Found Deceased IA - Mollie Tibbetts, 20, Poweshiek County, 19 Jul 2018 #21

[boomburger]

This case is going to have a weird ending. I'm certain she's dead, but something about all this is so unusual.

 

[thecatmeows]

This case is going to have a weird ending. I'm certain she's dead, but something about all this is so unusual.

I'm still holding out for an Elizabeth Smart ending even if statistically unlikely. =/

 

[otto]

No!

Never, never take a ditch. First they are overgrown with weeds and trees. Second, you are asking for a sprained ankle. Third, a viscous animal will attack you like a rabbit or a snake, or a coon, or a deer. Fourth, they are steep and then you have to steeple chase running out.

Exactly! Mollie would not have been jogging in the ditch next to the highway, and it would be dangerous for her to run on the narrow shoulder with cars flying by at 45+ mph. On that basis, I do not believe that she chose to run along the highway. Furthermore, there are safer routes that lead directly to her mother's house which completely avoid the highway.

 

[Stormy21]

The odds of this happening are almost nil, but:

1. A medical student about 40 years ago mysteriously was found alongside a road in Iowa City. Nothing. He succumbed to a head wound. It was theorized a boom truck came by and the boom came loose.
2. When I was a kid I was hit by a car that skidded. This was way out in the country. The vehicle skidded as he slammed on the brakes, the back end swung around and threw me into a field. The guy picked me up and took me to the doctor..."surprise mom". If he hadn't done that, I was unable to walk, and no one could see me.

I would expect something like that to have been discovered by now.

 

[Ivey]

Two thoughts...

1.) when people showed up in the morning and said the dogs had plenty of food and water....that seems weird because if I left a bowl of food for my lab the night before, it would be gobbled up the minute I poured it in the bowl, no way my dog would wait until breakfast to eat it.

2.) we don’t know if MT packed a bag for the next day which included her red shirt intending to shower and spend the night somewhere else. She also could have grabbed shorts,etc for the next day too.

 

[Seattle1]

If the brother of DJ says it would be unusual for her to stay the night by herself at DJ house and it wasn’t in disarray and the dogs were put up, maybe something happened closer to mom’s, on the walk, etc. maybe why she didn’t respond to brother about ride to work. She was planning on staying the night at mom’s so no big deal about responding. It does seem to me though, when she is dropped off at boyfriends’s house after work by brother you would say something like, “see you tonight, pick me up in the morning”. I would love to know what that conversation was.

I've never seen that quote from BJ, boyfriends brother. Can you give us the link. Last quote I recall from brother was that Mollie was a fighter and would not have gone willingly (and no signs of struggle in the home). Thanks.

 

[DizzyB]

Can anyone find a source where it is stated that it would be unusual for Mollie to stay alone overnight in the house?

 

[SharonNeedles]

I think it would be realistic if someone called in either an entirely different person who really was a young girl alone or *thought* MT was actually closer to ten (I guess if she had a hat on and you didn't see her up close) that LE would walk around the area she was seen getting off the bus and question someone fitting the description.

I also think I'd put more weight in something nefarious being tied to this if that Tweet was from July or even June. I mean, it is possible someone played the long game (so to speak) and started paying attention to her in November. But I do think (personally) this was not related to her disappearance. JMO

If I recall correctly, that incident was in Iowa City? And Molly’s what, 5’3”? Both of my daughters were taller than that at 10 years old - easy to see how an officer looking for a 10 year old in a pink coat might stop to check it out.

 

[cody22]

You mentioned some interest in a Utah connection. Any follow-up? Any action on that?

Mollie has some relatives there. Nothing there.

 

[ExpectingUnicorns]

Her “pinned tweet” on her twitter page is a screen shot of texts between her and bf. It states that a police officer approached her at the library, asking if she had recently gotten off the bus and if the pink coat on her chair was hers. He stated to her that a 10 year old girl was missing. Basically, she was flabbergasted that someone would think she was a missing 10 year old girl.
I, and a few others, have been unable to find any coverage or report of a missing 10 year old girl on that date. Thinking is, it may have been a ruse to initiate conversation with Mollie. Iowa City, is less than an hour away from Brooklyn. MOO

I'm not convinced this happened in Brooklyn. I searched in an effort to discover any bus (as was mentioned by police officer) or bus schedule/route in Brooklyn and couldn't find any mention of public transportation. Perhaps this was in the library at school?

