# Sadness in Iowa: The Mollie Tibbetts Case Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/unexplained-america-the-podcast-6730775/sadness-in-iowa-the-mollie-tibbetts-case Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/unexplained-america-the-podcast-6730775/sadness-in-iowa-the-mollie-tibbetts-case.md Podcast: [Unexplained America The Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/unexplained-america-the-podcast-6730775) Published: 2026-03-23T14:29:32+00:00 Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unexplained-arkansas/episodes/Sadness-in-Iowa-The-Mollie-Tibbetts-Case-e3grp8l Audio file: https://anchor.fm/s/edfbc1a4/podcast/play/117351125/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-2-23%2Fcce00a54-8b90-eb2b-6548-8cb4ac1df693.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/unexplained-america-the-podcast-6730775/episodes/sadness-in-iowa-the-mollie-tibbetts-case Duration seconds: 3565 ## Resource In this episode of Unexplained America, your host Lisa will discuss the sad and tragic case of Mollie Tibbetts. Listener Discretion-brutal murder and SA. On Wednesday July, 18, 2018, 20 year old Mollie goes for a run in her small home town in Iowa around 7:30 pm. When Mollie doesn't show up for work the following day her family, boyfriend, friends, and comminity. After a month long of searching for Mollie the police catch a break and find a man named Cristhian Bahena Rivera who leads the police directly to Mollie's body. Her family is devastated, vigils are held, and a country mourns another woman lost while doing something they love--running,. Bahena goes on trial after many delays due to motions, moving the trial location and the pandemic of Covid-19--May 17, 2021--almost 3 years after Mollie went missing. Listen to hear full details and remember Mollie--her beautiful life and legacy her family leaves in the Miles for Mollie Annual Fundraiser Walk/Run--held in September in Brooklyn, Iowa. References for this Episode: https://youtu.be/0Zz5UPLzVOA?si=RN_eV-ye-rrBDdHF "University officials, students react to the discovery of Tibbetts' body"-Hillar Ojeda--The Des Moines Register-Wed. Aug 22, 2018 "Chronology of the Mollie Tibbetts missing person case"-Staff--The Des Moines Register-Wed Aug 22, 2018 "Tibbetts---Video Recordings help solve case, Suspect was from Mexico"--Staff--The Des Moines Register Wed. Aug 22, 2018 "Officer: Miranda failure for Iowa murder suspect a mistake"-Associated Press--Globe-Gazette-Fri. Nov, 15, 2019 "Iowa college student hasn't been seen since last week"-The Washington Post--Omaha World-Herald--Thur. Jul 26, 2018 https://www.iowacourts.gov/courtcases/18636/embed/CourtAppealsOpinion https://iowa… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/unexplained-america-the-podcast-6730775/episodes/sadness-in-iowa-the-mollie-tibbetts-case/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/unexplained-america-the-podcast-6730775/sadness-in-iowa-the-mollie-tibbetts-case.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.