Nearly three years after the body of 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts was found in a cornfield, prosecutors delivered opening statements in an Iowa courtroom Wednesday accusing a farm worker of following her on a run, fatally stabbing her and hiding her body in a rural field.
The man accused of pursuing and killing college student Mollie Tibbetts in Iowa pleaded not guilty during arraignment Wednesday.
Since authorities revealed the suspect in the killing of Mollie Tibbetts is an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, Iowa's Latino communities have been the target of rising anti-immigrant sentiment.
The paint on the road near a predominantly Latino community near Des Moines read, "Deport Illegals."
When Mollie Tibbetts went for a jog and never returned, her death realized the worst fears of many runners, especially women, who lace up their sneakers unsure of what they may face on the road.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly used the killing of 20-year-old college student Mollie Tibbetts as fuel for a new round of political attacks less than three months out from the midterm elections.
President Donald Trump on Friday tied the death of 20-year-old Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts to Democratic policies, continuing the administration's politicization of crimes allegedly committed by undocumented immigrants.
Jessica Rudd has been running for 10 years and says she gets rude comments or some other form of harassment from men at least once a week.
A preliminary report from the autopsy on Mollie Tibbetts' body determined that her death was a "homicide resulting from multiple sharp force injuries," the Iowa State Medical Examiner said.
Some relatives of Mollie Tibbetts are pushing back against politicians who are blaming the country's immigration system for the Iowa college student's death.
The man accused of pursuing and killing 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts had worked four years at an Iowa dairy farm based on false identification, his employer said Wednesday.
Mollie Tibbetts' family expressed grief and gratitude for those who have supported them during the search for the student, which ended Tuesday when a body was found in an Iowa corn field. Authorities believe the remains are hers.
Investigators spoke to hundreds of people in the search for clues about Mollie Tibbetts' disappearance, but weeks after she vanished it was security camera footage that finally gave them a first glimpse of the man accused of killing her.
More than a month ago, Mollie Tibbetts went for a jog and never returned.
The weekslong search for Mollie Tibbetts, a 20-year-old Iowa student who disappeared while jogging, came to a grisly end Tuesday when a man guided investigators to a body in a cornfield.
Investigators on Monday rolled out an interactive website to help in the search for a missing Iowa college student who disappeared nearly four weeks ago.
Mollie Tibbetts has been missing since the middle of July, but her face is everywhere in her hometown of Brooklyn, Iowa. It's taped to telephone poles and store windows. It's on yard signs and t-shirts and magnets stuck to the back of 18-wheelers.
On Sunday, nearly three weeks after her daughter went missing, Laura Calderwood learned that a woman's body had been found in rural Iowa.
Investigators searching for missing University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts have gotten hundreds of tips and are looking for her in ponds, fields, and from the air, officials said Friday morning at a news conference.
More than 200 interviews have been conducted in the investigation into the disappearance of University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts, according to the special agent in charge.
Investigators hope data from a missing Iowa woman's Fitbit may give them clues to her whereabouts after her disappearance last week.
