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   From: criminally-complicit@sfchronicle.com   
      
   The mother of Mollie Tibbetts has taken in the teenage son of   
   Mexican immigrants who were close to the daughter’s alleged   
   killer, according to a report published Friday.   
      
   Laura Calderwood told The Washington Post that she brought 17-   
   year-old Ulises Felix into her home when his parents left the   
   small town of Brooklyn, Iowa, following the arrest of Cristhian   
   Bahena Rivera in August.   
      
   Although his parents fled the town amid seething anti-immigrant   
   rhetoric, Felix wanted to stay behind and finish high school.   
      
   Rivera, an illegal immigrant, is accused of abducting Tibbetts,   
   a 20-year-old University of Iowa student, in July while she was   
   out on a run, killing her and leaving her body in a cornfield to   
   rot.   
      
   According to the paper, Felix’s parents worked alongside Rivera   
   at the local Yarrabee Farms for years.   
      
   Felix told the paper that his parents “took care” of Rivera “for   
   a while,” saying that his mother fed the 24-year-old every day.   
      
   Rivera and Felix’s cousin Iris Monarrez also have a child   
   together.   
      
   After Rivera’s arrest, Felix’s parents left town for Illinois.   
   Felix, who is American, wanted to stay in the town.   
      
   That’s when Calderwood’s son and Mollie’s brother Scott, who   
   played on the football team with Felix, asked if they could take   
   him in.   
      
   Calderwood, 55, thought that her daughter would have wanted her   
   to care for Felix and agreed.   
      
   Mollie Tibbetts’ father, Rob Tibbetts, said his daughter would   
   have “vehemently opposed” anti-immigrant views espoused by   
   politicians in the aftermath of her death and said that she   
   would have found them profoundly racist in a column for the Des   
   Moines Register.   
      
   Both of her parents rejected the politicization of their   
   daughter’s murder.   
      
   In The Washington Post article, Calderwood described Mollie’s   
   disappearance and killing as “a horror.”   
      
   “Mollie’s death was horrific,” Calderwood said. She was stabbed   
   “in the chest. And I know there was one in the skull.”   
      
   Rivera allegedly confessed to the killing, claiming he’d blocked   
   out the actual slaying but came to and found Tibbetts’ body in   
   his vehicle.   
      
   He’s pleaded not guilty and faces life in prison.   
      
   https://nypost.com/2018/12/28/mollie-tibbetts-mom-takes-in-   
   immigrant-teen-with-ties-to-daughters-alleged-killer/   
          
      
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