Speaker 1: They got me set up like I'm a serial killer.
Speaker 2: Right now, are you?
Speaker 3: No, I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'll pass any polygra if you throw at me, you
Speaker 1: know I have no reason to lie.
Speaker 4: If you passed him pushing your grocery card, you'd never
Speaker 4: know that inside his head he just thought about how
Speaker 4: to kill you.
Speaker 3: My daughter went on a run in the morning, and
Speaker 3: she's been gone a lot longer than I expected.
Speaker 5: There's no doubt in my mind he would have continued
Speaker 5: slaughtering young women and girls.
Speaker 3: The females jumped out of a white Julie.
Speaker 6: She needs an ambulance.
Speaker 7: She can't walk.
Speaker 5: It's like we have a predator in our neighborhood.
Speaker 8: You have the capacity to become a serial killer on
Speaker 8: a scale that is difficult to even imagine.
Speaker 9: Just southwest of Oklahoma City lies the tiny town of Anadarko,
Speaker 9: population six thousand.
Speaker 4: It's just your average rural Oklahoma town.
Speaker 6: I had a real high crime rate. Everybody's pretty laid back.
Speaker 4: There's not a lot there to miss or see.
Speaker 6: Really, when you meet somebody knew, you ask.
Speaker 4: Them who their people are, because you're going to know
Speaker 4: somebody in their family.
Speaker 9: Everyone in Anadarko knows Kathy Dobrie and her daughter Tiffany.
Speaker 7: My name is Kathy Dobrie and I'm the mother of
Speaker 7: Tiffany Debrie Johnston. She's always with me before she got married.
Speaker 7: She was my shadow everyone, That's what everyone called her.
Speaker 7: Tiffany was very energetic, loving, caring, hyper. She cared about everyone.
Speaker 7: She liked animals, She liked to play in the dirt.
Speaker 7: She wanted to study the plan and see what they
Speaker 7: how they were formed, and want to have you because
Speaker 7: she could grow just about anything. She said her mind to.
Speaker 6: Tiffany and I became friends in junior high.
Speaker 4: I was new to town, new to the area, and
Speaker 4: uh didn't really know anybody, didn't have any friends, didn't
Speaker 4: have much going for me, and uh, Tiffany was the
Speaker 4: type of person that was going to take care of you.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 4: She just decided she was going to be my friend
Speaker 4: since I didn't have any Her and I were friends
Speaker 4: from then on.
Speaker 9: Shortly after graduating high school, Tiffany marries her childhood sweetheart.
Speaker 7: She said she was back madly in love with Ryan
Speaker 7: and all girls should marry their first sweetheart. She was
Speaker 7: determined to get married, and she did.
Speaker 9: The young couple moved to nearby Bethany Ryan is Floyd
Speaker 9: did a manufacturing plant. Well, nineteen year old Tiffany works
Speaker 9: two jobs so she could afford a new car.
Speaker 7: She traded her car, yeah, on her new white Neon.
Speaker 7: She was so proud of that. She's always cleaning it
Speaker 7: out or washing it or because she was proud of it.
Speaker 7: Was something that she worked for that she got.
Speaker 9: On July twenty sixth, nineteen ninety seven, the newlyweds planned
Speaker 9: to meet at a club after work.
Speaker 7: Jiffany had gotten off work and then she went and
Speaker 7: cleaned out her car or worceshed her car because it
Speaker 7: was hers and Ryan's three month anniversary.
Speaker 10: I was actually working patrol at that time and I
Speaker 10: drove by the Sunshine car wash. There's about four vehicles
Speaker 10: that were there, people still washing their car, and I
Speaker 10: did observe a white vehicle in the furthest West stall
Speaker 10: that had no one around it. It was about forty
Speaker 10: five minutes later I was again driving by that car wash,
Speaker 10: and now there were no vehicles other than that one
Speaker 10: white car in the far west stall and there was
Speaker 10: nobody around the car. We did not see anyone around
Speaker 10: the car wash at all. Detective Mobley looked in the
Speaker 10: passenger side, and he advised me that the keys to
Speaker 10: the vehicle were still in the ignition. That kind of
Speaker 10: raised our concern, so we started look into it a
Speaker 10: little deeper. Myself and Mobley made entry into the vehicle
Speaker 10: to try to find a phone number or name of
Speaker 10: someone that we might be able to contact. We did
Speaker 10: end up locating the number with the word mom on it.
