| Personal Information Summary | |
|---|---|
| Name | Mollie Tibbetts |
| Mother / Mom | Laura Calderwood. |
| Hometown | San Francisco, California. |
| Siblings | Jake Tibbetts and Scott Tibbetts. |
| Sorority | No confirmed information is available. |
| Wedding & Marriage / Husband / Engaged / Spouse / Partner | Currently not married, possibly single. Check the full bio for relationship details. |
| Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB | May 8, 1998, – 2018. At the time of her disappearance & death, she was around 20 years old. |
| Was Mollie Tibbetts ever found? | Just over a month into the search, her remains were found in a cornfield on Aug. 21, 2018. |
| Children / No of Kids | None |
| Ethnicity / Origin / Heritage / Race | Mixed |
| Nationality | American |
Wikipedia Biography / Profile Background
Introduction :
- Mollie Cecilia Tibbetts was a young American girl who made national news headlines after she disappeared in Iowa & then being found dead a month later.
- Born on May 8, 1998, in San Francisco, California, Mollie lived in Brooklyn in Eastern Iowa.
Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :
- Parents : Mollie’s mother was Laura Calderwood & her father was Rob Tibbetts. They divorced when their daughter was studying in grade two.
- Post this, Mollie moved to Iowa along with her mom. She has two siblings with whom she used to stay along with her mother in Iowa.
- Her boyfriend was Dalton Jack whom she was dating for around three years.
- According to her family and friends, Mollie was a cheerful person who always had a beaming smile on her face.
- Mollie was honored by her younger brother’s football team – They got her initials printed on its team jerseys.
Education and Work :
- Mollie studied at the University of Iowa, a public research university in Iowa city, and had decided to major in psychology.
- She was a day camp worker at the Grinnell Regional Medical Center, a non-profit, private rural community hospital in Grinnell, Iowa.
Incident Timeline :
- In July 2018, Mollie went missing after she went out for her routine jog in Brooklyn post dog sitting. She was last seen at around 7:30 P.M and failed to turn up at work the following day.
- During the investigations that followed, over 500 interviews were taken and over 2000 tips received. There was also a monetary reward of $366,000 for finding Mollie.
- On August 21, 2018, police announced that her dead body was found in Poweshiek County located in south eastern Iowa and that she had multiple sharp injuries, making it a case of murder.
- After scanning a surveillance footage near the area Mollie went jogging, police identified a Chevrolet Malibu that drove in and out of the area at the time. The killer suspect turned out to be Cristhian Bahena Rivera, a 24-year-old illegal immigrant.
- A Mexican from El Guayabillo, Guerrero, Mexico, Rivera had arrived in the U.S. when he was 17 years old and had been living and working in rural Poweshiek County area for a long time under a false identification, John Budd.
- When police approached the suspect, he confessed to kidnapping and killing Mollie, leading them to her dead body in an isolated location in a cornfield.
- The suspect was charged with first degree murder on August 22nd 2018. However, he pleaded not guilty on September 19, 2018.
Political Implications :
- The case of an illegal immigrant involved in the murder of an American woman made for several politicized statements by President Donald Trump & many other politicians. The case was used to reinforce his claim by many of his supporters for building a wall between America and Mexico to stop illegal immigrations.