The family of a missing California woman finally found some closure this week after her remains were located inside her wrecked car off a heavily wooded cliff of Sierra Nevada, police said.
Jolissa Fuentes was last spotted alive in the surveillance footage from a Selma gas station at around 4 a.m. on August 7.
On Tuesday, Selma Police announced that Fuentes was found dead in her crushed vehicle after Police Chief Rudy Alcaraz followed tire tracks near a curve on Pine Flat Lake and discovered the crash site.
“I just got lucky in finding the location where her car went off the road,” Alcaraz said.
Authorities had to rappel down two cliffs using 475 feet of rope to reach the wrecked car in the dense brush. The mission was too difficult that they lost the rappelers during the attempts.
“As a woman of faith, I believe he was divinely channeled to that area,” Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims said of Alcaraz’s discovery.
Investigators believe that Fuentes may have lost control of her car after falling asleep behind the wheel.
