ILIA CALDERÓN: A jury found Mexican immigrant Cristhian Bahena Rivera guilty of the kidnapping and murder of college student Mollie Tibbetts.
ANDREA LEÓN: A jury found Cristhian Bahena Rivera, a 26-year-old undocumented Mexican, guilty of first-degree murder. He confessed that he had chased the young woman, and that she had asked him to leave her alone or she would call the police.
He said that bothered him and then he only remembered that she was in the trunk of his car covered in blood. He later led investigators to the scene where the body was hidden under corn stalks. This week Rivera changed his testimony and said two men had kidnapped him and forced him to move the body. The jury did not believe that new version.
Molly Tibbetts' death was used by former President Donald Trump to label undocumented Mexicans as murderers during his political campaign, something the young woman's father rejected on more than one occasion and said his daughter would have considered it deeply racist.
