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Mollie Tibbetts case: Body found believed to be missing Iowa jogger; murder charge filed with Illegal migrant
[ABC] A first-degree murder charge was filed on Tuesday against a young man in the case of missing Iowa jogger Mollie Tibbetts, state officials said Tuesday.The suspect, 24-year-old Cristhian Rivera, is an undocumented immigrant who lives in the rural area where the college student vanished one month ago, according to Rick Rahn of the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation. Some might refer to Rivera as an illegal alien. A body recovered Tuesday morning in a farm field is believed to be Tibbetts, Rahn said, but the identity has not yet been confirmed. Tibbetts, a 20-year-old rising sophomore at the University of Iowa, disappeared the evening of July 18 while jogging in the rural farming town of Brooklyn, a close-knit community of about 1,500 residents. A critical break in the case was finding a local person with security cameras showing Tibbetts jogging, Rahn said. "Through that we were able to identify a vehicle that we believed belonged to Mr. Rivera," Rahn said. "From that we were able to track his patterns and the routes that he took. We were also able to find Mollie running on this video and we were able to determine that he was one of the last ones to have seen Mollie running." In an interview, Rivera told authorities he saw Tibbetts running, got out of his car and ran alongside of her, Rahn said. Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2018-08-22 |
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