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Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

Episode 45: The Murder of Mollie Tibbetts

Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

Inhuman Podcast

True Crime

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Mollie Tibbetts was a 20 year old who went out for a run on the evening of July 18, 2018, but she never returned. Cristhian Baheana Rivera murdered her and confessed, but then pled guilty and tried to tell a different story of the night. Thankfully, Mollie has gotten justice, and her mother gave an INCREDIBLE victim impact statement at his sentencing.


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Sources for this episode are:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/08/21/mollie-tibbett-iowa-students-body-found-media-reports-say/1050186002/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mollie-tibbetts-murder-cristhian-bahena-rivera-alias-john-budd-latest-details-2018-09-05/

https://conandaily.com/2021/05/28/cristhian-bahena-rivera-biography-13-things-about-el-guayabillo-mexico-man-who-worked-as-farmhand-in-iowa/

https://abc7chicago.com/mollie-tibbetts-update-tibbets-poweshiek-county/4020056/

https://www.kcrg.com/2021/05/27/cristhian-bahena-rivera-testifies-on-day-6-of-his-trial-for-the-murder-of-mollie-tibbetts/

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2021/07/16/christian-bahena-rivera-lawyers-mollie-tibbets-new-claims-around-xavior-harrelson-possible-suspects/7980152002/

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2021/08/02/judge-denies-new-trial-cristhian-bahena-rivera-mollie-tibbetts-murder/5462498001/

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-north-america-iowa-kidnapping-ap-top-news-db8b3a58e4df45b68deaf599832cb6c8

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up you guys, I'm Haley.

0:01.7

And I'm Andrea.

0:02.8

And this is inhuman a true crime podcast.

0:05.7

Alright, so just real quick, in case you missed it in the last episode that we literally

0:33.1

started 30 minutes ago.

0:34.6

I just said this 30 minutes ago, but just in case you missed it.

0:39.1

And if you missed it on Instagram and all that Cleo Smith, who was the little toddler that

0:43.6

was missing in Western Australia, has been found safe and brought home, which is just amazing.

0:49.7

So we're really happy.

0:51.4

And I just wanted to share that again in case you didn't listen to the last episode

0:54.4

for some reason.

0:55.4

But if you did that, go back and listen, because it was really good.

1:00.2

And also before we get into today's case, I wanted to

1:04.2

ask you all, all of our listeners, for any stories that you guys might have to share

1:11.8

with us.

1:12.8

So we may or may not be doing something related to those here soon.

1:18.6

So we've posted on Instagram and we've asked for it there, but I wanted to officially

1:25.7

like, officially ask for listener stories on the podcast, because we've only kind of

1:29.2

mentioned it in passing.

1:30.7

I know.

1:31.7

I was like, when I posted the story, I was like, and you said that I was like, shoot,

1:35.4

did we not talk about it?

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