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[PommyMommy]

AUGUST 24, 2018
Family: Don't exploit Mollie Tibbetts' death for racist view

Family members of slain 20-year-old college student Mollie Tibbetts are calling out keyboard warriors using her death to push a "racist, false narrative" after it was discovered her alleged murderer is in the United States illegally.

But Tibbetts' family have denounced those politicizing her death, saying the University of Iowa sophomore would have not accepted "racist fear-mongering."

Tibbetts' cousin, Sandi Tibbetts Murphy, wrote in a Facebook post that Rivera's legal status does not matter because the tragedy was a result of toxic masculinity, as opposed to a man simply immigrating to the United States.

 

[PommyMommy]

AUGUST 24, 2018
Mollie Tibbetts' brother Scott scores three touchdowns in game he nearly missed

Scott Tibbetts, the brother of slain Iowa woman Mollie Tibbetts, nearly didn't play in Brooklyn-Guernsey-Malcom High School's season opener on Friday.

He decided a day before the game, on Thursday, that he would take the field.

 

[PommyMommy]

AUGUST 24, 2018
Ex-girlfriend of alleged killer of Mollie Tibbetts tells why she turned up at his court appearance | Daily Mail Online

IM says she split up with Cristhian Bahena Rivera two years ago but stayed in close contact with him because of their little girl, J, three.

'IM wanted to go because of her daughter. At the end of the day that's her little girl's father and she may not be able to see him for a very long time,' dished a confidante.

 

[PommyMommy]

AUGUST 24, 2018
Latino immigrants living in the community where Mollie Tibbetts was murdered receive death threats | Daily Mail Online

Latino immigrants in Iowa say they have been the targets of death threats since Bahena Rivera was arrested and charged with the death of Tibbetts. Some have had second thoughts about just stepping outside their living quarters.

Ever since Cristhian's identity was made made public when he led law enforcement officers to the site where the Mexican immigrant farmer, 24, dumped the 20-year-old college student's, one woman's phone hasn't stopped ringing with strangers threatening her livelihood as well as any one from Mexico.

The aunt of Cristhian's ex-girlfriend, Iris Monarrez, has broken down at times, mentally overwhelmed from the non-stop calls. 'I cry. Right now I am receiving threats after threats over the phone,' she told Telemundo.

'A lot of people are calling saying they're going to kill us; that they're going to do this; that they're going to do that. That we're stupid Mexicans.'

 

[borndem]

Wow, PommyMommy, thanks for all of the informative posts! That took a lot of time and work on your part. The info filled in lots of gaps, and gives us more of the story of this sadness.
The post just above which mentions death threats, etc., is awful and alarming but not, unfortunately, unexpected. People need to try to rise above ugliness, bias, and misplaced characterizations. I would think Mollie would be shaking her head at such as that.
Again, thanks for the many informative posts!

 

[PommyMommy]

AUGUST 24, 2018
Forensic profiler talks motive in the Mollie Tibbetts case (Video)

4:14 - How did suspect with no criminal record escalate to murder? Forensic profiler and criminal behavior analyst Dale Yaeger shares insight on 'The Story.'

 

[PommyMommy]

AUGUST 25, 2018
The Man Accused of Killing Mollie Tibbetts Lived on Land Owned by GOP Fundraiser

A top Republican fundraiser whose firm works for several prominent immigration hardliners is the partial owner of the land where the CR lived rent-free, a farm spokeswoman said Friday.

Schlinger is married to Eric Lang, the president of the family-owned dairy that has acknowledged providing employment and housing for the last four years to Cristhian Bahena Rivera, the man charged with murder in Tibbetts’ death.

 

[PommyMommy]

The Search For Mollie Ends In Heartbreak - Oskaloosa News

A tow service is seen here with a black Chevrolet Malibu and a Nissan being escorted by Poweshiek County Deputies just moments before the press conference on Tuesday afternoon.

 

[PommyMommy]

AUGUST 26, 2018 Live: Funeral mass for Mollie Tibbetts on Livestream

Today at 2pm MST/MDT

 

[cybervampira]

Report suggests Russian trolls used Mollie Tibbetts' murder to distract from Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort's trial

According to the report, on Tuesday afternoon, a network of Russia-linked Twitter accounts began bombarding Twitter with news about the murder of the 20-year-old Tibbetts murder, with special emphasis on the fact that the convicted murderer was an “illegal immigrant”.

 

[Seattle1]

Live: Funeral mass for Mollie Tibbetts on Livestream

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[Seattle1]

....But without nearly 2,000 foreign-born workers, Sioux County's economy would fold, said cattleman Kent Pruismann.

In Sioux County, four of every five immigrants are not U.S. citizens, Census data show. That includes people who are authorized to be here as well as undocumented immigrants.

