Found Deceased IA - Mollie Tibbetts, 20, Poweshiek County, 19 Jul 2018 #3

[cass523]

Mollie Tibbetts

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[Angela_Beckett]

Please, please no

DCI confirms hog farm has been searched for Mollie Tibbetts

 

[SuperTmo]

Now that I know the newer Fitbit models have gps, I'm buying one for my adult kids.

I bought an Apple Watch with the cellular feature for my 10 year old in February, so that she can always reach me. I use the Life 360 app to track her when she is with her dad (because he is severely mentally ill with a personality disorder and unstable, but the court makes her spend time with him). I feel better knowing I know exactly where she is. I can pinpoint her to a specific part of a store or restaurant.

 

[Deleted member 718]

BROOKLYN, Iowa (KCRG-TV9) -- Iowa DCI agent Mitch Mortvedt has confirmed to KCCI that authorities searched several places including a hog farm near Guernsey.

Guernsey is about a 15 minute drive from Brooklyn. Mortvedt said the searches yielded no results.

Authorities searched a hog farm in Guernsey for Mollie Tibbetts

Yielded no results. We will see.

 

[SharonNeedles]

It's possible that pigs in the US are bigger and more powerful than those in the UK, but it's a myth that UK pigs can completely consume a human corpse. If nothing else, they can't get their jaws around the skull.

Sorry to be graphic.

No, that doesn’t happen here either. Boars can be 500 pounds plus and are quite dangerous, but the thing about completely eating a human body is an urban legend.

 

[TrishTris]

I also wonder if anyone is currently being questioned? If so, maybe the, " didn't find anything" was an attempt to make the person/people more comfortable.. thinking oh they didn't find anything.. almost making them a bit more cocky and slip up saying info thinking they are in the clear anyway.

 

[MOTORUNNER]

How sad, I am really really REALLY hoping this has a happy ending but I can't help but have a bad feeling. I hope her fit bit gives enough info for them to track her down. Will definitely be following

 

[Jealoushe]

Since we can't do any digging on the farms or people we think might be suspects, anyone have any ideas how she may have had her last activity out there?

Picked up? Someone she knew?

 

[darmela]

Just as a side note, I had no idea that Iowa is the nation's #1 pork producer with 50 million hogs marketed a year. Nearly one third of the nation's hogs are raised in Iowa. With that being said, I hope she didn't end up at a hog farm.

 

[Stippling]

There are a few possibilities. Either she was physically at or near that location 10-15 miles from her last known sighting. Or someone stole the phone and Fitbit and it pinged in that area. Could have been discarded. If she had an iphone, I'm surprised someone with the family or LE did not execute a find my phone command. Perhaps they did.

 

[Jethro4WS]

Since we can't do any digging on the farms or people we think might be suspects, anyone have any ideas how she may have had her last activity out there?

Picked up? Someone she knew?

We don't know that her last activity was there. We don't even know what led law enforcement there. All we know is that law enforcement searched there without any results.

 

[Gunslinging Granny]

Since we can't do any digging on the farms or people we think might be suspects, anyone have any ideas how she may have had her last activity out there?

Picked up? Someone she knew?

Abducted while running to her mom's house for brats. New models of Fitbit have gps and they look like a plastic, black watch. Someone who doesn't exercise wouldn't know its capacity for location tracking.

 

[cass523]

Searched farm no results. Then it goes on that they are back to her data. The hog farm was not from Mollie's data?

He confirms that search yielded no results. Guernsey is about 15 minutes from Brooklyn.

Technology at center of search for Mollie Tibbetts

Federal and state investigators are hoping Tibbett's digital footprint will lead them to her.

The FBI is now looking through data from the 20-year-old's FitBit watch to put together a timeline of her movements.

DCI confirms hog farm has been searched for Mollie Tibbetts

 

[Mica]

Mollie Tibbetts: 'We follow through on everything,' investigators say of search

Officials searching for Mollie Tibbetts, a University of Iowa student who has been missing for a week, say they continue to follow up on every lead they receive.

Mitch Mortvedt, assistant director of the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, a state agency investigating the case, said Thursday that there have been "a couple" searches of properties based on tips, but that to his knowledge none of them have required police to secure warrants because property owners have been cooperative.

One of those searches took place Wednesday night in southern Poweshiek County along Iowa Highway 21, but it did not result in anything, he said.

"There was nothing of investigative value last night that was discovered with the search," Mortvedt said. The search was the subject of speculation Wednesday and Thursday on social media.

 

[Deleted member 718]

No, that doesn’t happen here either. Boars can be 500 pounds plus and are quite dangerous, but the thing about completely eating a human body is an urban legend.

Warning, article contains graphic content:

Hogs eat Oregon farmer

 

[borndem]

From CNN:

Her Fitbit may be the key to finding a missing University of Iowa woman
By Artemis Moshtaghian, Chris Boyette and Darran Simon, CNN

Updated 3:25 PM ET, Thu July 26, 2018
Mom of missing Iowa student speaks out 01:44
(CNN)Investigators hope data from a missing Iowa woman's Fitbit may give them clues to her whereabouts after her disappearance last week.
. . .
In an interview Wednesday on HLN, Tibbetts' mother, Laura Calderwood, said the family was told they would get an FBI agent for the case.
"That turned into approximately 15 FBI agents," she said.
"In my morning brief this morning, I have been told there's more on the way," Calderwood said.

Mollie Tibbetts' Fitbit being used in search for her - CNN

 

[Mica]

Fitbit data scanned for missing US jogger

>>snip

Mitch Mortvedt, of the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, said on Wednesday that investigators had executed search warrants of her Snapchat, Instagram and Facebook accounts, in addition to her Fitbit.

"We are getting a lot of information back from that process," he told the Des Moines Register.

"We are very hopeful with the electronic data we are getting back."

 

[jkloc420]

There are a few possibilities. Either she was physically at or near that location 10-15 miles from her last known sighting. Or someone stole the phone and Fitbit and it pinged in that area. Could have been discarded. If she had an iphone, I'm surprised someone with the family or LE did not execute a find my phone command. Perhaps they did.

or somebody took them as keep sakes

 

[MelmothTheLost]

Warning, article contains graphic content:

Hogs eat Oregon farmer

But they didn't eat all of him, which is what SharonNeedles said. I think what we take away from this is that if Mollie had been put in with pigs there would have been traces left to be found but LE found nothing.

 

[SharonNeedles]

There are a few possibilities. Either she was physically at or near that location 10-15 miles from her last known sighting. Or someone stole the phone and Fitbit and it pinged in that area. Could have been discarded. If she had an iphone, I'm surprised someone with the family or LE did not execute a find my phone command. Perhaps they did.

Also possible (and this is what I’m thinking): there’s a real sketchy looking character and a possible nightmare scenario. It needed to be searched, even if only to ease suspicion so LE can focus on other possibilities.