Found Deceased IA - Mollie Tibbetts, 20, Poweshiek County, 19 Jul 2018 *Arrest* #49

[BUF]

Beautiful photo of Mollie up...but they all are

 

[katydid23]

I wish the prosecution had spelled it out like this.

I bet they do during closing arguments.

They are going to rip into that bogus ninja story during closing.

 

[geevee]

Beautiful photo of Mollie up...but they all are

I wish they hadn't misspelled his last name on that graphic.

 

[katydid23]

I wish the prosecution had spelled it out like this.

I bet they do during closing arguments.

They are going to rip into that bogus ninja story during closing.

 

[BUF]

I wish they hadn't misspelled his last name on that graphic.

I missed that

 

[PommyMommy]

Nicole Agee on Twitter
Attorney Scott Brown has started his closing argument. He's using a PowerPoint as he speaks to the jury. He's gesturing to Bahena Rivera as he accuses him of killing Mollie. "Can you imagine what that was like for her? Nine to 12 times she was stabbed." @KCRG
9:45 AM · May 27, 2021·Twitter Web App

Shannon Moudy on Twitter
"Can you imagine what that was like for her?" Brown dramatically asks the jury. "She was dumped, discarded under a pile of corn."
9:45 AM · May 27, 2021·Twitter Web App

Shannon Moudy on Twitter
"This case shows the defendant and only the defendant murders #MollieTibbetts. [...] There weren't two other guys! That's a figment of his imagination."
9:46 AM · May 27, 2021·Twitter Web App

 

[justtrish]

No, testifying wouldn't be considered an affirmative defense. An affirmative defense is something like self-defense where you admit yes you did cause the death of the victim but you acted in self-defense. Some states have laws that explicitly allow self-defense and explain how they work (like "stand your ground" laws or castle doctrine laws about home invasions).

With the story he told is that anything? He basically admitted he was the victim of a kidnapping and a witness to a murder and then he admitted to participating by dumping the body and evidence. If he isn't convicted of the murder, he just admitted to knowing about it, not telling police, disposing of evidence. (now I believe that is hogwash) Does the prosecution have the right to know that is what happened or what the story is or they can just come up with any story and it's fine? This story isn't pinning it on co conspirators, there are none.. it's basically making up other people and not only blaming them, but claiming he was held at gunpoint and forced to drive them around and dump a body for them to keep his family safe.

 

[geevee]

I missed that

'Behena' instead of Bahena.

 

[PommyMommy]

Shannon Moudy on Twitter
Brown says "no bones about it, this is first-degree murder."
9:47 AM · May 27, 2021·Twitter Web App

Shannon Moudy on Twitter
Brown reminds jurors of elements of that charge.

9:48 AM · May 27, 2021·Twitter for iPhone

 

[PommyMommy]

Chris Gothner KCCI on Twitter
Going over #MollieTibbetts' biographical information. @KCCINews
[URL='https://twitter.com/CGothnerKCCI/status/1397928216929607680']9:50 AM · May 27, 2021·Twitter Web App

Courtney Crowder on Twitter
The State is going through their case: Mollie lived in Brooklyn on July 18, 2018, mostly with Dalton, sometimes with her mom. She went on a run that day. She ran often.
9:50 AM · May 27, 2021·Twitter Web App

Chris Gothner KCCI on Twitter
"Mollie went for a run on July 18th of 2018, at a little bit before 7:45pm." "It was that evening...that she ran across the defendant. In his chrome mirrored, chrome wheeled, spoke-tired Malibu." @KCCINews #bahenariveratrial
9:51 AM · May 27, 2021·Twitter Web App
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[PommyMommy]

Courtney Crowder on Twitter
Sometimes she would run around town, sometimes she would run out to 385th. "It was on that night, that evening of July 18, 2018, that she ran across the defendant in his chrome-mirrored Chevy Malibu."
9:51 AM · May 27, 2021·Twitter Web App

Here is the evidence: 1) his car is seen on security camera footage; 2) he confessed; 3) her blood is in his car.
9:53 AM · May 27, 2021·Twitter Web App

Shannon Moudy on Twitter
"He confessed!" Brown says of his second point of proof.
9:53 AM · May 27, 2021·Twitter Web App

Looking at the video evidence that puts Mollie and the defendant in the same area. This is the "Blur video." Mollie, or a runner, is seen in the background and the car is seen a few seconds later.
9:55 AM · May 27, 2021·Twitter Web App

Chris Gothner KCCI on Twitter
Brown: Question is "Who killed #MollieTibbetts?" Evidence: - Says video broke the case. - Defendant confessed. ("At least those parts he claimed he could remember") - Physical evidence (blood in back of Malibu) @KCCINews
#bahenariveratrial
9:53 AM · May 27, 2021·Twitter Web App

 

[usnuzuloose]

Who the heck is the defense attorney talking to?

