{"id":412698,"date":"2026-07-26T07:43:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T07:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/412698\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T07:43:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T07:43:24","slug":"missing-modesto-woman-found-dead-in-lake-tulloch-sheriff-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/412698\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Modesto woman found dead in Lake Tulloch, sheriff says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Human remains found in Lake Tulloch have been identified as a missing 59-year-old Modesto woman, the Tuolumne County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said.<\/p>\n<p>Calaveras County deputies located the remains in the water Thursday afternoon using an underwater remotely operated vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Crews from the Tuolumne, Amador and Stanislaus County sheriff&#8217;s offices helped in recovering the remains, which were identified as Lydia Vanolden.<\/p>\n<p>The search began back on July 18 after someone reported a white Toyota 4Runner parked near O&#8217;Byrnes Ferry Bridge on the Tuolumne County side of the lake.<\/p>\n<p>A deputy searched the immediate area but could not find the vehicle&#8217;s owner. Vanolden had not yet been reported missing at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The following day, the Modesto Police Department notified Tuolumne County officials that Vanolden&#8217;s family had reported her as an at-risk missing person. Deputies confirmed that the SUV found near the bridge belonged to her.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities then expanded their search along the surrounding terrain, shoreline and lake. Crews used boats, drones, sonar equipment and an underwater vehicle over several days before finding the remains.<\/p>\n<p>Officials have not released information about how Vanolden died, but the sheriff&#8217;s office said it is not believed to be suspicious.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Human remains found in Lake Tulloch have been identified as a missing 59-year-old Modesto woman, the Tuolumne County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[15563,121,123,122,27329],"class_list":["post-412698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-modesto-news","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-tuolumne-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}