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SEPT 19, 2018
Man accused of killing Mollie Tibbetts pleads not guilty

Cristhian Bahena Rivera, 24, entered his plea Wednesday morning at the Poweshiek County Courthouse in Montezuma. He also waived his right to a speedy trial.

A judge set a trial date for April 16, with a pretrial conference on April 4.

 

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OCT 1, 2018
Mollie Tibbetts' family establishes memorial fund at UI Children's Hospital
A memorial fund in the name of slain University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts will bolster an aggressive fundraising campaign to help construct the UI Stead Family Children’s Hospital and run programs in it.

Tibbetts’ family members established the fund to benefit child and adolescent psychiatry at the hospital. As of Monday, more than 270 people had given more than $29,500 and donations still can be made to the fund.

Mollie Tibbetts’ Family Establishes Memorial Fund at Univ. of Iowa Children’s Hospital
Mollie’s mother Laura Calderwood said, “We are incredibly thankful to everyone who has contributed to Mollie’s fund. Mollie was pursuing her dream of becoming a child psychologist at the UI. She was incredibly generous in her life, so it is fitting that her name will live on by benefiting others.”

University of Iowa Vice President of Student Life Melissa Shivers said, “Mollie gave back in many ways as a member of the university community, including participating in Dance Marathon and helping patients at UI Stead Family Children’s Hospital. We are thankful to Mollie’s family for allowing us to honor her through this fund.”

 

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OCT 1, 2018
Hundreds gather for run to honor Mollie Tibbetts
Several hundred runners gathered in the hometown of slain Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts over the weekend to honor her memory with a run.

The Des Moines Register reports the run on Sunday in the east-central Iowa town of Brooklyn helped raise more than $20,000 for the University of Iowa Children's Hospital.

 

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OCT 2, 2018
Mollie Tibbetts’ Alleged Murderer Files Motion for ‘Bill of Particulars’
The motion for a bill of particulars in the case was filed Friday and claims the trial information and minutes of testimony do not contain enough information about the facts of the case to allow Rivera to prepare a defense. The motion says there isn’t any guidance on the element of premeditation, which is one of the requirements of a first-degree murder charge.

The motion also says no particulars “as to the method or how the defendant perpetrated the alleged offense” are in the trial information and minutes of testimony.

Rivera’s attorneys say their client “cannot understand the particulars of the offense and more specifically cannot understand upon which facts the state intends to rely to prove the required elements of the case.”

 

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OCT 2, 2018
Mollie Tibbetts slaying suspect's lawyers say state must provide more detail about his charge
A crime scene report and two lab reports have not been provided to defense attorneys, they say in the motion.

Cristhian Bahena Rivera's lawyers say the details included in the documents charging Bahena Rivera with first-degree murder do not offer enough information for them to mount a defense in the case.

"We need to know what it is that the prosecutor intends to produce as evidence. That’s something that we’re entitled to under Iowa law," she said.

 

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OCT 2, 2018
Defense lawyers demand more information in Mollie Tibbetts' death
The attorneys for the man charged with killing 20-year-old University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts filed a motion for a bill of particulars, meaning they want an itemized list of the specific charges and claims against their client.

Authorities said Cristhian Rivera admitted to several things after they took him into custody in August.

Court documents filed by Rivera’s defense attorneys said the minutes of testimony from Rivera are silent and say nothing about premeditation or how he allegedly committed the crime.

 

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OCT 3, 2018
Mollie Tibbets Memorial - Race in Honor Of Missing Runner
Before Sunday morning, MC was afraid to run east of her house on 385th Avenue in Brooklyn, Iowa. It had been 74 days since her cousin Mollie Tibbetts had gone out for a run down C’s street and never returned, and 40 days since Tibbetts’s body was found in a cornfield outside of town, the victim of random murder.

East was the direction that Tibbetts, a 20-year-old student at the University of Iowa and avid runner, had been headed the night she was abducted. “It’s been heartbreaking knowing this happened so close to my house,” MC, 27, also a runner. “I get an unpleasant reminder every morning when I leave for work and every night when I come home from work.”

