The Mollie Tibbetts search turned up a red shirt near an Iowa pig farm this week and, while it is not clear whose shirt it was, Fox News reported confirming that the missing college student worked at a day care where the uniform includes red shirts.
The clothing item was reportedly found by a person mowing the lawn near the Lincoln Wildlife Reserve, which is in the same area as a pig farm searched by FBI investigators last week for nearly two hours.
By Thursday afternoon search teams were back in the area, combing the nearby fields for any trace of the missing girl, according to Fox News.
Tibbetts was last seen jogging two weeks ago in Brooklyn, where she was staying at her boyfriend's house to look after his dogs while he was out of town.
She was reported missing the following day after failing to show up at work and when numerous attempts to reach her cell phone went straight through to voicemail.
Earlier this week police in Kearney, Missouri, said an employee at a truck stop reported Sunday that she saw someone resembling Tibbetts eating at a Taco Bell.
Additionally, several people reportedly sent KCCI-TV in Des Moines screenshots of a Facebook post about a possible sighting claiming that Tibbetts "might have been drugged, looked disoriented, and was with a truck driver."
However, Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation special agent Mike Krapfl confirmed Thursday that the reported sighting of Tibbetts wasn't substantiated and has been ruled out by investigators.
There have been few breaks in the case and investigators were following up on any lead they may come across.
Last Friday that led them to the pig farm near the wildlife reserve where they searched a home and a garage, reportedly without a warrant, Fox News said.
According to the unidentified farmer, investigators also kept his phone overnight and requested to interview him off the property, but he has not been charged with any crimes.
Tibbett's family is offering a $172,000 reward for information that will lead authorities to her, Time reported.
"It is our greatest hope that if someone has her, that they would just release her and claim that money we have raised for her freedom," her mother Laura Calderwood said Thursday.
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