A California lady and her ex-boyfriend have been discovered lifeless after they disappeared the identical day that teen Kiely Rodni went lacking from a campsite, police mentioned.
The our bodies of Janette “JJ” Pantoja, 29, and her ex-boyfriend Juan Almanza Zavala, 36, have been discovered Wednesday exterior a automobile that crashed down an embankment in Nevada County, the sheriff’s division mentioned.
The previous couple, who broke up years in the past however remained mates, was final heard from on their manner dwelling from the Sizzling August Nights automobile present in Reno, Nevada.
Pantoja texted her present boyfriend that she could be dwelling in half-hour round 11 p.m. Aug. 6. Shortly after that, her cellphone stopped sharing its location.
“She simply by no means communicated something apart from that,” sister Alejandra Pantoja mentioned. “She’s not like that.”
An preliminary search of the world the place the duo’s cellphones have been final pinged turned up no proof. Their our bodies have been ultimately found when a 911 caller alerted police to a automobile down an embankment close to Freeway 20 and Poker Flats Street in Penn Valley. The accident was not seen from the street.
The crash web site is about 70 miles from the Prosser Household Campground in Tahoe Nationwide Forest, the place 16-year-old Kiely Rodni was final seen at a celebration shortly after midnight Aug. 6.
Though police mentioned there is no such thing as a proof that the circumstances are linked, Pantoja’s sister expressed frustration on the disparity in legislation enforcement consideration to the 2 circumstances.
Whereas Rodni’s disappearance sparked not less than 10 days of in depth searches — together with virtually 16,000 man-hours by land, air and water — Alejandra Pantoja claimed she was struggling to get a name again from police.
“I assumed the police have been fairly impolite,” she informed Fox 6 NOW. “I known as them … as a result of I needed to find out about my sister, and so they have been like, ‘We are able to’t hold in touch with you each day.’”
“They’ve been telling us they have been going to ship an aerial search and so they haven’t performed that,” she continued. “I simply really feel like if one thing occurred to them, or if he did one thing to her, they’re simply giving [potential suspects] time to run.”
The disparity between the investigations for the lacking Hispanic couple and Rodni, who's white, comes as advocates have known as out legislation enforcement businesses and media retailers for dedicating fewer sources to the disappearances of individuals of colour.
Statistics from the group Lacking NPF present a number of folks of colour have disappeared in nationwide parks, however their circumstances obtain scant consideration in comparison with the headline frenzy of Rodni’s case or that of Gabby Petito in 2021.
For the households of the lacking or murdered, this disparity solely exacerbates the emotions of heartbreak and helplessness.
“How is it that they’re doing an enormous deal for her however not making an enormous deal for our member of the family?” Alejandra Pantoja mentioned. “It’s not okay.”
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