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For some, it may be hard to believe there are still places that exist in the world where

people don't give a second thought to leaving their doors unlocked.

Small, safe, secure communities where the possibility of crime is the farthest thing

for many ones mind.

Twenty-year-old Molly Tibbetts lived in such a place, the tight-knit farm community of

Brooklyn, Iowa, but on a cool evening in the summer of July 2018, that was about to change.

Join me now as we take a look into the devastating disappearance of Molly Tibbetts and the desperate

search that captivated America's heartland.

You'll learn about the horrific events that shattered a small town's secure self-image

and ignited a national controversy.

Interstate 80 runs strictly through the heartland of the United States, a nearly 3,000

mile-long road connecting New York City to San Francisco.

Heading west across the Mississippi River, travelers entering Iowa are met with green

slow-rolling hills and never-ending fields of corn and soybeans.

Approximately 90 percent of all the land in the state is dedicated to farming, and almost

every station on the AM radio dial provides daily agricultural updates about the weather,

livestock, and grain prices.

About 70 miles east of Des Moines, off exit 197, sits the rural farm town of Brooklyn.

It's one of the innumerable small communities dot in the landscape along the interstate,

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