Speaker 7: The police department called around midnight. I wanted to know
Speaker 7: Tiff and he had a white car, and if I
Speaker 7: knew where she was, I started calling people. I knew
Speaker 7: that she might go to. No one had hard from her,
Speaker 7: no one had seen her. And this is like at
Speaker 7: two o'clock in the morning. So by the time we
Speaker 7: got up here at the car wash, they had everything
Speaker 7: blocked off down deep. You knew that with all her
Speaker 7: personal belongings in her pit her car, that she had
Speaker 7: been adopted and she was probably not alive.
Speaker 9: A frequent visitor to the car wash is thirty eight
Speaker 9: year old William Reese, who Kathy knows from his time
Speaker 9: in Anadarko.
Speaker 7: He was always in trouble. He he stole vehicles, he
Speaker 7: stoved from grocery stores or what have you he.
Speaker 6: Had been in jail. He'd already been in prison.
Speaker 4: He had just gotten out shortly before this happening.
Speaker 8: So William Reese was born in nineteen fifty nine in Oklahoma,
Speaker 8: and so it was a pretty depressed area that he
Speaker 8: grew up in. He had a difficult upbringing, unstable childhood.
Speaker 8: He was one of thirteen children. He was in foster
Speaker 8: care system for a while. He was forced to quit
Speaker 8: school in the ninth grade and go to work. So
Speaker 8: this is somebody, I think who got a pretty tough
Speaker 8: start in life. There was probably a combination of neglect
Speaker 8: with so many siblings and there being a lot of
Speaker 8: financial instability, and I think it would have been a
Speaker 8: pretty harsh upbringing in a lot of respects. There was
Speaker 8: a lot of suspicions that he was in views at
Speaker 8: some point.
Speaker 11: Thirteen siblings, a family background, being moved around. You have
Speaker 11: lots of negative risk factors in front of Reece.
Speaker 8: That marriage does not last very long, and it doesn't.
Speaker 8: It fizzles out pretty quickly because of how we and
Speaker 8: Racee is treating his wife. He's drinking and he's physically
Speaker 8: abusive to her and she ends the relationship. This is
Speaker 8: somebody who for whatever reason, doesn't respect women feels entitled
Speaker 8: to behave. However, he wants to likely blames everything that's
Speaker 8: wrong in his life on other people, and those are
Speaker 8: things that do not bode well in terms of his
Speaker 8: relationship with other women in the future or his ability
Speaker 8: to adjust and adapt effectively to life as an adult.
Speaker 8: His ex wife said that he was unusually close to
Speaker 8: his mom, and even she'd made the combat at one
Speaker 8: point that she felt like his mom was so protective
Speaker 8: of him that quote, you know, if he kills somebody,
Speaker 8: she would help him hide the body.
Speaker 9: It's one day since Tiffany Dobrie went missing with her
Speaker 9: car left at a Bethany carwash around fifty miles away.
Speaker 9: Oklahoma City police make a gruesome discovery while investigating their
Speaker 9: own missing person's case.
Speaker 10: As they were investigating that scene, they canvassed the area
Speaker 10: and then ended up finding Tiffany's body on that same
Speaker 10: road about one hundred yards down.
Speaker 7: Ask yourself, who did it? Why would someone want to
Speaker 7: kill TiO.
Speaker 4: You didn't think about your friend just getting murdered for
Speaker 4: no reason out in the middle of nowhere like that.
Speaker 6: It just didn't happen.
Speaker 10: The thing that always kind of bothered me the most
Speaker 10: is that Tiffan and Ryan they just started their lives
Speaker 10: together and within three months it got taken away. If
Speaker 10: they had their full life together, what would have come
Speaker 10: of that?
