UpdatedFri, Jul 16, 2021 at 5:59 pm PT
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Kolby Story, 32, went missing in Venice Dec. 7, 2020. (Courtesy of the Los Angeles Police Department)
PLAYA DEL REY, CA Police searching for signs of a woman who disappeared from Venice in December discovered skeletal remains today while combing a 600-acre area of the Ballona Wetlands and Ballona Creek near Marina del Rey.
There was no immediate confirmation the remains are those of Kolby Story, 32, who was last seen Dec. 7, 2020, in the 12300 block of Pacific Avenue. The remains will have to be examined by the coroner s office.
Authorities and the family of the missing woman initiated the search for her in the Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve and Ballona Creek Friday, the Los Angeles Police Department announced Friday.
Skeletal remains found during search for missing woman in LA
July 16, 2021
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LOS ANGELES (AP) Authorities found skeletal remains Friday during a search of a wetlands area in Los Angeles for a missing 32-year-old woman.
The coroner s office will determine if the remains are those of Kolby Story, who was last seen in December in the Mar Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles.
A good Samaritan turned over some of Story s belongings this week, prompting a search in the Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve and Ballona Creek on Friday, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
The wetlands reserve is more than 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) from where Story was seen last year.
By City News Service
Jul 17, 2021
MARINA DEL REY (CNS) - Los Angeles police were searching a roughly 600- acre area of the Ballona Wetlands and Ballona Creek near Marina del Rey today following the discovery of personal items belonging to a woman who disappeared from the Venice/Mar Vista area in December.
Kolby Story, 32, was last seen Dec. 7, 2020, in the 12300 block of Pacific Avenue, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. She has not been seen since and her family is extremely concerned for her safety, police said in a statement.
According to Story s family, Kolby was at Venice Beach the evening of Dec. 6 and called a friend asking for help finding her car keys, which she had lost on the beach. They found the car keys and Story got in her car about 2 a.m. Dec. 7 to drive home to Mar Vista. She never made it home.
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A Good Samaritan had found personal belongings belonging to Kolby Story, 32, and turned them in to police
According to KCBS-TV, cops recovered her checkbook and driver s license
Cops then conducted a search for Story in the nearby Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve
During their search, cops found skeletal remains that will be identified by the L.A. County Coroner
Who is Kolby Story and is she alive?
Kolby Story was at Venice Beach on December 6, 2020, near the skatepark accompanied by her boyfriend and another friend. They returned to her house in Mar Vista by 7 pm and at 8:30 pm she grabbed her sleeping bag, a backpack, and a ukulele and told her roommate that she was headed back to the beach to hang out. She conveyed the same to her father over the phone. At 10:30 pm on the same day, she called her friend Josh Toedt to ask for help to find her lost keys. It didn t take long to find the keys, maybe 20 minutes. But they stayed there for a while. He was trying to get her to leave. told her it wasn t safe. It was dark and getting cold. But she told him to go home and that she would be fine, her brother Josh Story told NBC s Dateline . Toedt waited in his car nearby while Story continued to be at the beach. At around 2 am she got in her car which was parked near Big Daddy s Pizza. and started driving in the direction of her home. Toedt ha