That could be right. It ties in with her friend saying she (Sami) left the party around 12.30. If she had been planning on giving her a lift, the timing fits.
Good questions, and I’m wondering the same.
Exclusive: Friend of missing teen Kiely Rodni recounts last call before she vanished
Samantha Smith, 18, tells The Independent she was the last person to speak with Kiely after midnight on Saturdaywww.independent.co.uk
A friend of missing teen Kiely Rodni has spoken about the pair’s final phone call before her friend vanished from a campground party in California.
Samantha Smith, 18, tells The Independentshe was the last person to speak with 16-year-old Kiely after midnight on Saturday.
“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,” Samantha said on Monday.
Kiely was at a party with more than 100 teenagers and young adults at the Prosser Family Campground in Truckee, the Placer County Sheriff’s Office said. Because her vehicle, a silver 2013 Honda CRV, is missing, authorities are treating the incident as a possible abduction.
A spokesperson for the sheriff’s office told The Independent on Monday that the department could not confirm whether Samantha was the last person to speak Kiely, but said that shortly after midnight her phone was turned off.
Samantha said that she arrived at the bonfire party around 9pm on Friday and Kiely got there about an hour later.
“We have been close friends since before, so we ended up meeting up with each other, sort of screaming to each other ‘Hi!’ For the rest of the party we pretty much stuck to each other,” Samantha told The Independent.
But as the gathering grew bigger, the teenagers went separate ways while continuing to see each other sporadically throughout the party.
“I knew it was a big party but it was supposed to be just the community …The party started to grow past the [number] of people that were supposed to be there,” Samantha said.
“There were college kids and people from the Bay area coming and I got a bad feeling about it but didn’t really think much of it.”
Samantha said that around 11pm, they went to Kiely’s car to charge their phones and arranged for Kiely to give her a ride home. However, she changed her mind later when she saw that Kiely was clearly intoxicated, Samantha said.
“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,” Samantha said.
The teenagers said goodbye to each other around 12.25am but Kiely called Samantha while she was riding home with a friend. That was the last known call Kiely made, Samantha claimed.
Kiely was supposed to meet friends on Saturday morning to go on a hike but did not show up. Police have since launched search efforts on the ground and in the air in hopes of locating the teen.
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It's going to be Samantha when she was getting a ride home with a friend. Kiely was still there.
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It sounds like S had originally told K at around 11:00 p.m. that she would need a ride home or would ride home with K, but then at some point between 11:00 p.m. and 12:25 a.m. S told K she no longer needed a ride. But K called S at 12:36 a.m. (K was still at the party, while S was already on her way home with someone else) about giving S a ride (maybe she forgot, misunderstood, etc.) and S reminded her she didn't need a ride. It seems as if right after that call or shortly after, K's phone was turned off.
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I would think she would know this area like the back of her hand!The distance from the party's location to Kiely's home is about 12 miles.
Rodni’s family runs The Lost Trail Lodge, which is a small hotel located on the property on which they live, around 12 miles away from the Prosser Family Campground where police believe she was abducted.
Volunteer Divers Say They Found Kiely Rodni’s Body In One Day After Authorities Searched For Two Weeks
Her car was reportedly recovered from a reservoir.
A couple of weeks ago I spent a long weekend camping in Webber Lake. Saw lots of Osprey, bald headed eagles and a few otters while I was paddle boarding at 6:30am. This area has been wonderful to live in and raise a family. My daughters go back East for college in a couple of weeks... they are already missing Truckee.
Do we have info from LE regarding the exact time the phone turned off? That info is critical for the timeline. Is there a link somewhere that clarifies this detail? IMO
Thanks so much for your local insight. Can you tell us if, on this screenshot from Google Maps, are all of these white "roads" unpaved, then, except for the main one in and out you referenced? Do you think it's possible she made a turn before 89 and got lost in the maze of these?
That was part of the route the CHP Airbus helicopter was checking out earlier. All along Alder Creek Road through Tahoe Donnner across to Cold Creek Road.
So I personally covered a few of those dirt roads on my lunch run.... and I could cover the rest on my mountain bike in a 1 - 2 hours if I road slowly. So for the immediate vicinity of where the kids were partying, there is really one way in/out of that area. The terrain is "fairly rolling" so not too many places with a steep hidden ravine etc where a car could disappear. BUT sometimes you never know. Anyhow, I'll take a closer look...
