Shannon Moudy on Twitter
CBR says he was told to stop on 385th by the man in the passenger seat (the one with the knife.) That man got out, he says, and "started going forward, towards the town direction."
10:56 AM · May 26, 2021·
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Courtney Crowder on Twitter
The masked man in the front seat, the man with the knife, asked him to stop and then he got out of the car. He walked away from the car towards town for 10 to 12 minutes.
10:56 AM · May 26, 2021·
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Courtney Crowder on Twitter
Court TV suggests this will be a "Brutal cross."
10:55 AM · May 26, 2021·
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Shannon Moudy on Twitter
Says that man was gone "10 to 12 minutes."
10:56 AM · May 26, 2021·
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Says the man w/the gun stayed, was kind of whispering in the back. "You could hear a lot of things, but what I could hear him say was 'Come on Jack.'"
10:57 AM · May 26, 2021·
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"Are you telling this jury that Dalton Jack was one of those people?" Jennifer Frese asks. "No." Says he doesn't know who it was.
10:57 AM · May 26, 2021·
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Shannon Moudy on Twitter
Says the man came back, got in the car, and asked him to keep driving. He was told to stop after "not more than 300 meters."
10:58 AM · May 26, 2021·
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"Stop and hand them my keys."
10:58 AM · May 26, 2021·
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CBR says he heard the men open the trunk. "I just heard a movement in the car and then that the trunk closed."
10:59 AM · May 26, 2021·
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Says he was then asked to turn around and keep driving toward the gravel road.
11:00 AM · May 26, 2021·
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Shannon Moudy on Twitter
"I just remember to be driving fast."
11:00 AM · May 26, 2021·
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"We got to a road that was paved and they asked me to cross that."
11:00 AM · May 26, 2021·
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CBR says the men told him to pull in front of "a white house."
11:01 AM · May 26, 2021·
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Chris Gothner KCCI on Twitter
"We arrived in front of like a white house." Now showing a prior exhibit showing general area where Mollie Tibbetts' body was found.
@KCCINews #BahenaRiveraTrial
11:02 AM · May 26, 2021·
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Chris Gothner KCCI on Twitter
Bahena Rivera says he turned in at the house and then they drove back. Then told to turn at the entrance of the cornfield.
11:04 AM · May 26, 2021·
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"Have you ever been to that location before?" "No." "Did you understand where you were." "Once you pull in, what happens next." "They only asked me to turn the car off -- and they start getting out of the car."
11:04 AM · May 26, 2021·
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CBR says they took his keys and his phone. "Before they leave one of them tells me not to say anything about what had happened -- that they knew Iris and they knew my daughter -- if I said something they would take care of him."
11:05 AM · May 26, 2021·
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CBR says they told him to wait a few minutes and then leave. "Obviously I knew there was something in the trunk?" "Why?" "Because previously I had placed where they put something in the trunk?" "Did you look in the trunk?" "Wat did you see?" "A body"
11:06 AM · May 26, 2021·
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Chris Gothner KCCI on Twitter
"Was that the body of Mollie Tibbetts?" "Yes." "At that point in time did it look like she was alive?" "At the beginning I saw a little bit of movement but then I saw no movement."
11:07 AM · May 26, 2021·
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"What did you do next?" "I stayed there a couple of minutes thinking what to do?" "I stood there a few minutes and took the body out." Why didn't you call the police? "Because I was scared."
11:08 AM · May 26, 2021·
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Shannon Moudy on Twitter
Says he didn't call the police "because I was scared."
11:08 AM · May 26, 2021·
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Shannon Moudy on Twitter
Says he picked up Mollie's body. "It was very heavy," he says. No signs of life.
11:08 AM · May 26, 2021·
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"I picked her up and then I put her in the cornfield." Says he covered her with corn stalks "because I didn't wan to leave her...I didn't want her to be too exposed to the sun." "I left her exactly how she was in the trunk."
11:09 AM · May 26, 2021·
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Says she was wearing all her clothing, "there was only one shoe that was off."
11:10 AM · May 26, 2021·
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Says he had to use his phone to find his way home.
11:10 AM · May 26, 2021·
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Says Mollie Tibbetts' phone, Fitbit, earbuds, his keys and phone were in the trunk. "I left it on the side of the road," he says of Mollie's possessions.
10:11 AM · May 26, 2021·
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Shannon Moudy on Twitter
"I knew if I did it in any way I was going to be involved," CBR says of why he didn't tell investigators what happened.
11:12 AM · May 26, 2021·
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Chris Gothner KCCI on Twitter
"You didn't tell a soul about this for over a month, is that right?" Yes. "If you were approached, you would have taken this to the grave, is that right?" Yes. "I knew if I (called police) in any way, I was going to be involved."
11:12 AM · May 26, 2021·
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Says he did not call police because he feared harm to his ex-girlfriend and daughter.
