Two people who went missing in Northern California on the same day as Kiely Rodni have been found dead, according to police.
The bodies of Janette ‘JJ’ Pantoja, 29, and her ex-boyfriend Juan Almanza Zavala, 36, were found Wednesday outside of a vehicle that had crashed down an embankment in Nevada County, California, the Nevada County Sheriff’s Department confirmed.
Zavala was tentatively identified due to the nature of his injuries, the sheriff’s office said.
Although the couple had broken up years ago, they remained friends, according to KCRA-TV, and often did things together. They were returning from a car show in Reno, Nevada, but never made it back.
The bodies of Janette ‘JJ’ Pantoja, 29, and her ex-boyfriend Juan Almanza Zavala, 36, were found Wednesday outside of a vehicle that had crashed down an embankment in Nevada County, California, the Nevada County Sheriff’s Department confirmed.
Zavala was tentatively identified due to the nature of his injuries, the sheriff’s office said.
Although the couple had broken up years ago, they remained friends, according to KCRA-TV, and often did things together. They were returning from a car show in Reno, Nevada, but never made it back.
On the same day, Rodni, 16, went missing from a campground in Truckee, California, during a party with hundreds of people. She was last seen after midnight on Aug. 6 – about 23 hours before Pantoja and Zavala were last heard from.
Pantoja and Zavala’s cellphones last pinged in the area where their bodies were found after someone called 911 about a vehicle that had gone down an embankment near Highway 20 and Poker Flats Road in Penn Valley, according to KCRA.
The area had been previously searched but nothing was found. The vehicle couldn’t be seen from the road.
Rodni went missing from the Prosser Family Campground in the Tahoe National Forest, which is about 70 miles from where the former couple’s bodies were found in Penn Valley.
There is no evidence that the cases are connected, police said.