Iowa Court of Appeals denies new trial and upholds conviction of Cristhian Rivera, who fatally stabbed Mollie Tibbetts while she was out jogging in 2018.
A Grinnell man was sentenced to life in prison Monday for the brutal killing of Michael Williams, a Black man whose body was found burning in a roadside ditch in 2020. The judge gave a blistering rebuke of Steven Vogel, calling him a "cold-blooded murderer with hatred in his heart."