Missing College Student Mollie Tibbetts Went for a Jog. She Never Made It Home

Murder Files Unsealed · Sep 19, 2026 · 38m · transcript

The episode recounts the tragic disappearance and murder of Mollie Tibbetts, a 20-year-old college student who vanished while jogging in rural Iowa in 2018. After a five-week search, investigators used surveillance footage of a suspicious vehicle to identify and interrogate Cristhian Bahena Rivera, who eventually led police to the victim's body in a cornfield. The source highlights how the case became a flashpoint for immigration debates, though the family requested that the tragedy remain apolitical. Despite a defense that claimed his confession was forced, a jury convicted Bahena Rivera of…