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Hundreds attend Mass for Iowa college student

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August 26th, 2018 by Ric Hanson

Several hundred people attended a Funeral Mass for the University of Iowa student whose body was found last week in a cornfield outside her hometown. The funeral Mass was held Sunday afternoon inside the gymnasium of BGM High School in Brooklyn, Iowa. Twenty-year-old Mollie Tibbetts attended the school before her death. Bishop Thomas Zinkula of Davenport, led the funeral. Mollie Tibbetts’ father, cousin and one of her teachers who spoke at the service. Cristhian Bahena Rivera is charged with first-degree murder in Tibbetts’ death. Investigators say the 24-year-old Mexican farmworker led them to a cornfield Tuesday where Tibbetts’ body had been left since her July 18 disappearance. Tibbetts had been staying in Brooklyn during a summer break from her studies at the University of Iowa.