Just days after the body of a missing Iowa jogger was found, authorities are sharing more details about the case.
Mollie, 20, was last seen jogging on the evening of July 18 in her small Iowa town. According to Yahoo, an autopsy has found that her cause of death was “multiple sharp force injuries.”
Her body was discovered on Tuesday after investigators reviewed older footage from a local resident’s security camera. Officials said the footage helped them identify a vehicle, track its routes and determine that its driver was one of the last people to see Mollie running.
A 24 year old man named Cristhian has been arrested and charged with first degree murder. Federal immigration officials have said he was in the country without legal permission. He is presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court.
According to officials, Cristhian told police that he saw Mollie running, got out of his vehicle and ran alongside her. He reportedly said that when she threatened to call the police he panicked and blocked out his memory of what happened next. Officials say he told them he later realized she was in his trunk and that he drove to a cornfield, where he left her.
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds released a statement earlier in the week. She said, “We are angry that a broken immigration system allowed a predator like this to live in our community, and we will do all we can to bring justice to Mollie’s killer.”
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