Monday marked four years since Mollie Tibbetts disappeared
by Iowa's News Now Staff
FILE - In this September 2016 file photo provided by Kim Calderwood, Mollie Tibbetts poses for a picture during homecoming festivities at BGM High School in her hometown of Brooklyn, Iowa. Video evidence, DNA analysis and a partial confession will be critical to proving Cristhian Bahena Rivera, a farm laborer, stabbed Tibbetts, a University of Iowa student, to death while she was out for a run in 2018, a prosecutor told jurors Wednesday, May 19, 2021. (Kim Calderwood via AP, File)
BROOKLYN, Iowa (Iowa's News Now) —
Monday marked four years since Mollie Tibbetts went for a run in Poweshiek County and never came home.
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It was July 18, 2018 that the 20-year-old University of Iowa student disappeared near her hometown of Brooklyn.
Her body was found in a cornfield a few miles away a month later.
Cristhian Bahena Rivera led authorities to Tibbetts' body after surveillance video showed his black Chevy Malibu driving past her during the run.
While he testified that two men kidnapped and forced him to drive them to Tibbetts so they could kill her, a jury found Bahena Rivera guilty last may of carrying out the murder himself.
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He's now serving a life sentence.
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