They faced police interviews, searches of their vehicles and property and scrutiny of their cellphone data before agents determined they had nothing to do with Tibbetts' disappearance. But he told investigators that he wasn't at the car wash until three days later and that his credit card information would show that. The teen told agents he was at home July 18, but later said he may have been mowing a cemetery. He raised suspicion when he told agents that he had recently "wiped" his smartphone of all stored data and didn't have it on him. But Mortvedt said nothing in the car tied him to Tibbetts, and the man was ruled out as a suspect.

Source: Fox News December 20, 2018 05:26 UTC