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    We'll Find You: A Shocking True Crime Story
    We'll Find You: A Shocking True Crime Story
    We'll Find You: A Shocking True Crime Story
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    We'll Find You: A Shocking True Crime Story

    By Rod Kackley

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    We'll Find You: A Shocking True Crime Story is an intense, gripping story of one family's heartbreak and a community's response that you'll never forget.

     

    "We'll find you no matter what." When Mollie Tibbetts disappeared on July 18,  2018, her mother, Laura Calderwood, promised she would never quit searching.

    Mollie's father, two brothers, along with a legion of friends and other family members, took the same vow.


    A special law enforcement task force received more than 1500 tips, followed up with hundreds of interviews. All dead ends.


    Just when it seemed they'd never find Mollie, police received the one tip that led them to the University of Iowa student who left the house to go jogging one warm summer night and never came home.


    For five weeks in the summer of 2018, the whole world was watching Brooklyn, Iowa.


    You need to read this story to find out what really happened.

     

    It's a story of murder, a family's love and heartbreak, a community's support, and even political intrigue.


    We'll Find You: A Shocking True Crime Story tells the tale of a small Iowa community mobilizing to find one of their one.

     

     

     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRod Kackley
    Release dateAug 18, 2019
    ISBN9781393801801
    We'll Find You: A Shocking True Crime Story
    Author

    Rod Kackley

    It’s all about the story, as far as Rod Kackley is concerned. Whether it’s Shocking True Crime Stories or one of his many works of fiction. Rod wants to keep you turning pages and reading incredible tales of criminals, their victims, and their capture. Spoiler alert: No matter how long it takes, the bad guys rarely win. But it’s the criminal who is often the most compelling character. That’s true whether it’s “Mommy Deadliest,” the story of a woman who kills her children, or “The Murder of Thora Chamberlain,” the story of a teenage girl and her kidnapper. In Rod’s world of fiction, he spins yarns about “The Coffee Shoppe Killer, a woman who kills her lovers when they disappoint her. A teenage girl wraps a serial killer around her finger in “Go Big or Go Dead.” Then there’s “The Murder of Emma Brown,” where two young women go out to party one night, and one only returns home. Written in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Rod’s books and stories allow his readers to brush up against the world of crime without getting hurt. And it’s a heck of a ride!

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      We'll Find You - Rod Kackley

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      July 17, 2018

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      She's got her headphones in her ears and is going out for an evening run through the streets of Brooklyn, Iowa. It's the perfect time to jog as far as Mollie Tibbetts is concerned. It's summer in Iowa, so the sun hasn't even thought about setting. The temperature hasn't cooled off much, and as the sun drops in the west, it'll really start to cook. This is July after all, but it's still Mollie's favorite time to run.

      She's done this run so many times. She's gone jogging through most every street in this town of 1,500, that people have started waving to her as she goes by their homes. That isn’t so unusual for a town of this size. This is small town America. There’s only one radio station in Brooklyn. KSKB plays contemporary Christian music at 99.1 FM.

      Brooklyn’s the kind of town that has Americana written all over it. Everyone knows just about everything there is to know about everyone.

      Her boyfriend, Dalton Jack, says Mollie's run the streets of Brooklyn so many times that she knows the town better than he does, even though this is where he was born and raised.

      Devin Riley, young man with a big, uncombed beard and a couple of kids, is one of the Brooklynites who’ve grown accustomed to Mollie’s face running by their homes every night. She’d go by Devin’s house three or four times a week. Tonight, she jogs by Devin’s house around 9 p.m.

      A psychology major at the University of Iowa, Mollie's been staying with Dalton this summer, living in a house owned by Dalton's brother.

      Mollie's birthplace was about as far removed, culturally, from Brooklyn, Iowa as possible. She was born in San Francisco. After her parents divorced, Mollie moved to Iowa, when she was in the fourth grade, with her mother and her brothers as a child.

      However, even though there were hundreds of miles, separating them, Mollie is close to her father. She saw him just last month at his wedding.

      Mollie's been alone watching her boyfriend's dogs the past couple of nights. Dalton and his brother are both working construction jobs in Dubuque. But she and Dalton had texted back and forth this evening just before she went out for her run.

      Going out the door wearing dark-colored shorts, a pink sports bra, running shoes, and, of course, carrying her FitBit activity tracker and smartphone, Mollie's feeling good.

      She's got a great boyfriend, is looking forward to her sophomore year at the University of Iowa, has a decent job working at a children's day camp at UnityPoint Grinnell Regional Medical Center. It's her second summer working at the day camp, and the kids love her. She loves the kids, too. How could Mollie help it? After all, she spends more time with these children than she does with Dalton.

      And she even likes Brooklyn. What could go wrong? Nothing ever happens in Brooklyn.

      But maybe tonight will be different. Perhaps tonight, someone besides Devin and his neighbors is watching Mollie, too.

      A car’s behind her. Not that unusual to see someone on the road when she’s out running, but this guy just won’t give up. He turns when she turns. Stops when she stops.

      She’s getting worried.

      Finally, the black car passes her. She's breathing more relaxed now, concentrating on the run. It's going to be okay.

      Her relief

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