Tibbetts' disappearance, with no clues to her fate for more than a month, shook her hometown and the rest of the state. "In a county as small as Poweshiek, this doesn't happen," Poweshiek County Attorney Bart Klaver said after the trial. "I don't think it's common, necessarily, anywhere in Iowa."
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The Attorney General’s Crime Victim Compensation Program pays certain expenses an eligible victim has as a result of injury or death from crime. Funds for this program come entirely from fines and penalties paid by offenders.
A “victim” is defined as a person who suffered physical, emotional, or financial harm as a result of a criminal offense or a delinquent act. A simple misdemeanor is not an included crime for the purpose of statutory victim rights. For these rights, “Victim” also includes the immediate family members of a homicide victim, a crime victim who is judged to be incompetent, or a crime victim who is under the age of 18.