Mollie Tibbetts trial live – Boyfriend Dalton Jack ‘cheated on her’, suspect Cristhian Bahena Rivera’s defense says

A LAWYER alleged that Mollie Tibbett’s boyfriend, Dalton Jack, cheated on her before her death in the Cristhian Bahena Rivera trial that began Wednesday.

Prosecutor Chad Frese asked Jack at the trial why he neglected to tell law enforcement that he “had an affair” with another woman and asked, “Mollie was upset that you cheated on her, correct?”

Previously, Jack told the defense lawyer that he didn’t think those details were relevant to the case, adding that Tibbetts knew about his infidelity and they worked through it.

Opening statements began Wednesday in the trial of Rivera, who allegedly murdered Tibbetts, 20, and dumped her body in a field.

Rivera, a Mexican national who came illegally to the US as a teenager, is charged with first-degree murder for the 2018 slaying of the 20-year-old University of Iowa student.

The 26-year-old is participating in the trial through a Spanish-speaking interpreter. 

Rivera’s arrest inflamed anger over illegal immigration, with then- President Donald Trump calling Rivera a killer who exploited lax immigration laws and Iowa’s governor calling him a predator.

The case deepened anxieties about random violence against women, since Tibbetts was attacked while out for exercise in her small town of Brooklyn, Iowa.

She never made it back to the house where she was dog sitting for her boyfriend and his brother. 

The 20-year-old was studying to become a child psychologist.