Cristhian Bahena Rivera's attorneys contend Mollie Tibbetts' death could have been connected to a separate sex trafficking investigation and disappearance of an 11-year-old boy, noting that "something rotten" was amiss in the rural Iowa community.
“She said she thought that he was going to make millions,” Kimberly Morgan's friend once said her attraction to Christopher Duntsch. “He was smart. He was brilliant. He was a genius."
“You know in the beginning he talked about marriage. Mr. Prince Charming, ‘I’m gonna change your life,’” Wendy Young said of the promising start to her romance with Christopher Duntsch. “I left with him and believed in him and then, you know, he just kind of fell apart.”
“His resume looked brilliant on paper," journalist Matt Goodman said of Christopher Duntsch's ability to continue to gain employment at Texas hospitals despite a deadly track record.
Christhian Bahena Rivera's attorneys say new witnesses have come forward corroborating his story that Mollie Tibbetts was killed by someone else, but prosecutors say the facts don't add up.
Christopher Duntsch, who once claimed to be a mixture of "God, Einstein and the Antichrist," injured or killed 33 of his 38 patients in less than two years, according to prosecutors.
Prosecutors have accused Bill Hutchinson of sexually assaulting two 16-year-old girls he'd taken to his Laguna Beach, California vacation home on several occasions.