Local 5 can verify: Bahena Rivera is being defended by Chad and Jennifer Frese, a private legal team based in Marshalltown. They said the defense is being funded by "family and acquaintances," meaning Behena Rivera's attorneys are not being paid for by the public.
May 17, 2021 · Local 5 can verify: Bahena Rivera is being defended by Chad and Jennifer Frese, a private legal team based in Marshalltown. They said the defense is being funded by "family and acquaintances,"...
Sep 30, 2019 · In September 2018, the judge granted Bahena Rivera a stipend of $5,000 to hire investigators. In March 2019, he was granted a stipend of $3,200 for an expert. Both costs were "at the public's ...
Jul 15, 2021 · Defense attorney Jennifer Frese speaks during a hearing for her client, Cristhian Bahena Rivera, at the Poweshiek County Courthouse …
May 13, 2021 · Prosecutors say Cristhian Bahena Rivera, now 26, is an immigrant from El Guayabillo, a town of about 400 people, in Guerrero, Mexico. Rivera’s Facebook page said he attended “Preparatoria 35 ...
On the stand this week, Bahena Rivera said he had been abducted and forced to hide her body. That was not a figment of his imagination, attorney Jennifer Frese told reporters. "If we were going to make something up, we would have come up with something better than that," she said.May 28, 2021
Bahena Rivera, now age 26, was defended in court by a husband and wife attorney pair, Chad and Jennifer Frese. "We're disappointed," said Chad Frese. Adding that they respect the jury's decision and appreciate the amount of time they took to review the case.May 28, 2021
According to court documents, a state prison inmate came forward after Bahena Rivera's guilty verdict in May. Court documents said one inmate housed in a county jail heard from another inmate that he killed Mollie Tibbetts.Jul 12, 2021
Cristhian Bahena Rivera was convicted of first-degree murder on Friday, nearly three years after Mollie Tibbetts disappeared while jogging near her Brooklyn, Iowa, home on July 18, 2018. More:From 2018: She's nurturing. She's a Harry Potter fan.May 28, 2021
IOWA CITY, Iowa — A man was sentenced to life in prison without parole Monday in the abduction and killing of University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts, three years after she disappeared while out for an evening run.Aug 31, 2021
Cristhian Bahena RiveraCristhian Bahena Rivera will be sentenced Monday for the murder of Mollie Tibbetts, three years after she died and more than a month after his case was originally expected to resolve.Aug 30, 2021
After three years since University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts' body was found, friends and family finally received some closure. Cristhian Bahena Rivera will serve life in prison with no chance for parole after being convicted of first-degree murder. Bahena Rivera was convicted of Tibbetts' murder on May 28.Aug 30, 2021
CRISTHIAN Bahena Rivera has been convicted and sentenced for stabbing 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts and dumping her body in a field. The illegal Mexican immigrant was found guilty on May 28, 2021, of first-degree murder.
Chad and Jennifer Frese, Bahena Rivera's attorneys. Bahena Rivera is represented by the husband-wife team of Chad and Jennifer Frese of Marshaltown. Both Freses are former prosecutors who now do criminal defense work, among other types of law.
After his arrest, managers at the farm said he had provided them a false name and lived in a trailer on the farm. Bahena Rivera's arrest, and undocumented status, drew national outrage, including from then-President Donald Trump, who made multiple references to the case in calling for more restrictive immigration policies.
Mollie Tibbetts, 20, was a University of Iowa student studying psychology who had returned to her hometown of Brooklyn the summer before her disappearance on July 18, 2018. Her body was found more than a month later, Aug. 21, in a cornfield after a massive search effort. She had been stabbed to death, investigators said.
Cristhian Bahena Rivera. Prosecutors say Cristhian Bahena Rivera, now 26, is an immigrant from El Guayabillo, a town of about 400 people, in Guerrero, Mexico. Rivera’s Facebook page said he attended “Preparatoria 35,” a school in Guerrero. He, however, has many relatives in the Poweshiek County area.
Key players in the trial of Cristhian Bahena Rivera, the man accused of killing Mollie Tibbetts. Nearly three years after Mollie Tibbetts went missing near her hometown of Brooklyn, Iowa, the trial of the man accused of killing her is about to begin. Cristhian Bahena Rivera, 26, is charged with first-degree murder.