Found Deceased IA - Mollie Tibbetts, 20, Poweshiek County, 19 Jul 2018 #6

[Cardinal47]

Tragic case. Jesse ended up in Galveston Tx and found because of the nation wide exposure! You are so right. His family didn't help in that case at all, if I remember correctly.

I know we are not supposed to talk about other cases in this Mollie Tibbetts thread but if just one police officer sees it and they think back to how Hannah's killer and body were both found..it just could help. This is a link and I will say no more. Everybody knew everything! The Sheriff got his man and brought a young woman home to her family. Murder of Hannah Graham - Wikipedia

 

[Deleted member 718]

Would there be any reason for these workers to have been parked at night in the co-op's parking lot (next to where Mollie disappeared) ?

There were storms in the area. Perhaps they sent a crew out to help. Otherwise I wouldn't think so.

 

[Hoosier952]

Would there be any reason for these workers to have been parked at night in the co-op's parking lot (next to where Mollie disappeared) ?

I can't say for certain, I'm only familiar with our local.

In the case of our local, there is a rotating shift of linemen on call. Two guys (one truck) for 1 week rotating. So if there are any issues with any of the lines during that week, whoever is on call has to meet at the shop with their call partner any time day or night.

If there was bad weather with multiple outages, every lineman would be called out to work. They also help and receive help from local co-ops if the damage is extensive. They even travel out of state (they were working down south restoring power after hurricane Katrina, we live in IN)!

So it's quite possible with the impending weather, they were just getting things ready at the co-op. Or maybe there was a random outage or maybe they were company vehicles that are left overnight. Our local co-op will let the guys borrow the trucks for personal use, but they are usually reserved for taking parts/tools/pulling equipment to outages and for service calls and are generally left in the lot every night.

 

[SkipperKey3]

I don't know about that night and that location, specifically, but my assumption is that it's entirely possible. People have outages, transformers blow, etc., and at any given time a crew might need to go to the main place of business, park their own vehicles, and jump in an electric company truck to drive to fix something.

I don't know about large municipalities, but it's been mentioned that rural areas tend to have power companies that do the electrical for large, entire areas. It's not like living in a city where you have multiple internet providers to choose from. There's one electric company and they serve all the people for many square miles. Don't know about Brooklyn, but in many places they are publicly owned.

Would there have been extra workers/crews that might have come in that night due to the bad storms?

EDIT: I see Hoosier952 pretty much answered this (while I was typing) as "possibly".

 

[Weeobanite]

I know we are not supposed to talk about other cases in this Mollie Tibbetts thread but if just one police officer sees it and they think back to how Hannah's killer and body were both found..it just could help. This is a link and I will say no more. Everybody knew everything! The Sheriff got his man and brought a young woman home to her family. Murder of Hannah Graham - Wikipedia

I really hope LE and reading this and do the right thing!

 

[bestill]

Read on twitter that the co-op has offered an additonal $1,000 to the reward...KCRG on Twitter

May be they are trying to put the squeeze on someone? Had to have camera's on their property.

 

[Ozoner]

This one's tough; nothing seems to point strongly in a particular direction. I guess I lean towards an abduction by a stalker--maybe someone whose eye she caught while she was on her jog.

It's also possible that she surprised a burglar like Tara Grinsted did. Maybe someone knew that Mollie's boyfriend was away but expected the home to be vacant.

 

[lemmon714]

me too! im just about to walk my dog.. its 1:40am here and this has freaked me out. I couldn't listen to the whole thing. him mentioning the lake and park is crazy. can someone send it to the police?

Just try not to think of that pic of the fish following you around!

Sorry, back on topic now, this case tense and occasionally needs humour!

 

[Ozoner]

This one's tough; nothing seems to point strongly in a particular direction. I guess I lean towards an abduction by a stalker--maybe someone whose eye she caught while she was on her jog.

It's also possible that she surprised a burglar like Tara Grinsted did. Maybe someone knew that Mollie's boyfriend was away but expected the home to be vacant.

