Murder By Illegal Immigrant?

[Mike]

By RYAN FOLEY
Associated Press

MONTEZUMA, Iowa (AP) - A man from Mexico living in the U.S. illegally has confessed to kidnapping college student Mollie Tibbetts while she was running in her small Iowa hometown, killing her and dumping her body in a cornfield, authorities said Tuesday.

Cristhian Bahena Rivera, 24, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the death of Tibbetts, whose July 18 disappearance set off a massive search involving state and federal authorities.

Rivera led investigators early Tuesday to a body believed to be Tibbetts in a cornfield about 12 miles (19 kilometers) southeast of Brooklyn, Iowa, where Tibbetts was last seen running, Division of Criminal Investigation special agent Rick Rahn said.

"I can't speak about the motive. I can just tell you that it seemed that he followed her, seemed to be drawn to her on that particular day, for whatever reason he chose to abduct her," Rahn told reporters at a news conference outside the sheriff's office in Montezuma, where Rivera was being jailed.

The news that the highly publicized and gruesome crime was allegedly committed by a person in the country illegally drew immediate outrage. Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, a Republican, said: "As Iowans, we are heartbroken, and we are angry."

"We are angry that a broken immigration system allowed a predator like this to live in our community, and we will do all we can to bring justice to Mollie's killer," she said in a statement.

The arrest is likely to spark calls for a further crackdown on illegal immigration, which President Donald Trump has made a core policy of his administration.

He often has claimed widespread crime by people living in the country illegally, citing among other things the indictments of 11 suspected MS-13 gang members from El Salvador charged in connection with the slayings of two Virginia teens. Trump also has held events at the White House with members of "angel families," whose relatives were killed by immigrants.

Although Trump claims legal U.S. residents are less likely to commit crime, several studies from social scientists and the libertarian think tank Cato Institute find that isn't accurate and states with a higher share of people living in the country illegally have lower violent crime rates.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said that it lodged a federal immigration detainer for Rivera after he was arrested on the murder charge. That move means the agency has probable cause to believe he is subject to deportation.

Investigators said they believed Rivera had lived in the area from four to seven years. Rahn declined comment on his employment history, but described Rivera as someone who lived in a rural area and kept to himself. A search of Iowa court records revealed no prior criminal history, and it's unclear whether he had ever been subject to prior deportation proceedings.

Rivera's Facebook page described him as being from Guayabillo, a community of less than 500 people in the state of Guerrero. It's about a three-hour drive from the resort city of Acapulco.

Investigators said they zeroed in on Rivera after obtaining footage from surveillance cameras in Brooklyn. The footage showed a Chevy Malibu connected to Rivera that was driving back and forth as Tibbetts was running in the area, Rahn said.

An affidavit attached to the criminal complaint against Rivera alleged that he admitted to investigators he got out of his car and started running alongside Tibbetts.

Tibbetts grabbed her phone and said she was going to call the police. The affidavit says Rivera panicked and then said he blacked out. Rivera next remembers seeing her earphones on his lap, and taking her bloody body out of the trunk of his car, it said.

"The defendant further described during the interview that he dragged Tibbetts on foot from his vehicle to a secluded location in a cornfield," the affidavit said.

Investigators said they had earlier searched the area for Tibbetts but didn't find her, noting the body was covered by corn stalks when recovered early Tuesday.

Rahn said that Rivera was cooperating with investigators and speaking with the help of a translator. He said an autopsy would be performed on the body Wednesday by the state medical examiner's office, which would assist investigators in understanding whether Tibbetts had been assaulted or tried to fight him off.

A conviction on first-degree murder carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole in Iowa, which doesn't have the death penalty.

On Tuesday night, deputies were guarding a trailer where the suspect had lived on a gravel road outside Brooklyn near a dairy farm.

Tibbetts' disappearance set off a massive search involving dozens of officers from the FBI, as well as state and local agencies. They focused much of their efforts in and around Brooklyn, searching farm fields, ponds and homes. Investigators asked anyone who was around five locations, including a car wash, a truck stop and a farm south of town, to report if they saw anything suspicious on July 18.

