Mollie Tibbetts murder: Defense says death linked to sex trafficking ring in hearing for new trial
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Defense attorneys for the undocumented immigrant convicted of murdering Mollie Tibbetts argued Tuesday that their client deserves a new trial, citing evidence they said ties her abduction and stabbing death to another man.
Division of Criminal Investigation agent Trent Vileta said that had they known, detectives searching for Tibbetts in 2018 would have looked into another woman’s claim that she’d been lured by a man from Tibbetts’ small hometown of Brooklyn, Iowa, weeks earlier and held in a nearby home for sex trafficking. The complaint did not lead to criminal charges and Vileta said the evidence in Tibbetts' death pointed to Bahena Rivera, a local farmhand. Bahena Rivera partially confessed to stalking Tibbetts while she was out for a run, killing her and dumping her body in a cornfield. He led investigators to the location following an interrogation in August 2018.
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