vaccines. i think that this head to the supreme court. pete: it could. but a lot of things will happen before it gets there takes some time for that process to play out. we will keep covering this all morning. another big story we have been following. an illegal immigrant is found it s of first degree murder in the killing of mollie tibbetts. the verdict came nearly three years after mollie was found stabbed to death in her small iowa town. jackie ibañez joins us live with more as one juror speaks out jackie? juror says the case hit home but he feels confident with the guilty verdict. take a listen for yourself. especially for a lot of us, it was very emotional. you know, people that have kids. what we really had to do is put all our emotions to the side and that s not what it was about. it wasn t about our own personal beliefs and stuff like that. we had to look at the evidence and fact and stuff like that and base off of that. that s what we made our decision. jury deliberated
abduction, he wound up being forced to kill mollie tibbetts and dump her body. and the jury didn t buy it this man was a cold blooded killer and he was found guilty beyond any reasonable doubt and i believe that he s guilty beyond any reasonable doubt, carley. carley: yeah, that s right. justice has been served. if you can get any sort of justice in a horrific case like this. you know, the fact that he is an illegal immigrant does play into the story. he shouldn t have even been in this country in the first place. what are your thoughts on that element of this? well, you are absolutely right. he should not have been in this country. he was sort of like a day worker, working at a farm in iowa. but, it is repugnant to me that he was in the country. but i have got to tell you, carley, one of my concerns is what is known as the meranda
fox news spoke to the a juror immediately after that verdict. especially for a lot of us, it was very emotional. people that have kids or hispanic culture and stuff like that. what we really had to do is put all of our emotions to the side and that s not what it was about. it wasn t about our own personal beliefs and stuff like that. we had to look at the evidence, the facts and stuff like that and based off of that, that s how we made our decision. carley: former homicide detective and fox news contributor ted williams investigated mollie s case in 2018 and he joins us now. good morning to you, sir. i can t believe it s been three years since this tragedy, mollie tibbetts, beautiful girl, died in 2018. what s your reaction to this guilty verdict? you know, carley, i got to tell you that i was overjoyed. you know, as you said, in july of 2018, myself and nicole castillo we were thought brooklyn, iowa doing an
investigation for fox news of the killing of mollie tibbetts. this 20-year-old university of iowa student goes jogging. videotape picks up the fact that this guy, rivera, is in the area in which she is jogging. they finally get to talk to rivera, and he confesses to having contact with him. he said just during the course of the argument while he was jogging he got out of his car and he started talking to her and the next thing he says is that he blacks out and then she is found in the trunk of his car, he says, and he then takes up and dumps her body. but, at trial, he threw a monkey wrench into all of this. at trial he testified that two men, he, meaning rivera was abducted by two men. and as a result of that
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