CRISTHIAN Bahena Rivera, 26, said Mollie Tibbetts “tried to slap him and yelled at him,” a policeman said.
While being interrogated in a cornfield, Rivera allegedly told Iowa officer Pamela Romero that she had followed Tibbetts in her car, was handed over and began carrying her.
Rivera said Tibbetts saw him and tried to use his cell phone to call the police.
“He said Mollie tried to slap him and yelled at him,” Romero said. “Mr. Rivera said that’s when he was given anger. “
The blood discovered in the suspect’s Chevy Malibu trunk “was a first game” for the murdered student testified a coroner last week.
Tara Scott, a forensic attorney in the DNA segment of the Iowa Crime Lab, said she analyzed a swab taken from a bloodstain discovered in the joint after investigators recovered Tibbetts’ body.
“The profile I had of Mollie Tibbetts and the profile of that blood matched,” Scott said. “They were precisely the same. “
Rivera, 26, charged with first-degree murder for Tibbetts’ stabbing death, pleaded not guilty.
Tibbetts, 20, disappeared while running on July 18, 2018 in Brooklyn, Iowa.
Investigators recovered his naked, decaying body from a cornfield a month later.
During the interrogation, Rivera led the police to the cornfield where he found his body, telling them, “I brought them here, didn’t I?
The defense, which presented the interrogation video as evidence, argued that Rivera gave the impression of being a sleeping component of the interrogation.
Pamela Romero, who interviewed Rivera, testified on the bench of witnesses that she did not know Rivera asleep, however, a look at the transcript of the interrogation showed that she had told the defendant, “You fell asleep. “
The trial continues.
NO PREVIOUS CRIMINAL HISTORY
Cristhian Bahena Rivera, a girl’s father, had no history of criminals, the court said last week.
HOW DID RIVERA GET HERE?
Cristhian Bahena Rivera, who worked on a local dairy farm under a pseudonym, pleaded guilty.
He faces life if convicted.
JURORS PRESENTED GRAPHIC IMAGES OF TIBBETTS’ BODY
On Friday, the jury of the farmer’s murder trial accused of massacring Mollie Tibbetts saw graphic photographs of his naked and decaying body.
The photos were taken at the Iowa cornfield where Cristhian Bahena Rivera, a Mexican citizen who arrived illegally in the United States, allegedly threw the Tibbetts frame after kidnapping her while running.
Prosecutors say he stabbed the woman to death.
The photographs showed a decomposed body dressed in brightly colored shoes and a pink sports bra.
A pair of black shorts, underwear and clothing that may have been just a headband were discovered in the nearby field.
SUSPECTED LED COPS OR BODY WERE FOUND
Investigators say Bahena Rivera, who faces a criminal life if convicted, took them to the cornfield where Tibbetts’ body was discovered on August 21, 2018.
He told an officer at the site that he approached Tibbetts as she ran and fought with her after she threatened to call the police.
He said he didn’t know how he killed her, but hid his bloodied body in the box under corn stalks, former officer Pamela Romero testified in court.
However, he suggested that the suspect stated that the confession is false and enforced as a result of sleep depravity and harsh interrogation techniques.
WHO ARE MOLLIE TIBBETT’S PARENTS?
Mollie Tibbetts are Rob Tibbetts and Laura Calderwood.
In addition to Mollie, he has two children, Scott and Jake Tibbetts.
TRIAL AT RECEPTION UNTIL MONDAY
After DCI’s criminal Tara Scott finished her testimony last Friday, the court was adjourned until Monday morning.
Judge Yates reminded jurors of their sworn duty to speak or listen to others discussing the case, adding any media coverage.
However, he told them they didn’t want to be home, saying he would spend four hours this weekend to become “the oldest first base coach in Iowa youth baseball history” for his son’s baseball game.
THE JUDGE RECOGNIZES THE INTENSITY OF THE MEDIA AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST
Judge Joel Yates said in an order dated Monday that the public and the media would not be able to enter the courtroom when Cristhian Bahena Rivera’s trial began last week.
But he expressed an “intense public interest” in the case and said news organizations could use remotely controlled video cameras to stream live debates over the Internet or on television.
Rivera is recently being tried in Davenport for first-degree murder over the death of 20-year-old Tibbetts, who disappeared in July 2018 while fleeing in Brooklyn, Iowa.
Prosecutors allege that Rivera, 26, followed Tibbetts into a vehicle, killed her in a struggle, and dumped her body in a cornfield.
DON’T PUT MOLLIE’S MOVEMENT IN SOMETHING MEDIUM, IT SAYS SO MUCH
Mollie Tibbetts’ aunt begged her not to turn her murder and her “movement” into “something ugly. “
Billie Jo Calderwood wrote on Facebook: “Remember that evil exists in ALL colors.
