Episode 107 - Mollie Tibbetts
The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories
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🗓️ 18 July 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
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 from anyone's mind.
20-year-old Mollie 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 all about to change.
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https://www.desmoinesregister.com/videos/news/2018/08/21/searching-mollie-tibbetts/1053041002
https://www.extension.iastate.edu/agdm/crops/pdf/a1-12.pdf
https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a23571291/mollie-tibbetts-memorial-run/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMa2E76Aznw
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| 0:00.0 | The opinions expressed in the following episode do not necessarily reflect those of the minds |
| 0:05.0 | of Madness podcast. |
| 0:06.8 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:36.8 | For some, it may be hard to believe there are still places that exist in the world where |
| 0:43.9 | people don't give a second thought to leaving their doors unlocked. |
| 0:48.2 | Small, safe, secure communities where the possibility of crime is the farthest thing |
| 0:54.0 | for many ones mind. |
| 0:56.0 | Twenty-year-old Molly Tibbetts lived in such a place, the tight-knit farm community of |
| 1:01.4 | Brooklyn, Iowa, but on a cool evening in the summer of July 2018, that was about to change. |
| 1:10.8 | Join me now as we take a look into the devastating disappearance of Molly Tibbetts and the desperate |
| 1:17.9 | search that captivated America's heartland. |
| 1:21.3 | You'll learn about the horrific events that shattered a small town's secure self-image |
| 1:27.7 | and ignited a national controversy. |
| 1:36.0 | Interstate 80 runs strictly through the heartland of the United States, a nearly 3,000 |
| 1:41.4 | mile-long road connecting New York City to San Francisco. |
| 1:45.6 | Heading west across the Mississippi River, travelers entering Iowa are met with green |
| 1:50.8 | slow-rolling hills and never-ending fields of corn and soybeans. |
| 1:56.0 | Approximately 90 percent of all the land in the state is dedicated to farming, and almost |
| 2:02.0 | every station on the AM radio dial provides daily agricultural updates about the weather, |
| 2:08.4 | livestock, and grain prices. |
| 2:11.0 | About 70 miles east of Des Moines, off exit 197, sits the rural farm town of Brooklyn. |
| 2:18.0 | It's one of the innumerable small communities dot in the landscape along the interstate, |
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