The body of missing college student Mollie Tibbetts was found 
Tuesday, her father and two sources told Fox News, bringing an 
end to an intensive search that lasted more than a month and 
captured national headlines.

Tibbetts' father, Rob Tibbetts, told Fox News the body found is 
that of his 20-year-old daughter, who vanished in mid-July.

A law enforcement source earlier told Fox News the body was 
found in Iowa, but more specific details about the location were 
not released. Iowa Department of Public Safety said a body was 
discovered in Poweshiek County.

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Authorities believe they found the body of Mollie Tibbetts on 
Tuesday.

Greg Willey, the vice president of Crime Stoppers of Central 
Iowa, also told the Associated Press the body found Tuesday is 
believed to be Tibbetts.

No arrests have been announced in connection with the Tibbetts 
case. A news conference was announced for 4 p.m. local time on 
Tuesday.

Tibbetts, a University of Iowa student, was reported missing 
after she failed to respond to messages from her boyfriend, 
Dalton Jack, and did not show up for work. She was last seen 
jogging around Brooklyn around 7:30 p.m. on July 18 and was 
staying with her boyfriend and working while home from school 
over the summer. She would have started her junior year of 
college this week.

Missing college student from Iowa seen laughing in video 
recorded by her friend the day before she went missing.
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Tibbetts' family pleaded for her safe return and had remained 
hopeful she would be found alive. Rob Tibbetts was returning 
home to the San Francisco area after spending weeks looking for 
his daughter, The Des Moines Register reported Sunday.

"The bottom line is somebody knows something," Rob Tibbetts 
previously told Fox News, adding Brooklyn is a small city and