Illegal Immigrant Found Guilty in 2018 Stabbing Death of Mollie Tibbetts

Illegal Immigrant Found Guilty in 2018 Stabbing Death of Mollie Tibbetts
Mollie Tibbetts (L) and Cristhian Rivera (R) in file photos. Poweshiek County Emergency Management/Poweshiek County Sheriff
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IOWA CITY, Iowa—A jury found an illegal immigrant guilty of murder Friday in the abduction and killing of a University of Iowa student who vanished while out for a run in 2018.

The 12-member jury unanimously found Cristhian Bahena Rivera guilty of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of Mollie Tibbetts, who is remembered as a friendly 20-year-old who was studying to become a child psychologist.