The community may hold the slightest idea of ​​finding a student from the University of Iowa

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The father of a missing student from Iowa says that the search for his daughter can be futile without advice from the general public.

Speaking in an interview with "Good Morning America", Rob Tibbetts said he believes the public could hold the key to find his daughter, Mollie Tibbetts, who disappeared on July 18 after jogging in the evening.

"What we need, is that people say to their friends and neighbors it has seemed, even from afar, unusual to call the authorities and they will exhaust it," said Tibbetts. "The authorities have told us again and again that all similar cases are still resolved by counsel."

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Mollie Tibbetts was missing after failing to report to Brooklyn, Iowa, "Rob Tibbetts said the community near Brooklyn had made "extraordinary" efforts to publicize the disappearance of his daughter, but he believes that there is someone else with whom information that could help locate

"The day after Mollie's disappearance, 400 people spontaneously came forward to form a spontaneous research team," said Rob Tibbetts. "I think it's because this community knows Mollie, they love Mollie and I think the rest of the country is starting to understand who she is too."

Fighting to hold back tears, he says the public should forget to console him.

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"No matter what we go through, we just need people to think – because someone knows something and does not even know it's important" said Rob Tibbetts. "We can recover Mollie, we just have to call someone [the tip line]

" We all want her to come back and we will have to rely on our law enforcement partners, but we can help them by guiding them to who are guiding this research effort and that's all we can do, "he added.