Co-ed's body hidden in cornfield: Mollie Tibbetts trial starts now!

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 17 May 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

College student Mollie Tibbetts disappeared from the small Iowa town of Brooklyn. The 20-year-old woman former high school track star went out for an evening jog and never came home. After a month-long search, Tibbets' body is found in a cornfield, covered by stalks. The man who put Tibbetts there led police to the body. The medical examiner concluded she died from "multiple sharp force injuries." Cristian Rivera, charged with snatching the Iowa college student, goes to trial this week. Today, jury selection begins. Joining Nancy Grace today:Francey Hakes - Former federal prosecutor, Podcast: "Best Case Worst Case", Senior Producer on FOX's America’s Most Wanted, Twitter/Instagram: @franceyhakesDr. Angela Arnold - Psychiatrist, Atlanta GA www.angelaarnoldmd.com,Joe Scott Morgan - Professor of Forensics Jacksonville State University, Author, "Blood Beneath My Feet", Featured on "The Piketon Massacre: Return to Pike County" on iHeartRadio Angenette Levy - Emmy-nominated Reporter & Anchor, Twitter: @Angenette5 from Davenport

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0:00.0	A 20 year old girl goes jogging and she's never seen alive again.
0:12.4	Jerry Selection commences in the case of Molly Tibbets.
0:24.2	This is how it started.
0:26.1	This is not like her.
0:27.4	Dolan Jack is living in a nightmare.
0:29.6	I figured, you know, I'd speak to her in an hour or so.
0:33.6	And right now it's one he can't wake up from.
0:36.2	I came home as soon as her mom said that she called the hospital and she wasn't there.
0:39.7	The last time the 20 year old saw Molly was on Wednesday at 10 pm when he opened a
0:44.2	Snapchat from her.
0:45.3	It was just a selfie with the caption and I don't remember what the caption said, but it
0:49.1	looked like she was inside.
0:50.1	He never thought he wouldn't hear from her again.
0:52.8	When he said her early Thursday morning, he didn't notice the message hadn't been read
0:56.8	until her friend called late that afternoon.
0:59.3	One of her coworkers called me and said Molly had not called in to work that day and she
1:03.8	hadn't showed up and then I looked at the messages and she hadn't opened her read any of them.
1:09.0	So I started getting in contact with her friends and her family saying, Hey, have you seen
1:13.2	her?
1:14.2	Have you heard from her?
1:15.2	And everybody came up with the same thing.
1:16.9	No, I haven't seen her since yesterday.
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