Last week, Vice President Mike Pence met privately with the Tibbetts family during a visit to Iowa and told them that "you're on the hearts of every American."

At Brooklyn City Hall, city clerk Sheri Sharer said Tuesday was a sad day for the town.

"It never crossed our mind that she wouldn't come home safe," she said.

The University of Iowa mourned the loss of Tibbetts, a psychology major who would have started her junior year this week.

"We are deeply saddened that we've lost a member of the University of Iowa community," said university official Melissa Shivers, who urged students to seek counseling and other support services as needed.

 

[Traveler]

Everyone knows that there's a whole lot of total garbage sub-humans around, yet you see women out jogging, often with headsets on, and no way to protect themselves. It's not like this is something new. I hope this will strike a chord, and big dogs, pistols, at least pepperspray become as common as running shoes and headbands. When seconds count help is minutes away.......and take those damn things off their ears so they can hear what's going on around them.

Build the wall already!

 

[Texan]

One of Obama's Dreamers. Just here to follow his dreams - raping and killing the young girls that Americans don't want to kill. If we only had more places where fine young men like this could seek sanctuary from the jackbooted law enforcement officers (probably evil Whites) who are out to get him now, just think what a great country we could have!

 

[Mike]

I'm just wondering is there anything the Democrats won't do to build their voter base? I really thought they were all going to blow a head gasket when Trump called the MS-13 gang members "Animals".

I didn't know until yesterday that a full 1/3 of the El Salvadore population is now residing in the USA.

 

[Traveler]

I'm just wondering is there anything the Democrats won't do to build their voter base? I really thought they were all going to blow a head gasket when Trump called the MS-13 gang members "Animals".

I didn't know until yesterday that a full 1/3 of the El Salvadore population is now residing in the USA.

holyshit........

 

[Faster horses]

I'm just wondering is there anything the Democrats won't do to build their voter base? I really thought they were all going to blow a head gasket when Trump called the MS-13 gang members "Animals".

I didn't know until yesterday that a full 1/3 of the El Salvadore population is now residing in the USA.

Is that true? :shock:

 

[iwannabeacowboy]

I'm just wondering is there anything the Democrats won't do to build their voter base? I really thought they were all going to blow a head gasket when Trump called the MS-13 gang members "Animals".

I didn't know until yesterday that a full 1/3 of the El Salvadore population is now residing in the USA.

Is that true? :shock:

From 2010:

About one of every five Salvadorans resides in the United States.
The 1.1 million Salvadoran immigrants in the United States represent about one-fifth (19.1 percent) of the total population of El Salvador (5.7 million in 2007 according to the Salvadoran Department of Statistics and Censuses).

Doesn't seem like much of a stretch after Obama and the Dems up'ed the border jumping over the next 6 years.

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/salvadoran-immigrants-united-states/#2

 

[jigs]

if a wall keeps an illegal out that killed this young girl, what do we build to keep the white husband/father in Colorado from killing his pregnant wife and two young girls? Where does that wall go?
I am 100% for a safer USA, a well secured border, but keep in mind that hate is in the hearts of man, not in other countries. Hate comes in all colors and speaks all languages.

 

[Traveler]

if a wall keeps an illegal out that killed this young girl, what do we build to keep the white husband/father in Colorado from killing his pregnant wife and two young girls? Where does that wall go?
I am 100% for a safer USA, a well secured border, but keep in mind that hate is in the hearts of man, not in other countries. Hate comes in all colors and speaks all languages.

So what exactly does one have to do with the other, or did you feel that we just needed preached at? A wall would do a whole lot to keep the hate that is in the hearts of man, that is even radical Muslims that would love to behead all Christians, coming through our Southern border disguised as Latin Americans, out of our country.

 

[Traveler]

Another thought, the death penalty, especially if carried out in a timely manner, decided by a jury of ones peers, stops the hate in a mans heart.

