Mollie Tibbetts’ Killer Enters A Plea…

NOT GUILTY.

According to Fox News:

Cristhian Rivera, the illegal immigrant accused of killing Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts, pleaded not guilty to murder charges at his Wednesday arraignment.

Rivera’s trial is set to begin April 16 of next year.

Rivera, 24, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder on Aug. 21 after police searching a cornfield about 12 miles southeast of Brooklyn discovered the body of Tibbetts, a 20-year-old University of Iowa student.

But we should have seen this coming. His lawyer has been granted a bunch of taxpayer money to pay for investigators.

You don’t need investigators if you’re going to take a plea deal.

So… this could go one of two ways.

It COULD be a good thing in that he’ll most likely receive a much tougher sentence if he’s found guilty by a jury than he would if he took a plea deal.

OR

He could go totally free like Kate Steinle’s killer did.

It’s a crapshoot… and if you’re like me, you don’t always trust the system to bring people to justice.

In my mind, it’s pretty clear he killed her. I mean… he led authorities to her body after a HUGE search party wasn’t able to find her.

Tibbetts was last seen jogging in Brooklyn on July 18 and the desperate efforts to find her drew widespread media attention.

Prosecutors allege Rivera abducted Tibbetts while she was out for an evening run, killed her and disposed of her body in the secluded location.

Authorities announced last month preliminary autopsy results from the state medical examiner’s office showed Tibbetts was the victim of a homicide and died from “multiple sharp force injuries.”

A criminal complaint alleges Rivera confessed to authorities during a lengthy interrogation, saying he drove his car to follow Tibbetts’ jog, eventually got out on foot to talk to her and then chased after her. Rivera told investigators he panicked after Tibbetts threatened to use her cellphone to call police. He claims he blacked out at that point and later came to as he was unloading Tibbetts’ bloody body from the trunk of a car, according to the complaint.

Now we wait.