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Unknown to Mollie Tibbetts, thousands of people would one day come to recognise her face.

Not just in her small hometown of Brooklyn, Iowa, but all across America. Even politicians would go on to say her name.

But before 18 July 2018, 20-year-old Mollie was just a normal girl, who bickered with her brothers and loved Harry Potter.

Petite Mollie was a student at the University of Iowa, where she was studying psychology.

She expressed herself through performance and writing, and she loved cross country running.

Mollie lived at home with her mum Laura Calderwood, and two brothers.

Her parents had separated when she was seven and just weeks earlier, Mollie had been ‘best man’ when her dad Rob Tibbetts remarried.

She’d moved everyone with her touching speech.

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