murder of mollie tibbetts will be making his first court appearance a few hours from now. officials saying the suspect, christian rivera has been living why our country illegally for as long as seven years and happened to work less than three miles from where ms. tibbetts was staying and there were chilling details that were learned during his confession. he tells us that he sees mollie running and was able to come upon her, approach her and then at one point he tells us that mollie grabbed ahold of her phone and said you need to leave me alone. i ll call the police. then she took off running. he chased her down and then he tells us that at some point in time he blacked out. eric: mollie s body was found yesterday in a corn field covered with corn stalks after rivera took them to the location. president trump: you heard
we have confirmed with homeland security investigations that he is an illegal alien and we believe he has been in this area now for four to seven years. we re able to track his pattern and the routes in which he took. we also were able to find mollie running on this video and we were able to determine that he is one of the last ones to have seen mollie running. eric: matt finn is live with the heartbreaking ending and why rivera was in this country in the first place. 24-year-old christian rivera is charged with first degree murder in the death of mollie tibbetts. they say he confessed july 18th, the day mollie disappeared, he followed her on her jog and she became frightened and got out her cell phone and said get away from me i will call police. he says he blacked out and
found her body and a suspect is in custody charged with first degree murder. the identity has not been confirmed, however, we believe it to be the body of mollie tibbetts. reporter: authorities arrested 24-year-old cristhian bahena rivera an undocumented immigrant whom they say has been in the country as long as seven years. the crucial break, surveillance video showing mollie the day she disappeared in a car belonging to mr. rivera. we first approached mr. rivera yesterday. reporter: authorities say rivera told them as he drove he saw mollie running, approached the car. he ran alongside or behind her and at one point he tells us that mollie grabbed ahold of her phone and said you need to leave me alone, i m going to call the police, then she took off running. reporter: rivera told officials he ran after her and doesn t remember what happened next, though later he said he noticed mollie s headphones in his lap and realized he had put her in a trunk. he led authorities to a
we believe he has been in this area now for 4-7 years. how did you come into contact with him? during the investigation, we reached out to the public, as you well know. during our neighborhood canvas, we came across an individual that had security cameras. we took those cameras, he was kind enough to give us the footage from it. to that, he we are able to identify a vehicle that we believed belongs to mr. rivera. it was a black malibu. from that, we were able to track his pattern and the route in which he took. we were also able to find mollie running on this video, and able to determine that he is one of the last ones to have seen mollie running based on the video that we were able to see from the general public. i m sorry. what you believe he did? again, we were able to pull
him in during the investigation. we conducted an interview with mr. rivera. during the interview, he says that he sees mollie running and was able to come upon her, approached her. while he was interfacing with her, he actually felt as if he ran along beside her or around here. i want point, he tells him that mollie grabbed a hold of her phone and said you need to leave me alone, we need to call the police. he took she took off running ae chased her down. at some point in time, he told us that he blacked out. he comes to near an intersection in which we believe he then i m sorry. 385th street in brooklyn, outside of brooklyn in the rural rural county just outside of brooklyn iowa. in the general area? juan: let s head over to ed henry no.