'I told her to be safe and that I loved her. And she said, 'OK, mom, I love you, too,'' Rodni-Nieman recalled in an interview with ABC News on Monday. 'She never came home.'
The Placer County Sheriff's Office on Tuesday released a surveillance image of Kiely Rodni, the missing 16-year-old girl in the Lake Tahoe area.
Kiely Rodni, 16, was last seen early Saturday around 12:30 a.m. local time near the Prosser Family Campground in the small, Northern California town of Truckee, some 20 miles north of Lake Tahoe. She was at a party with upwards of 300 people when she vanished along with her vehicle, a silver 2013 Honda CRV with California license plates, according to the Placer County Sheriff's Office.
When Rodni's mother awoke that morning to find her daughter still not home and her car missing from their driveway, panic began to set in. Rodni's friend, Sami Smith, said she was the last person to speak with her at the party early Saturday. The Placer County Sheriff's Office has urged anyone who saw her that night to come forward, and so far investigators have received over 200 tips, Alford said Tuesday.