A college student home for the summer goes missing while jogging. Investigators discover security camera video that reveals a critical clue. Josh Mankiewicz reports. Josh Mankiewicz and Andrea Canning go behind the scenes of the making of this episode in ‘Talking Dateline’ Listen on Apple: https://apple.co/4dOinTa Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3YvqhMsj8EzikWMSeay46t?si=81a2b576ed8147da
Chapter 1: Who was Molly Tibbetts?
One of the biggest cases ever in Iowa. We were desperate to find Molly.
She had been gone a little over 24 hours. Those are crucial hours, aren't they? Yes, they are. All we really had was that she went out for a jog and never came home.
We dispatched search parties, checking road ditches, fields.
A home security camera caught Molly running for an instant.
After she goes by, you see this black Chevy Malibu. We were thinking, what are the odds that we'll ever find this car?
I said, OK, so I think we got something. You weren't a detective. I was not a detective.
You'd never investigated a murder before?
Never. I felt the pressure.
I mean, that was a huge role in ICE.
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Chapter 2: What happened on the day Molly went missing?
Did you see her on that day? How'd she seem? Her happy-go-lucky self. She was excited to be at work.
Molly had a great job working at a summer day camp at a local elementary school. Supervisor Jill Sheck said Molly was a natural with children.
She loved being able to play with the kids, loved being on the playground, loved being inside doing crafts, loved doing the reading with them. That was her cup of tea.
She didn't seem concerned about anything or worried.
No, definitely not.
Just before lunch, Molly was all smiles as she pranked a co-worker and used his phone for selfies.
You got to be a big kid yourself, and Molly definitely fit that.
That day, it was Molly's turn to close up the camp. She left about 5 o'clock. She was the last person there.
Yep.
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Chapter 3: What clues were found in the investigation?
Morgan and Molly were so close. They had exchanged Snapchats every day without fail for almost two years.
This sounds so silly, but we took great pride in our Snapchat streak. I think we were in the 600s, so it was pretty cool.
So you get the hourglass, meaning your streak is in danger.
Right, which means that she hasn't responded yet. to what I sent to her.
Morgan wasn't the only one wondering where Molly was. When the camp day began, Molly wasn't there. Molly was reliable.
Oh yes, very much so. Not like her to not show up. Definitely not.
That question, where is Molly, was being asked all over Brooklyn, Iowa.
I reached out to her cousin and I said, hey, is something going on? Like Molly didn't show up for work today and they hadn't heard from her. No one has seen her.
That phone call sparked a chain reaction. Molly's family started calling each other and they were increasingly frantic.
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