Judge: Key evidence can be used in Mollie Tibbetts' slaying

IOWA CITY, Iowa — In a victory for prosecutors, a roar dominated Monday that they’ll employ key proof against the person charged with killing University of Iowa studentMollie Tibbetts.

Contemplate Joel Yates agreed with prosecutors that some statements made by the suspect, Cristhian Bahena Rivera, wants to be suppressed attributable to they got right here all through an interrogation after he turned into as soon as no longer totally read his upright rights.

But Yates dominated that prosecutors can silent employ the facts supplied by Rivera that led them to the physique of Tibbetts, who disappeared in July 2018 whereas out for a jog in the miniature city of Brooklyn, Iowa.

Yates additionally dominated that Rivera gave consent to head attempting his car, so prosecutors can employ blood proof stumbled on in the trunk of a car that allegedly contained Tibbetts’ DNA.

Rivera, a 25-twelve months-dilapidated dairy farm employee who turned into as soon as allegedly in the nation illegally, is scheduled to face trial in February. He faces life in penal advanced.

Investigators stumbled on the physique of Tibbetts in a cornfield initiating air of Brooklyn after Rivera allegedly led them to the physique.

Yates dominated that Rivera turned into as soon as no longer read his rights when he turned into as soon as taken into custody hours earlier however that the proof gathered from his statements would be extinct attributable to they were voluntary.