IOWA CITY, Iowa - The trial of Cristhian Bahena Rivera resumed Thursday, one day after jurors heard the prosecution’s opening statement.
Jurors at the trial were shown surveillance videos Thursday of a woman running and a vehicle tied to the defendant driving by her seconds later.Bahena Rivera, 26, is accused of killing Mollie Tibbets in 2018.
She was a 20-year-old college student who went missing after going for a run that July.Investigators testified about how the video became a significant lead in the month-long search for Tibbetts, who disappeared while running on July 18, 2018, in Brooklyn, Iowa.
Within days of obtaining the video, they had recovered Tibbetts' body from a cornfield and arrested Bahena Rivera, a local farmhand and.