Tibbetts was known to high-five everyone at cross-country meets—even the opposing team, Wilson said. One of Tibbetts’s favorite quotes was “To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice your gift” by American running legend Steve Prefontaine. “That’s what this run is about,” Wilson said. “She would want us to rise above our fear and reclaim what is ours—a love of running and a love of life.”

 

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OCT 8, 2018
Why the first 72 hours in a missing persons investigation are the most critical

Social media now plays a vital role in missing person cases
Social media has become a "huge asset to safely recovering people," purely due to the ease of spreading the message, Fox said.

Fox used the example of Mollie Tibbetts, the Iowa college student who went missing in July and was found about a month later in a farm field.

"There as tons of social media coverage over trying to find her, getting the word out," Fox said. "In our research, we're finding that that is an effective message."

 

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OCT 11, 2018
'That's my car': Prosecutors reveal new detail in Mollie Tibbetts killing
When investigators interviewed Cristhian Bahena Rivera, they showed him a photograph of a black Chevy Malibu that drove back and forth in the area where Mollie Tibbetts was running on the evening she vanished, authorities said.

"Yes, that's my car," Bahena Rivera said, court records show.

A report from the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation will be finalized and delivered to Bahena Rivera's attorneys Friday. Further forensic testing was expected to be done in November, prosecutors said.

But in their resistance, prosecutors said an autopsy found Tibbetts died of multiple sharp force injuries, a cause of death that established a premeditated and deliberate killing.

 

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Bahena Rivera's lawyers asking for more information in Tibbetts' murder case
11 October 2018

BROOKLYN, Iowa (KCRG) -- The lawyers for the man accused of killing Mollie Tibbetts say prosecutors don't have enough evidence to prove premeditated murder.

Cristhian Bahena Rivera's lawyers say there isn't enough details in the court documents charging him with murder for them to mount a case. Prosecutors point to an autopsy of Tibbetts showing she died of multiple stabbings that usually means it wasn't an accident. His lawyers should receive a report from the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigations Friday. Prosecutors say further forensic testing is expected to be completed by November.

Bahena Rivera has pleaded not guilty to a first degree murder charge. He is accused of following Tibbetts while she was jogging in Brooklyn in July. Then, he told investigators where to find her body. Bahena Rivera's trial is set for April 16.
Bahena Rivera's lawyers asking for more information in Tibbetts' murder case

 

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OCT 12, 2018
Lawyers for man accused of killing Mollie Tibbetts say prosecution lacks evidence
Attorneys for suspect Cristhian Rivera say prosecutors do not have enough evidence to prove premeditated murder.

They say court documents don't have enough details to support a first-degree murder charge.

Prosecutors say Tibbetts died of multiple stabbings, and that typically means it was not an accident.

Rivera's lawyers should receive a report from the Iowa DCI later today.

 

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OCT 12, 2018
Mollie Tibbetts: Prosecutors provide key detail that led to suspected killer’s arrest
24-year-old Cristhian Rivera, accused of killing 20-year-old Mollie in July, reportedly told prosecutors in August that it was his car they were viewing on surveillance footage provided by a Brooklyn, Iowa resident, showing a black Chevrolet Malibu circling around the area Mollie jogged at when she vanished.

“Yes, that’s my car,” Rivera said, according to a court filing made on Wednesday morning.

 

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Bay Area friends attend memorial service for Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts

Saturday, September 29, 2018
PIEDMONT, Calif. (KGO) --

About 60 people attended a memorial at Corpus Christi Church in Piedmont for Mollie Tibbetts, who once lived in the Bay Area with her family.
Mollie's dad Rob Tibbetts was there but declined to be interviewed.
Bay Area friends attend memorial service for Mollie Tibbetts

 

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More than 200 people have sent postcards to Judge Joel Yates protesting his decision to authorize $5,000 for an investigator to work with Cristhian Bahena Rivera's defense.

The postcards are distributed by the Virginia-based Secure America Alliance. They ask Yates not to "award any more taxpayer money for a deluxe legal defense for an illegal alien."

Rivera is charged with killing 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts, who disappeared July 18 in Brooklyn. Rivera had worked for years at a dairy farm, and prosecutors say he was in the U.S. illegally.
Postcards ask Iowa judge to limit defense's investigative spending for Mollie Tibbetts murder suspect

 

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ASBURY, Iowa (KCRG) -- The town of Asbury in Dubuque County is responding to the death of an Iowa woman by preparing its town for tragedy.

