The death of Kiely Rodni, a 16-year-old who went missing in mid-August for two weeks, has been ruled accidental, authorities said.
Kiely Rodni is pictured in an image posted by the Placer County Office on their Twitter account. The Placer County Sheriff's Department is treating the case of Rodni, 16, as a potential abduction after she disappeared from a campground near Lake Tahoe early Saturday morning., died due to drowning and there is no evidence of foul play, autopsy results released on Thursday determined.
"This ruling is based on the pathologist's finding that her death was the result of drowning and that there was no other information to suggest she was the victim of foul play," the sheriff's office said in a statement. Rodni was last seen on Aug. 6 around 12:30 a.m. local time near the Prosser Family Campground in the small town of Truckee, California, some 20 miles north of Lake Tahoe.
A massive search effort ensued for two weeks before a body was found in a vehicle pulled from the Prosser Reservoir on Aug. 21, authorities said. The car matched the description of her SUV, and the body was confirmed to be that of Rodni two days later following an autopsy.
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