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Oct 27
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331: She Went for a Jog and Never Came H...

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When 20-year-old University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts laced up her running shoes for her nightly jog through the small town of Brooklyn, Iowa, she had no idea she was being watched. When she vanished without a trace, the peaceful community was thrown into chaos. For weeks, search teams scoured cornfields and rivers, her smiling face plastered across every screen in America. What began as a desperate search for a missing college student soon unraveled into a twisted tale that would leave the nation reeling…


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