GUILTY IA - Mollie Tibbetts, 20, Poweshiek County, 19 Jul 2018 *Arrest* #50

[TTF14]

I hope the prosecuting attorneys have a wonderful holiday weekend full of relaxation, good food, and cold beer! <3

 

[helpfulcharlie]

I disagree. I feel like many people win. This waste of oxygen will not be free to roam around murdering other innocent victims.

Exactly this. Future victims win.

 

[mickey2942]

Nobody really wins here. Both sides of the families are going to be devistated. So much pain on both sides. I hope that the Rivera family will find healing as well. As well as Molly's family

Respectfully, this was a huge win. For Jack Dalton, especially. Huge! And for Mollie's family.

 

[PommyMommy]

Courtney Crowder on Twitter
There were shouts of jubilation from the overflow room where the family was when the prosecutors went in after the verdict.
2:33 PM · May 28, 2021 from Davenport, IA·Twitter for iPhone

 

[ChiCubs2016]

I hope the prosecuting attorneys have a wonderful holiday weekend full of relaxation, good food, and cold beer! <3

I am going to make a big pitcher of Sangria!

 

[PrairieWind]

That was an amazing moment of candor!

I thought the Defense attorneys were a bit sleezy during the trial, but I found their post trial comments very interesting and incredibly candid. They said that was CBR's story from day one and he never changed it. And as she said, (paraphrasing here) "there was some speculation we made up this story for him to fit the facts, but if we were going to make up a story, we would have come up with something better than that."

 

[PommyMommy]

Angenette Levy on Twitter
Sheriff's deputies place handcuffs on Bahena Rivera and take him to jail
@LawCrimeNetwork

[URL='https://twitter.com/Angenette5/status/1398350401225773059']1:48 PM · May 28, 2021·Twitter Web App
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[wary]

That was an amazing moment of candor!

Did any reporter ask them: “Did you believe their story?”

 

[Warwick7]

I was only gone a short while!!
But I am so HAPPY!!!!!!
Guilty!!!
BAM!
BAM!!
BAM!!!!

 

[MsBetsy]

It was.

It doesn't sound like the Freses advised their client NOT to take the stand and spin that ridiculous tale, though. Why not?? Why would they allow him to do that?

I think they had to allow him to testify. Every defendant has a right to defend themselves. Maybe they didn't want to influence his decision and left it up to him.

 

[thekirbyfamily]

I have lost a son. I wish Mollie’s parents a truly deep full breath for the first time since That Day.

I wish Mollie a sky full of hand-crafted stars just for her tonight, with the most amazing view.
I hope my son gives her flowers and takes her to a truly Heavenly dinner.

Those are my mother thoughts as Justice, to the extent that there ever really is any, is finally delivered.

I am so sorry for your loss. Are you a writer? If not, you should become one. Your words are beautiful.

 

[Seattle1]

I thought the Defense attorneys were a bit sleezy during the trial, but I found their post trial comments very interesting and incredibly candid. They said that was CBR's story from day one and he never changed it. And as she said, (paraphrasing here) "there was some speculation we made up this story for him to fit the facts, but if we were going to make up a story, we would have come up with something better than that."

I think Jennifer was reading social media and maybe WS too!

 

[Scrapper18]

Thankful for a jury that does not believe in sweatered ninjas. Glad Mollie’s family has some closure.

 

[JenniD]

Finally! Guilty! My hopes are this brings some sort of closure to those who loved Mollie.

 

[girlhasnoname]

Woohoo, I knew it, I just knew it deep down in my bones. This perv perp is going to prison for life. Good that is where he belongs.

Thanks to Iowa LE, FBI, State's Attorney Office, all who testified and all involved in bringing this monster to justice.

Fly high dear Mollie knowing you made the world a better place for having been in it even for such a short time.

 

[PrairieWind]

I disagree. I feel like many people win. This waste of oxygen will not be free to roam around murdering other innocent victims.

I understand you sentiment. But I do also agree with the comment "there are no winners today." Justice is served for sure. But tonight Mollie's mom and dad cry for their lost daughter who will never come home. Somewhere in Mexico a mother and father will cry for their son who will never come home and will spend the rest of his life in prison, and in Iowa there is a 5 year old little girl whose dad will never be there for her. The devastation of a crime like this is massive.

 

[usnuzuloose]

I think Jennifer was reading social media and maybe WS too!

They had plenty of time to help with his story

 

[girlhasnoname]

Angenette Levy on Twitter
Sheriff's deputies place handcuffs on Bahena Rivera and take him to jail
@LawCrimeNetwork

1:48 PM · May 28, 2021·Twitter Web App
https://twitter.com/Angenette5/status/1398350401225773059/photo/1

I did an actual happy dance Pommy!!!

 

[usnuzuloose]

I understand you sentiment. But I do also agree with the comment "there are no winners today." Justice is served for sure. But tonight Mollie's mom and dad cry for their lost daughter who will never come home. Somewhere in Mexico and mother and father will cry for their son who will never come home and will spend the rest of his life in prison, and in Iowa there is a 5 year old little girl whose dad will never be there for her. The devastation of a crime like this is massive.

His daughter will not have a father in her life. They have to explain it later when she gets older..

 

[PommyMommy]

Short video clip of the moment the verdict is read and inmate #[tbd] nods his head:

Emily Chavez on Twitter - Video
GUILTY: The jury finds Christian Bahena Rivera guilty of first-degree murder in the killing of UI student #MollieTibbetts
1:45 PM · May 28, 2021·Twitter for iPhone