A week after Tibbetts went missing, state and federal authorities announced they obtained information from Tibbetts FitBit, which she always wore when running.
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A couple of days later, the Bring Mollie Tibbetts Home Safe Reward Fund reached $172,000 for tips about Tibbetts, announced her mother, Laura Calderwood. The fund would eventually grow to nearly $400,000.
On Aug. 6, Rob Tibbetts told Fox News that he thought his daughter was caught in some kind of misunderstanding with someone she knows.
The national scope of the search was cemented when Vice President Mike Pence commented on the case while at an event in Des Moines. I just want Mollie s family to know: You’re on the hearts of every American, he said during an Aug. 15 event.