Searchers believe the body found in a car at the bottom of a Fresno County cliff is Jolissa Fuentes, last seen in early August. KSEE’s Katherine Phillips reports.» Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC
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Why no f’n guardrails???
God Bless in Jesus Christ Name Amen.
I can see how this Father was his Daughter’s Hero ! I’m so sorry for the loss of your beautiful daughter 💔 I’m glad she can be brought home ⚘️🕊 🙏
Sad but wonderful
Great Job. RIP Queen.💔🙏🏽
Brave and strong father
Sorry for your loss
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How horrible! My heart goes out to the family. Many thanks to the police chief who kept his word.
It’s clearly a death trap corner, especially at night. The county can’t put some money together and get guard rails put in? Seems like an avoidable death.
God Rest her Soul 🙇🏻♀️ Thank God for the Police Officer and The Whole Family 🙇🏻♀️
😢😢😢😢😢😢I wish her family peace and percerverance
Phone last pinged there but took them 2+ months to find her?? Did they not send a chopper out to look? Something not right here or someone didn’t do their job very well.
Rumors in the area say she was about to testify against some gang members…
How sad she sat there undiscovered for so long.
Still, now she can be brought home and the family and friends have at least closure ❤️
This is such a heart breaking story, I am so glad Jolissa was found and can now be layed to rest and her family can now find peace.
Can’t imagine how fast she must have been going to cause such damage to the vehicle. Saw this case on AWP, glad she was found and brought back to her family
1:26 look at the Father his face says it all, the amount of respect proud of his fine work but also so much emotion for his loss
So sorry 😞
I think she might have been drunk 🥴 The clip at AM PM getting into her car looked like she swung open the doing oddly like she may have been drinking 🍸 😅
Just an observation
Now we see it it was found Monday wasn’t shown then on Tuesday
It was divine right that he found her. Wow. Please STFU
RIP baby girl 🌹
Heartbreaking. I’m so sorry.
R.I.P. MITRICE RICHARDSON AND THIS YOUNG LADY TOO
MAY THESE DAD’S AND FAMILIES FIND PEACE
Ummm bye?
Couldn’t imagine their pain. May she Rest In Peace and may this family find solace.
RIP ❤️🙏 AMEN, my condolences to the family, God bless for finding the young lady 🙏
That’s a good officer and that’s a great father. God bless.
I’m so so sorry for your loss 😞
Guess that’s Johnny working there…
That turn at night could’ve been an illusion for her….SIEP..🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Stop texting and driving.
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Am the same age as her 22
Ugh, sad. I hope there’s plans to upgrade those roads. We’ve driven around pine flats and boy there’s some tailgaters. If I didn’t hold my ground and not panic, who knows if this would’ve been our same outcome. It’s happened several times up there.
Nothing against Fresno and it’s surrounding areas, but boy do drivers tailgate here, aggressive.180, too fast, reed Ave stretch, too fast, 99 hwy scary tailgaters.
Wishing the Family peace and our condolences.
Remember when people grieved in private? Hard to believe it took 2 months to find her. Hero is a strong word if that were my daughter.
Gorgeous!!!
Why are there no crash barriers on that bend? They could have saved her life
❤❤❤so glad she was found
You could check the black box remember to see if it may been hit could been hit run. Or ran off road or at least give you a timeline of when happened to be sure wasn’t put there later. Sorry for your loss
That’s a sharp turn on the cliff. They need to put some kind of extra reinforcement barrier on that ledge.
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Oh that poor man. His grief is palpable, and my heart breaks for that family. So glad she was found. It truly was miraculous that her car was found. Blessings to the Fuentes family, may they find peace.
Hate driving those kinds of roads, always surprises me there’s not just a pile of cars down there
Oh ffs, she thinks God had something to do with it.
Wow , the father is being really positive and understanding.
May she RIP 🙏an I send my condolences to the family.
I have questions about why it tool so long to locate her car:
The authorities say her cell phone pinged in that area last, so OBVIOUSLY she had to be somewhere in that area, and sure enough she was .
So why did it take 2 months to find her ? What if she could have survived if they found her sooner.
Did they put k-9s in the area?
Did they activate SAR units ?
This is so messed up!
Don’t worry the perp will be out in 2 days!! Thanks Gavin!!!!!
So sad 😢poor sweet girl
Poor baby girl! RIP
I’m so sorry for the loss of your daughter.
:((( may she rest in peace God bless her soul and her and her family may God bless the police for keeping his promise to find her! And may God bless his family too🙏❤️❤️❤️🙏❤️✝️🙏❤️❤️
My heart goes to her family and no offense but The way she open the door in her car looks like alcohol was Involved.
How about putting some dang on guardrails with all that “infrastructure bill” money ,,,instead of fixing roads that doesn’t need to be fix ,as if they actually doing something,,
This is sad ,,rest in paradise 😢
God bless this man and his family In this hardship time in the of lord Jesus Christ! Amen
The way she opened her car door looks drunk..sorry for the loss..but
Don’t text and drive. Not saying for sure she was, but it’s a big possibility. 1 second of not looking while on the road can be detrimental
We discourage driving at night here in Mexico. I’d say it’s probably a good idea to follow in areas like this too. DEP so sorry for Papá! Lo siento mucho. I lost my only child when she was 5.
