Police Get Tip Mollie Tibbetts Was Spotted in Missouri

Roughly one week after Mollie Tibbetts vanished in Iowa, police received a tip of a possible sighting of the 20-year-old in Missouri. KMBC reports the Kearney Police Department fielded a tip from someone who saw a woman who looked like Tibbetts at a truck stop near I-35 and Missouri 92 Highway on July 26; that location is about 230 miles from where Tibbetts was last seen, reports ABC News. Kearney officers "spoke with all possible witnesses, and reviewed all available video footage," per a statement. A rep for the department says if they had seen Tibbetts in the footage that would have been mentioned in the statement; it was not, indicating there is no footage that backs up the witness' claim.

As for the claim, the rep added police only spoke with one person who reported seeing a Tibbetts lookalike at the truck stop. Des Moines station KCCI says a number of its viewers sent it screenshots of a Facebook post regarding the possible sighting, which noted Tibbetts "might have been drugged, looked disoriented, and was with a truck driver." KCCI did not share that post. Tibbetts was last seen jogging in Brooklyn, Iowa, on July 18. (More Mollie Tibbetts stories.)