Mollie Tibbetts Update: Police Get Fitbit Data

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Mollie Tibbetts, photographed with her boyfriend, Dalton Jack.

The search for a missing student from the University of Iowa entered his eighth day on July 26, with investigators reviewing the technology, including his FitBit, while continuing a ground search around the area where it was last seen. Mollie Tibbetts, 20, disappeared from Brooklyn, Iowa, where she was sitting at her boyfriend's brother's house. She was last seen on Wednesday, July 18, and sent messages from her phone to her boyfriend and mother later in the evening. She was reported missing after she did not show up for work on July 19th.

The authorities stated that they were treating the disappearance of Tibbetts as a case of disappearance, but they did not rule out an abduction. Brooklyn is a city of about 1,400 people in eastern Iowa, located halfway between Des Moines and Cedar Rapids. The community gathered around the Tibbetts family as research continued over the weekend, displaying placards and distributing flyers throughout the region.

Her family said that she would never leave the grill and run away. "No, absolutely not, Mollie would never run away, I spoke to her for the last time at 7:30 pm Wednesday night about what was for dinner, I told her guys, she said" ok Said her mother, Laura Calderwood, to KWWL-TV, whose aunt Kim Calderwood told the Des Moines Register: "It's frustrating, it's powerless." We dig our brains, thinking to what we can think of telling investigators.It's the worst thing … wanting to fix something that you can not fix. "

Tibbetts measures 5" 3 "and weighs 120 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes, possibly wearing running clothes, such as gym shorts, running shoes and a sports bra or an athletic T-shirt, or could wear Work clothes, denim shorts and a red T-shirt Anyone with information is asked to call the County Sheriff's Office. Poweshiek, at 641-623-5679.

Here are the latest updates from the survey:

Authorities have obtained FitBit data which they say will be useful in the investigation

The FBI joined the investigation alongside state and local authorities. In the most recent development, the authorities claimed to have obtained FitBit data from the Tibbetts device. Her boyfriend, Dalton Jack, said that Tibbetts, an avid runner, wore the FitBit all the time. A FitBit is a portable activity tracker that uses wireless technology to measure data such as the number of steps traveled, the heart rate, the quality of sleep, the stages of climbing and d & # 39; Other measures of fitness. The FitBit could also have the ability to track the location using GPS.

Authorities said they were examining Tibbetts devices, including FitBit and its phone, as well as social media, email accounts and other digital activities. Mitch Mortvedt, deputy director of the Criminal Investigations Division of Iowa, said that they were able to obtain FitBit data that will be useful to the investigation, but no 39 did not provide details on these data, according to the Des Moines Registry. "We are getting a lot of information from this process, we have a lot of hope with the electronic data that we are recovering," he told the newspaper. "We are relying heavily on the FBI because 39 is a technological world in constant evolution. He added that with each passing day, a kidnapping becomes a greater possibility, telling the newspaper: "We have not ruled out anything, but it's been a week so it's increasingly suspect for us. "

Mortvedt told CNN about the use of FitBit data, "This is a new arena for us – it's partly for this reason that we called the FBI. probably new to them too.I do not know another case here in Iowa where we used specifically Fitbit information. "

He told ABC News:" For a 20-year-old missing and completely falling out from the grid as far as social media, the cell phone, the banking business, this kind of thing – it's obviously a very suspicious and very serious topic. "She is very well connected by social media , the cell phone and the exercise equipment, so we try to use it, obviously, to get all the information possible. "

Thomas Kriegel, sheriff of Poweshiek County, said : We believe that there will be useful information [from the Fitbit data] but [we are] does not want to share that. "

Mortveldt told The Cedar Rapids Gazette that investigators had received data from several search warrants filed earlier in the investigation." This has been described as a huge amount of data coming from of our search warrants. And we do not have a precise timetable as to how long it will take to sort it out, but it will take time. "

He added," We follow everything. We send people around the world as tips arrive and trails are developed. No one was detained. Many people were interviewed and investigators conducted several field interviews, but no one was detained.

He told The Gazette that he hoped the data would be useful, but it is too early to say.