 

[Stormy21]

I don’t recall ever seeing joggers along any highway in this area, maybe not unheard of but certainly not common. Too many good running surfaces along the city streets.

In the old days, old old old days, I used to jog like MT did. Town, country etc etc. Ran on the road cause the ditches are lethal. You can hear cars coming for 1/4 mile or better. Sometimes you have to take the ditch. Point is that unless you have a Prius, generally you can hear vehicles.

Of course we didn't have earbuds then. The telegraph had just been invented...

 

[cluciano63]

WC was actively being investigated by LE...quite different from someone being named on Youtube.

The brother may have meant it was rare that Mollie would be alone overnight, as in it would not happen often...not that she wouldn ‘t stay there. Not sure of his wording.

 

[Stormy21]

If I recall correctly, that incident was in Iowa City? And Molly’s what, 5’3”? Both of my daughters were taller than that at 10 years old - easy to see how an officer looking for a 10 year old in a pink coat might stop to check it out.

Plus a girl might have gone off reading books or went to the BR. I really don't see the connection?

 

[NewYork625]

Two thoughts...

1.) when people showed up in the morning and said the dogs had plenty of food and water....that seems weird because if I left a bowl of food for my lab the night before, it would be gobbled up the minute I poured it in the bowl, no way my dog would wait until breakfast to eat it.

2.) we don’t know if MT packed a bag for the next day which included her red shirt intending to shower and spend the night somewhere else. She also could have grabbed shorts,etc for the next day too.

Regarding the dogs. Mine always sleep through the night and tend to eat food at set times during the day, even though I leave their food out all the time. For example, they will eat their "dinner" while we are at the table eating ours.

 

[cluciano63]

I'm not convinced this happened in Brooklyn. I searched in an effort to discover any bus (as was mentioned by police officer) or bus schedule/route in Brooklyn and couldn't find any mention of public transportation. Perhaps this was in the library at school?

I always thought it was college library. And that it was more of a “is this your pink coat” then “are you a 10-yr old”...

 

[oldtxlady]

I don't think it was WC because he's older and would have already done something sinister in his younger years and been caught (above and beyond stalking ex's). I think LE is focusing on him because her electronics pinged near his property, probably because the real suspect threw them out the window while driving down the road near his house or turned them off when he pulled over near his house to rape and kill her.

I think a stranger (carnival worker?) grabbed her the evening of the 18th and she'll be found in a corn field.

I pray her family has closure very soon.

 

[Cardinal47]

This case is going to have a weird ending. I'm certain she's dead, but something about all this is so unusual.

What's unusual is that the family keeps saying it's somebody she knew/knows. The million dollar question is who. I think LE, Dad and Dalton need to be more specific and start asking people if somebody changed their habits, had cuts, didn't show up, just acted strange. I was disappoint to read the man that came to police and said he saw Mollie has this grief of having his home searched. That kind of silences anybody that might think they might know something.

 

[thesaint]

I don’t recall ever seeing joggers along any highway in this area, maybe not unheard of but certainly not common. Too many good running along the city streets.

I think if you tried to jog on the rural highways running between cornfields in farm country, you'd have to with deal with locals slowing down and asking if ya needed a ride. And people fly on those rural 2 lane roads between towns. 55 MPH speed limit but when you're the only car in sight people drive 70+ MPH. I wouldn't trust someone not to glance down at their phone and veer off the road.

 

[Stormy21]

I think it is quite feasible that a coworker, possibly older, married, and with children - and perhaps even an authority figure - could've woo'd her and then gotten in over his head.

JMO.

Happens all the time. Well, often.

There was a bad outcome like that in Waterloo a few years ago. A Texas physician with a wife and 4 kids started hitting on a 20ish lab tech. He was in state for a 'locum tenums'. Resulted in a nasty murder suicide.

 

[Jeng1810]

I honestly believe the incident at the library is unrelated. It may sound odd but it really isn’t. My daughter went with us a year ago for a holiday dinner. She was 20 at the time. A waitress stopped her in the buffet line and was concerned she wasn’t with her parents for quite some time. Turns out the waitress thought she was 12 and couldn’t apologize enough for the mix up. Apparently some people are not good at figuring ages....that’s all.

 

[Parks]

I'm not convinced this happened in Brooklyn. I searched in an effort to discover any bus (as was mentioned by police officer) or bus schedule/route in Brooklyn and couldn't find any mention of public transportation. Perhaps this was in the library at school?

She was. I was checking out Iowa city and UI. She mentioned she was doing Lit homework