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

[Amonet]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.desmoinesregister.com/amp/914688002

I might get tomatoes thrown at me, but that story sounds rather like the urban legend styling. It's a highly involved story, yet amazingly lacking in the finer details?

 

[Momma2cam]

Can you tell me what this is about in a nutshell? Don't have time to clear browser, lol!

Reports from women of being followed on the highway by a vehicle with "no make or model" and laminated plate driven by an "African"/"black guys". Speeds as high as 120 mph for 10 miles to get away. No one called police but have since just posted these accounts on social media.

Now calls are coming in to LE about safety in traveling bc of the viral posts. Big crock of HS if you ask me (trolls). Moo.

 

[Madeleine74]

This case is not so unusual (IMO) based on a comparison of many of missing young women cases.

20 yr old females are often emotional, thanks to good ole hormones + college + growing up. She wasn't seen as mentally ill or suicidal by anyone who knew her. Social media postings are very typical of someone her age.

This is not someone who just decided to leave her life behind and run off, torturing her family with worry. There is nothing that suggests this. She went for a jog, something normal she did most days.

IMO she isn't missing because she wants to be; she met with foul play, probably someone she didn't know. And I'm sorry to talk reality, but she is most likely deceased and has been since the day/night of her disappearance. Anyone who follows crime cases comes to realize this type of crime is very, very common. Too common.

This is the same as so many cases that have happened before. Right down to the family insisting their loved one is still alive and just can't come home -- this is typical to what many families of missing young adults do -- it's the way they cope until such time as they have to face the worst a family can face.

 

[PommyMommy]

That’s a very good video it’s about 25min long. My heart just aches for her family and Dalton. He seems like a really sweet guy. All of them are trying to stay strong. As a mom myself of a 20 year old I could tell her Mom is a shattered mess inside struggling with what’s happened to her baby girl, but trying to hold it together. Sadly, after watching them together I have less hope she’s alive. I just have that bad feeling this is a really bad especially with posters here posting pics of the dense cornfields and that it’s so easy to hide a body. She also posted a photo of her two boys in between the stalks you could not see them at all. Plus all that rural land she could be buried in s shallow grave and never be found. So sad. Has LE used any dogs in the searches? I haven’t seen any pics of them.

Yes, they've used dogs. Uncertain what kind.

 

[cluciano63]

I wonder what quality of “tips” they are getting. When I worked a tip line for a while, the calls were borderline insane. Mostly complaints about people they don’t like or suggestions to LE to “look at the ex.” With this ridiculously high reward, the calls must be even weirder. Like when lottery jackpot reaches some insane amount, everyone turns out. I say ridiculous as I don’t believe the size of a reward increases the value of what LE gets. Jmo

 

[rosesfromangels]

There is something that has been on my mind since day one and I don't want to upset anyone but I've been wondering about the upcoming wedding and wondering if she was upset about the brother of her boyfriend getting married. Just saying. Can't get it out of my mind. JMO

Impending weddings do tend to make people unravel, but I don’t think that is the case here. JMO

 

[mountainguy777]

Is there any local coverage at all? Do we know if there are searches ongoing?

 

[lonetraveler]

I only run if I’m being chased. Just saying.

LOL, I did find out that I could actually run on water when a shark hit me at the beach.

 

[Doghairrules]

I just want to know if there was a wet towel in the bathroom when her family went to the BF's house the next day to check on her. If they didn't find a wet towel and they didn't find sweaty running clothes, I think you're looking at something happening before 11pm.

Would towels still be wet the following day? I shower in the morning and mine are dry, as is my shower, when I get home from work.

 

[InvSmith]

If MT had communicated with some guy other than her bf via social media,snapchat or her phone LE would know by now. And so the question is why the interest in the farm? The only logical thing I can think of is that is where the digital trail ended. It could be a red herring as some have mentioned. But we do not know if any of those things are true. They are all highly speculative. WC would naturally be someone LE would talk with, because of his history he fits a profile. Just because he stalked someone doesn't mean he had anything to do with this. But depending on leads, LE needs to check on such things. It is a process of deduction and some clever tactics. Sleuthing is much harder when we have very little to work with... yet, stuff can be out there... social media, photos with friends, backgrounds of other people that she may have come into contact with,

I would just automatically assume worse case in posting any photos meaning anyone may get forwarded/shared. Most employers look at digital profiles at some level. Most importantly please share with your friends about the risk of locator type tracking. You can adjust all of these in your settings to be safer. Just be safe out there!

 

[PommyMommy]

Reports from women of being followed on the highway by a vehicle with "no make or model" and laminated plate driven by an "African"/"black guys". Speeds as high as 120 mph for 10 miles to get away. Calls to LE about safety in traveling. These posts have gone viral on social media. Big crock of HS if you ask me (trolls). Moo.

