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Iowa jury convicted a man for killing 20-year-old college student Mollie Tibbetts. - Cristhian Bahena Rivera was found guilty of murder.
- Tibbetts was killed while out on a jog in 2018.
A man was convicted Friday of murdering 20-year-old Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts.
A jury found 24-year-old Cristhian Bahena Rivera guilty of first-degree murder, NBC News reported. He faces a possible sentence of life in prison.
Bahena Rivera worked at dairy farms in Brooklyn, Iowa. Multiple women said he harassed them for dates, repeatedly sending late-night messages on Facebook after he had been turned down.
"He would just stare. He wouldn't really like talk," one woman said. "Something about him was off."
Video presented at trial showed that he stalked Tibbetts in his car. He later took investigators to a cornfield where Tibbetts' body was discovered.
An autopsy indicated that Tibbetts had been stabbed to death.