Tibbetts boyfriend was excluded as a suspect

Instagram / Cynthia Brodie- Jack Mollie Tibbetts with her boyfriend, Dalton Jack.

said on July 25 that Dalton Jack, Mollie Tibbetts' boyfriend, is not a suspect in the case and has cooperated since the beginning. Jack, who has been with Tibbetts for almost three years after meeting in high school, was outside the town of Dubuque, Iowa, with his brother and his brother's fiancé at a construction site. He works for his brother's construction company. Jack is believed to be one of the last people to have heard of Tibbetts. He said that she had sent him a Snapchat photo around 10 pm.

Dalton Jack tells WOI-TV that he remains optimistic and thinks that Tibbetts will soon be home. "It's not like her – if it's her leaving, no one would have seen her coming in. Nobody in the world – not her family, not me, nobody would have ever guessed that she would take off and not tell anyone.

Jack told ABC News: "She probably has her Fitbit because she never removes it. She uses it for sleep tracking and for all her errands and everything, "he said." She probably has her cell phone, but it is off or dead, and we tried to call her obviously, and goes directly to voicemail. "

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Her cousin, Emily Heaston, said the police searched the house where Tibbetts was staying. "Everything is right where she left him. Wallet, laptop, everything else was where she had last placed it, "Heaston told KWQC-TV.

Heaston said Tibbetts was looking forward to his second year of college and has a Trip planned for next week. "Mollie had just asked me this week for furniture for her apartment at the school for the next school year. She's scheduled a trip to the Dominican Republic for next week, "said Heaston, who said she was" like a sister "to Tibbetts, told the news station. She added," J & # 39, try not to imagine the worst, but I'm so scared that someone took her away. "

Tibbetts' mother told ABC News that her daughter and the little one Her husband's friends are in the Dominican Republic wedding. "She and her boyfriend Dalton were preparing to go to the Dominican Republic on Aug. 2 to attend Dalton's brother's wedding," Laura Calderwood told ABC News. approaching that date, it's as if I get closer to me, because I think of those two people who are getting married and who are also very close to Mollie. [It’s] supposed to be the happiest day of their life. "

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Her colleague and friend, Emily Fenner, told CrimeOnline, "She is an incredibly responsible and intelligent person.When she did not come to work Thursday and did not call, I have started looking for her boyfriend, who was in Dubuque for work and had not heard any news of her either.It was then that we started the ball and called the authorities. "

Fenner added: "She is an avid runner and she usually goes out at night when she gets colder.In the beginning, we thought something was happening to her during a run, but because the day camp shirt that we had was she was supposed to wear Thursday is missing, now they think maybe something happened on Thursday morning so basically she's probably either in a sports bra and bra or shorts red and denim shorts. "

Kriegel says Inside Edition," We do not know when she has di sparu We do not know if she disappeared while jogging, we do not know if she disappeared from her house. That's what's bothering us right now.

Police also said that Tibbetts' two brothers were also excluded as suspects.

Investigators probed a pig farm about 15 minutes from Brooklyn and other areas, including fields of corn

Investigators returned to areas searched by volunteers the days following the demise of Tibbetts, who spent more time combing the area. These areas include cornfields. A pig farm in Guernsey, Iowa, about 15 minutes from Brooklyn, according to KCRG-TV. Authorities also searched several other places in Poweshiek County, but this research and farm research yielded no results, reports the Iowa Police Department, Mortveldt, of the Criminal Investigations Department. from Iowa. the FBI and DCI are combing the areas she frequents frequently to find evidence. "It's a creature of habit and it has taken the same roads, so we come back and cover those areas and interview people again," Mortvedt told the newspaper.

The rural area made research more difficult. Sheriff Kriegel told ABC News: "We are surrounded by a farm: corn and soy. Right now, the corn is probably eight, nine feet tall. The only way to do a search is to go down both rows. It is difficult. Even overflighting planes have trouble looking in rows of corn. "

The police also look at any surveillance video around Brooklyn that they can find.The FBI sent up to 15 officers to assist in the search." In my brief this morning, it was said that there were others on the way, "said Tibbetts mother, Laura Calderwood, to CNN.

Police asked anyone with For more information, contact the Poweshiek County Sheriff's Office at 641-623-5679 or [email protected] You can read more about Mollie Tibbetts here