Speaker 7: And so we went down a list of people for
Speaker 7: the police to check out because we didn't know what
Speaker 7: else to do, and if the first thing that Mama
Speaker 7: thought of to so I can't that it didn't enter
Speaker 7: our minds, because it did. You don't know if he
Speaker 7: was really at work or not. You know, he could
Speaker 7: have took off.
Speaker 10: In any case where you have someone that has disappeared,
Speaker 10: you know, you always you always got to start with
Speaker 10: people that are close and family members. So absolutely he
Speaker 10: was looked at.
Speaker 9: Police soon determined Tiffany was last seen alive shortly after
Speaker 9: six pm on July twenty seventh. Her husband was at
Speaker 9: work from three pm until eleven pm, and is cleared
Speaker 9: of any suspicion. Bethany police conducted a background check on
Speaker 9: local sex offenders, including William Or. They find no evidence
Speaker 9: linking him to the crime scene. Tiffany's mother knows Reese's mother,
Speaker 9: who offers to prepare Tiffany's clothes for her funeral.
Speaker 7: Her name with pat She wasn't a friend, but she
Speaker 7: was an acquaintance because she did my ironing and what
Speaker 7: have you for me? And so we took Tiffany's clothes
Speaker 7: down to her for her to press some for us,
Speaker 7: because she called and said she would do that.
Speaker 8: In nineteen eighty six, he kidnaps a woman and he
Speaker 8: rapes her. And at that point, I think he has
Speaker 8: taken a hard turn in his life, because now he
Speaker 8: is making choices that the vast majority of people would
Speaker 8: never make. He's become a criminal, He's become a predator.
Speaker 10: He was driving a truck and going to pick up
Speaker 10: a load, and he picked her up and rude. Her
Speaker 10: car broke down under a overpass, and he stopped and
Speaker 10: asked if she needed help. He kept on her and
Speaker 10: then she finally agreed and got in the truck with him.
Speaker 9: Reese is arrested but released after posting bail. He a
Speaker 9: tax agan.
Speaker 5: One month later, he rapes one woman while he's awaiting
Speaker 5: trial for raping another one. I don't know how you
Speaker 5: get any more of a definition of a predator than that.
Speaker 9: Both of these victims survive their ordeal and have their
Speaker 9: identities protected. Re stands trial on two counts of rape.
Speaker 9: He has found guilty and sentenced to twenty five years
Speaker 9: in prison.
Speaker 11: For an individual who is inside of a correctional institution
Speaker 11: for years, that day is filled with border. Our environment
Speaker 11: creates our propensity to be involved in crime.
Speaker 2: Well, just think of it.
Speaker 11: You're surrounded by other people who have committed crimes. One
Speaker 11: learns to associate with certain people. One has to protect themselves.
Speaker 11: Inside of a correctional institution a lot of time to think.
Speaker 9: Reese's attorneys claim errors were made during his trial, and
Speaker 9: after serving ten years of his twenty five year sentence,
Speaker 9: convicted rapist, Reese is released early. He briefly lives with
Speaker 9: his mother and Anna Darko before moving seven hours away
Speaker 9: to Houston, Texas.
Speaker 3: My daughter went on a run this morning, and she's
Speaker 3: been gone a lot longer than I'm perfected in play good,
Speaker 3: Bob Feather.
Speaker 9: Twelve year old Laura Smither goes for a jog in
Speaker 9: her friends With Texas neighborhood and never returns home.
Speaker 5: I'd never seen anything quite like this before. I mean,
Speaker 5: you had people from everywhere coming out of the woodwork
Speaker 5: for this young girl. They were going through the fields,
Speaker 5: they were searching in bodies, of water everywhere.
Speaker 9: Laura's body is found seventeen days later in a retention
Speaker 9: pond in nearby Pasadena.
Speaker 5: That today I will never forget because you had a
Speaker 5: father and son. They were out there, they were training
Speaker 5: a hunting dog. Hunting dog hits on something in the water.
Speaker 5: Father and son go out there to see what's going on.
Speaker 5: And this is the part that I mean, just so chilling,
Speaker 5: because the dad looked at the sun and says, I
Speaker 5: wonder what kind of animal that is? And the son
Speaker 5: looks back at the dad and says, animals don't wear socks.
