Kiely Rodni's devastated family puts 2,710sqft cabin lodge where the 16-year-old grew up on sale
TRUCKEE, CALIFORNIA: A ski lodge where Kiely Rodni was raised has been reportedly placed for sale. The 16-year-old had been missing since August 6 before a dead body and an SUV were pulled out from a lake on Sunday, August 21, by divers of Adventures With Purpose. Later, the Nevada County Sheriff-Coroner carried out an autopsy and confirmed that the remains were of Rodni.
However, the cause of death is yet to be discovered. As a probe into the teen’s death is still on, her family has decided to let go of the small four-bedroom hotel called The Lost Trail Lodge, where she spent her childhood. The owner of the place is reportedly Rodni’s grandfather David Robertson, who has asked $1.75 million for it. It has been said that Rodni was living there with her family, who ran the business, before she went for the party on August 5.
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The 2,710sqft cabin lodge, has been on the market since July 11 and is apparently just 12 miles from where Rodni went missing. Realtor Jim Wiggins of Corcoran Global Living is helping the family in selling the property. Speaking with The Sun, he said, “The family were just tired from running the business for so long and had cleaned the place up real well before Kiely's disappearance. I've spoken to them, they're devastated but are relieved she was finally found ... they're coping as best they can.”
"Kiely grew up there and had been living at the lodge until she disappeared. Now that she's gone, the family is even more motivated to move ahead with the sale of this property," Wiggins added.
Rodni’s grandfather started building the lodge in 1997 and it took him five years to complete it. An old New York Times report had spoken about the place’s old world charm and said, "The Lost Trail Lodge and its brethren — similarly isolated hotels scattered across the United States and Canada — manage to make deprivation appealing. These are places that really force you to get away from it all. They allow no calls to the office or dashes to the computer 'just to check in.' The only blackberries are the ones on the bushes."
Meanwhile, after Rodni vanished, her 70-year-old retired civil engineer granddad had said, "She is tough, she was able to hop in a car and know that road, no problem, where other people might not have wanted to drive down it. She has her own snowmobile, she has her driving license and has been driving for months."
After her body was discovered on Sunday, the grieving family issued a statement on Tuesday, August 23, that read, "While we accept this sadness cast under death's shadow, the rising sun shines light upon us, reminding us not to mourn our loss, but to celebrate Kiely's spirit and the gift that we all received in knowing her. Kiely will surely remain with us even though we will not get her back. There are certain occasions when words fail.”
"Perhaps this is why our human nature has given us art, dance, and music, which all are often more effective ways to connect us to each other and our rawest emotions. Kindly excuse us as we retreat and dance privately to life's song while we celebrate our daughter's spirit and heal our souls," the statement concluded.