The man convicted of murdering Mollie Tibbetts is asking for a new trial, claiming he was unwittingly framed by the real killer who he claims confessed to the crime.
A farm worker was convicted for the murder of a college student nearly three years after her body was found in an Iowa cornfield.is asking for a new trial, claiming he was unwittingly framed by the real killer who he claims confessed to the crime.
But he claims the real killer confessed to at least two people that he and a sex trafficker fatally stabbed the 20-year-old University of Iowa student.Cristhian Bahena Rivera watches as the jury enters the courtroom before announcing the verdict in his trial, May 28, 2021. A jury found Bahena Rivera guilty of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of Mollie Tibbetts, a University of Iowa student who vanished while out for a run in 2018.
The inmate purportedly claimed he first saw Tibbetts bound and gagged at a sex-trafficking"trap house" owned by his alleged accomplice. He claimed, according to the defense motion, his alleged accomplice grew worried after federal authorities searching for Tibbetts showed up at a house next door to his.
In his testimony during the trial, Bahena Rivera claimed he was kidnapped at his home near Brooklyn, Iowa, by two armed masked men, who ordered him to drive to where Tibbetts was expected to be jogging. He claimed that when they found Tibbetts, one of the men stabbed her to death, put her body in the trunk of Bahena Rivera's car and made him drive to a cornfield, where the young woman's badly decomposed remains were discovered a month after she went missing.
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