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Cristhian Bahena Rivera (right) listens to testimony during his trial at the Scott County Courthouse in Davenport Thursday. Bahena Rivera is charged with first-degree in the death of Mollie Tibbetts.
A police officer testified Thursday that the man accused of killing Mollie Tibbetts in 2018 led investigators to the cornfield where her body was found. Cristhian Bahena Rivera told officers he killed the 20 year old college student, but said he “blacked out” his memory and couldn’t remember how.
In the second day of testimony in the first degree murder trial of Bahena Rivera, investigators detailed how it was home security camera footage that tipped them off to a vehicle that appeared to follow a jogger who they believed to be Tibbetts on the evening she disappeared.
01/28/21
Prosecutors in the Mollie Tibbetts murder trial are accusing the defense of subverting protocol and filing illegitimate subpoenas to request access to banking records.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette reports that attorneys for Cristian Bahena Rivera directed a subpoena for Tibbetts’ banking records that was issued by the Poweshiek County Clerk on January 15tth. Assistant Iowa Attorney General Scott Brown says that the attorneys did not notify the state of their actions, and didn’t enter it into the court’s filing system, suggesting they were trying to hide the subpoena.
Brown called the action “a fishing expedition into the confidential banking records of University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts, who is not a witness or party, and is the person the defendant is charged with killing.”
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