 

[PommyMommy]

Courtney Crowder on Twitter
One of the sheriff's deputies is leaning over to watch the video. He's been engaged throughout the whole trial.
9:56 AM · May 27, 2021·Twitter Web App

This is the video that broke this case open.
9:56 AM · May 27, 2021·Twitter Web App

Before this the officers had been spending weeks trying to find her. They cant find her, Brown says.
9:58 AM · May 27, 2021·Twitter Web App

He's going to talk about this man's testimony yesterday. "All of a sudden we have these two men. He gets up and gives us this different version of what happened."
9:59 AM · May 27, 2021·Twitter Web App

The problem with that testimony is that it doesnt fit, it doesnt make sense, Brown says.
10:00 AM · May 27, 2021·Twitter Web App

 

[katydid23]

I get that. I'm not now, nor ever have been in support of this defendant. We can shoot down the improbable defense tactics all day, but the defense team laid out a case and I've been more interested in trying to figure out where they were going with it than making jokes about ninjas. All that matters in the end is justice for poor Mollie and her family.

I get it. You are right to try and figure out their strategies. I was just shooting down that one---of trying to rope the supervisor into it. It seemed very improbable as he has no connection to the people or any motive at all...

DJ and Felix, understandable they would target them as potential suspects, even though it is still a ridiculous supposition.

This is what I think the jury will say to themselves---which story is more believable and more probable?

That a young man would be driving around and see a pretty jogger all alone---and he might approach her and get rejected---and he flips out and rapes and kills her...


OR [insert the ridiculous narrative offered by the defense, with the conspiracy by her boyfriend and his friend, ....]

Which of those two scenarios is most likely? In the deaths of women joggers/hikers in the past, which there have been many, what is the usual scenario?

[A] A passing predator that takes the opportunity to kidnap and kill?

Or is it 2 strangers in masks who kidnap a 3rd person and force him to drive around to find a jogger, then they kill her and put her in the trunk---they don't rob her or rape her---they just kill her, and run off...leaving the witness behind with a cell phone and a car....


What are the odds that [A] is what happened vs ? Like 99.9%

 

[MntnHiker]

Here we go. Now it looks like he's going to rip apart this ridiculous Ninja story.

 

[BUF]

“Whoops, he forgot about that!”

 

[JudgeJoe]

“Whoops, he forgot about that!”

Forgot about what- following y’alls posts only today- spill the beans & post the details! I’m on the edge of my seat pretending I’m doing smthg else!

 

[PommyMommy]

Shannon Moudy on Twitter
"There she goes," Brown says after showing the surveillance of what investigators believe is Mollie running. "On the video stamp [...] it was at 7:45 pm. What do we see next? Within 30 seconds of Mollie passing through, we see that car."
9:55 AM · May 27, 2021·Twitter Web App

Shannon Moudy on Twitter
"This was a tough one to crack? Who did this to her?" Brown says of the case before that video was found. He reminds jurors #MollieTibbetts was considered low-risk: no drug history, no history of domestic violence.
9:59 AM · May 27, 2021·Twitter Web App

Shannon Moudy on Twitter
"You know what the problem is with it? It doesn't make sense and it doesn't fit," Brown says "He says he and two men passed her going into town out on 385th. [...] How in the...the video shows the defendant on East Des Moines within 30 seconds after she passes."
10:01 AM · May 27, 2021·Twitter Web App

Courtney Crowder on Twitter
State pointing out that he wasnt on the outskirts of town when he saw her for the first time. The video shows them together in town.
10:01 AM · May 27, 2021·Twitter Web App

 

[StarryStarryNight]

Nice! Video times proves his story is a lie.

 

[PommyMommy]

Shannon Moudy on Twitter
"It doesn't fit with that video!" Brown says pointing to the screen. He says this was the first time CBR saw Mollie, not out on 385th as he reported in his testimony yesterday.
10:01 AM · May 27, 2021·Twitter Web App

"He knows what the car looks like and you know what he sees? He sees this vehicle," Brown reminds jurors of Deputy Steve Kivi's testimony about passing CBR in the black Malibu in mid-August.
10:03 AM · May 27, 2021·Twitter Web App

"Denied anything, first story by the way, [...] denies, denies, denies. Doesn't know anything about her," Brown says of what CBR told Deputy Kivi that day.
10:04 AM · May 27, 2021·Twitter Web App