Jury Selection Begins for Illegal Immigrant Charged With Murdering Mollie Tibbetts

Jury Selection Begins for Illegal Immigrant Charged With Murdering Mollie Tibbetts
Mollie Tibbetts poses for a picture during homecoming festivities at BGM High School in her hometown of Brooklyn, Iowa, in September 2016. Kim Calderwood via AP
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A prosecutor warned prospective jurors Monday that the trial of an illegal immigrant charged in the 2018 fatal stabbing of a University of Iowa student will include graphic evidence that will be emotionally difficult to see and hear.

Prosecutor Scott Brown said the first-degree murder trial of Cristhian Bahena Rivera in the death of 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts will feature testimony about the stab wounds she suffered after going for a run.