Coordinates to Nowhere - Bacon Scapegoat
From 911 Calls Podcast by 11:59 Media
March 18, 2026 · 1h 37m · Season 11 · Episode 199
About this episode
The episode discusses the tragic case of Amanda Nenigar, who called 911 for help after a car crash but was not found until over a month later due to a miscommunication in her location.
UPDATE: Audio is fixed now 👍 She called for help. She gave them her exact coordinates. She told them she was scared. And they still couldn't find her. On February 27th, 2024, Amanda Nenigar called 911 after crashing her car in remote desert terrain near the California-Arizona border. In the hour-long call, she sounded confused and desperate as she attempted to describe the mountainous terrain where her vehicle had gotten stuck off the highway. The dispatcher instructed her to find her location using Google Maps — and she did. She gave him her coordinates. But law enforcement ended up searching for her 30 to 40 miles away from where her body was eventually found. Her 911 call had been dispatched to California — not Arizona — where she actually was. CHP units spent roughly five hours searching before concluding efforts that afternoon. She was not located that day. A mother of two, Amanda was last seen alive on February 28th in Blythe, California. About a week later, her car was found abandoned in the rural Arizona desert south of the small town of Cibola — the back of the vehicle resting on a large boulder, deep in terrain with no paved roads. Her body was found nearly a mile and…
Topics covered
- 911 calls
- missing persons
- desert survival
- law enforcement response
- tragedy
- investigation
Keywords
- 911 call
- Amanda Nenigar
- missing person
- California
- Arizona
- desert
- law enforcement
- investigation
- tragedy
Mentioned in this episode
Places: California, Arizona, Blythe, Cibola
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