Speaker 5: William Reese became a suspect early on because he was
Speaker 5: a convicted second out of Oklahoma, and that's fairly standard.
Speaker 5: When you have a child disappear like this, police start
Speaker 5: looking at registered sex offenders in the area. More than that,
Speaker 5: Reese had a construction job near this spot. It got
Speaker 5: rained out the morning Laura disappeared, so he would have
Speaker 5: been going home and that would have put him along
Speaker 5: her route about the time she disappeared. There were fibers
Speaker 5: that were found that matched formats in his truck. The
Speaker 5: fibers were unique, but they weren't so incredibly unique that
Speaker 5: It's like, Okay, these fibers could only possibly have come
Speaker 5: from William Reese's truck. It wasn't unique enough. And honestly,
Speaker 5: fibers are not DNA. A lot of that evidence had
Speaker 5: been destroyed because Laura was left in water.
Speaker 8: This is a twelve year old child, and what that
Speaker 8: tells me is one of two things. Either William Reese
Speaker 8: did not recognize how young she was when he grabbed her.
Speaker 8: I don't believe that. Number two is that this is
Speaker 8: somebody who is sexually interested in this age group and
Speaker 8: is willing to take advantage of an opportunity and rape
Speaker 8: and murder somebody who is that innocent and that young.
Speaker 9: While under police suspicion and within their custody, Reese speaks
Speaker 9: with the Texas News Channel to profess his innocence.
Speaker 1: Who they gonna look at first, an ex con, especially
Speaker 1: if you've done hard time, You're gonna be a number
Speaker 1: one suspect.
Speaker 6: No matter what.
Speaker 1: And if they can't find nobody, you're gonna be their Patsy.
Speaker 9: Sandra sa Paul, a nineteen year old pregnant mother, comes
Speaker 9: face to face with William Reese just south of Houston.
Speaker 5: She goes into a convenience store. And she comes out
Speaker 5: of the convenience store. See she has a flat tire.
Speaker 5: A supposed good Samaritan comes along. Oh, let me help
Speaker 5: you out with that tire. Boom grabs her, tosses her
Speaker 5: into the truck, takes off down the freeway.
Speaker 8: The fact that William Race acts so quickly after his
Speaker 8: race in prison suggests to me that this is somebody
Speaker 8: who has thought about this and fantasized about this for
Speaker 8: nine years. While behind bars, he tells her to take
Speaker 8: her clothes off. She bends down to take her shoes
Speaker 8: off and notices that the car door is unlocked, and she,
Speaker 8: at that point makes a very important decision.
Speaker 11: This may be my last opportunity. The more secluded, the
Speaker 11: more away, the more the person is going to their
Speaker 11: environment rather than being in my environment, takes the advantage
Speaker 11: away from you.
Speaker 8: I would rather die jumping out of this car and
Speaker 8: leaving my fate in my own hands, than suffer whatever
Speaker 8: is about to happen if I stay with this man.
Speaker 4: The females jumped out of a white duly unknown LP
Speaker 4: left feet headed forty five mark bound.
Speaker 7: She needs an ambulance. He can't walk, and we.
Speaker 3: Got an Antley.
Speaker 9: With Sandra now safe, police begin questioning her, hoping that
Speaker 9: can find her kidnapper before he attacks again. Twenty year
Speaker 9: old Kelly Anne Cox goes missing in Denton, Texas.
Speaker 5: Kelly Cox was a beautiful, single mom college student in
Speaker 5: what is essentially kind of a college town of Denton, Texas.
Speaker 5: She had just wrapped up a school field trip. She
Speaker 5: was studying the area of criminal justice, and she stopped
Speaker 5: at this convenience store and unfortunately that's where she crossed
Speaker 5: paths with William Race. She has vanished into thin air.
Speaker 5: And that's what's again so frightening about all of this.
Speaker 8: It's somewhat mind boggling on the one hand that William
Speaker 8: Race continues his killing spree after Sandra s Paul manages
Speaker 8: to get out an escape. William Race is so focused
Speaker 8: on finding young women that kind of fit his prototype
Speaker 8: and sexually assaulting them abducting them that he's not even
Speaker 8: concerned about Sandra se Paul. He is thinking about his
Speaker 8: next victim and finding her.
