URGENT: College student Mollie Tibbetts vanishes without a trace, family and friends begin desperate search

Authoritites are searching for a 20-year-old University of Iowa student who disappeared on Wednesday from Brooklyn, Iowa, a small town off of Highway 6.

CBS Des Moines reports that Mollie Tibbetts, 20, vanished while dog sitting on either Wednesday evening or early Thursday morning. She has long brown and brown eyes and weighs around 120 pounds and stands 5-feet-3 inches tall. She was last seen wearing running shoes, a black sports bra, and grey shorts.

According to the Poweshiek County Sheriff’s Office, search crews looked thoroughly through fields in between Mollie’s home and the home where she was dog-sitting. Poweshiek County Sheriff Tom Kriegel said that he “is confident that every home in Brooklyn has been visited. Every farm building, barn and shed in the area has been searched,” according to a Facebook post by Mollie’s cousin, Emily Heaston.

URGENT: My wife’s cousin, Mollie Tibbetts, has been missing since Wed., July 18.

She’ll be a sophomore at the @uiowa & is home for summer break in Brooklyn, IA. It is so unlike her to be out of touch
from family and friends.

Please RT so we can spread the word. Thank you. 🙏 pic.twitter.com/Jjn9v9ZIHk

— Brian Wagner (@BrianRWagner) July 21, 2018

CrimeOnline spoke Mollie’s friend and co-worker, Emily Fenner, who said Mollie sent a Snapchat message to her boyfriend on Wednesday. He opened the message at around 10 p.m. No one has heard from her since.

“She’s an incredibly responsible, intelligent person. When she didn’t come to work on Thursday & didn’t call in I proceeded to get ahold of her boyfriend, who was in Dubuque, IA, for work & hadn’t heard from her either. That’s when we got the ball rolling & called authorities.”