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Mollie Tibbetts was in kindergarten or first grade at Corpus Christi Catholic School in Oakland when her father was robbed at gunpoint in front of their home in the city’s leafy Glenview neighborhood.
He wasn’t hurt, and living on the edge of Oakland, Rob Tibbetts chalked it up to big city problems.
But three weeks ago, the day after his daughter went missing from a tiny town of cornfields and grain elevators in America’s heartland, he and his new wife were incredulous as they got off the plane in Iowa from California.
“How does the All-American girl who lives in a Norman Rockwell village and is dating the All-American boy next door disappear from a place like this without a trace?” Mollie’s stepmother, Kacey Auston-Tibbets, asked.
From Oakland to Iowa, Mollie Tibbetts’ family relies on two communities and clings to hope
New article about Mollie and her family.