Speaker 9: Kelly Ane Cox's disappearance in Denton, Texas is around three
Speaker 9: hours away from Tiffany and Oklahoma. At the time of
Speaker 9: Tiffany's abduction, Kathy Doughbrie has no idea of these other cases.
Speaker 9: Seventeen year old high school student Jessica Cain goes missing
Speaker 9: near Houston, just.
Speaker 5: Like the others, had her entire life ahead of her
Speaker 5: high school student with friends after a school event. Jessica
Speaker 5: was always very well behaved, never violated curfew anything like that.
Speaker 5: So when she didn't come home one time, her parents
Speaker 5: were instantly worried and her truck was found parked on
Speaker 5: the side of Interstate forty five. Like Laura, it was
Speaker 5: like she just fell into a hole in the universe,
Speaker 5: just vanished into thin air. But the truck was there,
Speaker 5: purse was in the front seat, didn't even really appear
Speaker 5: there was any.
Speaker 6: Kind of a struggle.
Speaker 10: Oh, it's terrifying.
Speaker 5: It's like we have a predator in our neighborhood. People
Speaker 5: in the area were like, who is hunting our children?
Speaker 11: What we have as an apex predator an individual that
Speaker 11: has opportunity combined with skills and additionally being punished for
Speaker 11: the criminal act in the past, but not being deterred.
Speaker 8: I have always thought that the killing part of it
Speaker 8: for him was more pragmatic that I'm not going to
Speaker 8: leave a victim to point their finger at me again.
Speaker 8: My needs are more important than anybody else's, and I'm
Speaker 8: going to make sure that nobody's left to identify me.
Speaker 9: Kathy Doughbray still has no idea who killed her daughter.
Speaker 9: Police have no suspects and don't suspect William Reese is involved,
Speaker 9: But four hundred and fifty miles away in Texas, kidnapp
Speaker 9: survivor Sandra say Paul is now facing him in a lineup.
Speaker 9: He's being asked to repeat the lines Sandra heard her
Speaker 9: kidnapp or shout, you.
Speaker 2: Cannot explain you.
Speaker 1: Yah.
Speaker 9: The net is closing around Reese and Texas, But will
Speaker 9: he be linked to the murder of Tiffany Johnston four
Speaker 9: hundred and fifty miles away. Three months after the murder
Speaker 9: of Tiffany Johnston, Sandra Sepaul has identified William Reese as
Speaker 9: her kidnapper four hundred and fifty miles away in Texas,
Speaker 9: As authorities gather evidence to prosecute him, the owner of
Speaker 9: the Sunshine car wash where Tiffany was last seen, recognizes
Speaker 9: Reese in news reports. He tells Oklahoma police that Reese
Speaker 9: is a frequent customer, but investigators still have no way
Speaker 9: of linking Reese to the crime.
Speaker 10: We checked people that lived in the area that had
Speaker 10: serious criminal histories, and none of those came to fruition.
Speaker 10: No forensic evidence at that time, and there weren't cameras
Speaker 10: in that area that we could rely on for evidence purposes.
Speaker 10: So it truly came to where we believed whoever committed
Speaker 10: this came from outside of the community.
Speaker 9: Bethany Police passed the case to the Oklahoma State Bureau
Speaker 9: of Investigation, but still no leads. Nine months passed by,
Speaker 9: and Tiffany's mother, Kathy Dobrie, makes a solemn vow.
Speaker 7: We had lots of redbirds around that day and were
Speaker 7: we live is American Indians, and I'm Party Indians, and
Speaker 7: we believe in the redbirds. When the redbirds come to
Speaker 7: see you as a visit from your loved one from heaven.
Speaker 7: I told her that I would find who murdered her
Speaker 7: and get justice for her because what just wasn't right.
Speaker 7: They took away my youngest child.
Speaker 4: If something were to ever happen to anyone in my
Speaker 4: immediate family, Kathy is the first person I'm calling to
Speaker 4: start looking into it.
Speaker 6: She does not know how to give up. She does not.
