The video on which the following comments were posted was just a re-hash of info we already know, versus these posts:

Former Iowa rez here. Ohio. I-80 was a major corridor for drugs back in the 70s and 80s, and probably before that. It wouldn't be surprising if it's now used for sex trafficking..

Drugs were run mostly by mafia I know first hand as a guy in 7th grade--early 80s--his dad was busted for drugs. The DEA even removed their house's window frames and found bricks of cocaine! The dad worked for Chicago mobsters. Never saw our classmate again, neighbors said they moved in the middle of the night with the FBI guarding them, and there's zero records under the family name. No court records either, as the dad was hit with a slew of federal charges. We're sure they got put in the witness protection program.


It'd be interesting to see the numbers of missing kids/young adults around I-80 that remain unresolved. I feel it's someone she knew. Why were her brothers even suspected in the first place?? Isn't that odd? They think she returned to the bf's house after her jog, they looked at her fitbit data. Fitbit, if she kept it on, would also tell authorities if/when she was attacked according to increased heart rate/pulse.

They haven't released any info about that publicly. Fitbit data helped convict a murderer IIRC in Australia as it proved the time of death, and the murderer provided a different timeline.

They almost always look at family and friends first, as statistically they're most likely to be involved. Once those people are cleared police will move on to other potential suspects.

I know they look at family/partners first; but to come out and say the brothers were cleared sounded flat out weird. Usually it's 'we can rule out her boyfriend and immediate family after investigating them'. Instead of saying "Her brothers were cleared." So does that leave her parents? Just weird.

The area is vast, Iowa has a smaller population than Ireland but is more than 4 times bigger. So hard to govern such a huge area, so many places to hide.

Most of the time, the sex traficking is here in North America. It's more difficult to ship a person overseas but not impossible. Shipping containers and some bribed dock staff or owned docks goes a long way. Organized crime is a bitch.

51 people that go unsolved out of almost 8000 is still an incredibly high number. Under 20 you could chalk it up to a serial killer I suppose but they don't exactly pop up all that often and when they do, the ones that wind up successfully killing a high number do it over the course of many years, not in just one. Besides, all these missing people that when unsolved, are young and mostly female.