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This episode discusses the tragic case of Mollie Tibbetts, her disappearance, and the subsequent trial of Cristhian Bahena Rivera.

In this episode of Unexplained America, your host Lisa will discuss the sad and tragic case of Mollie Tibbetts. Listener Discretion-brutal murder and SA. On Wednesday July, 18, 2018, 20 year old Mollie goes for a run in her small home town in Iowa around 7:30 pm. When Mollie doesn't show up for work the following day her family, boyfriend, friends, and comminity. After a month long of searching for Mollie the police catch a break and find a man named Cristhian Bahena Rivera who leads the police directly to Mollie's body. Her family is devastated, vigils are held, and a country mourns another woman lost while doing something they love--running,. Bahena goes on trial after many delays due to motions, moving the trial location and the pandemic of Covid-19--May 17, 2021--almost 3 years after Mollie went missing. Listen to hear full details and remember Mollie--her beautiful life and legacy her family leaves in the Miles for Mollie Annual Fundraiser Walk/Run--held in September in Brooklyn, Iowa. References for this Episode: https://youtu.be/0Zz5UPLzVOA?si=RN_eV-ye-rrBDdHF "University officials, students react to the discovery of Tibbetts' body"-Hillar Ojeda--The Des Moines…

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