Missing University of Iowa Student, Mollie Tibbetts

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Northside Hawk said:
Christmas Morning 1983 or 1984. A Sunday. My younger brother had my old route. I helped him. 26 degrees below zero. Holy shit!

I had a trick with those Wednesday and Sunday ads. If a customer was being belligerent or behind in payments (we collected door to door back then, another shitty part of the job) I would flip that paper upside down and as high in the doorway as possible. All those ads would fall out on it's descent.
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I see you as the kid from Better Off Dead looking for his two dollars. Anyway, there is something to be said about the character building exercise of going around door to door to collect money for the paper and selling it to people when they move in. I know every generation rags on kids and there are some great kids in my neighborhood, but man alive with these devices there are some serious autists that our society is producing and these kids really need a route or some door to door lawn mowing selling skills.
 
okeefe4prez said:
I see you as the kid from Better Off Dead looking for his two dollars. Anyway, there is something to be said about the character building exercise of going around door to door to collect money for the paper and selling it to people when they move in. I know every generation rags on kids and there are some great kids in my neighborhood, but man alive with these devices there are some serious autists that our society is producing and these kids really need a route or some door to door lawn mowing selling skills.
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John Cusack probably still has nightmares of that kid going through his head.

Going door to door to collect wasn't a sales gimmick, however. It was a required part of the job. Back then you were lucky if a third of your customers paid in advance through the office. And you had to do it when people were most likely to be home, which meant after dark for half the year.
 
okeefe4prez said:
Back when I had my route some jackass had the brilliant idea of routinely putting cereal or laundry detergent samples in with the Sunday paper.

Now I know you're sitting there thinking "OK4P is a smart guy, surely he would just dump the samples."

Nope. Every damned time they did it the sample was embedded in a plastic bag you had to wrap the paper in and they put a damned ad for the sampled product, noting the free sample, across the top 1/6th of the paper. So now, you not only have to deal with the Sunday paper, but you have to bag every one of them and carry the sample. Those assholes. I carried the Register and that sumnabitch had to be delivered by 6 AM weekdays/Saturdays and 7:30 on Sundays. When I was at my mom's over Christmas and those bastards had the gall to deliver that thing at 4 o'clock on Christmas Eve with a 12/25 date stamp I damned near had an aneurysm.
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I could see O'Keefe stopping between houses to read the old "Big Peach" Sunday sports section in the Register, complete with those football photo sequences, as well as Maury White's "Little Bit About A Lot Of Things" column every Friday.
 
Authorities held a press conference this morning, but not saying much of anything. I think they do these every few days in hopes a tip comes. There is so much flying around about this case right now. I have heard that Mollie works for a day care where the staff wears red shirts and that a red shirt was found in a ditch near a pig farmers location. Also, I have heard that the FBI got a search warrant from the fit bit company (Mollie wore one) and they traced the last "ping" to this pig farmers location. Another rumour is that this pig farmer has had a restraining order filed against him from someone else in the past. I also saw police are searching a wooded area recently and they brought in one of those white vans (Evidence van?) in the Brooklyn area. Its amazing how someone can just vanish into thin air.
 
EstronHawkKing said:
Authorities held a press conference this morning, but not saying much of anything. I think they do these every few days in hopes a tip comes. There is so much flying around about this case right now. I have heard that Mollie works for a day care where the staff wears red shirts and that a red shirt was found in a ditch near a pig farmers location. Also, I have heard that the FBI got a search warrant from the fit bit company (Mollie wore one) and they traced the last "ping" to this pig farmers location. Another rumour is that this pig farmer has had a restraining order filed against him from someone else in the past. I also saw police are searching a wooded area recently and they brought in one of those white vans (Evidence van?) in the Brooklyn area. Its amazing how someone can just vanish into thin air.
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Ugh. The pig farm thing doesn't sound good. No one just "vanishes into thin air" but pigs will devour the entirety of a body in almost no time. I feel bad for the guys investigating that lead.
 
MelroseHawkins said:
Correct. This man has two prior stalking convictions. One in 2009 and the other 4-5 years later. One was in Powesheik county and the other in Marion county.