Across Iowa, an estimated 40,000 workers were undocumented in 2014 — about 2 percent of the state's labor force, the Pew Research Center estimates.

"If all of Sioux County's immigrant labor left tomorrow, we'd have a huge problem. … We don't have the people to replace them," said Pruismann, a former Iowa Cattlemen's Association president who feeds up to 5,000 cattle. .......
Mollie Tibbetts' death put a spotlight on undocumented immigrants. But can Iowa's economy thrive without them?

 

[Seattle1]

BROOKLYN, Ia. — Rob Tibbetts called upon a devastated community and family to come together in honoring his daughter, who was found dead after more than a month of intense national attention surrounding her disappearance.
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"The person best equipped to help us through this is Mollie," he said. "So let’s try to do what Mollie would do. Let’s say what Mollie would say."

Rob Tibbetts said he wanted to honor his daughter by "celebrating something wonderful." So he called for a couple in the packed gymnasium to stand up and be recognized — they had just been married the day before. The crowd enthusiastically applauded.

"That felt good. That’s what Mollie would have done," he said. "Let’s try one more. Let’s hear it for the Bears football team — for their first win."
Mollie Tibbetts' funeral: 'Today, we need to turn the page. We're at the end of a long ordeal,' Rob Tibbetts tells attendees

 

[Seattle1]

Funeral planned for slain Mollie Tibbetts at her old high school in her quaint Iowa hometown | Daily Mail Online

Hundreds of mourners gather for the funeral of Mollie Tibbetts, 20, at the Iowa high school she attended and hear her father deliver a powerful eulogy one week after her body was discovered stabbed to death

• Family and friends are attending a memorial to mourn the loss of Mollie
• The funeral is Sunday at BGM High School, where she graduated from last year
• Her body was found last week after a month-long search and medical reports reveal she had been stabbed to death
• She had been reported missing on July 18 after going out for a jog
• Cristhian Bahena Rivera, 24, has been charged with first-degree murder

By KAYLA BRANTLEY FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

PUBLISHED: 09:58 EDT, 26 August 2018 | UPDATED: 18:56 EDT, 26 August 2018

 

[PommyMommy]

AUGUST 26, 2018
Photos: Funeral for Mollie Tibbetts held in Brooklyn

 

[PommyMommy]

AUGUST 26, 2018
Hundreds attend funeral for slain Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts

The funeral Mass was being held Sunday afternoon inside the gymnasium of BGM High School in Brooklyn, Iowa. Twenty-year-old Mollie Tibbetts attended the school before her death.

Bishop Thomas Zinkula of Davenport, Iowa, planned to lead the funeral. Mollie Tibbetts' father, cousin and one of her teachers planned to speak at the service.

 

[PommyMommy]

AUGUST 26, 2018 (Video)
Family and friends attend funeral for Mollie Tibbetts

 

[Seattle1]

'A beacon of light': Family, friends, community remember Mollie Tibbetts
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As a testament to her character and her deep ties to the Brooklyn community, roughly 2,000 people attended her funeral Sunday at the local high school in Brooklyn.
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Mollie was known for her enthusiasm, her compassion, her goofiness and her determination. She was a rising sophomore at University of Iowa, who was studying psychology and looking forward to moving into her first apartment at the start of the school year. Her parents said Mollie was interested in working with troubled children, and possibly writing, when she finished school. There was also quiet talk of marriage between Mollie and her boyfriend of three years, Dalton Jack.

Those who spoke Sunday remembered Mollie as a “beacon of light.”

 

[PommyMommy]

AUGUST 26, 2018
Eastern Iowa runners support Mollie Tibbetts

"We want her family to know that there's thousands and thousands and thousands of us out here, and we're never going to forget you know, she was one of us, she was a runner, and this happened, and we can't change that this happened, but we can react to it the best way we can," Founder Richard Clark said.

"We're gonna take our power back, we're gonna do this for Mollie," she said.

 

[Seattle1]

Mollie Tibbetts case: Suspect Cristhian Rivera changes lawyers

Rivera, through his new attorneys, has withdrawn all pending motions filed by Richards and waived Rivera's right to a preliminary hearing. That means Rivera will not appear in court on Friday as previously scheduled. [bbm]

Richards had filed a motion for a gag order seeking to bar media from all court proceedings in the case.

"It’s not something Chad and I would have requested if we were on the case initially, so that’s the reason we’re withdrawing it," Jennifer Frese said. She declined to give further details about their legal strategy.
Mollie Tibbetts case: Suspect Cristhian Rivera changes lawyers
CR's new defense attorneys are a married couple, but work for separate firms. They've never tried a case like this together, but ..."they decided it would be good to have two attorneys defending Rivera since it's a high-profile case. Both Jennifer and Chad Frese practice criminal defense work, she said."