11:12 AM · May 26, 2021·
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"Do you know Ulises Felix?" "Yes." "How." Ex-GF cousin. Has been to CBR's home and spent night. "You're not alleging Ulises was in that car, is that right?" "Correct." But Ulises "did spend time with (his) Hispanic group of people"
11:13 AM · May 26, 2021·
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Says Ulises attended Brooklyn school and seemed to have a fair amount of white friends. Now about to go through interrogation.
11:14 AM · May 26, 2021·
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Shannon Moudy on Twitter
Now on to the August 20th police questioning. CBR says he was told police had evidence that his phone and Mollie's phone were traveling together.
11:17 AM · May 26, 2021·
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"If I helped them, if I told them what they wanted to hear, that they would help me," CBR says of what he thought when he was told by Pamela Romero he could "help himself."
11:18 AM · May 26, 2021·
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Says he didn't intend to tell the truth about what happened. "In my mind, I had my daughter."
11:19 AM · May 26, 2021·
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Chris Gothner KCCI on Twitter
"At some point you told them you blacked out, was that your idea?" "No, they said it first."
@KCCINews #BahenaRiveraTrial
11:18 AM · May 26, 2021·
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Shannon Moudy on Twitter
Frese asks why he agreed to take investigators to
#MollieTibbetts. "For one, I was already very tired and I wanted to stop. And most importantly they told me to put myself in the family's position and to think about if she was my daughter, what would I have done."
11:21 AM · May 26, 2021·
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"Did they seem to have some idea already of where she was?" Frese asks. "I can't be sure about that."
11:21 AM · May 26, 2021·
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"Did they seem to have some idea already of where she was?" Frese asks. "I can't be sure about that."
11:21 AM · May 26, 2021·
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Chris Gothner KCCI on Twitter
CBR describes weight on arrest and in jail. Cross-examination begins now.
@KCCINews #BahenaRiveraTrial
11:23 AM · May 26, 2021·
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Scott Brown: You remember convo with Pamela Romero and wasn't too tired to remember what you talked about right? CBR: Yes.
11:24 AM · May 26, 2021·
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SB: You were able to understand her questions, no language barrier? CBR: None.
11:25 AM · May 26, 2021·
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"Did you leave with officers at 4:30AM on 8/21/18 -- from the SO?" Yes. "It was your request to go to your residence near Brooklyn?" Yes -- then able to take them to location of Mollie Tibbetts' body? Yes.
11:26 AM · May 26, 2021·
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Chris Gothner KCCI on Twitter
CBR says he remained in the car until officers asked him to get out, then went back into the cornfield, saying he took them to the edge of the corn, some distance off the road.
11:27 AM · May 26, 2021·
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"When you were standing on the edge of the corn, you pointed them in the direction of Mollie Tibbetts?" Yes -- officers found her minutes after he did. Says he was taken back to the car.
11:28 AM · May 26, 2021·
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"Do you agree, Mr. Bahena, that you led officers to Mollie Tibbetts, on August 21st of 2018?" "Correct." "You own a black Chevy Malibu." "Yes." "Has a chromed mirror?" "Yes."
11:29 AM · May 26, 2021·
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Nicole Agee on Twitter
Bahena Rivera says he first stayed in the car as investigators looked for the body where he told them it was. Officers later got him out of the car - he was at the edge of the corn. He then told/pointed officers toward Mollie's location. Officers found her minutes later.
@KCRG
11:29 AM · May 26, 2021·
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Chris Gothner KCCI on Twitter
CBR agrees to features of car. Says he agrees that that's his vehicle on camera "100%."
11:29 AM · May 26, 2021·
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"You never mentioned two other men, is that true?" "Correct." "You told Officer Romero that YOU were angry at Mollie Tibbetts, is that true?" "I think so."
11:30 AM · May 26, 2021·
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You agreed you saw Mollie Tibbetts and indicated that Mollie Tibbetts became angry at you and threatened to call police. Correct. "You never mentioned two other men to Officer Romero, is that correct?" Yes.
11:31 AM · May 26, 2021·
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"You claim that you went to a cornfield that Mollie Tibbetts' body was placed with two other men?" Yes. "The other two men that were there, did they just walk back?" "They ran towards the road."
11:32 AM · May 26, 2021·
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Chris Gothner KCCI on Twitter
SB again: "You drove the 2men in the Malibu in the cornfield...and you're telling us that u drove back to your home alone, and u happened to find your cell phone and the keys in the trunk of the car, and these 2 men just disappeared?" "That's right "
11:34 AM · May 26, 2021·
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Shannon Moudy on Twitter
"Did they just walk back?" Brown asks about the men at the cornfield. "They ran towards the road." "They ran towards the road and just disappeared?" "I didn't see where they went."
11:33 AM · May 26, 2021·
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"She was not completely covered," CBR says of Tibbetts body when asked if he covered her so no one would see her.
11:34 AM · May 26, 2021·
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Shannon Moudy on Twitter
"You don't know who they are but you remember one of them happened to use the name Jack?" Yes.
11:35 AM · May 26, 2021·
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Brown: "You remember the details as you described them here? But you told the officers, specifically Officer Romero, that you blacked out some of the details of what happened to Mollie Tibbetts." "Correct."
