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   Police are giving credit to a neighbour who offered surveillance   
   footage from their home security cameras for providing a major   
   break in the disappearance case   
      
   Police have credited had been unable to find Mollie Tibbetts   
   after she disappeared in Iowa, despite thousands of tips and   
   weeks of investigations. But a major break in the case occurred   
   after the local community of Brooklyn, Iowa launched a campaign   
   to find the missing 20-year-old girl.   
      
   A resident of Brooklyn — where the University of Iowa student   
   went missing while on a run nearly five weeks ago — provided   
   authorities with hours of recordings from their home’s outdoor   
   security camera. After combing through the surveillance footage,   
   police made a wild discovery: Ms Tibbetts could be seen on video   
   running through the area as a black Chevy Malibu circled her   
   numerous times.   
      
   By tracking the vehicle seen following Ms Tibbetts, police were   
   able to locate a suspect, Cristhian Bahena Rivera, 24.   
      
   Mr Rivera led officials to a body believed to be that of Ms   
   Tibbett this week, according to police documents. He said he had   
   seen her jogging.   
      
   He got out of his car and began running alongside Ms Tibbett,   
   according to a police affidavit, before allegedly becoming angry   
   with her.   
      
   "At one point, he tells us that Mollie grabbed ahold of her   
   phone and said, 'You need to leave me alone. I'm going to call   
   the police.' And then, she took off running and he, in turn,   
   chased her down,” Rick Rahn, a special agent in charge at the   
   Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, said during a news   
   conference.   
      
   The affidavit also said Mr Rivera panicked and "blacked out". He   
   now faces first degree murder charges.   
      
   Investigators said they had earlier searched the area for Ms   
   Tibbetts but did not find her, noting the body was covered by   
   corn stalks when recovered early Tuesday.   
      
   "He did in fact lead us to where he had placed Mollie, so we   
   were thankful for that because that allowed us to have some   
   closure for the family,” Mr Rahn said on Wednesday. ”Its not   
   like he was on anybody’s radar throughout the investigation".   
      
   Mr Rahn said that Mr 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 Ms Tibbetts had been assaulted.   
      
   An autopsy report, which will determine whether or not the body   
   found in the cornfield is that of Ms Tibbett, was expected to   
   take between four to six weeks.   
      
   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.   
      
   Ms 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.   
      
   US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said that it lodged   
   a federal immigration detainer for Mr Rivera after he was   
   arrested on the murder charge. That move means the agency has   
   probable cause to believe he is subject to deportation.   
      
   Yarrabee Farms, a family-owned company that operates dairy farms   
   in the rolling hills outside Brooklyn, said that the 24-year-old   
   had been an employee in good standing for four years and that it   
   was shocked to learn he was arrested.   
      
   The company is owned by the family of Craig Lang, a prominent   
   Republican who previously served as president of the Iowa Farm   
   Bureau.   
      
   Additional reporting by the Associated Press   
      
   https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mollie-   
   tibbetts-christian-rivera-brooklyn-iowa-dead-camera-video-body-   
   found-cornfield-a8503151.html   
      
                            
      
      
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