POWESHIEK COUNTY, Iowa -- The man convicted of killing Mollie Tibbetts is spending the rest of his life in prison.
Cristhian Bahena Rivera was given a mandatory life sentence on the 1st Degree Murder conviction Monday afternoon.
Rivera was convicted in May of stabbing Tibbetts to death in 2018.
Earlier this summer, Rivera asked for a new trial after claiming other men killed the University of Iowa student and framed him for the crime.
That request was denied by the court.