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

[soap mama]

How could Dalton throw up the red flags if he didn’t know until he got a phone call on Thursday afternoon?

 

[ForensicFiles]

Oh wow now I'm shocked! I hope one of the two versions was just bad reporting.

Me too, if all this info is being reported correctly then it really leads to the bf.

 

[Ilovemy3boys]

Unless it’s bad reporting, the change in stories the BF is telling, makes him sound suspicious. He needs to keep his story straight.

 

[Gunslinging Granny]

There has been a TON of wrong information published by lazy journalists on this case. They've misspelled her name, got her age wrong and continually publish that she was abducted while she was out running at 10 pm at night. It's wrong to insinuate the boyfriend is contradicting his previous statements when such statements were initially published incorrectly.

Watch the video.
Family, boyfriend of Mollie Tibbetts clear up misinformation surrounding case

 

[Jethro4WS]

Wait, so he wasn't with his brothers??? I thought he was with his brothers and one of his brother's fiance. Who knows anymore what to believe!

Family, boyfriend of Mollie Tibbetts clear up misinformation surrounding case

Dalton said she was dog-sitting here at his house Wednesday while he was in Dubuque for work and his brothers were in Ames. That's why when she didn't show up to her job on Thursday morning, they knew something was wrong.

Yep. Everything is as clear as mud.

 

[christi11]

Ugh, yes, it could be. That reminds me of Yingying Zhang

Yes, that’s what I’m thinking.

 

[spanntx]

I don’t snapchat, but my son said it will tell you if the picture is recent or not. So, my question would be was that a live headshot? If so, we know for sure she was okay at that point.

If its an old photo it says from camera roll.

 

[keddiecutie]

Me too, if all this info is being reported correctly then it really leads to the bf.

Even given differences in reporting, it seems such a curious thing to say. Almost brag.

But we're all different and the way we handle stressors etc., etc.

 

[soap mama]

Granny, we can all agree the reporting has been atrocious.

 

[Poppyflower]

updated post above with italics...

 

[ForensicFiles]

Exactly why I said “if this info is being reported correctly.” I understand journalists make mistakes but I don’t think a journalist would fabricate a direct quote. If they have then they shouldn’t be working in this profession any longer.

 

[soap mama]

The contradicting statements are quotes from Dalton himself, in the interviews, no?

Well, “as reported” could be crappy reporting. Now if there’s a video interview, we’re cooking with peanut oil!!

 

[Elainera]

Do we know who filed the mp report and when exactly?

 

[Gunslinging Granny]

Granny, we can all agree the reporting has been atrocious.

The worst I've ever seen

The contradicting statements are quotes from Dalton himself, in the interviews, no?

No. Most of these news articles paraphrased the earliest ABC news article. They didn't all interview him. When a news agency interviews someone they state something to the effect of "when we interviewed so and so". After they started paraphrasing, all the information became distorted like in the childhood "telephone game".

 

[Elainera]

The contradicting statements are quotes from Dalton himself, in the interviews, no?

That's what I thought but who knows ... Are both statements on video?

 

[Doghairrules]

I saw a photograph with Molly sitting with her brothers and her mom standing behind them. All three of these young adults looked close in age.

Wonder if she is the youngest then? I obviously have no idea about the dynamics of this family, but I have two older brothers and two younger ones and while the younger ones are more protective of me NOW, it would have never occurred to them when we were teens/college age. My
Older brothers were much more protective of me back then - so much so that my oldest brother drove me 6 hours round trip back to college when I was a freshman just because I was homesick.

 

[Poppyflower]

Do we know who filed the mp report and when exactly?

I'll see if I can find out specifics, for now:

Authorities 'Looking at Everything and Everybody' in Search for Student Who Vanished After Jog
Tibbetts was reported missing on Thursday by relatives, Kriegel says.

 

[burpinflyz]

Suspects leave evidence, be it a stranger or a known acquaintance. Something is left behind that suggests what happened...that is not yet the case? A well-entrenched network would be more meticulous and methodical, hedging against leaving a noticeable fingerprint, and I'd suspect this would have occurred multiple times over the past few years.
Phones record all movement even with the battery out or phone turned off. Surely this phone would be visible if it was anywhere close to the grid? Did the dog(s) ever hit on scent outside the home? This girl is very grounded, responsible, reliable, and driven...someone knows how she was getting to work... it is too far outside her character to leave this very important detail unresolved until moments before due in. This would have been resolved the night before. Perhaps her father quietly put her on a new path? If this young lady truly disappeared without a trace, and not of her own accord, God help Iowa.

 

[ForensicFiles]

She works in Grinnell. She must go there several days each week. Check out this arrested person's FB page. You will see why he was likely arrested.

Sorry who?

 

[mrsu]

Family, boyfriend of Mollie Tibbetts clear up misinformation surrounding case

But in this one the BF says he sent her morning text and she wasn’t responding and he contacted her family.

What I read was an employee that worked with Mollie texted Dalton in the afternoon saying that she hadn’t showed up to work so he checked Snapchat and saw that his morning post had not been viewed. From there he started contacting friends & family.

I don’t know. I just don’t get the feeling he was involved for some reason.