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Mollie Tibbetts, missing Iowa student, found dead, her father says

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The body of missing college student Mollie Tibbetts was found 
Tuesday, her father and two sources told Fox News, bringing an 
end to an intensive search that lasted more than a month and 
captured national headlines.

Tibbetts' father, Rob Tibbetts, told Fox News the body found is 
that of his 20-year-old daughter, who vanished in mid-July.

A law enforcement source earlier told Fox News the body was 
found in Iowa, but more specific details about the location were 
not released. Iowa Department of Public Safety said a body was 
discovered in Poweshiek County.

Mollie Tibbetts split
Authorities believe they found the body of Mollie Tibbetts on 
Tuesday.

Greg Willey, the vice president of Crime Stoppers of Central 
Iowa, also told the Associated Press the body found Tuesday is 
believed to be Tibbetts.

No arrests have been announced in connection with the Tibbetts 
case. A news conference was announced for 4 p.m. local time on 
Tuesday.

Tibbetts, a University of Iowa student, was reported missing 
after she failed to respond to messages from her boyfriend, 
Dalton Jack, and did not show up for work. She was last seen 
jogging around Brooklyn around 7:30 p.m. on July 18 and was 
staying with her boyfriend and working while home from school 
over the summer. She would have started her junior year of 
college this week.

Missing college student from Iowa seen laughing in video 
recorded by her friend the day before she went missing.
MOLLIE TIBBETTS, UNIVERSITY OF IOWA STUDENT, MISSING: A TIMELINE 
OF EVENTS

Tibbetts' family pleaded for her safe return and had remained 
hopeful she would be found alive. Rob Tibbetts was returning 
home to the San Francisco area after spending weeks looking for 
his daughter, The Des Moines Register reported Sunday.

"The bottom line is somebody knows something," Rob Tibbetts 
previously told Fox News, adding Brooklyn is a small city and 
“you can’t do anything there without someone seeing it.”

tibbetts map
Investigators say they want to speak to anyone 'who was in the 
areas indicated on July 18, 2018 between the hours of 5PM and 
10PM.'

For the last month, investigators followed “hundreds” of leads — 
interviewing hundreds of people and canvassing a nearby hog 
farm, cornfields and other properties for traces of the college 
student. Two items Tibbetts typically took with her — a Fitbit 
and cellphone — remained missing.

Investigators announced last week they were focusing the search 
on five locations in and around Brooklyn, which included a car 
wash just a block away from the city’s main commercial strip and 
a TA truck stop next to Interstate-80, which runs across the 
entirety of Iowa.

Brooklyn, a town of just 1,400 people, was shaken by Tibbetts' 
disappearance. Blake Jack, the brother of Tibbetts’ boyfriend, 
told Fox News on Aug. 8 there was no sign of a struggle at the 
Brooklyn home she was staying in at the time.

Robert Tibbetts says authorities are 'extremely motivated' to 
find his missing daughter, urges potential abductor not to 
escalate or drag out the ordeal.Video
Mollie Tibbetts' father to potential abductor: Let her go
Dalton Jack, Tibbetts' boyfriend of two years, said he believed 
the doors of the home where his girlfriend last stayed had been 
left unlocked.

“It’s Brooklyn. You don’t lock your doors,” Jack told Fox News. 
“We lock our doors now. Every night.”

MOLLIE TIBBETTS, MISSING IOWA STUDENT, HAS ALWAYS RELIED ON 
PRAYER, DAD SAYS

Rob Tibbetts stayed optimistic to the end, theorizing his 
daughter must have been with someone she knew and would return 
home safe.

“It's totally speculation on my part, but I think Mollie is with 
someone that she knows, that is in over their head,” he told Fox 
News. “That there was some kind of misunderstanding about the 
nature of their relationship and at this point they don't know 
how to get out from under this.”

rob tibbetts handouts
Rob Tibbetts, Mollie's father, hands out posters in search for 
his missing daughter.

A reward of nearly $400,000 leading to information on Tibbetts' 
whereabouts will now become a reward for information leading to 
the capture of any suspects.

"Once they catch their breath, this will turn into a weapon 
going the other direction to catch the person who did it," 
Willey said.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/08/21/mollie-tibbetts-missing-
iowa-student-found-dead-sources-say.html
                                                                 
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