Found Deceased IA - Mollie Tibbetts, 20, Poweshiek County, 19 Jul 2018 #17

[Momma2cam]

Not sure that I have seen someone mention this but thought it was interesting. On her VSCO the second picture she posted was one stats about suicide and mental health issues. Of course not 100% proof that she was suicidal but when I see friends or friends of friends post about heroin or suicide stats on social media 99% of the time those people experienced those issues themselves or a family member. Also worth noting that this wasn’t a post from years ago it was her second most recent post.

https://vsco.co/mollietibbetts/images/1

This was around the time of the high profile suicides and many people were sharing. Jmo.

 

[Cardinal47]

Apologies in advance to those that disagree, but in my view if her VSCO posts were relatively recent they certainly give us a great deal of insight into her state of mind. And they don't look good. Reason I say this is because they are more raw and unfiltered - something that she wanted to say but not on the "happiness required or you suck" social media sites.

JMO.

Most of our young readers are replying that all is well with those pictures. I'm sorry but it's not. We have a young girl posing in her bra and panties and now she's missing. Sometimes somebody bad is looking in. Please, please be careful. I was able to go into that VSCO without being a member or any identity or passwords. Just boom there I was. So it might be ok in all of your young lives but who knows who is looking at YOU!

 

[gliving]

Nah. Just a twenty year old doing what all the rest of 20 year olds do these days. She’s very tame in compared to most.

I agree about the pics. She has some beautiful friends. I was more interested in the quotes and personal thoughts.

 

[Jethro4WS]

Mollies dad was just on ABC world news. He believes “she is with someone who she knows, and probably someone who cares about her but that relationship was misguided and misinterpreted and went wrong“ He said for that person Who might have his daughter to “listen to Molly put an end to this you are in a little bit of trouble now don’t make it worse“

Using this story that talks of the ABC interview and carries quotes from that interview.
Mollie Tibbetts' dad says no foul play at home the night she disappeared

One thing that stands out to me is:

Rob Tibbetts pointed out, there was no sign of foul play or disturbance at the home she was staying at, so naturally, his mind is coming to any conclusion possible.

 

[Catty33]

New interview with the MT parents and boyfriend.
13Raw: Tibbetts Family Keeping Hope Alive That Mollie Will Come Home Safe

 

[Momma2cam]

Apologies in advance to those that disagree, but in my view if her VSCO posts were relatively recent they certainly give us a great deal of insight into her state of mind. And they don't look good. Reason I say this is because they are more raw and unfiltered - something that she wanted to say but not on the "happiness required or you suck" social media sites.

JMO.

Are you familiar with VSCO? I ask because I didn't know of it until this case and try to stay up to date on social media so I can monitor my teen closely (and be the strictest mom in the world if you ask him). It seems that the type of photos she posted there are commonly shared on that site. As you say, most on other social media are falsely positive and "happiness required or you suck." No one is happy all the time. In fact, self doubt, sadness, loneliness are all very normal emotions that we all experience. So, if we all had a VSCO account and used it as many have described it's purpose here, couldn't it be argued we would all be perceived in a similar state of mind? JMO but I don't see anything overly significant, especially not knowing her personally.

 

[NewYork625]

Not sure that I have seen someone mention this but thought it was interesting. On her VSCO the second picture she posted was one stats about suicide and mental health issues. Of course not 100% proof that she was suicidal but when I see friends or friends of friends post about heroin or suicide stats on social media 99% of the time those people experienced those issues themselves or a family member. Also worth noting that this wasn’t a post from years ago it was her second most recent post.

https://vsco.co/mollietibbetts/images/1

The recent deaths of Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade have rightfully caused a lot more attention to be focused on mental health and suicide. Due to that and other factors, young people have been posting a lot on social media about the issue. Mollie, as a psychology major, was likely very concerned about mental health issues and I would assume her postings are more likely a show of concern for others.

 

[brainstorm2018]

Really random thought but also possible: could WC have found her Fitbit and/or Iphone on or near his property and brought it/them inside thinking someone lost them? The phone could have been ringing on silent in his possession and pinging from his house which *looks* really bad when the police show up, but maybe he had plans to try and find the owner or just sell them. If he sold it... maybe he needed LE’s help finding the person he sold it to. Just a thought. IMO seems like he may have been in the wrong place at the wrong time? His record doesn’t help

Edit: I don’t go off on too much of a tangent but if anyone erased her data from the phone completely... yikes

Good thought
And from experience i had something similiar occur. A device i use for work became seperated from me and working over the phone in a rural setting with folks back in the office were able to track down device, sleuth the passerby that had discovered device, leading to its retrieval in relatively short time. Finder was rewarded (not that it was sought) and team members thanked and recognized for their aid.

Hence here, phone and/or fitbit could possibly be similiarly involved.

 

[renarde]

Does anyone know where the field trip was going to be? I believe Mollie had a red shirt for the day.

Poweshiek County Fair. I'm sure people would be showing off some nice hogs there:

Fair

 

[Jdart14]

Not sure that I have seen someone mention this but thought it was interesting. On her VSCO the second picture she posted was one stats about suicide and mental health issues. Of course not 100% proof that she was suicidal but when I see friends or friends of friends post about heroin or suicide stats on social media 99% of the time those people experienced those issues themselves or a family member. Also worth noting that this wasn’t a post from years ago it was her second most recent post.

https://vsco.co/mollietibbetts/images/1

Interesting if you look at her collection as well which is a link there and i assume are images she liked or saved for keeping.

