Murder suspect had fake name
A MEXICAN man charged with killing an Iowa college student worked on a dairy farm for years under a false name just a few miles from where the young woman was allegedly abducted while running last month, his employer said Wednesday.
Cristhian Bahena Rivera was a good employee who showed up on time to take care of the cows and got along well with his co-workers, said Dane Lang, manager of Yarrabee Farms in Brooklyn, Iowa.
The 24-year-old kept coming to work after Mollie Tibbetts (pictured) disappeared on July 18, and “nobody saw a difference” in his demeanour, Lang said. His colleagues were stunned Tuesday to learn that he was not only the suspect in Tibbetts’ death, but that he had a different real name than what he went by on the farm.
“Our employee is not who he said he was,” Lang said. “This was shocking to us.”
Prosecutors say the man abducted Tibbetts as she went on an evening jog, killed her and dumped her body in a cornfield.