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Jun 14, 2022 · The residents of Brooklyn, Iowa, were shocked when 20-year-old college student Mollie Tibbetts went missing while on a jog near her house, only to be found dead in a cornfield a few weeks later. Although there was a serial lack of leads from the beginning of the investigation, a CCTV surveillance video led detectives to Cristhian Bahena Rivera ...
A farm worker has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the murder of student Mollie Tibbetts. Cristhian Bahena Rivera had been found guilty of her murder in May ...
Murder of Mollie Tibbetts. On July 18, 2018, Mollie Cecilia Tibbetts, a 20-year-old University of Iowa student, disappeared while jogging near her home in Brooklyn, Iowa. A month later, police identified 24-year-old Cristhian Bahena Rivera as a suspect in connection with the disappearance; surveillance footage showed Rivera's car following ...
May 28, 2021 · Cristhian Bahena Rivera will be sentenced on 15 July Rivera told police in August 2018 that he had followed Ms Tibbetts when she was out for a run, got angry with her when she threatened to call ...
- Rivera Trial Goes to Recess Until Monday Morning
- Defense Cross-Examines Dci Criminalist
- Judge Threatens to Jail Photographer Who Took Photos of Jurors
- Photos of Body Found in Cornfield Shown to Jury
- Ruling Suppressing Evidence 'Will Not Be Altered at This Time'
- No Evidence That 'My Client Intended to Sexually Assault Mollie Tibbetts'
- Defense: Watch The Defendant Sleeping
- Takeaways from Thursday's Testimony
- What Should Jurors Expect During The Trial?
- Tibbetts Was 'Everyone's Counselor'
4 p.m.:DCI criminalist Tara Scott completed her testimony Friday, describing to defense attorney Chad Frese the results of DNA analyses conducted on numerous items connected to the case. In many cases, she said, stains found in the trunk of Bahena Rivera's car or recovered from the cornfield contained DNA from multiple people or was too weak and co...
2 p.m.:Prosecutors finished questioning DCI crime scene investigator Amy Johnson after lunch, and then defense attorneys took their turn. Attorney Jennifer Frese asked a number of questions probing forensic procedures, asking about the possibility of cross-contamination of evidence and inquiring into several hairs that Johnson found while examining...
12:30 p.m.:Judge Joel Yates seized a news camera and threatened to jail a pool photographer after she acknowledged taking photographs of jurors during Friday’s testimony, which is barred under Iowa court rules. The move came shortly before the lunch recess when a female juror rose to ask the judge, “I was under the impression they weren’t supposed ...
12 p.m.: The court has broken for lunch, and the trial will resume at 1:15 p.m. with more testimony from DCI criminalist Amy Johnson. Prior to the break, the jury viewed photos of the body found partially covered with corn stalks in the field. The images, which were not retransmitted by the video pool, showed a partly decomposed body wearing bright...
11:15 a.m.: Prosecutors asked Judge Joel Yates to allow them to question witness Pamela Romero about how Bahena Rivera led officers to the field where Tibbetts was found. Yates had previously ruled that part of the interview was inadmissible, but prosecutor Scott Brown said the defense had opened the door to that evidence with their suggestion that...
10:30 a.m.:After questioning about the length and circumstances of the interrogation, defense attorney Jennifer Frese raised for the first time the topic of sexual assault, which is not part of the state's case against Bahena Rivera. "You're not aware of any statements that my client tried to sexually assault Mollie Tibbetts, correct?" Frese asked....
9:20 a.m.:Friday began with further cross-examination of former Iowa City police officer Pamela Romero, a Spanish speaker who interrogated Bahena Rivera for more than 11 hours on Aug. 20 and 21, 2018. Romero said Thursday she never saw Bahena Rivera sleeping during the hourslong interview, so defense attorney Jennifer Frese began the day playing vi...
State prosecutors have so far focused on methodically building a timeline of the investigation in the weeks after Tibbetts disappeared while jogging. The defendant's attorneys, who've opted to defer their opening statement until the state has finished its case, will resume cross-examining the police interviewer, Pamela Romero, on Friday morning. Wh...
On Monday, a prosecutor warned prospective jurors that the trial will include graphic evidence that will be emotionally difficult to see and hear, the Associated Press reported. Prosecutor Scott Brown said the trial will feature photos and testimony about the stab wounds Tibbetts suffered while out for a run. "We’re going to talk about the violent ...
After weeks of relentlessly searching for Tibbetts with no word of her whereabouts, Tibbetts' family, friends, teachers, coaches and co-workers described the woman behind the face smiling from countless missing person posters spread across the country. They called Tibbetts "everyone's counselor," and a caring young woman with an “infectious laugh a...
May 28, 2021 · Cristhian Bahena Rivera speaks to a court interpreter during his trial on May 26, 2021. ... That was when he said they came across a young woman he now knows to be Tibbetts. Rivera testified that ...
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Aug 31, 2021 · Mollie Tibbetts vanished on a rural road outside her hometown while out for a run in July 2018. Cristhian Bahena Rivera was sentenced to life in prison for the stabbing death of the college student.
