In a Facebook post, the sheriff’s office said search and rescue teams located the body of the missing teenager just after 2 a.m. Friday. She was found about a half-mile north of her aunt’s residence, which was in a “heavily wooded river drainage area,” the sheriff’s office said. NCSO said there is “nothing suspicious” about her death at this point. Backus’ cause of death is unknown, but the medical examiner’s department will conduct an investigation and autopsy. “We are in contact with the family and offer our deepest condolences as they work through this loss,” NCSO wrote on Facebook. “We ask that you respect their privacy.” The sheriff’s office also expressed a “deep appreciation” for the hundreds of volunteers from agencies across northern California who participated in the investigation. Nevada County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue found Trinity Backus’ body Friday afternoon. Facebook/Nevada County Sheriff’s Office Backus was reported missing on Thursday after no one had heard from her since she left her aunt’s house around 10:30 p.m. PT Wednesday. She was last seen wearing her pajamas and a maroon robe and no shoes. “We’re lost, sad, devastated … worried out of our minds,” the teenager’s aunt, Ashley Bjorklund, told Fox News Digital earlier Friday. Backus was sleeping with a friend at Bjorklund’s home on Kentucky Ravine Road — a 12-acre property in Nevada City, California — when she disappeared. It is not clear why she left home.