 

[Weeobanite]

Just try not to think of that pic of the fish following you around!

Sorry, back on topic now, this case tense and occasionally needs humour!

haha I will think of the fish now and be fine lol.. I just cant get over it.. what a creepy thing to come across!

 

[Ozoner]

This one's tough; nothing seems to point strongly in a particular direction. I guess I lean towards an abduction by a stalker--maybe someone whose eye she caught while she was on her jog.

It's also possible that she surprised a burglar like Tara Grinsted did. Maybe someone knew that Mollie's boyfriend was away but expected the home to be vacant.

 

[WalnutWhip]

Still nothing? I cannot believe how little progress they appear to be making combined with their reluctance to engage the public - I hope it makes sense soon

 

[momrids6]

This tweet of Mollie's is interesting.

I wonder how often Mollie was planning to have semesters of less than twelve credit hours. At the University of Iowa, a student needs twelve or more to be full time and avoid all kinds of extra charges.

I wonder if she had been living in one of the residence halls and what her plans are going forward.

She said 13 or less. She means instead of taking 17-21 like some do. By speading out into summer classes, she will only have to take 13 or less per semester.

 

[Weeobanite]

Still nothing? I cannot believe how little progress they appear to be making combined with their reluctance to engage the public - I hope it makes sense soon

me too! I just hope they've not been wasting valuable time keeping secrets they'll regret!

 

[lemmon714]

I really do think she's alive, reading back and seeing that Utah be on lookout, I mean, how many missing cases have you seen that has immediately a intimation by authorities person's gone off on her own?

 

[Stunned]

In response to Lisboa, wow, just wow!

 

[Stunned]

Human - just to answer you earlier post (quoting from the link)

"Ferjak says victims are recruited at the mall, school or in online chat rooms under a false promise of a dancing or modeling career. Others who are lonely or look out of place are also often preyed on. Once lured in, their picture and description are posted on buyer boards like “Backpage," an advertisement website, then sold in our own backyards."

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Without doubt that makes up a large percentage of how those girls are lured.

And also in that report it says a large percentage are 16-19 year olds. But girls as young as 6 are taken. 7, 8, 9, 10 etc....all those ages are vulnerable...its NOT just 16-19 year olds.

And its NOT just girls who are recruited at the mall, school or in online chat rooms under a false promise of a dancing or modeling career. It's also girls (and boys) who are just abducted off the side of a road; that simply vanish into thin air.

This is a huge business in the US - in the tens of billions annually. Its growing year by year especially with the growth of the "dark web". For every "backpages" and "craigslist" they shut down - 100 more pop up the very next day.

48 people have gone missing in Iowa in 10 days. Most of them teenagers. A population of 3 million.

If you saw these stats in a so called banana republic - there'd be outrage and liberal politicians everywhere would be crying on CNN. But its not happening in a banana republic.

Its happening in the heartland of America.

 

[SkipperKey3]

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This is a huge business in the US - in the tens of billions annually. Its growing year by year especially with the growth of the "dark web". For every "backpages" and "craigslist" they shut down - 100 more pop up the very next day.

48 people have gone missing in Iowa in 10 days. Most of them teenagers. A population of 3 million.

But I think this is misleading. Many of those that were reported missing actually turned up.

 

[ptandj]

For those that are newer to this case or just looking to refresh their memory, I have found the following two articles to be especially thorough (they don't contain every single item, obviously, but they tell a lot of the story):

1. This one goes over what happened when she first went missing and is a good starting place: An Evening Run, a Snapchat Selfie and Then Nothing: How Missing Student's Boyfriend Realized She Vanished

2. This one says more about the searches and LE efforts than I think I've seen in a single article before (still not a ton): Investigators turn to social media accounts and GPS data in Mollie Tibbetts' disappearance

Also well worth looking through all the links in post #6 from this thread

 

[momrids6]

Her retweet on July 6th is interesting