Mollie Tibbetts, a University of Iowa student, disappeared on July 18, 2018, while jogging near her home in Brooklyn, Iowa. After a month-long search, police identified 24-year-old Cristhian Bahena Rivera as a suspect using surveillance camera footage that showed his car following her on her jog. He led police to her body in a Poweshiek County cornfield on August 21 and was charged with first-degree murder. Mollie would have started her junior year this fall.
Hard to say what precautions would have prevented this tragedy: tighter immigration laws, running with a friend, or knowledge of self-defense.
It’s tragedies like these that remind us how important it is to take every precaution, and you can never be too safe.
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