Asbury has installed traffic cameras in various locations in hopes of keeping the city safe. (Charlie Grant, KCRG-TV9)
The city has installed three security cameras on Asbury Road, as well as some in Asbury Park. It's also asking its residents to install cameras on their properties.

Asbury Police Chief Tom Henneberry said this is partially due to the disappearance and death of Mollie Tibbetts in the small town of Brooklyn. He's pushing for cameras because in the Tibbetts case, investigators used private security camera footage to arrest someone for Tibbetts' death.

He said Asbury is a safe community, but he wants to be prepared.
With Mollie Tibbetts case in mind, Asbury installs security cameras

 

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TIMELINE: July 16 - August 26
(From the date Mollie was last seen to the day of her funeral service)
A timeline of Mollie Tibbetts' disappearance

 

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NOV 2, 2018
Mollie Tibbetts slaying: Suspect's lawyer removes post calling another client a 'terrible criminal'
A lawyer representing a notorious Iowa murder suspect removed a Facebook post Friday in which he called another client an "idiot" and "terrible criminal" who deserved to be jailed.

Iowa rules of professional conduct require lawyers to keep client conversations confidential in order to maintain their trust and to limit public statements about pending cases, particularly those that can result in incarceration. Lawyers are to refrain from discussing "the character, credibility, reputation, or criminal record" of any party and from offering opinions on innocence or guilt.

Frese had already come under scrutiny for an earlier Facebook post after Bahena Rivera was charged. Frese, who didn't yet represent Bahena Rivera, wrote that the public had unfairly rushed to judgment against a farmer who'd been interviewed by investigators during the search for Tibbetts, writing: "But wait .... an illegal alien snatched her up and committed this heinous act? He admitted to it? He took the cops to the body?"

Lawyer of man accused of killing Mollie Tibbetts removes post calling his client a 'terrible criminal'
"It's amazing any lawyer would put that on social media," said Des Moines attorney Grant Woodard. "I think it violates the sacred trust between an attorney and the client."

Frese didn't identify the client, but he posted enough information that the man's name could be determined through court records.

Asked about the post Friday, Frese removed it and twice claimed that he was referring to a "former client." He later admitted that was false, saying he was caught off guard by the inquiry.

 

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NOV 19, 2018
Scott Tibbetts, brother of Mollie, honored with Iowa Bankers Association scholarship
The brother of slain Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts has been honored with a scholarship, following his standout Senior season on the football field and his performance in the classroom.

ST helped lead the BGM Bears to an 8-2 record and an appearance in the Iowa High School Athletic Association postseason during the 2018 season, immediately following a tragic summer which grabbed the attention of the entire state and country.

Tibbetts managed to suit up and start at quarterback for BGM’s season-opening game at Lisbon just three days after learning of Mollie’s tragic fate in August — and threw for two touchdowns while running for another in an emotional 35-24 win.

 

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DEC 12, 2018
Hearing in Mollie Tibbetts murder case cancelled
Attorneys for both sides were expected to huddle with the judge in what was described as a Trial Management Hearing.

However, last week, Judge Joel Yates determined that discovery in the case was proceeding and there was no reason to hold a hearing.

Either party can request one in the future.

The next scheduled court date is an April 4, 2019, pre-trial conference, followed by a trial in mid-April.

 

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Unsealed warrants show there were 4 other potential suspects in the Mollie Tibbetts case

Before investigators arrested a farmhand in the death of Iowa runner Mollie Tibbetts, they scrutinized a neighbor seen washing his car hours after she vanished, an acquaintance who erased his cellphone data, a Nebraska man who ditched his vehicle nearby and a farmer with a history of stalking women.

Newly unsealed search warrants reviewed by The Associated Press reveal that four men were the subject of police interest at times during the five-week search for the missing 20-year-old University of Iowa student. The documents provide new details about how Tibbetts' July 18 disappearance in the town of Brooklyn, Iowa, stumped agents as the mystery became the focus of national media coverage and one of the largest investigations in state history.

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