Mollie Tibbetts' murder: Iowa judge delays illegal immigrant's sentencing as new witnesses emerge
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Cristhian Bahena Rivera, 27, was set to be sentenced to life in prison without parole this week after being convicted in May of murdering University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts, but a judge delayed that sentencing Wednesday due to two new witnesses who have shaken up the case.
Bahena Rivera testified at trial that two masked men who actually killed Tibbets forced him to drive them around and dispose of Tibbetts' body. Prosecutors dismissed Rivera's claims, but his defense attorneys now say that two new witnesses came forward during the trial to support Bahena Rivera's story. One of the witnesses, an inmate at a county jail, told investigators that a fellow inmate confessed to him that he and another man stabbed Tibbets after she was kidnapped into a sex trafficking ring, then framed a Hispanic man in her death.More Related News