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DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWWL) The state has made its case for a first-degree murder charge against Cristhian Bahena Rivera in the 2018 killing of 20-year-old college student Mollie Tibbetts.
The day wrapped up with testimony on autopsy results by Dr. Dennis Klein, the state medical examiner, and an Iowa forensic anthropologist who spoke to sharp force injuries shown on Mollie s bones.
“I found 9 definitive wounds. I suspect up to 12,” Dr. Klein said.
Klein noted Tibbetts body was found in a moderate to severe state of decomposition when she was found in late August of 2018. Humid weather, rain, bacteria and insect activity all contributed to its state which Dr. Heather Garvin, the forensic anthropologist who examined Mollie s skeletal wounds, characterized as being mummified.
By Jason Taylor
May 25, 2021
DAVENPORT, Iowa - The defense calls its first witness in the Cristhian Rivera murder trial Tuesday morning.
The prosecution spent Monday making the case that Rivera is the only one to have any sort of connection in the death of Mollie Tibbetts, killed while she was jogging near her home in Brooklyn, Iowa in 2018.
Lead investigator, Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation Special Agent Trent Vileta, said security footage from a home in Brooklyn on July 18, 2018, helped lead investigators to Rivera.
“The footage on Logan Collins cameras broke open the case for us, it was the lead that we needed,” Vileta said.
By Jason Taylor
May 25, 2021
DAVENPORT, Iowa - The defense calls its first witness in the Cristhian Rivera murder trial Tuesday morning.
The prosecution spent Monday making the case that Rivera is the only one to have any sort of connection in the death of Mollie Tibbetts, killed while she was jogging near her home in Brooklyn, Iowa in 2018.
Lead investigator, Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation Special Agent Trent Vileta, said security footage from a home in Brooklyn on July 18, 2018, helped lead investigators to Rivera.
“The footage on Logan Collins cameras broke open the case for us, it was the lead that we needed,” Vileta said.