"Adventures with Purpose does not accept rewards," said Linda Luchetti, a spokesperson for the Rodni family.
She said the reward was partially funded by a *** account set up for Linda Nieman, Kiely's mother that has raised nearly $63,000.
Larger donations pledged to the reward have been returned, Luchetti said.
Adventures with Purpose is expected to stream an episode on finding Kiely in the coming weeks on their YouTube channel, which has millions of followers.
In a previous case, Adventures with Purpose threatened to sue for a $100,000 reward promised in the case of a missing Iowa man,
according to a 2020 story in the Des Moines Register.
In that case, Adventures with Purpose went to a small Iowa town to search for 22-year-old Ethan Kazmerzak, who disappeared in 2013. They found his body in his car at the bottom of a quarry pond.
When reached by phone Friday by the Reno Gazette Journal, Iowa businessman Brad Staley, who had helped organized the reward, said Adventures with Purpose didn't end up suing.
He said Kazmerzak's family gave the dive team money. He could not say how much but believed it was a significant amount.
What happens to the $75,000 reward promised to find Truckee teen Kiely Rodni? Kiely's body was found by private recovery divers Adventures with Purpose.
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