Speaker 4: Quit and she knew that one day we would get there.
Speaker 4: We just didn't know when.
Speaker 9: Each anniversary of Tiffany's murder is met with an eerie coincidence.
Speaker 7: Every year, on Tiffany's anniversary date, which is July the
Speaker 7: twenty sixth, there would be little necklaces, bracelets, and we'd
Speaker 7: gather these up. We didn't touch them. We put on
Speaker 7: gloves like you're supposed to, and would give them to
Speaker 7: the OSBI.
Speaker 10: It was concern of members of the department, and I
Speaker 10: think it's part of the family that the suspect might
Speaker 10: have been the one leaving these trinkets.
Speaker 4: They would just show up every year at the same time,
Speaker 4: and nobody would ever own up to.
Speaker 6: Putting them there.
Speaker 9: Cathy's dogged determination finally gets results in her daughter's cold case.
Speaker 9: Advanced DNA testing is performed using the evidence collected from
Speaker 9: Tiffany's body. It reveals a partial profile of her killer.
Speaker 9: Investigators compare this to DNA swabs from her ex boyfriend's husband, colleagues,
Speaker 9: and even patron seen at the car wash the day
Speaker 9: of her murder. All are excluded. Yet to be tested
Speaker 9: is Anadarko resident William Lewis Reese, a known sex offender
Speaker 9: and frequent visitor to the car wash. Police also look
Speaker 9: for a link between Tiffany's killing and the crimes and
Speaker 9: Texas and realize a striking connection the Inner State forty
Speaker 9: five corridor.
Speaker 11: A perfect formula does come together to allow these criminal
Speaker 11: activities to take place. Access very important.
Speaker 6: So here you have an area.
Speaker 11: South of Houston, Texas before the very end in Galveston,
Speaker 11: and which one can be on the Interstate Highway and
Speaker 11: quickly be in another state or another part of this
Speaker 11: huge state of Texas, very quickly.
Speaker 8: In many respects, Texas is a serial killer's dream. You
Speaker 8: can go for miles and miles without seeing anybody. There's
Speaker 8: actually a part of Texas that is infamous for being
Speaker 8: called the Texas Killing Fields because they've discovered about thirty
Speaker 8: bodies of young women there that have been unsolved.
Speaker 4: Now we have a pattern, we have something to actually
Speaker 4: look at. So from this solid we have other cases
Speaker 4: that we can study along with ours to help get
Speaker 4: closure for all of them.
Speaker 5: It's a horribly frightening thing, especially as a father of two,
Speaker 5: to think that there are humans out there that walk
Speaker 5: around look at another human, go I want that I'm
Speaker 5: going to take that and they do.
Speaker 9: By January twenty fourteen, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation
Speaker 9: is closing in on suspected serial killer William Lewis Reese
Speaker 9: and seeks to obtain his DNA. Reese is easy to locate.
Speaker 9: He was successfully convicted for the kidnap of Sandra Say
Speaker 9: Paul and is serving a sixty years sentence in a
Speaker 9: Texas prison.
Speaker 5: Sandra Say Paul is the reason the murders stopped. I
Speaker 5: give her an amazing amount of credit because she was
Speaker 5: brave enough to escape him, and she was brave enough
Speaker 5: to never ever waver or never be intimidated, never be
Speaker 5: too scared to identify him, and stick through that all
Speaker 5: the way to the end. He was convicted and the
Speaker 5: only reason no one else was murdered is because he
Speaker 5: went to prison, and that was because of Sandra Sea Paul.
Speaker 9: Authority Swabberese for his DNA and compare it to the
Speaker 9: partial profile taken from Tiffany's body. The results indicate Reese
Speaker 9: could be the killer.
Speaker 10: We believed that he was probably the person that did it.
Speaker 10: It was just finding that link to be able to
Speaker 10: put it all together. You want to do everything you
Speaker 10: can to find that link, and I mean, look, it
Speaker 10: took a decade for that link to finally come to fruition.
Speaker 9: Texas authorities discover another critical clue as they investigate the
Speaker 9: link between Reese and Tiffany's murder long distance phone cards.
