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

[Earnjul11]

I can’t speak for certain, but being from a small town in Iowa we use lunch and dinner interchangeably. It would be wrong in my town to call the evening meal dinner, that is supper. So based on how it’s been used and her not showing up for “dinner” I’m guessing that might be about the Thursday noon meal. (I know it sounds weird, but it’s so extreme in my town when I moved I had to get used to dinner being the evening meal, it sounded wrong when my new friends would call it that).

Thank you for this input / outlook. So, it could be fair to say that the mother thought she was skipping "lunch / dinner," which I suppose would be less worrisome / odd. I just know that if my mother was expecting me for any meal, and I did not show up or contact her, she'd definitely have raised alarms. But, this could have been normal for them.

 

[jashrema]

Are the FBI involved in this case yet? They have SO many resources available compared to a small time sheriff department. Is the Iowa BCI involved? Is this still being investigated ONLY by local sheriff? If that's the case, and no one else has been called in, I for one, would be screaming from the rooftops to call in the feds.
When we were still searching for Sierah, a search had been arranged on Friday July 22. Early that morning, LE called off the search but we didn't know why. Later of course, we found out that they had pretty good suspicion that Worley was the prime suspect in her kidnapping. Thank God that the man that found Ce was out doing his own "search' that day and found her.
I am not understanding why they can't, or haven't, released where her phone's last location was. Even tho Ce's phone was dead/off, they were still able to ping it and at least knew that it was in a triangulated area. It couldn't find it to the exact spot but it knew that it was in a certain "area".
I can't help but think of our friend "Foxfire" who would say that LE still refuses to use its greatest resource, THE PUBLIC, when someone goes missing. Sometimes, these small town sheriff's release little to no information when in fact, releasing most of it could bring the case to a conclusion must faster than ordinary because of the public's help.

 

[Jealoushe]

I find most of the recent pictures on there concerning. The weird underwear selfies, the close-up selfies where she isn't smiling, the screenshot of a song called "Save Myself", the quote about losing romantic feelings next to a ring picture. Hope I'm wrong, but I would be checking nearby bodies of water closely.

Young womens social media is full of this...hers is totally average. Unless you have women this age on your accounts you wont see how commonplace all her posts are.

Regardless if the BF and brother were out of town, they were not so far out of town that could have returned home and then back to work. Something not right about how she never opened any snapchats after the final one she sent her bf. No signs of forced entry? If she was taken it was by someone she knew.

 

[soap mama]

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I didn’t mean to imply wrong doing on her part, but that just popped into my head that the discussion about the boy’s whereabouts never mentioned her. Why oh why are these cases always so convoluted

 

[Gunslinging Granny]

Mollie's mother Laura Calderwood tells ABC News that her daughter is "just such an outgoing, fun, loving life, loving person." She was getting ready to move into her first apartment, and she and her boyfriend were set to travel to the Dominican Republic early next month for his brother's wedding.
Missing Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts was getting ready to move into her first apartment - NY Daily News

 

[DeeMarie]

about her family..
Mollie Tibbetts Family: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | Heavy.com

 

[mrsu]

I also think her VSCO is kind of strange. No smiling/blank face staring into the camera with content about suicide prevention. It does not look like a typical social media page by a 2o year old woman - she does not look happy - but that is just my opinion.

That’s more of the typical VSCO vibe. Usually more “emo”, self-reflecting, artsy posts than what you’d see on Instagram. Super normal for her age. The “collections” would be images she liked.

 

[Gunslinging Granny]

Young womens social media is full of this...hers is totally average. Unless you have women this age on your accounts you wont see how commonplace all her posts are.

Regardless if the BF and brother were out of town, they were not so far out of town that could have returned home and then back to work. Something not right about how she never opened any snapchats after the final one she sent her bf. No signs of forced entry? If she was taken it was by someone she knew.

The final snapchat she sent her boyfriend at 10 pm said "goodnight". That's why she never opened or sent any more snapchats. She went to sleep. Then someone grabbed her.

 

[kelsie]

I also think her VSCO is kind of strange. No smiling/blank face staring into the camera with content about suicide prevention. It does not look like a typical social media page by a 2o year old woman - she does not look happy - but that is just my opinion.

I truly think y'all are reading way too much into this.
The suicide prevention post has a message of positivity at the bottom.
Girls don't need to smile in every photo.
The "loss of romantic feelings" post I believe was a text sent to her by her boyfriend that was just expressing how he loves her so much as a person that even IF he lost feelings for her, he would still want her in his life.

See what I'm saying?
I really don't think there's anything out of the ordinary here at all. Also, I'm very close to her age, so that probably helps me look at her VSCO in a light that many of you don't (no offense meant at all!)

 

[always reading]

Is it

Also, The Heavy about the Bf is good

Mollie Tibbetts Boyfriend Dalton Jack: 5 Fast Facts to Know | Heavy.com[/Q

Is it normal for couples to communicate via snapchat instead of texting?

 

[kelsie]

Missing Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts was getting ready to move into her first apartment - NY Daily News

“We’re surrounded by farm ground – corn and soy beans,” he [the sheriff] told ABC News. “Right now the corn is probably 8, 9 feet tall. The only way you can search it is basically walk down every other row. It’s difficult. Even the planes flying over have a difficulty looking down in the corn rows.”

 

[Gunslinging Granny]

The sheriff allegedly cancelled the searches because all the town's residents were out searching and no one was at home for deputies to interview. He's now had plenty of time to talk to neighbors in this tiny town about anything they might have witnessed. Why can't the general public organize searches now?

 

[kelsie]

Is it normal for couples to communicate via snapchat instead of texting?

Yep! I'm 23 and my ex and I would often communicate via Snapchat and text throughout the day.

Question, if the house residents were mollie, Bf, Bf brother and fiancé, where is the fiancé? The boys are in Dubuque working, where is the other female?

I believe she, too, works with them. But I could be wrong.

 

[jashrema]

This is absurd IMO (The part about stopping ground search because no one is "home" then.)

 

[kelsie]

Authorities 'Looking at Everything and Everybody' in Search for Student Who Vanished After Jog

He (the sheriff) explains: “We have been working to eliminate areas where she could be at and checking people we might suspect, but who are not suspects yet … we’re just seeing where they were and checking their whereabouts.”

Italicized added by me

 

[Bravo]

I think they need to be going thru those corn fields, row by row....

 

[soap mama]

Is it

Is it normal for couples to communicate via snapchat instead of texting?

Yes, kids love to send snaps. My teenager told me texting is for “old people” lol

 

[Davia18]

Is it

Is it normal for couples to communicate via snapchat instead of texting?

I'm 38 and my husband is 42 and we always use snap chat.

 

[kelsie]

This is absurd IMO

Please go on! Interested in your point of view.

 

[Jealoushe]

The final snapchat she sent her boyfriend at 10 pm said "goodnight". That's why she never opened or sent any more snapchats. She went to sleep. Then someone grabbed her.

Possibly...I just would not be ruling these people out if I was LE.

Is it

Is it normal for couples to communicate via snapchat instead of texting?

Very normal