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Mollie Tibbetts Wiki, Father Dad, Boyfriend (Parents Mother) Height

Mollie Tibbetts Cause of Death Killer
Personal Information Summary
Name Mollie Tibbetts
Mother / Mom Laura Calderwood.
Hometown San Francisco, California.
Siblings Jake Tibbetts and Scott Tibbetts.
Sorority No confirmed information is available.
Wedding & Marriage / Husband / Engaged / Spouse / Partner Currently not married, possibly single. Check the full bio for relationship details.
Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB May 8, 1998, – 2018. At the time of her disappearance & death, she was around 20 years old.
Was Mollie Tibbetts ever found? Just over a month into the search, her remains were found in a cornfield on Aug. 21, 2018.
Children / No of Kids None
Ethnicity / Origin / Heritage / Race Mixed
Nationality American
Wikipedia Biography / Profile Background

Introduction :

  • Mollie Cecilia Tibbetts was a young American girl who made national news headlines after she disappeared in Iowa & then being found dead a month later.
  • Born on May 8, 1998, in San Francisco, California, Mollie lived in Brooklyn in Eastern Iowa.

Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :

  • Parents : Mollie’s mother was Laura Calderwood & her father was Rob Tibbetts. They divorced when their daughter was studying in grade two.
  • Post this, Mollie moved to Iowa along with her mom. She has two siblings with whom she used to stay along with her mother in Iowa.
  • Her boyfriend was Dalton Jack whom she was dating for around three years.
  • According to her family and friends, Mollie was a cheerful person who always had a beaming smile on her face.
  • Mollie was honored by her younger brother’s football team – They got her initials printed on its team jerseys.

Education and Work :

  • Mollie studied at the University of Iowa, a public research university in Iowa city, and had decided to major in psychology.
  • She was a day camp worker at the Grinnell Regional Medical Center, a non-profit, private rural community hospital in Grinnell, Iowa.

Incident Timeline :

  • In July 2018, Mollie went missing after she went out for her routine jog in Brooklyn post dog sitting. She was last seen at around 7:30 P.M and failed to turn up at work the following day.
  • During the investigations that followed, over 500 interviews were taken and over 2000 tips received. There was also a monetary reward of $366,000 for finding Mollie.
  • On August 21, 2018, police announced that her dead body was found in Poweshiek County located in south eastern Iowa and that she had multiple sharp injuries, making it a case of murder.
  • After scanning a surveillance footage near the area Mollie went jogging, police identified a Chevrolet Malibu that drove in and out of the area at the time. The killer suspect turned out to be Cristhian Bahena Rivera, a 24-year-old illegal immigrant.
  • A Mexican from El Guayabillo, Guerrero, Mexico, Rivera had arrived in the U.S. when he was 17 years old and had been living and working in rural Poweshiek County area for a long time under a false identification, John Budd.
  • When police approached the suspect, he confessed to kidnapping and killing Mollie, leading them to her dead body in an isolated location in a cornfield.
  • The suspect was charged with first degree murder on August 22nd 2018. However, he pleaded not guilty on September 19, 2018.

Political Implications :

  • The case of an illegal immigrant involved in the murder of an American woman made for several politicized statements by President Donald Trump & many other politicians. The case was used to reinforce his claim by many of his supporters for building a wall between America and Mexico to stop illegal immigrations.

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