Speaker 5: So he had these cards and he used one of
Speaker 5: them to make a phone call, and that was still
Speaker 5: in his truck when friends with police impounded it, and
Speaker 5: that wound up being some very key evidence that Oklahoma
Speaker 5: authorities used.
Speaker 8: Investigators go to William Rees and basically let him know
Speaker 8: that the gig is up and that you know, they
Speaker 8: have DNA linking him to Tiffany Johnston. And I think
Speaker 8: that at this point William Reese is somewhat panicked because
Speaker 8: he is well aware of the fact that Oklahoma has
Speaker 8: the death penalty, and so he is in prison in
Speaker 8: Texas at this point, and so I think he decided
Speaker 8: that if I'm cooperative with some of these other unsolved murders,
Speaker 8: perhaps I can avoid the death penalty in Texas and
Speaker 8: won't be extradited to Oklahoma to potentially face the death
Speaker 8: penalty there.
Speaker 9: With this new information linking Reese to Tiffany's murder, as
Speaker 9: a bargaining tool. Investigators questioned Reese about the murders of
Speaker 9: Laura Smither, Kelly Anne Cox, and Jessica Kain. He reveals
Speaker 9: where police can find the bodies of Jessica Kin and
Speaker 9: Kelly Ane Cox. His cooperation means Reese won't face the
Speaker 9: death penalty for these murders.
Speaker 6: He's a chess player. He knows how to use his ponds.
Speaker 4: He knows how to use his pieces, which pieces to sacrifice,
Speaker 4: when to get what he wants. And I feel that
Speaker 4: he has used his victims as those pieces and played
Speaker 4: them against law enforcement to gain favors. And I don't
Speaker 4: think that we will ever know how many of those
Speaker 4: pieces he has held.
Speaker 6: Back to play later.
Speaker 11: There's no reason to believe that there are not more
Speaker 11: that are out there. This is where further investigation can
Speaker 11: take place. But then there becomes a question for the individual.
Speaker 11: How much more information am I going to give you?
Speaker 11: If I'm already here for the rest of my life,
Speaker 11: what advantage do I have.
Speaker 9: Reese doesn't confess to any other murders. He claims he
Speaker 9: accidentally hit Laura Smither while she was jogging along the
Speaker 9: side of the road.
Speaker 12: I pick I even really real backwards cut her in
Speaker 12: a slowboard, a trip on the pass your side and
Speaker 12: the horde.
Speaker 2: Like getting a lad. The door took cough. I don't
Speaker 2: remember how I got out from where I was some
Speaker 2: danger park, the lady in the platter, and I went home.
Speaker 9: Reese doesn't say anymore about Kelly an Cox, just that
Speaker 9: he got into an altercation with her at a convenience store.
Speaker 2: Opened up my door, boom, I run right into her.
Speaker 13: Coke went all over me and we got into a chair,
Speaker 13: and she hit me with that coke.
Speaker 2: When I hit her, she hit her head. You know
Speaker 2: how your door opens up. Her head hit terror. She
Speaker 2: slipped back. She's out.
Speaker 13: I put her in the back seat. She never woke up.
Speaker 13: She wouldn't breathe or nothing. She never woke up, and
Speaker 13: I dug me at the little home put.
Speaker 2: Her in in.
Speaker 5: Reese confessed, but they were carefully crafted confessions to where
Speaker 5: he upheld his end of the bargain that I'll tell
Speaker 5: you what happened. But he never really fully told police
Speaker 5: what he did.
Speaker 8: When you listen to his confessions or you hear his confessions,
Speaker 8: it's just it's just amazing how he just storts clearly
Speaker 8: what happened they'll talk about murdering somebody, but they won't
Speaker 8: admit to assault sexual assault for some reason. Or they'll
Speaker 8: do what a lot of murderers do, which is fine
Speaker 8: ways to what we psychologists called neutralize their actions. So
Speaker 8: that might mean blaming the victim, which he definitely did.
