BONUS: Evidence support for new claims in Mollie Tibbetts murder?

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 23 July 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Sentencing for the man convicted of killing University of Iowa student, Mollie Tibbetts, has been delayed amid new information. Judge Joel Yates ordered Cristhian Rivera’s sentencing be delayed after two witnesses told investigators that a different man confessed to the crime. According to Bahena Rivera’s attorneys, an inmate at the county jail said in May that he heard someone identified as “inmate 2” admit that Tibbetts was “bound and gagged in a trap house but that he was directed to kill Tibbetts once the search for her got too close.” Inmate 2 allegedly said he was ordered to stab Tibbetts, who was initially kidnapped for sex trafficking, but killed after the case became too high-profile. Inmate 2 allegedly said he was ordered to hide the body near a Hispanic male in Tibbetts’ area, to pin the blame on someone else. The witness said he came forward after he heard Rivera testify during the trial that two other men killed Tibbetts and put the blame on him. Forensic expert, Joe Scott Morgan, Professor at Jacksonville State University weighs in on whether the evidence can support that claim.

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0:00.0	I'm Cheryl McCollum, host of the brand new Cold Case Podcast, Zone 7.
0:04.1	We're going to be talking to family members, detectives, prosecutors, and nationally recognized
0:09.1	experts that are in my Zone 7. The group of professionals that I've called on
0:13.6	to help me work hundreds of cases you've heard of and thousands you haven't.
0:18.0	We are going to solve these cases own air together. Listen to Zone 7 on the I Heart Radio app,
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0:35.6	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
0:44.1	This is Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, I'm Executive Producer Jackie Howard, Christian
0:48.5	Bahaina Rivera, 27-year-old Mexican national, who came to the US illegally, has been convicted
0:54.3	of murdering 20-year-old Molly Tibbets. Since his conviction, Bahaina Rivera's attorneys
0:59.4	contend that two new witnesses have come forward blaming another man for Tibbets murder.
1:05.1	They have put forth the theory that Tibbets was allegedly kidnapped into a sex trafficking ring,
1:10.7	taking a listen to our friends at ABC.
1:13.1	He testified that on the day the 20-year-old was killed, he got out of the shower to find
1:17.7	two strangers in his living room. Bahaina Rivera, who speaks little English, says the man
1:22.8	wanted him to drive them in his car. One man armed with a gun, the other with a knife.
1:28.4	He lays down my phone to tell you what's going to be.
1:31.0	That I shouldn't do anything stupid and everything was going to be okay.
1:34.6	As they drove, Bahaina Rivera says they passed Tibbets running three to four times.
1:39.6	He claims the man then asked him to turn the car around and one of the men got out,
1:43.7	heading towards Tibbets, disappearing for about 12 minutes. Bahaina Rivera testified that
1:49.1	something was later put inside the trunk of the car. He says he then drove the man to a house
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