BREAKING: 26-Year-Old Illegal Immigrant Convicted Of Murdering Mollie Tibbets In 2018

On Friday, a jury found Cristhian Bahena Rivera, a 26-year-old illegal immigrant from Mexico, guilty of first-degree murder in the 2018 death of then-University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbets.

Bahena Rivera will be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, according to the Associated Press. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for July 15. The jury’s unanimous verdict was handed down on Friday.

Tibbets vanished in July 2018 after she went out for a run. Iowa police later found and interviewed Bahena Rivera in connection with Tibbets’ disappearance after security footage placed his vehicle near her around the time of her disappearance, according to CNN.

At the time, Bahena Rivera said he remembered Tibbets, that he found her attractive but got angry and “blacked out” after she rejected his advances. He later woke up to find her body in his truck. He left Tibbets’ body in an Iowa cornfield where police later found and retrieved the body after Bahena Rivera took them to it.

Tibbets death made national news in 2018 as politicians such as then-President Donald Trump warned about the dangers of illegal immigration, which he sought to control by building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and strengthening border control laws.

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