Man I saw a reward post at my local target about her.
It’s cops like this that don’t shine bright enough. My condolences to the family.
may she Rest In Peace
So tragic.
RIP 🙏
Props to the officer. I have had a massive disdain for police recently, but this officer, God bless him. I hope he loves a rich and fulfilling life, what a great person
The young lady was drunk, It made me respect the chief more for saying she may have been just sleepy. You can tell as she’s opening her door, her demeanor was not that of a sober lady. So sad for all inconclusive involved
I’ve been there many times!!! Theres no way anybody can drive off the cliffs. if she was drunk, which I doubt she was, maybe she could have went off road but this seems like someone could have pushed her off
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Sad as it is, at least she wasn’t kidnapped and killed.
Got to pay attention at all times while driving.
I’m sorry for your loss heartbreaking, finally family can have closer bring there babygirl home, now they can grieve without thinking of the heartache of her being lost,, May God bless this family and hold tight
Why these roads have no barriers? It’s ridiculous
‘He was divinely channelled to that area’ 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣 yeah right. And there were pigs flying overhead at the time. Bringing in faith and religion into such reporting is very amateur to say the least. RIP girl and condolences to her family and friends.
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Such a sad and heartbreaking story. Prayers for those that love and will miss her. 🙏
RIP, SHE’S HOME NOW 💜🌹💜
Prayers for her Family 🙏💔
Thank God she has been found. Grief is hard but no answers is worse.
Visited often. STILL didn’t know how to DRIVE there.
“They were PROPELLED down the cliff.” WHAT a GODDAM DITZOID!!!! STOP giving AIR HEADS tv reporter jobs!!!!!!
These CLOWNS are TOO STUPID to get a DRONE out there?????
Even a plastic snow fence would have shown a BREAK in it!!!
WHAT was the Chief GONNA say? “We WON’T look for your daughter. We’ve got TOO many donuts to eat.” ???
Heartbreaking
May God comfort the family!
I can’t imagine the grief and pain they are feeling. I have a friend who went missing over 13 years ago now. Body never found but rumours are he was murdered etc. I worked with his father who was so grief stricken during the ordeal first day back to work after a month he just quit on the spot and we all knew why and felt so bad for him. guess if anything this family can have some closure. RIP
This poor man is so broken 🙏🙏🙏
I don’t know what I’d do if one of my daughters met this fate. My heart goes out to this man. And thank you to all the people that helped find her.
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Never good to pass but at least it wasn’t foul play as to why she was missing.
RIP
Dam she was just sitting in the elements for two months 😢I seriously hope her passing was quick and she didn’t sit and suffer before passing.
It is terrible her family going through that and thankfully they have a body to bury and it wasn’t some murder
I really feel the youtube channel Adventures with Purpose had a hand in this… This is how they work,, over and over the missing person is close to the cell phone ping unless murdered or kidnapped. They only look in the lake with scanners and their skills are too useful to do ground search, so they moved on to another case as she was not there in the lake, but they laid the seed of keep looking near the same spot. don’t give up!! and the police found her… she is likely near where the cell last pinged hit they say over and over and find missing people in lakes search teams have missed or already looked some cases as old as 20 or 30 years. I have not watched their episode yet on this case but thought I seen them scanning the lake, and I’m like they had a hand in this from how the case was worked.. So nice to see cops working with them and giving them the respect and how they keep on going back where the last the cell phone ping hit!!! Often cases like this are missed …This is how that channel solves a ton of cold cases walk roads over and over look for tracks. Such a blessing to the family they had help not willing to give up and go the extra mile to bring her home!! The guy who found her did not give up and went back to square one..
My condolences to all the family may this lady Rest In Peace.
I just wish the chief would promise to protect people’s constitutional rights
She was drunk. They cut the gas station video short to make the story more sad.
So saddened that this was the outcome. There family is one you can tell is close, and I have a feeling she will keep this family close as she seemed like and angel that walked the earth just ready to take her flight to watch over those she loved with all her heart. RIP.
So sorry for loosing his loving daughter RIP beautiful girl🙏🏽
Gosh man. Thats tough. There’s gotta be that sense of relief knowing she isn’t still missing but knowing your child is gone is just terrible. Godspeed my friend. Hats off to everyone who found her too
Jesus this is horrible man. I was fortunate when my uncle passed at 21, I couldn’t understand my grandmother’s grief or how it would be any different than mine. Then over the years seeing friends and classmates pass away from car accidents and overdoses. Each time I tell myself I could go the rest of my life without seeing another parent going through that kind of grief. And this father, being so grateful despite his daughter being found dead. I can only assume he was relieved not just to know what had happened but to know what DIDN’T happen, if you get what I’m saying. Reminds me of my friend Katie and the grief her family endured, with her dad taking it the hardest. Working for a beer company is probably not the ideal profession when you lose a kid… praying for everyone else who has been through this
Very sad but beautuful to see how LE and families/community work together in unity, how it should bd.
I’m so sorry she passed far too young. I’m thankful they found her and brought her home. Good job.
Not the outcome I was hoping for, but at least her loved ones know what happened now and can put her body to rest and begin to try to heal. RIP Jolissa. Prayers for her loved ones. ✝️💖