Des Moines Register
The man charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of Mollie Tibbetts testified Wednesday that he didn t kill Tibbetts. Instead, he pointed blame at two unknown masked men one armed with a gun, another with a knife who surprised him at his home on the Yarrabee Farms property in rural Poweshiek County the night Tibbetts disappeared.
The men, according to Cristhian Bahena Rivera, forced him to get into his car July 18, 2018, and drive around near Brooklyn, Iowa, before spotting Tibbetts jogging toward town. Bahena Rivera said the men one named Jack made him circle around several times before stopping along a gravel road near where Tibbetts was last seen.
Des Moines Register
The man charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of Mollie Tibbetts testified Wednesday that he didn t kill Tibbetts. Instead, he pointed blame at two unknown masked men one armed with a gun, another with a knife who surprised him at his home on the Yarrabee Farms property in rural Poweshiek County the night Tibbetts disappeared.
The men, according to Cristhian Bahena Rivera, forced him to get into his car July 18, 2018, and drive around near Brooklyn, Iowa, before spotting Tibbetts jogging toward town. Bahena Rivera said the men one named Jack made him circle around several times before stopping along a gravel road near where Tibbetts was last seen.
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The man suspected of killing Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts said on the stand Wednesday that two masked men had actually killed the 19-year-old after taking him hostage.
Cristhian Bahena Rivera, 26, who is facing first-degree murder charges in Tibbetts’ death, told jurors that he had just gotten out of the shower the evening of July 18, 2018 when he was surprised to find two masked men, one who was armed with a gun and another carrying a knife, at his home on the Yarrabee Farms property where he lived in Poweshiek County, according to The Des Moines Register.
Cristhian Bahena Rivera claimed in court on Wednesday that two men approached him on July 18, 2018 with a knife and gun, telling him to drive into town, where they passed a jogger.