Oh for cr*p's sake. Thank you!

 

[NewYork625]

Thank you! It's been said over and over, she does not have asthma! It just never seems to die. meh.

She mentions breathing problems while running in this 2016 video: Mollie Tibbetts speaks about prayer in 2016 video

 

[SharonNeedles]

I let my mind go somewhere tonight that I'd been trying not to go: what if this had been me? I don't mean trying to see this from anybody's perspective, literally what if this had been me? I live in a small rural community near Brooklyn. I have two teenage daughters, both athletic and attractive. The life we lead is a lot like the life Molly was leading, even our dogs are similar. What if I walked into an empty house and realized my daughter was missing?

But I'm telling you this because I totally understand why Mollie's dad thinks she left with someone she knows. If I walked into my house and realized my daughter was missing under these same circumstances, that's really the only plausible explanation. If the dogs were kenneled it could only be because she put them there, and that would only be because she's leaving. And she would only be leaving with someone she knows and trusts. I'd have no idea who that someone might be and I'd also have no idea why she didn't return. Like Mollie's dad, I wouldn't be able to envision she's missing voluntarily so somebody must be preventing her from calling home. Maybe it really is voluntary, but as her dad he can't wrap his head around that and neither could I.

Mollie's dad isn't saying what he's saying out of hope or desperation, this is really the most likely scenario and the only one that makes sense. He's definitely talking not only to Mollie, but directly to the person she left with. This isn't strategy or mind games, he just wants his daughter back.

 

[Doghairrules]

Wow. OT, but it sounds like it's an amazing place, according to that one five-star Yelp review by Sandy A.:

"Freaking delicious. I'm astounded. Y'all have got to get the freaking funnel cake fries. B**** Im shook. It reminds me of the original McDonald's. And don't get it twisted. I'm almost completely certain this has been here longstanding even before Dairy Queen. This place is way better than Dairy Queen. It's basically Dairy Beyoncé. I haven't tried their milkshakes but I'm certain i will get my entire soul snatched by the sheer magnitude of the foodgasm I'm experiencing rn. Bless"

Dairy Beyoncé. Made my day!

 

[Whiteorchids]

This case is not so unusual (IMO) based on a comparison of many of missing young women cases.

20 yr old females are often emotional, thanks to good ole hormones + college + growing up. She wasn't seen as mentally ill or suicidal by anyone who knew her. Social media postings are very typical of someone her age.

This is not someone who just decided to leave her life behind and run off, torturing her family with worry. There is nothing that suggests this. She went for a jog, something normal she did most days.

IMO she isn't missing because she wants to be; she met with foul play, probably someone she didn't know. And I'm sorry to talk reality, but she is most likely deceased and has been since the day/night of her disappearance. Anyone who follows crime cases comes to realize this type of crime is very, very common. Too common.

This is the same as so many cases that have happened before. Right down to the family insisting their loved one is still alive and just can't come home -- this is typical to what many families of missing young adults do -- it's the way they cope until such time as they have to face the worst a family can face.

I agree with everything you said. Sadly, we see this time and time again.

 

[Doghairrules]

It depends. Sometimes they don't want to be identified. You have someone like Lyle Stevik, who went by an assumed name and committed suicide in a motel, it took DNA analysis to figure out who he was. Pat Collins took a train out to the middle of nowhere without any ID to kill himself, it took almost three decades to identify him.

I've also heard of suicide victims who intentionally go out into the forest to die, with the hopes that their bodies will never be found, or to prevent themselves from changing their minds, like the guy who handcuffed himself to a tree and threw the keys away.

Wasn’t Lyle Stevik using an assumed name for decades, though? He didn’t just check into a hotel room with the assumed name - it was the name he’d been living under.

 

[Deleted member 718]

The Fitbit data tied to a hog farm. WC sold the farm some time ago, right? So it can't be tied to his property.

It's reported that WC lives within 'walking distance' of the pig farms searched.

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[lonetraveler]

Yes, they've used dogs. Uncertain what kind.

I've also been wondering if scent dogs followed her jogging trail. Does anyone know?

 

[Gunslinging Granny]

Dairy Beyoncé. Made my day!

Funnel cake fries? I'm road tripping there!

 

[kkdj]

Exactly. All that matters is that the mother wasn't concerned, not the reason why. Knowing why isn't going to help us figure anything out here. Mollie didn't show up, mom wasn't concerned, so what?

Honestly tho it would concern me if my child said they were coming over and then didn't. However, I sometimes go to bed early, watch my favorite shows, fall asleep. I might not have realized until the morning that my kid hadn't stopped by to eat, especially if it was just something they would heat up. Doesn't sound like this was a sit down Sunday family dinner or anything.