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   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.   
      
   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.   
      
      
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