11:36 AM · May 26, 2021·
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"Did they just walk in?" Brown asks of the men at CBR's home. "I wouldn't know what to tell you because I was taking a shower."
11:37 AM · May 26, 2021·
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"I did not see any car outside of my trailer," CBR says when asked how the men got there.
11:37 AM · May 26, 2021·
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Shannon Moudy on Twitter
"Why would the two men in your trailer need your help?" Objection - speculation. Judge sustains.
11:38 AM · May 26, 2021·
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When asked if he was in a safe place at the sheriff's office, CBR says "you could say that." "Like you said I was in a safe place but I didn't know where my daughter was," he says when asked why he didn't tell officers the story.
11:40 AM · May 26, 2021·
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Courtney Crowder on Twitter
Hitting home that at the police station during this 11 hour interview and that he could have told them this story. He's hitting that a police station is a "safe place."
11:40 AM · May 26, 2021·
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He says before the interview he asked if his daughter and her mother were safe. But he did not press them on this issue.
11:41 AM · May 26, 2021·
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Courtney Crowder on Twitter
Did he know Dalton Jack? No, not him or his brother Blake. He also did not know Mollie Tibbetts.
11:42 AM · May 26, 2021·
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Chris Gothner KCCI on Twitter
Now asking about Dep. Kivi initial contact near Malcom on 8/16.
11:42 AM · May 26, 2021·
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CBR agrees Mollie Tibbetts disappearance came up in that and that he knew where she was located and what had happened to her. (didn't know how)
11:43 AM · May 26, 2021·
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Knew she was dead, but did not tell Dep. Kivi anything, CBR testifies. Testifies that he did not ask for any protection for his daughter or his ex-girlfriend.
11:44 AM · May 26, 2021·
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Shannon Moudy on Twitter
"Whenever you confronted Mollie Tibbetts on on 385th..." Brown continues. "No I never did that. [...] I never confronted her."
11:47 AM · May 26, 2021·
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"You told officers she slapped you? [...] that you got angry?" "You could say that." "Well, YOU said it."
11:47 AM · May 26, 2021·
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Courtney Crowder on Twitter
State going through what he said during the interview again, which is of course a completely different story.
11:48 AM · May 26, 2021·
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Chris Gothner KCCI on Twitter
Brief chat with the judge. Now asking about his encounter with Tibbetts and his initial story that he was angry with her. "You told Ofc. Romero that you were angry, isn't that right?" "Yes, if it's in the video I said it."
@KCCINews
11:47 AM · May 26, 2021·
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You told her you were driving alone, earbuds in your lap, with Mollie Tibbetts in the trunk, correct? Yes. Failed to mention anyone in the car, correct? Correct.
11:48 AM · May 26, 2021·
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"(you said) alone took Mollie Tibbetts in to the corn, right?" "Yes." "Mr. Bahena, you stabbed Mollie Tibbetts, isn't that right?" "No."
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11:49 AM · May 26, 2021·
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Chris Gothner KCCI on Twitter
"You, alone, took Mollie Tibbetts into the corn, is that right?" "Yes." The two you mentioned didn't do that, correct? Correct.
@KCCINews
11:50 AM · May 26, 2021·
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"You placed cornstalks on her body, isn't that right?" "Correct." "And you left her there for nearly 5 weeks, correct?" "Correct."
11:51 AM · May 26, 2021·
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You never mentioned, the two men who were with you, you saw them again? No. "These men who you claim, killed Mollie Tibbetts, ever contacted you (again)?" "No."
11:51 AM · May 26, 2021·
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You have no idea how they have any connection to you? No.
@KCCINews
#BahenaRiveraTrial
11:52 AM · May 26, 2021·
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Chris Gothner KCCI on Twitter
"Mr. Bahena, has anyone threatened you since you took Mollie Tibbetts' body into the corn?" "No." "You've had no other contact with these two men..?" "Correct."
11:53 AM · May 26, 2021·
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Shannon Moudy on Twitter
"Do you remember being asked by Ms. Romero if you were covering for anyone?" "Yes. [...] At that moment I was really scared."
11:54 AM · May 26, 2021·
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CBR admits he chose not to tell them about the two men.
11:54 AM · May 26, 2021·
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Chris Gothner KCCI on Twitter
"Do you remember being asked by Ms. Romero if you were covering for anyone?" Yes. "And you chose not to do that?" "At that moment I was really scared." "I understand..but you chose not to tell them, correct?" "Correct."
11:54 AM · May 26, 2021·
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Shannon Moudy on Twitter
"Did she ask you for more details? [...] You told her 'I brought you here, didn't I?'" "I don't remember, but if it is in the interview it is true." "You also told her 'I did it.'" "The truth? No."
11:56 AM · May 26, 2021·
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This is in reference to the interview w/Officer Romero at the field.
11:56 AM · May 26, 2021·
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We're breaking for lunch here. Back at 1:15.
11:57 AM · May 26, 2021·
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