Bahena Rivera, 27, who came to the United States illegally as a teenager, led investigators to her body in a remote cornfield about a month after she vanished. The defense motions requested a new trial and asked the judge to compel prosecutors to provide more information on other suspects investigated in the death of Mollie Tibbetts allegedly linked to a sex trafficking ring. According to Bahena Rivera’s defense attorney, Jennifer Frese, Jones allegedly admitted he was involved with a "trap house" and Tibbetts was abducted for purposes of sex trafficking. Bahena Rivera testified at trial in May that two masked men who actually killed Tibbetts forced him to drive them around and dispose of Tibbetts' body. Prosecutors dismissed Rivera's claims, but his defense attorneys now say that the two new witnesses support Bahena Rivera's story.

Source: Fox News July 15, 2021 16:41 UTC