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The search for Mollie Tibbetts drew national interest.
Young, bright and described as “everyone’s counselor,” Tibbetts, 20, was a college student from rural Iowa whose missing person case involved hundreds of community members in her search and drew national media to Brooklyn, Iowa, about an hour outside Des Moines.
Tibbetts had disappeared while out on a run on July 18, 2018. The monthlong search to find her ended on Aug. 21, when a Mexican native, Cristhian Bahena Rivera, was charged with first-degree murder. Rivera, then 24, was in the U.S. working illegally on a dairy farm at the time of her death.