California, woman last seen more than two months ago was found dead inside her crashed car at the bottom of a cliff in the Sierra Nevada foothills.
Jolissa Fuentes was last seen around 4am on August 7, when surveillance video at a Selma, California gas station recorded her getting out of her car to buy snacks.
Officials said Tuesday that they found Jolissa Fuentes’ body inside her car, which had crashed off a cliff in the Sierra Nevada foothills about 30 miles east of Fresno.
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Selma Police Chief Rudy Alcaraz found the crash site after he had been leading the investigation into Fuentes’ disappearance.
Alcaraz said he had stopped his patrol car near a curve in the road close to Pine Flat Lake when he noticed tire tracks leading into the dense brush.
“I just got lucky in finding the location where her car went off the road,” Alcaraz said on Tuesday
Investigators then used drones to follow the vehicle’s likely path down the heavily wooded cliff.
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Once they found the car, officials then had to rappel down two cliffs to reach the actual crash site using 475 feet of rope, according to CNN.
The area is heavily wooded, so much so that officials lost the rappelers during the mission, they said.
“As a woman of faith, I believe he was divinely channeled to that area,” Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims said of Alcaraz’s luck in discovering the tire tracks.
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Alcaraz does not believe foul play is involved, saying Fuentes likely fell asleep while driving.
Joey Fuentes, Jolissa’s father, called Alcaraz “my hero” after breaking down while thanking law enforcement officials who had led the search for his daughter.
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