“Our circle of relatives was fortunate to be surrounded by love, friendship, and help in this trial through friends from all nations and other races. “
Then he shared the user’s message that said, in part: “Please don’t aggravate the atrocity of what happened to him by adding racism and hatred to the equation. . .
“I don#molliesmovement t get anything ugly. “
TESTIMONY OF JACK BROTHERS
The Jack brothers testified that they had become involved after learning on July 19 that Tibbetts had not appeared to paint in a nursery and that she was not answering her phone.
They both went back to Brooklyn to look for her by calling the police.
Dalton Jack testified that the component of a bridge structure team in Dubuque, about 140 miles (225 km) from Brooklyn.
He worked 12 hours on July 18, then drank beer and played games on the lawn with the team before going to sleep at a hotel, adding that he had never returned to Brooklyn that night.
MOLLIE ‘HAPPY, BUBBLE AND GOOFY’ – BOYFRIEND
Mollie’s boyfriend Dalton Jack, now an army sergeant stationed in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, testified that he met Tibbetts in high school and had been dating her for three years.
He described her as “happy, bubbly, clumsy,” saying he enjoyed laughing and that he ran almost every day.
On the day of his disappearance, Tibbetts stayed at the Brooklyn house where Jack and his older brother Blake Jack lived.
He had watched Blake Jack’s dogs while the brothers were out of town that week to work.
Brooklyn hairdresser Kristina Steward said she advanced Tibbetts as she ran down a street outside Brooklyn around 7:45 p. m. on July 18. He said he had known Tibbetts for years and that he was “heartbroken” when he learned that he had disappeared the next day. .
A BOYFRIEND REJECTS THE ROLE IN SANITATION
The University of Iowa’s boyfriend said Wednesday that it had nothing to do with his kidnapping and stabbing in 2018.
He also told the court that he had left the city to the paintings and that he was heartbroken about his murder.
Dalton Jack, the lifelong boyfriend of Mollie Tibbetts, a key witness on the first day of the first-day trial for first-degree murder of Cristhian Bahena Rivera, the Mexican citizen accused of his murder.
During the interrogation, Bahena Rivera’s defense attorneys tried to raise suspicions about Jack, retracting him as a kind of bad temper who had a tumultuous date with Tibbetts and had cheated on her with at least one woguy.
TIBBETTS SEEN RUNNING ON CCTV
Last Thursday in court, jurors saw videos of a race and a vehicle that then connected with Bahena Rivera driving towards her seconds later, what investigators called critical of resolving the case.
Iowa Criminal Investigations Division officer Derek Riessen said he received a surveillance video from the owner on August 14 as part of an investigation into Brooklyn and began examining it with other agents.
Riessen said he decided he was a runner who gave the impression of having a ponytail and passed at 7:45 p. m.
About 20 seconds later, he passed a black Chevy Malibu with chrome rims and unique door handles. Riessen stated that the vehicle was under surveillance several times for the next 20 minutes, and eventually returned to the driver’s direction at a top speed at 8:07 p. m.
He said Tibbetts, 20, is suspected of being on a rural road about 3. 2 km away around 8:20 p. m.
RIVERA ‘SHRUNK HER SHOULDERS’ IN SEARCH
Officer Pamela Romero, then an officer in Iowa City, brought Bahena Rivera to question because, like him, she is originally from Mexico, whose first language is Spanish.
He recalled at last week’s trial that he had asked Bahena Rivera what she thought when her neighbors and many investigators had been in favor of Tibbetts.
“He shrugged and said, “I have no idea, ” said Romero.
RIVERA TOOK OFF HER BLOOD SHIRT – SAYS THE TEST
Bahena Rivera told Officer Romero that she did not know how Tibbetts was delivered in the vehicle, but that she headed to the cornfield with her body on her shoulder, covered him with leaves and left immediately.
He said his body felt “like a user who just fainted” and bleeding, appearing his neck when asked why.
He said he took off his blouse because of the blood.
‘RIVERA GETS ANGRY’ – SAYS ESSAY
During the interrogation at the cornfield, Bahena Rivera told Sheriff Romero that he had followed Tibbetts in his car, was given them and began to take her.
Bahena Rivera said Tibbetts saw him and tried to use his mobile phone to call the police.
“He said Mollie tried to slap him and yelled at him,” Romero said. “Mr. Rivera said that’s when he was given angry.
Bahena Rivera told Romero that she remembered that the two had fought, but that he had fainted.
He said the next thing he remembered was driving in his car and seeing the headphones Tibbetts was running on his legs, and his body in his trunk, Romero said.
MOLLIE TIBBETTS DESCRIBED AS ‘HOT’ BY RIVERA
The guy accused of murdering university of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts took investigators to his frame and said he killed her but didn’t know how, an officer said Thursday.
Cristhian Bahena Rivera, first of all, denied seeing Tibbetts when he was questioned a month after he disappeared from his hometown of Brooklyn, Iowa, Officer Pamela Romero testified.
