Simply over two weeks after Kiely Rodni mysteriously disappeared from a highschool commencement get together at a northern California campground, a dive crew mentioned Sunday that it discovered the 16-year-old lifeless in her overturned SUV.

Adventures With Goal, a search-and-recovery group identified for fixing roughly two dozen chilly circumstances, mentioned a six-man dive crew affiliated with the group had situated the automobile in a reservoir. The Oregon investigators reported the invention in a Sunday afternoon Fb publish.

“Automotive is the wrong way up in solely 14’ of water,” the group wrote. “We have now CONFIRMED Kiely is inside. Household Notified. Regulation Enforcement on their approach.”

The Nevada County Sheriff’s Workplace, one in every of roughly 18 companies concerned within the seek for Rodni, mentioned that it was conscious of the replace and was sending deputies out to satisfy Adventures With Goal. “We are going to present further info when it turns into obtainable,” the division wrote on Fb.

The “astronomical” seek for Rodni, which spanned not less than two states and 1000’s of acres, noticed police accrue 19,951 cumulative man hours and overview 1,871 suggestions, based on figures shared by the Placer County Sheriff’s Workplace on Sunday.

Fears that Rodni may by no means be discovered had grown 10 days into the search, when native authorities introduced that they might be scaling again search efforts to deal with the investigation.

Adventures With Goal arrived within the space early Saturday, based on Sacramento outlet Fox 40. Utilizing sonar, divers scoured a number of our bodies of water, together with Donner Lake and Boca Reservoir earlier than the group mentioned they made the tragic discovery within the Prosser Creek Reservoir, only a few hundred yards from the location the place Rodni was final seen on Aug. 6.

The 16-year-old disappeared with out a hint simply after midnight after attending a highschool commencement get together on the Prosser Household Campground in Truckee. Authorities say greater than 200 teenagers and younger adults had been there, consuming and doing medication.

Magdalene Larson, who advised Fox 40 she was Rodni’s finest good friend, mentioned the senior farewell get together was “approach, approach bigger than ever anticipated,” with attendees coming from exterior Truckee—one thing that wasn’t initially deliberate.

“There was a variety of guys that did method us,” Larson, who was with Rodni, mentioned. “Positively, I used to be getting a intestine feeling that in that get together that one thing, one thing simply didn’t really feel proper with the variety of those who had been there and the way outdated a few of these individuals had been.”

At simply 16, Rodni had simply graduated from Truckee constitution highschool in June, her household mentioned. In a video shared by police within the preliminary days of the search, her mother, Lindsey Rodni Nieman, fought again tears as she pleaded for somebody to come back ahead with info.

“Kiely we love you, and in the event you see this, please simply come house,” Rodni Nieman mentioned. “I would like nothing greater than to hug you.”

The teenager was final seen round 12:30 a.m. on the get together, with the final exercise on her cellphone coming three minutes later close to a lake. She had texted her mother at about 12:15 a.m. to say she’d be on her approach house quickly however Sami Smith, one other of Rodni’s shut buddies, advised Fox Information she’d been “partying” with Rodni, and Rodni was too drunk to drive house. She thought Rodni was going to remain the night time on the campground as an alternative, she mentioned.

No less than 1,200 suggestions flooded regulation enforcement’s telephones, however cops struggled to get a considerable lead.

A few week into the search police noticed Rodni in a video from the get together. She was sporting a pink hoodie with “Odd Future” emblazoned throughout it. Cops blasted out photographs of the hoodie in hopes somebody would spot it—both on Rodni or someplace deserted within the 1000’s of acres of woodland that encompass the campground she disappeared from.

Images had been additionally circulated of Rodni’s 2013 silver Honda CRV, which has been lacking alongside together with her because the get together.

Authorities had begged the 200-plus partygoers to come back ahead with any info they could have about Rodni. With most attending underage, police promised that no person could be disciplined for consuming or drug use—two issues a police spokesperson mentioned “they know occurred.”

“Our sole function on this investigation and search is to convey Kiely house to her household, and we want the group’s assist,” Angela Musallam, a spokesperson for the Placer County Sheriff’s Workplace, mentioned at a press convention Aug. 15.