LOS ANGELES (KABC) — More than a week after a missing woman’s remains were found in the Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve near Marina Del Rey, her family says there are still so many questions surrounding her death after she vanished last December.
Kolby Story was in Venice Beach on December 6, 2020, near the skatepark with her boyfriend and another friend. They returned to her house in Mar Vista at 7 pm and at 8:30 pm she took her sleeping bag, a backpack, and a ukulele and told her roommate that she was heading back to the beach to spend the time. She relayed the same to her father over the phone. At 10:30 pm the same day, she called her friend Josh Toedt for help finding 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 … he told her it wasn’t safe. It was dark and cold. But she told him that go home and that would be fine, “his brother Josh Story told NBC’s ‘Dateline’. Toedt waited in his car near her while Story was still on the beach.
Around 2 am she got into her car, which was parked near Big Daddy’s Pizza. and she started driving in the direction of her house. Toedt had followed her for a while, according to Josh. “He actually followed her for a bit and said she turned right on Pacific from Rose and left and it was the last time he saw her,” the missing woman’s brother said. Her roommate reported her missing on December 9.
Kolby Story Age
Kolby Story was 32 years old.
Is Kolby Story alive or dead?
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) found human skeleton remains on Friday, July 16, while inspecting homeless camps near the Venice Beach boardwalk. Officers found the remains while investigating reports of a woman being detained inside a beach tunnel against her will in the 13700 block of Fiji Way. Details of where and how police officers discovered the body have not been made available to the public. The Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office is currently working to determine if the remains belong to the woman.
LAPD agents combed a 600-acre area of the Ballona Wetlands while searching for missing woman Kolby Story, who was last seen on December 7. LAPD began searching for the woman after a department spokesperson confirmed that a Good Samaritan had discovered Story’s belongings. Her checkbook and her driver’s license were released to the police, according to reports. Members of the California Office of Emergency Management joined the LAPD to search for Story in the Ballona Wetlands and Ballona Creek Ecological Preserve near Venice Beach.
The story disappeared after he was last seen on Dec. 7 in the 12300 block of Pacific Avenue near Venice Boulevard, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Her family offered to reward $ 100,000 for Story’s safe return. “It’s tough, the unknown, and every day we feel like it gets more and more difficult,” her brother Josh Story told Patch.
“We are going to offer a reward for her safe return,” he said. Her family started taking care of her and hung up flyers and talked to people in Venice and Mar Vista. Story’s disappearance was unusual in that she was a beautician and she had a skincare routine that she followed religiously, according to her brother.
According to the police description, Kolby Story is a white woman with brown hair and hazel eyes. She is 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighs 115 pounds. “She has a nose ring. She has wings on her back, on her upper back, in the middle,” Josh said in describing Story’s tattoo.
Anyone with information on Kolby can contact Detective Shannon Kramer of the Los Angeles Missing Persons Department at (213) 996-1800. People can also submit anonymous suggestions to L.A. Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (800-222-8477) or go directly to www.lacrimestoppers.org.