These YouTube divers did in one day what
cops couldn’t do in two weeks in Kiely
Rodni search
New York Post,
by
Lee Brown
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
8/22/2022 12:43:16 PM
They’re the deep-diving YouTubers who claim to have found missing California teen Kiely Rodni in less than a full day of looking — even after authorities spent nearly 20,000 man-hours failing to find her. Adventures With Purpose started searching Prosser Creek Reservoir on Sunday—and within hours found what they believe is the 16-year-old’s 2013 Honda CRV with a body inside.(Snip)And as with many other such cases, they quickly found success in the Rodni dive despite local law enforcement insisting they had already carried out exhaustive searches in the very areas a body was found. Hours before the crew’s breakthrough Sunday, the sheriff’s offices
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Sandpiper 8/22/2022 12:54:56 PM (No. 1256174)
As terrible as the new is to the family, ultimately it is better to know and have closure, at least to where she is. When someone is missing like in this situation there is often no happy ending. At least the family can process. Very very sad.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 8/22/2022 1:03:24 PM (No. 1256188)
Have been following these guys on YouTube for a few months and they have done fantastic work locating the bodies of relatives, some who've been missing for more than 10 years. Police and fire departments of smaller locales don't have the budget to keep search and rescue teams on staff, so the Adventures With Purpose crew help bring closure. I encourage you to watch their Channel on YouTube and see the impact their work has on families and loved ones.
Note: For those with no "plan" on what to do if your car goes into water, consider buying one of their "glass breaker-seat belt cutter" devices from their store to keep in your car for emergencies. It could save your life and the proceeds keep their mission going.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 8/22/2022 1:09:15 PM (No. 1256198)
For whatever reasons the police were treating this case as an abduction. They spent tons of time trying to identify anyone who had contact with Kiely. But some witnesses said she she was drunk and in no condition to navigate the rural roadways.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
BarryNo 8/22/2022 1:20:10 PM (No. 1256210)
Finding the body is a starting point. From there, you can find answers. It's a foundation - a "truth" as it were.
Also, I want to ask why the authorities seemed to try to direct them AWAY from where the body was found. How many bodies could easily be hidden if someone IN the authorities was guiding the search? Some Teachers and Priests entered their professions to have access to those they preyed upon. Police probably have similar numbers of truly bad actors hidden among them. I would start there, if only to clear them from suspicion.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 8/22/2022 1:21:53 PM (No. 1256211)
My first comment was to look in any lakes or rivers on her route away from the party.
At least half a dozen people who "just vanished, without a trace one night while driving' were eventually found in their cars at the bottom of a lake. Usually a confusing turn, then a straight shot into a lake.
At one location, a rural boat ramp, two vehicles and bones were found, many years apart in their accidents.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 8/22/2022 1:31:51 PM (No. 1256217)
They do amazing work, finding individuals who met their deaths in bodies of water. Sometimes law enforcement is po'd at them because of downright jealousy, but more often than not local law enforcement is grateful for what they do. Local law enforcement bragged about the amount of hours and personnel that they used to search the Prosser Creek Reservoir only for AWP to do what they do best, use their sonar expertise and find the car and missing Kiely. AWP is not protective of their expertise and are willing to share their skill sets with those who ask. Go to the Adventures with Purpose Youtube channel and watch their videos.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Zeek Wolfe 8/22/2022 1:39:06 PM (No. 1256228)
Reminds me of the missing atom bomb in the 1960s in the Mediterranean Sea. Navy chased its tail looking for a bomb from a crashed B52. A mathematician using a desk, paper and pencil did some calculations and said 'look here.' And there it was. In the case of the missing teenager, well, the brightest bulbs do not work for police departments. To them occams razor is something to shave with. (I'm a former PD employee) Overtime hours don't grow on trees, you see. Ever notice that when TV cameras are around after a big case is resolved there are gobs of people standing behind the person at the microphone wanting to be on television? The microphone person thanks everyone from the janitor to the chief investigator.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
lakerman1 8/22/2022 3:00:52 PM (No. 1256286)
Excellent work by the volunteers.
There is an important lesson to be learned here.
NEVER allow your teenager to drive to a graduation party. Never!
If you are willing to let your teenager to attend, a graduation party, drive him or her, pick him or her up.
If they tell you the party will be alcohol free, they are either lying or are naive.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Highlander 8/22/2022 3:06:19 PM (No. 1256295)
Terrible as her death was, I could accept that more than I could accept a kidnapping and worse.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Ketchuplover 8/22/2022 3:16:10 PM (No. 1256298)
Great work!
(Maybe Jimmy Hoffa will be next)
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 8/22/2022 3:16:16 PM (No. 1256300)
Re #8, out graduation party in small town central Florida in the 60s was alcohol free.
Well, it was until my friends got a quart of Everclear and I poured it into the punch bowl. No one was harmed, it was a LARGE punch bowl and most had one or two small glasses of punch, and got a bit happy.
I have commented about some of the choices I made at age 17 and 18 which I looked back on from the ripe old age of 20 (hah!) and was seriously chagrined at the radical maturation of my own decision making process over such a short period of time.
No one died proximate to our graduation party, but we lost two graduates with a month or so to auto accidents, one at a rural train crossing, and one a headon, remarkably between two of my HS class grads on a rural road at night in dense fog. One victim was close HS friend, killed by another classmate who would probably be called autistic today, we just called him weird and although intelligence, he had the common sense of a gnat. No alcohol involved in either crash, just late teen stupidity, immature decision making, inexperience and exhausting their luck.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
lakerman1 8/22/2022 3:45:42 PM (No. 1256320)
Thank you for making my point, #11.
I could add to your common sense point about teenagers - I dropped out of high school and joined the Air Force the day I turned 17. And the Air Force taught me some common sense. (I thought I was a rare bird, to have dropped out of h.s. and eventually earning a Ph.D., but I learned that I was not unique in that regard. Sometimes h.s. is painful to a smart person because the teaching is inadequate in reaching those kinds of students. Smart students, to some teachers, are a pain in the neck.)
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
j9zig2009 8/22/2022 3:56:35 PM (No. 1256334)
Like most government- bloated & priorities misplaced. The most obvious scenario is exactly what happened, meanwhile they bring out an army instead of a tracker/investigator.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 8/22/2022 5:01:13 PM (No. 1256365)
The FBI was “on” the case. Maybe they interfered with the search.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/22/2022 5:38:05 PM (No. 1256385)
Law enforcement has traditionally been held in high regard in America but there has certainly been a bunch of failures and disappointments in the recent past. I can understand not finding something but convincing others that something is not there has entirely different connotations with accompanying ego problems.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan 8/22/2022 6:12:43 PM (No. 1256403)
If you are in a car in the water and you cannot open the doors, remove your headrest and use the spikes to break the windows. If your windows are tinted, go for the windshield. The film used for tinting windows will impede breaking them.
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Awful news, but at least the family isn't left with the horrible problem of not knowing where their girl is. Now they can bury her and mourn properly. And a pox on those arrogant jerks at the police department for all their BS.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Mushroom 8/22/2022 6:54:10 PM (No. 1256441)
Pros want to get paid and go home, Amateurs do it for love.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 8/22/2022 10:43:56 PM (No. 1256619)
I'm thinking that a sixteen-year-old is probably not experienced enough to drive in the dark after partying all day, even if there was no alcohol, that is, supposing this is an accidental death. Very, very sad. Family's agony continues.
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When time is of the essence, our very costly militarized police units might come and help. Here, the authorities bragged about how much time and resources was expended in their futile search, while a volunteer team focused on and got results.