According to their court filing, a person incarcerated at an unnamed Iowa correctional facility approached their prison chaplain after seeing media coverage of the Bahena Rivera trial. On the stand, Bahena Rivera testified that two masked men had abducted him and forced him to assist with the kidnapping and killing of Tibbetts. Prosecutors afterward dismissed that account as fiction, but the witness, who is not named in the motion, told prison officials he could corroborate Bahena Rivera s account.
According to the witness, during a previous stay at a county jail near Poweshiek County, another inmate claimed to have been involved in Tibbetts murder. The other inmate, identified only as inmate 2 in court filings, said that he had seen Tibbetts bound and gagged in a trap house involved in the sex trade, and that he and an accomplice conspired with the owner of the house to kill Tibbetts and pin the blame on a Hispanic man.
Man convicted of Mollie Tibbetts murder wants new trial, claims real killer confessed
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