Authorities have announced that preliminary autopsy results show 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts was a homicide victim who died from “multiple sharp force injuries.” State medical examiner Dennis Klein says that finding means a sharp-edged or pointed object such as a knife was used to attack Tibbetts. He says his office will hire consultants, including forensic anthropologists, to analyze her remains and make additional findings. The man charged with first-degree murder in Tibbetts’ death, Cristhian Bahena Rivera, led investigators to her body Tuesday in a cornfield near Guernsey, Iowa. Prosecutors allege Rivera abducted Tibbetts on July 18, killed her and disposed of her body in the secluded location.
