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Migrant workers pass freshly picked watermelon down a line to be loaded up in a produce trailer at the Mandujano Brothers Produce's watermelon field on Oct. 3, 2017, in Coyanosa, Texas. Dane Lang, a co-owner of Yarrabee Farms outside of Brooklyn, Iowa, stood outside his family farm this week and lamented that he had employed the undocumented immigrant charged in the murder of 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts.
This undated photo released by the Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation shows Mollie Tibbetts, a University of Iowa student who was reported missing from her hometown in the eastern Iowa city of Brooklyn on Thursday, July 19, 2018. Investigators say they have concluded that a woman spotted in northwest Missouri was not Tibbetts.
More than $170,000 has been raised as a reward to solicit information that assists in the safe return of Mollie Tibbetts, who has been missing for more than two weeks. During a news conference Thursday, Tibbetts' mother, Laura Calderwood of Brooklyn, said her family believes Mollie is alive.
Investigators are sifting through electronic data from social media accounts and a physical activity tracker to help them in the search for Mollie Tibbetts, the 20-year-old from Brooklyn, Iowa, who has been missing for one week. The avid runner always wore a Fitbit, which tracks the distance traveled and other information.