a judge rejected Bahena Rivera’s request for a new trial. Sentencing is set for 1:30 p.m. CT in Poweshiek County.Tibbetts, 20, vanished while out running on July 18, 2018, in Brooklyn, Iowa.
She was reported missing the next day after she didn’t show up for her summer job at a daycare. Investigators recovered her partially naked, decomposing body from a cornfield a month later.RELATED: Mollie Tibbetts case: Cristhian Bahena Rivera found guilty in Iowa student’s stabbing deathDuring questioning by police, Bahena Rivera acknowledged that he encountered Tibbetts as she was running, and he led investigators to the field where her body lay hidden under cornstalks.Mollie Tibbetts and Cristhian Bahena Rivera are pictured.