Bahena Rivera nevertheless admitted that she had outperformed Tibbetts three times while she was running on July 18, 2018, calling her “attractive” and “hot,” Romero said.
Within hours, Bahena Rivera took investigators to the cornfield where they discovered The Remains of Tibbetts, he said.
MASSIVE SEARCH FOR MOLLIE IN 2018
Mollie Tibbetts’ disappearance in July 2018 sparked a large search that featured a large number of law enforcement officials and volunteers and attracted a widespread media policy of 1,700 people.
An autopsy that he died of stabbing.
The trial moved to Scott County, 100 km east of Brooklyn, after defense attorneys noticed that local citizens had “very strong views” and that almost all were white.
The Scott County population meets Iowa standards, but is still about 80% white and 7% Hispanic or Latino.
FEARS OF RANDOM VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
The case has aggravated considerations of random violence against women since Mollie Tibbetts attacked while exercising in his small town in Brooklyn, Iowa.
JURY WARNED TIBBETTS’ TRIAL ”NOT EASY ‘Y’ ‘GRAPHIC’
One prosecutor warned prospective jurors that the trial of a Mexican citizen accused of fatally stabbing a University of Iowa student would come with graphic evidence that would be emotionally difficult to see and hear.
Prosecutor Scott Brown said Monday that Cristhian Bahena Rivera’s first-degree murder trial would come with photos and testimony about Mollie Tibbetts’ 20-year-old stabbing after running.
“We’re going to get in the way of the violent death of a girl, Mollie Tibbetts,” said Brown, Iowa’s deputy prosecutor.
Brown gave the brutal warning when the jury once varied in Davenport, when lawyers began reducing a group of another 183 people to 12 jurors and three alternates.
“It probably wouldn’t be nice,” Brown added.
AT THE SCUFFLE, RIVERA “SHUT DOWN”
“[Rivera] told me he was angry and they started fighting, regularly when he goes crazy, he faints,” said translator Pamela Romero. “He didn’t put it in the car.
She claimed that Cristhian Rivera remembered that Mollie Tibbetts’ body was in the trunk when she looked at her legs in hers and saw her headphones.
Romero told the court that Rivera allegedly took police to the cornfield where he framed the frame.
“Remember there was blood, he told me he was taken out of the car, put it on his shoulder, took it inside the cornfield, covered it with corn leaves and left immediately,” he said.
I asked him the bleeding head, his forehead, he put his hand moving around his neck, said and showed me the neck.
WHY DOES CRISTHIAN BAHENA RIVERA HAVE AN INTERPRETER?
Cristhian Bahena Rivera participates in his trial by a Spanish-speaking interpreter.
The defense suggests that Chad Frese testified to the jury that Rivera enjoyed the same rights as U. S. citizens and that his lack of English language skills may oppose him.
Opening arguments began last Wednesday.
TIBBITTS BOYFRIEND: SUSPECTS A GUILTY ”WHOLE’
On the first day of the trial on Wednesday, Tibbetts’ boyfriend Dalton Jack said he joined the army because he “wanted to leave for a while” and heartbroken after Tibbetts’ death.
Jack also said he didn’t need to be in the same room as Bahena Rivera because “I’m absolutely sure he’s guilty” of killing Tibbetts.
He stated that Tibbetts was “always happy, bubbly, clumsy” and said he ran up to six miles a day, unless there was excessive weather, and at most at night during the summer, when it was colder.
TRIAL AT RECEPTION UNTIL MONDAY
After DCI’s criminal Tara Scott finished her testimony on Friday, the court was adjourned until Monday morning.
Judge Yates reminded jurors of their sworn duty to speak or listen to others discussing the case, adding any media coverage.
However, he told them they didn’t want to be home, saying he would spend four hours this weekend to become “the oldest first base coach in Iowa youth baseball history” for his son’s baseball game.
CORNFIELD OR TIBBETTS WAS FOUND ON JURORS
The cornfield where Mollie Tibbets’ frame was discovered in August 2018 was shown to jurors on the third day of the trial Friday.
The crime scene presented through investigator Amy Johnson illustrates where prosecutors claim Cristhian Bahena Rivera threw tibbett’s frame after allegedly murdering her.
Johnson says Rivera can place corn stalks in the frame of Tibbetts to hide her remains, exposing her running shoes.
”STAINS ON THE TRUNK OF THE SUSPECT’S CAR CONTAINING DNA FROM SEVERAL PEOPLE”
Tara Scott, forensic lawyer for the DNA segment of the Iowa Crime Lab, told the court Friday that she analyzed a tampon extracted from a bloodstain discovered in Bahena Rivera’s Chevy Malibu and matched Tibbetts’ blood profile.
He also claimed that many of the spots on his chest contained DNA from several people, were too weak and infected to accompany or permanently exclude them.
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