Mollie Tibbets - The Sad Conclusion to the Grand Tale

It looks like investigators found her, but not the way they had hoped. After missing for more than a month, her body was found in a cornfield. You’ve heard the story—a beautiful young lady with hopes, dreams, and a real future went missing in a rural town in Iowa. Reporters, friends, family, investigators, and complete strangers around the nation went looking for her. You wouldn’t be reading this now if you hadn’t already heard about it!

According to the new release on August 21, 2018, she was abducted on 385th Avenue in Brooklyn, IA. Somewhere along the line she was also killed, but the details were not given. Her hidden body ended up in a cornfield on 460th. The same county, but more than 10 miles away by car. An illegal alien from Mexico age 24 is charged with murder. (Screenshot from Google Maps)

 It seems that this is real life—what a parallel! We get so involved in fantasy. We could live the good life—cruises, first class airplane rides, traveling the world! We save as much money as we can to get a glimpse of what that might be like—then we make it sound much better than it actually was! This thinking snowballs into grand tales of success and greatness!

Mollie’s story went viral. Everybody knew she was missing, yet nobody knew where she was. Thousands of people helped to search for her. Even I, thousands of miles away, felt the hope that she would be found alive.

In the end, she didn’t make it very far. No, she wasn’t alive. No, she wasn’t found by some concerned citizen hundreds of miles away. She was right where it all started and the murder was solved in the very same county in which it took place.

 It seems so disappointing—we wanted to hear some great story of how they took down the killer; we wanted to find out that she survived in Iowa’s farmlands, feeding off grass and sucking up fresh water through a straw. That’s just how it always is, though, isn’t it?

At the same time this was a wonderful display of how local community members come together. How families should stick together. Mollie’s dad spared no money, gave up every second of his time, and make every effort for his daughter. That’s how it should be.

Families are not created easily. You don’t automatically love your husband or wife when you get married. You grow into it. You have children and they are difficult. Life is not simple. Yet, when you work at it, you achieve what this family achieved.

This world breaks apart the family and all that it stands for, but Mollie’s family is a perfect example of what it should be. They make mistakes, I’m sure. They have fought with each other no doubt. However, when push comes to shove, the family overcomes the world. They didn’t truly need the help of the nation. They just needed each other.

So, don’t worry about Mollie—worry about yourself. She proved that life is wonderful and families are important. Now it’s your turn! Build what you can in your own home and community! When life gets hard (and trust me, it does!), you can be the one that brings people together for a great cause. Be the firm foundation people can trust!