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Mollie Tibbetts Photos: Browse a gallery of today's news conference and search
During a 4 p.m. news conference, law enforcement officials announced that they had found the body of Mollie Tibbetts, a 20-year-old University of Iowa student that had been missing from Brooklyn, Iowa since July 18.
Browse through a photo gallery of the images from this conference, as well as additional images related to the search.
24-year-old Cristhian Bahena Rivera was arrested and charged Tuesday with first-degree murder in connection with Tibbetts' death.
Microphones fill the podium before a press conference on the Mollie Tibbetts investigation at the Poweshiek County Sheriff's Office in Montezuma on Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018. (Stephen Mally/The Gazette)
DCI Special Agent in Charge Richard Rahn read a statement at the beginning of a press conference on the Mollie Tibbetts investigation at the Poweshiek County Sheriff's Office in Montezuma on Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018. (Stephen Mally/The Gazette)
DCI Special Agent in Charge Richard Rahn answers questions during a press conference on the Mollie Tibbetts investigation at the Poweshiek County Sheriff's Office in Montezuma on Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018. (Stephen Mally/The Gazette)
DCI Special Agent in Charge Richard Rahn answers questions during a press conference on the Mollie Tibbetts investigation at the Poweshiek County Sheriff's Office in Montezuma on Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018. (Stephen Mally/The Gazette)
DCI Special Agent in Charge Richard Rahn answers questions during a press conference on the Mollie Tibbetts investigation at the Poweshiek County Sheriff's Office in Montezuma on Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018. (Stephen Mally/The Gazette)
Microphone cables run down the podium during during a press conference on the Mollie Tibbetts investigation at the Poweshiek County Sheriff's Office in Montezuma on Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018. (Stephen Mally/The Gazette)
People comfort each other during a press conference on the Mollie Tibbetts investigation at the Poweshiek County Sheriff's Office in Montezuma on Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018. (Stephen Mally/The Gazette)
DCI Special Agent in Charge Richard Rahn answers questions during a press conference on the Mollie Tibbetts investigation at the Poweshiek County Sheriff's Office in Montezuma on Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018. (Stephen Mally/The Gazette)
Laura Calderwood (center in blue shirt), the mother of Mollie Tibbetts, is comforted both others during a press conference on the Mollie Tibbetts investigation at the Poweshiek County Sheriff's Office in Montezuma on Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018. (Stephen Mally/The Gazette)
Blue ribbons wave in the wind in Brooklyn on Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018. (Stephen Mally/The Gazette)
A blue ribbon waves in the wind outside a store with a poster for Mollie Tibbetts in Brooklyn on Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018. (Stephen Mally/The Gazette)
Three vehicles on Jackson Street display signs for Mollie Tibbetts in Brooklyn on Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018. (Stephen Mally/The Gazette)
A Iowa Department of Transportation truck and barricades block 460th Avenue from traffic as law enforcement officers investigate the area where the body of Mollie Tibbetts was found southeast of Guernsey, Iowa, on Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)
An Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation vehicle is driven from an area where law enforcement is investigating where the body of Mollie Tibbetts was found southeast of Guernsey, Iowa, on Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)
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