Part 8: The State of Iowa vs Cristhian Bahena Rivera | The Murder of Mollie Tibbetts

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We now have the defendant's what eventually becomes a confession. Confessions in Iowa need to be corroborated in order to be used as evidence. This confession is corroborated in many ways. So let's look at the defendant's statements to the police. How did it set up? Poweshiek County had used Pamela Romero because she was a native Spanish speaker. She was a police officer at the time in Iowa City.