“We’re going to talk about the violent death of a young girl, Mollie Tibbetts,” prosecutor Scott Brown said during jury selection. “It’s not going to be pleasant.”
Mollie Tibbetts' body was discovered in a cornfield, but investigators never recovered her cell phone, Fitbit, or the "murder weapon" used in the case, according to testimony in court Wednesday.
A judge had been expected to rule about whether any of the alleged confession of Cristhian Bahena Rivera would be admissible in court, but the hearing has now been rescheduled until November.
The four included a farmer with a history of stalking women, a neighbor seen washing his car hours after she vanished, an acquaintance who erased his cellphone data and a Nebraska man who ditched his vehicle nearby.
