What’s the deal with this story? (Missing UI student Mollie Tibbetts)

[CyFamilyMom]

This article on People.com verifies the search of hog farm. You have to scroll through already reported information about the boyfriend:
https://people.com/crime/missing-mollie-tibbetts-boyfriend-ruled-out-suspect-pig-farm/

 

[alarson]

Oh I totally think internet sleuths can find out just as much if not more from the internet than media nowadays. But the person that was saying it on the other sites wasn't getting much attention so I didn't really know if it was true or not

Can also go horribly wrong, as the Reddit thread did during the boston bombings. They 'identified' the bomber as someone who had been missing. After the fact it was found the kid had been dead for some time.

 

[jbindm]

Can also go horribly wrong, as the Reddit thread did during the boston bombings. They 'identified' the bomber as someone who had been missing. After the fact it was found the kid had been dead for some time.

Agreed. I'm not saying that credible information can't come from the "internet sleuths". But you have to be careful about what you choose to believe. Which I suppose isn't all that different from old media.

 

[CtownCyclone]

Story has made it to BBC now...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44972097

 

[k123]

Her FitBit "pinged" her location at the property where the hog confinement is. Get your kids FItbits and Apple Watches!

'Pinged' in last day or two, or showed up on fit-bit location archive?

 

[TXCyclones]

Just out of curiosity, where are you seeing this?

I'd said before I just hope they find her one way or another to avoid the trafficking fears, but man it doesn't make it any less sad if they do find her and she's been killed. Just so sad.

Family members as captains and majors in IHP.

 

[CycloneVet]

So what is the significance of a hog confinement? Do bodies and things decompose quicker in that type of environment?

Ever seen Snatch?

 

[wxman1]

Obviously who knows how real they are but I just saw another post on FB about attempts at kids trying to be lured away somewhere.

 

[SCNCY]

Ever seen Snatch?

I have not.

 

[GTO]

Anything with pigs eating people reminds me of this horrific case.

WARNING: DO NOT read, unless you want to spend the rest of your day angry and extremely depressed.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...lawsuit/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.ae2e6f031ab6

Don't say I didn't warn you about reading it...

 

[Schfinkter]

KCCI says nothing was found at hog confinement.

 

[carvers4math]

KCCI says nothing was found at hog confinement.

Not sure if that is good or bad.

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

Anything with pigs eating people reminds me of this horrific case.

WARNING: DO NOT read, unless you want to spend the rest of your day angry and extremely depressed.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...lawsuit/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.ae2e6f031ab6

Don't say I didn't warn you about reading it...

I don't think the words exist to say how this makes me feel

 

[Rabbuk]

Not sure if that is good or bad.

Pigs can eat a human body very quickly bones and all.

 

[isufbcurt]

There's a reason they didn't want Dorothy walking on the pig pens in the Wizard of Oz.

 

[jbindm]

Not sure if that is good or bad.

Did the reports say when the fitbit pinged at that location? If it was last week then it might have just been while she was out jogging and before she was abducted. If it pinged after her disappearance then this is probably at least helpful in telling investigators where she or at least the fitbit went after she was reported missing. Not much of a lead but it's something to follow, I guess.

 

[laminak]

Anything with pigs eating people reminds me of this horrific case.

WARNING: DO NOT read, unless you want to spend the rest of your day angry and extremely depressed.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...lawsuit/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.ae2e6f031ab6

Don't say I didn't warn you about reading it...

I didn't even need to click the link and became angry by merely seeing the words in the address.

 

[GTO]

I didn't even need to click the link and became angry by merely seeing the words in the address.

It's WAY worse than the title. It's one of those stories that stay with you and you just can't comprehend. I saw it last year and it just botheers me every time I think about it.

 

[CloneinWDSM]

Did the reports say when the fitbit pinged at that location? If it was last week then it might have just been while she was out jogging and before she was abducted. If it pinged after her disappearance then this is probably at least helpful in telling investigators where she or at least the fitbit went after she was reported missing. Not much of a lead but it's something to follow, I guess.

I think the hog farm is a 15-20 minute drive from the place she was at so she wouldn’t be running that far away

 

[TXCyclones]

It's WAY worse than the title. It's one of those stories that stay with you and you just can't comprehend. I saw it last year and it just botheers me every time I think about it.

And in the great state of Oklahoma just last week... https://whnt.com/2018/07/19/four-ar...ing-with-barn-animals-eating-twigs-and-grass/