Local 5 can verify: Bahena Rivera is being defended by Chad and Jennifer Frese, a private legal team based in Marshalltown. They said the defense is being funded by "family and acquaintances," meaning Behena Rivera's attorneys are not being paid for by the public.
A farm worker has been found guilty of the murder of University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts. The 20-year-old had gone out running near her home in July 2018 when she was abducted and killed by Cristhian Bahena Rivera, a court ruled on Friday.
Marshalltown lawyers Jennifer and Chad Frese, a married couple, were retained by the family to replace Richards, and they withdrew the motions for closed hearings and a gag order and waived Rivera's right to make an initial appearance on Aug. 31.
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It's been nearly three years since Mollie Tibbetts went missing, her body found over a month after she went missing while on a run in her hometown of Brooklyn, Iowa. The trial for her murder is set to begin this week.
The 20-year-old University of Iowa student was going for a run in her hometown of Brooklyn, Iowa, when she went missing in July 2018. A month later, Bahena Rivera was arrested for her murder. In May of this year, Bahena Rivera was found guilty of kidnapping and murdering Tibbetts.
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But he acknowledged “intense public” interest in the case and said news outlets can operate remote-controlled video cameras to broadcast the proceedings live on the internet or television.
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Last week, Cristhian Rivera was arrested for the murder of Mollie Tibbetts, an Iowa woman who had been missing since July 18. Rivera followed Tibbetts in his car, eventually confronting her on foot, and then “blacked out” after she threatened to call the police. Her body was later discovered in a cornfield 15 miles from her home.
Richards had initially filed the motion before being dismissed. “It’s not something Chad and I would have requested if we were on the case initially, so that’s the reason we’re withdrawing it,” Frese commented.
Her body was later discovered in a cornfield 15 miles from her home.
Suspect in Mollie Tibbetts' murder lived on land owned by GOP fund-raiser. Cristhian Bahena Rivera is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Mollie Tibbetts. (Charlie Neibergall / AP)
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Investigators say that Rivera came to the country from Mexico illegally several years ago when he was in the late teens. He is accused of stalking Tibbetts while she was out for a run a few miles from his home, killing her after she threatened to call police on him, and dumping her body in a cornfield.