IOWA CITY, Iowa — Sunday marks five years since the man convicted of killing University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
On Aug. 30, 2021, Judge Joel Yates sentenced Cristhian Bahena Rivera to the mandatory sentence for first-degree murder in Iowa.
Bahena Rivera had been convicted months earlier in the 2018 stabbing death of Tibbetts, a University of Iowa student who disappeared while out for a run near her hometown of Brooklyn, Iowa…