Found...5 years ago our little community was shaken by the kidnapping and death of Kathlynn Shepherd. Our little small town, safe town where our kids attend school, two girls kidnapped. One escaped and ran free, but will never be the same. Today 5 years later, another victim. Mollie T, who had been missing for a month. Since July 20th, we have wondered and waited. With technology and criminal investigations, we kept thinking she couldn't just disappear. We prayed and I thought of her often, being close to Jayden's age. Her father and family posted signs, made shirts, buttons, did all they could in searching for his daughter who went missing. They poured time and money into investigations and traveled posting signs, billboards, and news interviews, not giving up. They had a booth at the Iowa state fair passing out flyers and info. It was only days after the fair when she was found. She went jogging and was house sitting in a small town, the town of Brooklyn. I had been to that town once for a rodeo. It would be similar to Dayton. Pictures show a young beautiful girl, a soon to be Junior at University of Iowa. She was in the news daily, her family persistent in her search, hiring authorities and raising the reward for any information. So young, so pretty, and a little town in Iowa. She was found, but not in the way many had hoped and prayed for. Found buried in an Iowa corn field after being murdered by a 20 year old illegal immigrant.
Nearly 5 weeks to the day Mollie disappeared, she was found. We heard her name on the news daily and even National news. A heartbreaking end to the story. Fear grips at you when you have a daughter the same age.
I don't let myself go there in thoughts with my own. I mourn for Mollie's family, for the heartache they are going through. I pray for them often. We live in a world where evil is real. My God is bigger and he is what gets us through. He is the reason we have hope, hope for eternity. Mollie's family has faith and I am sure they will see her again. Without faith and hope, I don't know how you get through a situation like that.
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