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Mollie Tibbetts Update: Police Obtain Fitbit Data for Missing Iowa Student
Heavy ^ | July 26, 2018

Posted on 07/27/2018 9:10:33 AM PDT by SMGFan

The search for a missing University of Iowa student entered its eighth day on July 26, with investigators examining technology, including her FitBit, while continuing a ground search around the area where she was last seen. Mollie Tibbetts, 20, vanished from Brooklyn, Iowa, where she was dog-sitting at her boyfriend’s brother’s house. She was last seen jogging on the evening of Wednesday, July 18, and sent messages from her phone to her boyfriend and mother later that night. She was reported missing after she didn’t show up for work at a daycamp on July 19.

Authorities have said they are treating Tibbetts’ disappearance as a missing persons case, but have not ruled out an abduction. Brooklyn is a city of about 1,400 people in eastern Iowa, located midway between Des Moines and Cedar Rapids. The community has rallied around Tibbetts’ family as the search continued into the weekend, posting signs and handing out flyers throughout the area.

(Excerpt) Read more at heavy.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: brooklyn; cedarrapids; desmoines; fitbit; iowa; missing; mollietibbetts; tibbetts; universityofiowa
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To: SMGFan

https://amp-reddit-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.reddit.com/r/greatawakening/comments/92a1mu/iowa_dps_48_people_missing_in_iowa_in_last_10_days/?usqp=mq331AQECAEoAQ%3D%3D&amp_js_v=0.1

48 people gone missing in Iowa in past 10 days


21 posted on 07/27/2018 10:53:01 AM PDT by BigDaddyTX (Don't Mex with Texas)
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To: Ron H.

Because the vast, VAST majority of those who go missing are either prostitutes or drug addicts. It is exceedingly rare for young females to disappear who aren’t engaged in those types of activities (no matter what the feminists would have you believe).


22 posted on 07/27/2018 10:54:31 AM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: Ron H.

Because she is white


23 posted on 07/27/2018 10:54:55 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: BigDaddyTX

Can we get a link to the original source?


24 posted on 07/27/2018 10:55:28 AM PDT by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar)
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To: BigDaddyTX

Found it myself:
http://www.iowaonline.state.ia.us/mpic/controller.aspx?cmd=showResults&sortBy=Most%20Recent


25 posted on 07/27/2018 10:57:11 AM PDT by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar)
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To: BigDaddyTX

DPS: Iowa missing person numbers not out of the ordinary

http://www.ktiv.com/story/38752139/2018/07/Friday/dps-iowa-missing-person-numbers-not-out-of-the-ordinary


26 posted on 07/27/2018 10:59:55 AM PDT by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar)
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To: PghBaldy

There were two,one in New York and one in Massachusetts-—random attacks-—wrong place,wrong time.

I have a grandaughter who is a runner———I just keep her in my prayers.

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27 posted on 07/27/2018 11:04:04 AM PDT by Mears
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To: SMGFan

Yep, just part and parcel...
Not a dig on you, I appreciate the additional link. I did the math yesterday so I don’t remember the #’s. Extrapolate d 48/10 day period to annual and it blew away average /yr and then compare that to IA population/density!


28 posted on 07/27/2018 11:06:14 AM PDT by BigDaddyTX (Don't Mex with Texas)
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To: SMGFan; SunkenCiv

The article says, “Even the planes flying over have a difficulty looking down in the corn rows.”

Possible application for Lidar? Seems to work for finding lost prehistoric structures in the jungles of central America.


29 posted on 07/27/2018 11:25:52 AM PDT by Western Phil
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To: ColdOne

A Fitbit communicates through cellphone towers or wifi so the police could potentially track her movements after her last contact with her mother.


30 posted on 07/27/2018 11:29:58 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: SMGFan

Reminds me of this one

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodi_Huisentruit


31 posted on 07/27/2018 11:40:15 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.- George Orwell)
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To: woodbutcher1963

Thanks.


32 posted on 07/27/2018 12:14:19 PM PDT by ColdOne ((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever!)
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To: Western Phil
If her FitBit and mobile phone data wasn't helpful, Lidar won't work. Unless the dog ate her, it is likely that she was abducted and killed, and her body may or may not show up, ever. That's three crime scenes -- abduction, murder, and disposal. In a rural area, it'll probably be either the nearest male neighbor to where she was dog-sitting, or someone along either the jogging or dog-walking route.

33 posted on 07/27/2018 12:42:35 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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Mollie Tibbetts Case Recalls Abby & Libby Case from 2017
https://heavy.com/news/2018/07/mollie-tibbetts-abby-libby-reddit-snapchat/

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3535676/posts


34 posted on 07/27/2018 12:54:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: AppyPappy
Because she is white

That could easily be true.

35 posted on 07/27/2018 5:56:30 PM PDT by Ron H.
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To: Western Phil

“Possible application for Lidar?”

I would think so! I believe that there are drones available with Lidar - as well as thermal imaging. Obviously thermal is good for a living, warm body. But also a deceased body would have different thermal properties than the soils around it. Scan after the sun has set, or before it rises.


36 posted on 07/27/2018 6:02:43 PM PDT by 21twelve
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To: SMGFan
I am not so sure she is dead anymore. She is of child bearing age. Make of that what you will. Although the DPS says 48 missing in the last 10 days is not unusual 34 were children.
http://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/top-news/last-two-weeks-dozens-children-iowa-have-vanished/
37 posted on 07/27/2018 7:31:59 PM PDT by Polynikes ( Hakkaa palle)
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To: Polynikes

any response from Senators & Governor?


38 posted on 07/28/2018 4:11:06 AM PDT by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar)
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To: wally_bert
A friend of mine's sister was killed in Maryland back in 1993 and her death was one of the episodes on Unsolved Mysteries.

4 years later her murderer was found in a Florida prison where he was being held on other charges. Evidently he told a fellow inmate that he had killed a girl and when asked who, he said it was the one on Unsolved Mysteries......Nancy Manni

39 posted on 07/28/2018 4:24:37 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I once found a needle in a haystack but it wasn't the one I was looking for...)
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To: BigDaddyTX
About 6 months ago there was a rash of reports bout women and kids being approached in parking lots by men with the “my van is broken down” scam. Then it just stopped. I believe that there is a traveling ring of female abductors that move around the country.
40 posted on 07/28/2018 4:35:43 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (If I knew when I was going to need my gun, I wouldn't need my gun.)
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