Mollie Tibbetts: The FBI joins the search for a student from the University of Iowa

BROOKLYN, Iowa – The FBI joins the Iowa authorities in search of a 20-year-old student from the University of Iowa who has disappeared from his home town in eastern Iowa for nearly a week. Mollie Tibbetts, of Brooklyn, Iowa, went missing last week while she was staying at her boyfriend's house

Volunteer searches for Tibbetts were canceled this week while the FBI and investigators State took control. Tuesday.

Tibbets was at his boyfriend's house to watch his dogs while he was working in a construction site about 100 miles northeast of Dubuque, KCRG-TV reported. A neighbor reported seeing Tibbetts jogging last Wednesday night

"We always ask for help from the public, we would like to have all the information possible, the more we will have eyes and ears , better it is ". Mortvedt said Tuesday. The officials have little to do, he says, but they "lean more and more towards something that happens to him against his will."

The boyfriend, Dalton Jack, told KCRG that he had received a Snapchat photo of Tibbetts on Wednesday night. after that she would have returned home from her jogging. She was reported missing on Thursday when she did not show up for work.

"She did not call," he told the station. "I looked at my phone and I noticed that I texted her in the morning and she had not looked at it, so I found her friends and family."

Mortvedt said that investigators from the FBI and Iowa were concentrating that Tibbetts has known in the past. The FBI also uses a panoply of computer forensics – such as studying online history and the use of cell phone applications – to determine where it might be,

"It could shake up many ways," Mortvedt said. "We hope and pray for the best result."

Dozens of volunteers in the town of about 1,500 people searched the fields around her house and the house where she was staying. They also covered the area with missing posters, T-shirts and posters to help them find Tibbetts.

Tibbetts' aunt, Kim Calderwood, told the Des Moines Register that the family was frustrated by the lack of progress in the research. "We're racking our brains, thinking about what we can think of telling the investigators," she said. "It's the worst thing to want to fix something that you can not fix."