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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Mollie Tibbetts suffered fatal 'sharp force injuries'; Accused killer goes to court

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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True Crime, News

4.2 • 8.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The man charged with snatching Mollie Tibbetts as the Iowa college student was jogging, killing her and dumping her body in a rural cornfield made his first court appearance just as the medical examiner concluded she died from "multiple sharp force injuries." Nancy Grace looks at the latest with experts including lawyer Ray Guidice, forensics experts Karen Smith & and Joseph Scott Morgan, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Bober, psychologist Dr. Chloe Carmichael, lawyer Ashley Willcott, lawyer Kathleen Murphy,  and reporters Chuck Roberts & reporter Leigh Egan.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:40.3

Crime stories with Nancy Grace.

0:45.7

Does it make anybody feel better that Molly Chibbutz murder has become a political football

0:53.6

football with the people on the left, the people on the right, everybody's screaming their own opinion.

1:02.6

Does it? You think that helps the family? This is what I know. Molly Chibbutz was attacked while she

1:10.0

was jogging. She threatened to call 911. She was chased down, brutalized, and murdered. I want

1:19.7

justice. Now everybody's whining. Oh, we vetted him. He was fine. He worked with us for four years.

1:27.4

He was not fine. And this apparently is not the first time he tailed a young woman as she walked

1:37.8

or jogged. I mean, is he Grace? This is Crime stories. Thank you for being with us. Take a listen

1:45.7

to this. After we got done interviewing Mr Rivera, he led us to her location.

1:49.9

And that location was near 460th Street or Avenue in rural Powshe County. I'm sure you've driven

1:56.0

around the area and it's a rural county and there are a lot of fields, a lot of woods, a lot of

2:00.8

ditches. We have certainly had extensive searches throughout the county. We just didn't have

2:05.6

success locating her. In this particular case, she was found in a cornfield and there were corn

2:11.7

stocks placed over the top of her. We are now learning new information that Molly was killed by

2:18.3

multiple sharp blows. Joining me, Lee Egan, crime online investigative reporter Chuck Roberts

2:25.4

with crime stories renowned Atlanta defense attorney Raymond due to Che. Karen Smith,

2:32.8

forensic expert Dr. Daniel Boeber, psychiatrist Ashley Wilcott, juvenile judge and Kathleen Murphy,

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