Mollie Tibbetts murder: Police find no link between Iowa student and 11-year-old's disappearance
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Iowa investigators see no link between the recent disappearance of 11-year-old Xavior Harrelson and the 2018 death of Mollie Tibbetts, for which Cristhian Bahena Rivera was convicted of murder in May, according to local media reports.
Bahena Rivera's defense team asked for a new trial earlier this month, saying that the former live-in boyfriend of Harrelson's mom, 50-year-old James Lowe, has allegedly been linked to sex trafficking in Iowa and could have something to do with Tibbetts' death and disappearance. The attorneys contend that two new witnesses have recently come forward and blamed another 21-year-old man, Gavin Jones, for Tibbetts' murder, putting forth a theory that Tibbetts was allegedly kidnapped into a sex trafficking ring run by Lowe, who then allegedly ordered Jones and another man to kill Tibbetts. Mitch Mortvedt, assistant director of the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, threw cold water on that theory this week, saying that the only connection between Harrelson and Tibbetts is that they lived in the same county, according to WOI-TV.
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