The body of Mollie Tibbetts, a 20-year old student at the University of Iowa who went missing about a month ago, has been found.
But questions still remain regarding just what happened Tibbetts, whose vanishing made national headlines about a month ago after she failed to return home after a job.
Mollie’s father, along with two sources close to the case, have told Fox News and other outlets that her corpse was discovered in a field in Poweshiek County.
This is not far from where she went missing.
No details have been released as of this writing…
… but police have scheduled a press conference for 5 p.m. EST at which time, according to Mitch Mortvedt of the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, there will be “quite a bit of news” passed along.
Tibbetts was last seen jogging on July 18 in the small community of Brooklyn, Iowa, which is located about an hour east of Des Moines.
After she did not respond to messages from her boyfriend and after she did not show up for work, the authorities were notified of Mollie’s disappearance.
From there, investigators launched an extensive search for Tibbetts across the area.
This included in search parties that combed through ponds, fields and surveyed the scene from up in the air.
Moreover, investigators looked through her digital footprint, including her Fitbit, to try to trace her final steps.
Tibbetts was a rising sophomore at the University of Iowa studying psychology.
She had been staying with her boyfriend in his older brother Blake Jack’s home, dog-sitting while the siblings were out of town.
Over the past few weeks, Tibbetts’ family pleaded for her safe return and had tried to remain positive and hopeful that Mollie would be found alive.
Her dad, Rob Tibbetts, returned home to the San Francisco area after spending weeks looking for his daughter, The Des Moines Register reported on 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.”
Her mother, Laura Calderwood, called the mystery around what transpired to Mollie “excruciating,” adding in an interview with ABC:’
“[There are] no words to describe how you feel when you don’t know where or how your child is.”
At least now her parents know, although the news is as horrific as they likely feared.
No arrests have been made as of this time.
May Mollie Tibbetts rest in peace.