PICTURED: Illegal immigrant, 24, charged with murdering Mollie Tibbetts after he admits chasing her down while she was jogging but claims he ‘blacked out’ and woke to find her dead
Cristhian Rivera, 24 was charged with first degree murder on Tuesday
He followed Mollie in his car and tried to have a conversation with her on July 18
Cops tracked him down after reviewing a neighbor’s home surveillance footage
Investigators received the video two weeks ago and confronted Rivera Monday
When she told him she would call the police, he ‘blacked out’ and attacked her
Rivera led police to Mollie’s body which he’d hidden in a corn field
It is not clear how Mollie died – the results of the autopsy have not yet been released
President Donald Trump chirped in during his Tuesday address, blaming immigration laws for Mollie’s death saying it ‘should’ve never happened’
Rivera has been living in the US illegally for the last four to seven years
It is unclear where he comes from originally. He told police he had seen Mollie before
The mother of his young daughter is friends with Mollie on Facebook
By JENNIFER SMITH and HANNAH PARRY
DAILYMAIL.COM
21 August 2018
A 24-year-old illegal immigrant from Mexico has been charged with the murder of missing Mollie Tibbetts.
Cristhian Rivera, 24, was charged on Tuesday after leading police to the corn field where he dumped Mollie’s body after attacking her on July 18 in Brooklyn, Iowa.
Rivera, who has been in the US illegally for between four and seven years but is from Guayabillo in Guerrero, Mexico, followed her in his dark Chevy Malibu as she ran at around 7.30pm on July 18.
He ‘blacked out’ and attacked her after she threatened to call the police unless he left her alone. Rivera was identified by surveillance footage obtained in the last couple of weeks from someone’s home.
It showed him following the student in his car and Mollie running ahead of him. It is not yet clear how Mollie died.
Rivera told police that after seeing her, he pulled over and parked his car to get out and run with her.
Mollie grabbed her phone and threatened to call the police before running off ahead. The suspect said that made him ‘panic’ and he chased after her.
That’s when he ‘blacked out.’
He claims he remembers nothing from then until he was back in his car, driving.
He then noticed one of her earphones sitting on his lap and blood in the car then remembered he’d stuffed her in the truck.
Rivera drove her then to a corn field where he hauled her body out of the truck and hid her beneath corn stalks.
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