Mollie Tibbetts murder: Iowa prosecutor says video shows Mexican national circling college student on run
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As the trial opened Wednesday for the Mexican national accused of murdering 20-year-old Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts, a prosecutor described how Cristhian Bahena Rivera allegedly admitted to investigators that he spotted Tibbetts while she was out for a run one July evening in 2018 and circled back to take a second look because he thought she was “hot.”
The next thing Rivera allegedly said he remembered was driving his Malibu with her bloody body in the trunk, which he then carried over his shoulder and hid underneath stalks in a cornfield. The defense has worked to get the confession thrown out because Rivera wasn't initially read his full Miranda rights. But prosecutors on Wednesday also pointed to video and DNA evidence to be shown during the trial that allegedly proves Rivera's guilt. Tibbetts, an avid runner, was dog-sitting at a home in Brooklyn, Iowa, while her boyfriend, Dalton Jack, and his brother, Blake Jack, were out of town working construction at separate job sites. She had laced up her "multicolored neon running shoes" before leaving for her routine run that led her down a gravel road on the evening of July 18, 2018.More Related News
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