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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories with

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Speaker 1: Nancy Grace. I'm executive producer Jackie Howard. Christian Behina Rivera,

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Speaker 1: twenty seventy year old Mexican national who came to the

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Speaker 1: US illegally, has been convicted of murdering twenty year old

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Speaker 1: Molly Tibbots. Since his conviction, Behina Rivera's attorneys contend that

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Speaker 1: two new witnesses have come forward blaming another man for

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Speaker 1: tibbots murder. They have put forth the theory that Tibbots

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Speaker 1: was allegedly kidnapped into a sex trafficking ring. Taken listen

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Speaker 1: to our friends at ABC. He testified that on the

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Speaker 1: day the twenty year old was killed, he got out

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Speaker 1: of the shower to find two strangers in his living room.

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Speaker 1: Behina Rivera, who speaks little English, says the men wanted

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Speaker 1: him to drive them in his car, one man armed

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Speaker 1: with a gun, the other with a knife. At Lasia,

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Speaker 1: I knpped onto Polly that I shouldn't do anything stupid

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Speaker 1: and everything was going to be okay. As they drove,

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Speaker 1: Behina Rivera says they passed Tibbots running three to four times.

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Speaker 1: He claims the men then asked him to turn the

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Speaker 1: car around, and one of the men got out, heading

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Speaker 1: towards Tibbets, disappearing for about twelve minutes. Behina Rivera testified

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Speaker 1: that something was later put inside the trunk of the car.

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Speaker 1: He says he then drove the men to a house

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Speaker 1: next to a cornfield and was told that if he

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Speaker 1: called police, his ex girlfriend and daughter would be hurt.

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Speaker 1: Million because I remember that they said that if I

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Speaker 1: will say something, they were going to do something to

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Speaker 1: my family, my ex girlfriend, my daughter. Behina Rivera testified

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Speaker 1: that once the men were gone, he opened the trunk

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Speaker 1: and found Tibbets dead. He says he put her body

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Speaker 1: in the cornfield and decided not to tell police out

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Speaker 1: of fear. Joining me today, Joseph Scott Morgan for in six,

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Speaker 1: professor at Jaxsonville State University and author of Blood Beneath

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Speaker 1: My Feet, Joe, let's look at this case and go

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Speaker 1: through what these allegations are, because you would think at

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Speaker 1: the time of the investigations some of these facts would

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Speaker 1: have come up. So let's start at the beginning. Behina Rivera,

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Speaker 1: the person who has been convicted of killing Molly Tibbitts

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Speaker 1: that says two men entered his home and made him

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Speaker 1: take part in this. What kind of evidence would there

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Speaker 1: have been for police to have found originally if Behina

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Speaker 1: Rivera was accurate. You know, you got to think about

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Speaker 1: this term. He's using the term made. All right, that's

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Speaker 1: not coerced, that's not invited, that's not even I'm going

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Speaker 1: to send you an engraved written invitation that's made. That

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Speaker 1: implies force. That means that you would have had to

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Speaker 1: have had these individuals that he alleges came in and

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Speaker 1: took constructive control over his person and forced him and

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Speaker 1: forced him to engage in this kind of lethal act

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Speaker 1: that's going on. This this horrible, this horrible event that

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Speaker 1: you know obviously ends in the death of Molly, and

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Speaker 1: not just ends in the death of Molly, but also

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Speaker 1: ends in the seclusion of her body. You know, this

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Speaker 1: idea that she's going to be put away somewhere. So

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Speaker 1: back at the scene where they entered, remember he said

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Speaker 1: they entered his home, Well, it would at least seem

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Speaker 1: that there would be some maybe evidence of four century

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Speaker 1: maybe evidence of struggle at his home. You know, many

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Speaker 1: times when we think about this, we think about people

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Speaker 1: kicking the doors off the hinges, Maybe there was a

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Speaker 1: was there any broken furniture there? Where their footprints on

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Speaker 1: would indicate, say, for instance, that you had a physical

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Speaker 1: confrontation with these individuals where they're forcing him to leave

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Speaker 1: his house, leave his domicile, the safety of this environment,

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Speaker 1: and go with them to perpetrate this crime. So what

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Speaker 1: out of nowhere who were engaging in this forced event?

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Speaker 1: Did they leave any kind of semblance of DNA? Did

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Speaker 1: they bleed there was there a forced struggle where it

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Speaker 1: You remember we talked about in forensics thinks like latent prints,

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Speaker 1: latent means unseen. So I would think that the police,

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Speaker 1: have very specific names. Remember keeping mind, it's not just

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Speaker 1: like he said three strangers. He actually identified these individuals.

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Speaker 1: Did they go back to his home and dust for

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Speaker 1: latent prints that match up? All of these people that

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Speaker 1: They all have criminal records. Guess what that means. That

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Speaker 1: means that they've got a card on file. They got

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Speaker 1: fact that we found one or maybe two of their

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Speaker 1: latent prints at the scene. Okay, so we've got two

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Speaker 1: more stories that come out here. Joe and the Hana

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Speaker 1: Rivera testified. These men forced him to drive, and they

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Speaker 1: are in his car and they see Molly and they

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Speaker 1: take her. So, once again, taking what you just said

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Speaker 1: about his home, what would we have expected in the car? Oh,

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Speaker 1: my god, in a case like this, his vehicle is

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Speaker 1: a rolling crime scene. I mean, you start talking about houses.

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Speaker 1: You know, you go into a living room and everybody

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Speaker 1: It's kind of why it's spread, right. Even the smallest

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Speaker 1: apartment's got space in it. Let's think about a car.

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Speaker 1: Let's think about a four door sedan. We're limited in space.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you can't get into a just think about this.

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Speaker 1: You can't get into a vehicle without some portion of

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Speaker 1: Just think about what it takes just to sit down

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Speaker 1: forensic students. I tell them, look, let's think about what

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Speaker 1: called individualization of evidence. That means that it is a

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Speaker 1: evidence rich environment crime stories. With Nancy Grace, what we

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Speaker 1: Tibbitts was kidnapped and taken for sex trade. According to

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Speaker 1: a trap house. First of all, what is a trap house.

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Speaker 1: You begin to think about this term, and it's kind

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Speaker 1: if you will. Trap house is roughly the same thing

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Speaker 1: And these are abandoned homes where individuals will go into, buy, sell,

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Speaker 1: You'll actually see homeless individuals and drug addicts that will

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Speaker 1: And the other thing you're going to see are used needles,

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Speaker 1: going to have other people. You know, if Brooklyn, Iowa,

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Speaker 1: coming in and out. Somebody else would have seen her there.

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Speaker 1: It's not just like a one and done thing. The

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Speaker 1: reason these places are used, the reason they're used is

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Speaker 1: because they're abandoned homes. Nobody checks in on them. You

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Speaker 1: their life. No, that's not the way it works. There's

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Speaker 1: We wait as justice unfolds. This is Crime Stories with

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