Speaker 8: You know, Oh this person started it. We got into
Speaker 8: a match. You know, oh this person we got into
Speaker 8: some kind of argument about spilling coke on me. I
Speaker 8: can't think of a better description of somebody who has
Speaker 8: no compassion, empathy, or caring for his victims. They truly
Speaker 8: are objects for him to fulfill his sexual fantasies.
Speaker 9: Reese also claims an argument ensued with Tiffany Johnston at
Speaker 9: the car wash Nex thing.
Speaker 13: I know this girl is yelling at me that sprager.
Speaker 13: I don't think it's sprager, but she's cussing in everything.
Speaker 13: That's when I grabbed you around throat, he choking. She
Speaker 13: wouldn't move no more, and I shut the door and
Speaker 13: I backed out.
Speaker 2: They try to out such funny victims. I don't think so. Okay,
Speaker 2: I guess I don't think so kind of opens up.
Speaker 2: I mean, where spoil I mean for I know now.
Speaker 7: My bow was to find who murdered her and get
Speaker 7: justice for her.
Speaker 9: William Reese is convicted of the kidnapping and first degree
Speaker 9: murder of Tiffany Johnston. He is sentenced to death.
Speaker 7: The day that we got our conviction on Reese, the
Speaker 7: redbirds were lined up outside our house, on the light pole,
Speaker 7: off the way across the line, and.
Speaker 3: They were everywhere.
Speaker 7: Tiffany knew then that mama got justice. I'm persistent and
Speaker 7: like I said, she was my baby, and I made
Speaker 7: her a promise and I carried it out.
Speaker 6: He was ice cold, arrogant.
Speaker 4: When they showed the pictures of his victims' bodies of
Speaker 4: what he had done, he would smile and lick his lips.
Speaker 7: Kidney gave her live to help the parents in Texas
Speaker 7: brings some closure to them because if it hadn't have
Speaker 7: been for Tiffany's case, Texas wouldn't have had anything.
Speaker 9: Rees accepts a plea deal, and in addition to his
Speaker 9: current sentence for Sandra Sapau's kidnapping, he is sentenced to
Speaker 9: a further three life terms in a Texas prison for
Speaker 9: the murders of Jessica Cain, Kelly an Cox, and Laura Smither.
Speaker 9: William Reese is currently serving his prison sentences in Texas, so.
Speaker 5: He still owes the state of Texas time for Sandra
Speaker 5: Sapau's kidnapping and now for the murders of Laura, Jessica
Speaker 5: and Kelly Ann. There's an appeal process in Oklahoma. My
Speaker 5: sneaking suspicion is when he runs out of appeals in
Speaker 5: Oklahoma and they actually set a date for his execution,
Speaker 5: he will be extra guided back.
Speaker 7: We got justice for Tiffany in the court system that
Speaker 7: he's getting to do what he wants to. He can
Speaker 7: go to the library, he can work on it, horseshoes, leather,
Speaker 7: or whatever he wants to do. And that's not justice
Speaker 7: for Tiffany. How could someone that I run across knew
Speaker 7: his mom, How could he have done that?
Speaker 9: Kathy suspects it was Reese's mother, Patsy, leaving trinkets on
Speaker 9: Tiffany's grave.
Speaker 7: There's not a doubt in my mind that it was her,
Speaker 7: because I think she felt guilty because she knew that
Speaker 7: what her son had murdered Tiffany, and so that was
Speaker 7: her way of being at peace with the idea that
Speaker 7: she wouldn't talk to the police or wouldn't tell them
Speaker 7: every year you could guarantee there would be something out there,
Speaker 7: and even to this day, when't Tiffany's anniversary date comes around,
Speaker 7: we always check on the twenty six to see if
Speaker 7: anything has been placed on Tiffany's grave that we don't know,
Speaker 7: and nothing has showed up since Pat Diyed.
Speaker 4: I just want to know why we haven't been able
Speaker 4: to bring him back. I want to know why the
Speaker 4: DA will not sign off to have him brought back
Speaker 4: and put.
Speaker 6: On death row. He took my friend, he took one
Speaker 6: of the best people I've ever known in my life,
Speaker 6: and he robbed the world of something great.
Speaker 4: I don't know what her plans were after college, but
Speaker 4: whatever they were, she was going to be great at it.