 

[runfar262]

Mollie Tibbetts' dad says no foul play at home the night she disappeared
Mollie Tibbetts' dad says no foul play at home the night she disappeared

I had been wondering if there was anything at the house that suggested a struggle had taken place. This adds a bit more credibility to something happening to MT on her run.

 

[DizzyB]

The bra pics didn’t surprise me; the panty shots are a bit more rare for this age group.

 

[newmember]

Most of our young readers are replying that all is well with those pictures. I'm sorry but it's not. We have a young girl posing in her bra and panties and now she's missing. Sometimes somebody bad is looking in. Please, please be careful. I was able to go into that VSCO without being a member or any identity or passwords. Just boom there I was. So it might be ok in all of your young lives but who knows who is looking at YOU!

i completely agree it isnt necessarily a good idea to post some of these things/sm posting is a tightrope balance in a lot of ways but i think what most posters (at least myself) are saying is that her sm isnt enough to conclude she PERSONALLY was distraught/depressed/likely to run off but instead, it fits the norms of how people express themselves that are her age. she may be on the more expressive end of that spectrum but its not that extreme, imo.

that being said, even though self expression is important (and without entering the victim blaming argument) i completely agree that doesnt mean it is a good idea or safe to post certain images or everything that pops into your head and its an issue that mollie's generation (and loosely older/younger than her) are going to tackle and set the norm for (dangerous or not) through their lives. i agree with your point that if she had a stalker, they may have been entertained by some ofthese posts, both images and quotes.

 

[DocBrew]

Most of our young readers are replying that all is well with those pictures. I'm sorry but it's not. We have a young girl posing in her bra and panties and now she's missing. Sometimes somebody bad is looking in. Please, please be careful. I was able to go into that VSCO without being a member or any identity or passwords. Just boom there I was. So it might be ok in all of your young lives but who knows who is looking at YOU!

Agree that a deranged predator could be stalking it, but my primary concern about it is self-harm. Again, if those posts were recent she doesn't appear to be in a very good mental/emotional place at all.

JMO.

 

[Jabarn]

Most of our young readers are replying that all is well with those pictures. I'm sorry but it's not. We have a young girl posing in her bra and panties and now she's missing. Sometimes somebody bad is looking in. Please, please be careful. I was able to go into that VSCO without being a member or any identity or passwords. Just boom there I was. So it might be ok in all of your young lives but who knows who is looking at YOU!

Nobody is ruled out, at all. No one she knew, no one in her direct circle, and no one who happened to be in the area at the time by some other circumstance, who didn’t know her at all. No one who she knew on social media either.

Most crimes occur because of domestic issues, so that can’t be ruled out either. But with no body, no crime scene, and no tale tell evidence of a fight, she must’ve been transported away from the area either by coercion or force via something she was scared about or couldn’t fight. That’s what make sense to me. Hopefully, there will be a break soon.

 

[Nah]

I am fairly certain that if any young, beautiful, college aged girl was grabbed during a jog and murdered, people would go through her social media and find daring selfies and depressing quotes and vague or passive aggressive posts. IMHO, unless there is a super dark pattern of depressive posts or specific suicide threats, social media tells very little, since young people often post stuff on the spur of the moment depending on their mood, or they will copy/paste something that a friend posted to support them, etc. It’s easy to say, “Oh my gosh, maybe she’s missing because she posed in her bra.” or “Oh no, she posted a meme about suicide.” How many young girls have posted that stuff and are still living? Pretty much most of them.

IMHO, it is highly unlikely that her social media posts have anything to do with what happened to her. Whatever happened to her was likely sudden, and probably random. Even if it wasn’t random, it was probably something that quickly popped up in her life and had nothing to do with any of her social media posts.

 

[brainstorm2018]

As the reward money continues to go up, now to $300k, I will say again that I think it is a potentially harmful strategy for getting tips to help find her, and actually impedes the investigation. I think any shady person involved with this who knows who has her will keep waiting before saying anything, as they know that reward money is just going to keep going up the longer they wait. Furthermore, the higher it goes, the more false leads they are going to get as greedy people try to get that money. I don't understand why they don't freeze it.

IMO
Holding out for even more money with the condition of safe return jeapordizes chance of arrest should it be found Mollie was held captive.

While newsworthy as the reward is, I'd loke to think the pure drive here is resolution.

 

[Momma2cam]

Most of our young readers are replying that all is well with those pictures. I'm sorry but it's not. We have a young girl posing in her bra and panties and now she's missing. Sometimes somebody bad is looking in. Please, please be careful. I was able to go into that VSCO without being a member or any identity or passwords. Just boom there I was. So it might be ok in all of your young lives but who knows who is looking at YOU!

Accepting a social norm doesn't equate to thinking it is a good idea. It is so important that parents are informed of the newest apps and monitor the use of their children and teens to teach internet safety from a very young age. But, the reality is that social media is a large part of adolescent/young adult culture and selfies, sometimes provocative poses and dress is more the norm than not. It is possible (likely) that if social media and the internet existed during adolescence for older generations, we would see the same behavior. It is more related to brain and typical adolescent development (identity formation, risk taking, seeking independence) than it is to poor morals or the like. JMO.

 

[kath4557]

I’m sure I missed this, but I ha e read all the threads. I am keeping up but it is confusing. On Twitter, she retweeted something and commented on it on 7/17/18 at 10:21Pm
So is she considered missing after that? Sorry if this has been answered.

I see on Twitter that she "liked" a few tweets on the 18th, but how do you know what time? I'm not that familiar with Twitter, so just wondering how to find out the times of likes.

 

[mountainguy777]

We were wondering early on why the reward money was only $2,000. Then kabooooom it’s around $300,000 now. That could be a good sign.