:31 PM California cops reveal pink and white hoodie Kiely Rodni was wearing before she ... trends now
Authorities in California revealed that missing teen Kiely Rodni was wearing a pink and white sweatshirt in the final hours before she vanished from a 'drug-fueled' campsite party more than a week ago.
Rodni, 16, has been missing for more than a week after she vanished from a party near the Prosser Family Campground in Truckee on August 6. She was added to the FBI's missing persons database on Thursday - five days after she was last seen.
The new information comes just days after a tip - one of 1,200 the agency has received - led to FBI spent the day on Friday digging up a 'potential burial site' that turned out to contain only a dog carcass.
Investigators provided the information over the weekend, and confirmed that the last known ping from Rodni's cell phone was around 12:30 a.m. on August 6 near the campground's reservoir after she texted her mother that she would be straight home.
Late Sunday, the Placer County Sheriff's Office posted a photo on social media late Sunday of a white hoodie with pink lettering that spells out 'Odd Future' that investigators say Rodni was wearing in a video at the party earlier on the evening she went missing.
The post clarified that it's unclear whether the teen was wearing it when she was last seen, but asked anyone who remembers seeing Rodni that evening to contact the authorities.
The Placer County Sheriff's Office revealed that missing Kiely Rodni, 16, was wearing a pink and white hoodie in the final hours before she vanished from a party on August 6
Rodni, 16, was last seen Saturday near the Prosser Family Campground in Truckee at the party attended by more than 100 juveniles and young adults
A search-and-rescue ground team executed the dig on Friday acting on one the 1,200 tips the FBI has received in relation to the teen's case.
Placer County Sheriff's Office public information officer Angela Musallam, told the press on Saturday that 'FBI agents investigated the site through early this morning and recovered the remains of a dog.'
'Yesterday there was a potential burial site that was located near the [Prosser Family] campground,' Placer County Sheriff's Office public information officer Angela Musallam said.
'It was located by a search-and-rescue ground team. Kiely's family was notified of the potential development. The FBI responded to secure the scene yesterday and was accompanied by the Placer and Nevada county sheriff's offices. The FBI agents investigated the site through early this morning and recovered the remains of a dog.'
The search continues for the teen as the sheriff's office and FBI are treating the case as a possible abduction because Rodni's vehicle is still missing.
At the press conference on Saturday, Captain Sam Brown of the Nevada County Sheriff's Office confirmed that the last known ping from Rodni's cell phone was around 12:30 a.m. on August 6.
The search continues for the teen as the sheriff's office and FBI are treating the case as a possible abduction because Rodni's vehicle is still missing
The post clarified that it's unclear whether the teen was wearing it when she was last seen, but asked anyone who remembers seeing Rodni that evening to contact the authorities
The ping was near Prosser Lake, which surrounds the campgrounds, but he pointed out that it's possible due to lost data that the phone continued to ping after 12:30 a.m.
'The ping for the data points was near the water. It's hard to tell an exact pinpoint,' Brown said. 'Just as much on land as it was on water.'
'Just because it was last pinged there, that doesn't mean that's where the phone stopped pinging,' he added. 'There's lots of reasons why those notifications or data points could be lost.'
Her mother Lindsey Rodni-Nieman previously say that Kiely's final text said she would be 'straight home' in about 45 minutes.
The last person to have heard from the teen was her friend Samantha Smith, 18, who spoke with Rodni on the spoke at 12.36am. Shortly after, Rodni phone was turned off.
'At 12.36am she called me…and this is the last call anybody had with her. We said: 'Love you, good night. Get home safe,' and that's the last thing we heard of her,' Smith told the Independent on Monday.
'Right now we believe that it is an abduction case...she was in no state to drive and she wouldn't have made it far or would have crashed.'
The campground was only 12 miles away from her home in California
Police are now asking the public to pay close attention to the necklace (pictured) she is wearing, as the photo was taken 'recently.' They also asked the public to look for a Lana Del Ray sweatshirt they believe is 'still in her possession'
The Placer County Sheriff's Office on Wednesday released an old image of Kiely Rodni's 2013 silver Honda, which has been untraceable along with her
Her boyfriend, Jagger Westfall, revealed last week that he had texted his girlfriend to 'be safe' and 'don't do anything stupid' before Rodni went to the party, which was reportedly filled with illegal