Scan this article and see if you can find the sentence about Mexican Cartels, and figure out the connection between murder, and the devastating drug abuse. Build the wall.

http://www.shadolsonshow.com/2018/08/14/generation-meth-inside-south-dakotas-native-reservation-methamphetamine-rings/

Here's another display of how some people are ignorant, and why we need to vet everyone coming in the country. Build the wall.

http://www.shadolsonshow.com/2018/08/17/couple-killed-by-isis-on-cycling-journey-to-prove-isis-kind-and-loving/

 

[iwannabeacowboy]

if a wall keeps an illegal out that killed this young girl, what do we build to keep the white husband/father in Colorado from killing his pregnant wife and two young girls? Where does that wall go?
I am 100% for a safer USA, a well secured border, but keep in mind that hate is in the hearts of man, not in other countries. Hate comes in all colors and speaks all languages.

If you don't understand that America is currently being attacked, you aren't looking. If you know that America is under attack, yet want an open boarder, you are acting treasonous. A lot of the "secret societies" will be proven treasonous shortly.

Being associated with the Knights Templar won't bode well over the coming months. You might want to re-consider taking free trips and supporting open boarders.

 

[redrobin]

if a wall keeps an illegal out that killed this young girl, what do we build to keep the white husband/father in Colorado from killing his pregnant wife and two young girls? Where does that wall go?
I am 100% for a safer USA, a well secured border, but keep in mind that hate is in the hearts of man, not in other countries. Hate comes in all colors and speaks all languages.

The wall isn't to keep hate out jigs, the wall is to keep a controlled flow of immegration into our beautiful country. This killing in Iowa of someone's daughter is a reminder that there needs to be restrictions. I'm sure there are illegals that are much better people than me but they have no legal right to be here.

 

[Broke Cowboy]

if a wall keeps an illegal out that killed this young girl, what do we build to keep the white husband/father in Colorado from killing his pregnant wife and two young girls? Where does that wall go?
I am 100% for a safer USA, a well secured border, but keep in mind that hate is in the hearts of man, not in other countries. Hate comes in all colors and speaks all languages.

Well, you have to start somewhere - and this would be a start.

Conversely canada welcomes isis members back to Canada and let's them listen to poetry to help them with their rehabilitation.

Cheers

 

[Brad S]

A wall addresses the crime of illegal immigration or invasion. No hate involved, simply a response to an unacceptable situation.

That murder you reference in Colorado is, not even tangentially relevant (read distraction from the issue at hand), but absolutely heart wrenching and sickening. No, it's bad beyond description or even comprehension.


As for mentioning the crime committed by a white person: uhhh, ok extol all criminal acts broken down by race. Of course you can find some criminal actions perpetrated by white people, but please don't lie by omission. What neighborhood do you want your teenage daughter walking through? We can go all racial if you want; I'll be here with the truth.

 

[iwannabeacowboy]

The proponents of open borders can only make that argument through convoluted logic. How do you justify someone from Mexico breaking the law and entering the US and not someone from Ethiopia? Ireland? Australia? Columbia? Iran?

That logic does not hold. You cannot move the world to live within the boundary of the United States.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE


Why do people want to come to America? Our natural resources? No, the world abounds in natural resources. Then why come? Our system. We cannot import the world into America. But they can export our Constitutional system.

 

[Mike]

I suppose the Pope didn't think about hate when he built the wall around Vatican City when he built it to keep the Islamic invaders/murderers out.........

 

[jigs]

I want a secure border but everyone is jumping on the Mexican illegal, and ignoring the Colorado murders, the 40 in Chicago, and so on..... what good is it to be immigration tough in Iowa when California is letting them vote? Solid solutions not knee jerk reactions

 

[Traveler]

I want a secure border but everyone is jumping on the Mexican illegal, and ignoring the Colorado murders, the 40 in Chicago, and so on..... what good is it to be immigration tough in Iowa when California is letting them vote? Solid solutions not knee jerk reactions

Nobody's ignoring anything. Trump is doing his damnedest, and in California, Illinois, Maryland, etal, we have idiots and inmates running the asylum. If Democrats do well in the next election, the "solid solutions" will amount to not a damn thing about anything, which is what the left wants, except to take guns from law abiding legal citizens. We've truly been invaded, and it's time to stop being stupid about it.