The 20-year-old’s remains were found on Tuesday. The 20-year-old was last seen July 18, jogging near her home in the central Iowa town of Brooklyn. . She was reported missing by her family the next day, after she didn’t show up for work at a day camp for children.
It remains unclear where she was found or how she died.
Police are not releasing any information until 4pm local time but people working for Crime Stoppers to help find her say her family has been informed.
No one has been arrested in connection with her disappearance and several police agencies have been working for weeks to try to uncover leads.
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The student was staying alone overnight in her boyfriend’s home the night she went missing and was last seen going for a jog in the neighborhood at around 8pm but what happened afterwards has remained a complete mystery for weeks.
Her boyfriend opened a Snapchat photograph from her at 10pm which appeared to suggest that she was indoors but it is not known what time Mollie sent it.
Last week, the FBI said they believed she had been abducted by someone she knew.
They warned that the person was ‘hiding in plain sight’ and had even attended vigils held in her honor but no arrests were made.
A $400,000 fund for her safe return was established but it did not produce any leads either.

The hunt for the Mollie lasted five weeks and drummed up hundreds of tips but it remains unclear how she died or what led to the discovery of her body

Now, it will be dedicated to finding the person responsible for her death.
Greg Willey of Crime Stoppers of Central Iowa said her family and investigators would dedicate their resources to catching her killer ‘once they catch their breath.’
The Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation were reticent to share details of the discovery on Tuesday.
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No one was arrested in connection with her disappearance and the only person who has come under visible scrutiny is pig farmer Wayne Cheney.
Cheney was questioned several times and had his property searched after police found a red t-shirt that was similar to one owned by the student near his property.
However it was never established if the t-shirt did in fact belong to Mollie and the property was more than 100 miles from where she vanished.
The search for Tibbetts zeroed in on five areas including a truck stop and car wash, in the rural Iowa town where she vanished from a month ago. Other locations that have come under close scrutiny include farmland near Big Bear creek, areas around her boyfriend jack Dalton’s home and a some more sparsely populated farmland outside of the town of Brooklyn – It remains unknown where her body was found on Tuesday.

Mollie was staying alone in the home she shared with her boyfriend Jack Dalton [right], in Brooklyn when she vanished. He is not a suspect in her disappearance. He and his older brother Blake Dalton [left with his fiancée], were not in town on the night she vanished either.

Mollie was staying alone in the home she shared with her boyfriend Jack Dalton, in Brooklyn when she vanished. He is not a suspect in her disappearance
Mollie’s boyfriend’s older brother Blake Dalton and his fiancée, were not in town on the night she vanished either.

The only person who has been visibly scrutinized by police is pig farmer Wayne Cheney (right) who was questioned more than once and had his property searched after police found a red t-shirt that was similar to one owned by the student near his land. Cheney took a polygraph test and has never been charged.
Cheney maintained his innocence throughout media interviews and took a polygraph test to try to rule himself out. He was never charged.
In the past few days, Mollie’s father Rob Tibbetts, who has been in Iowa since she disappeared, went to California for a ‘break’.

Mollie’s father Rob went back to California, where he lives, last week for what he called a much needed ‘break’ from the investigation

He said he had been urged by authorities to do so and that it was a ‘half way’ point in the investigation.Rob was not in the state when his daughter disappeared.
Her boyfriend, Dalton Jack, was away for work when she disappeared as was his older brother Blake. The youngsters lived together in a home in Brooklyn with Blake’s fiancée who was also cleared.
As the hunt for her intensified,  authorities set up a website that was dedicated to finding her.

Mollie’s father Rob Tibbetts, [left], flew in from California immediately his daughter went missing to help with the search

He said he had been urged by authorities to do so and that it was a ‘half way’ point in the investigation.
Rob was not in the state when his daughter disappeared.
Her boyfriend, Dalton Jack, was away for work when she disappeared as was his older brother Blake.