There has to be real concern about him being a pig farmer.
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MelroseHawkins said:
Correct. This man has two prior stalking convictions. One in 2009 and the other 4-5 years later. One was in Powesheik county and the other in Marion county.

There has to be real concern about him being a pig farmer.
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MelroseHawkins said:
Correct. This man has two prior stalking convictions. One in 2009 and the other 4-5 years later. One was in Powesheik county and the other in Marion county.

There has to be real concern about him being a pig farmer.
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I have heard the authorities have searched this farmers property. If he did take Mollie, you think they would find her DNA inside his vehicle. No way he abducted her, threw her over his shoulder and carried back to his place. You think they would also find her DNA at his farm as well.

Here is what the guy looks like. I saw an interview with him on youtube by a local DSM tv station. Dude is creepy as F!

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EstronHawkKing said:
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I have heard the authorities have searched this farmers property. If he did take Mollie, you think they would find her DNA inside his vehicle. No way he abducted her, threw her over his shoulder and carried back to his place. You think they would also find her DNA at his farm as well.

Here is what the guy looks like. I saw an interview with him on youtube by a local DSM tv station. Dude is creepy as F!

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There are several posters on HN that I've imagined look like this guy. I don't have much room to talk, though.
 
EstronHawkKing said:
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I have heard the authorities have searched this farmers property. If he did take Mollie, you think they would find her DNA inside his vehicle. No way he abducted her, threw her over his shoulder and carried back to his place. You think they would also find her DNA at his farm as well.

Here is what the guy looks like. I saw an interview with him on youtube by a local DSM tv station. Dude is creepy as F!

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Guy looks like your average Wal Mart shelf stocker.

With Rocky Rococo's nose.
 
Some of the comments... whats the point of insulting stockers and hog farmers?

A number of monsters are quite handsome and winsome. This could have been a well thought out plan.

With automation kicking into high gear in a few years, some of you may need a stocking job.

Just isnt good to make light of this. Sadly the outcome may never be known and may not be this guy.
 
So long has gone by now that it's something like 97% odds now that she is dead. What a shame. I sure hope they catch whoever did this.

All joggers should wear go pro's that wirelessly upload to the cloud every few minutes.
 
I didn't realize her boyfriend had a home (a very nice looking home from pictures on tv) I thought he lived in apartment. So Mollie was dog sitting for him while he was in out of town working. First, I was like how does a 20 year old own a home that nice? I have also heard that her glasses and wallet/purse were found in his home. What about the dogs, if someone attacked her why didn't the dogs attack the person(s)? Another thing, her mother in all interviews always say's "Mollie was great" Mollie was a loving person" She always refers to her daughter in past tense.
 
Heard the reward is up to 250k.... If she wanders down yonder here to TN I'll be keeping my eyes out. Think I saw that she's the tip of the iceberg and that here's been a rash of kids come up missing the last couple weeks or so up there. I've heard for years that when the state fair starts it's a terrible time for child trafficking around DSM and the interstate all across the state... Pretty sick
 
Hawkfnntn said:
Heard the reward is up to 250k.... If she wanders down yonder here to TN I'll be keeping my eyes out. Think I saw that she's the tip of the iceberg and that here's been a rash of kids come up missing the last couple weeks or so up there. I've heard for years that when the state fair starts it's a terrible time for child trafficking around DSM and the interstate all across the state... Pretty sick
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Yep, large events bring out a big increase in trafficking. Not sure why, but I'm sure Gold will let us know. The Super Bowl is the "pinnacle" event for the U.S. I'd imagine the World Cup or Olympics sees a similar effect.
 
hawkeyebob62 said:
Yep, large events bring out a big increase in trafficking. Not sure why, but I'm sure Gold will let us know. The Super Bowl is the "pinnacle" event for the U.S. I'd imagine the World Cup or Olympics sees a similar effect.
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Yeah a whole bunch of rich powerful people traveling to one spot... Imagine that... It's as they say if there wasn't a market for it it wouldn't exist. Pretty sad.
 
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