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True Murder with your 36 00:01:30.359 --> 00:01:33.599 host journalist and author Dan Zufanski. 37 00:01:43.719 --> 00:01:47.920 Good Evening. Laura Smither twelve was taken from the road 38 00:01:48.000 --> 00:01:50.680 in front of her home in the small suburban Texas 39 00:01:50.719 --> 00:01:55.519 town of Friendswood. Sandra Sapal barely escaped with her life 40 00:01:55.560 --> 00:01:58.239 when she was abducted from a waffle house parking lot 41 00:01:58.280 --> 00:02:03.439 in the tiny Texas coastal town of Webster. Kelly Cox 42 00:02:03.840 --> 00:02:07.239 vanished from the police department parking lot in the Texas 43 00:02:07.239 --> 00:02:12.520 college town of Denton. Anjeanette Sorrentino fled into woods in 44 00:02:12.599 --> 00:02:17.080 Harris County trying to escape a man with murderous intentions. 45 00:02:17.639 --> 00:02:21.360 He caught her. Tiffany Johnston was raped and murdered in 46 00:02:21.400 --> 00:02:25.000 the Oklahoma City suburb of Bethany. She was washing her 47 00:02:25.039 --> 00:02:29.000 car when she disappeared. Jessica Kane was on her way 48 00:02:29.039 --> 00:02:33.199 home from dinner with friends to the village of Tikey Island, Texas, 49 00:02:33.479 --> 00:02:37.639 population seven hundred and seventy eight. Within five months in 50 00:02:37.719 --> 00:02:42.080 nineteen ninety seven, all six, most likely more some say 51 00:02:42.240 --> 00:02:46.639 many more suffered the same fate. They met a monster 52 00:02:46.960 --> 00:02:49.759 wearing the face of a man. The book we're featuring 53 00:02:49.759 --> 00:02:53.560 this evening is What Evil Lurks, The Good Samaritan Killer, 54 00:02:54.199 --> 00:02:58.159 with my special guest journalist and author, Donna Fielder. Welcome 55 00:02:58.199 --> 00:02:59.719 to the program, and thank you so much for this 56 00:02:59.719 --> 00:03:01.599 inner Donna Fielder. 57 00:03:03.919 --> 00:03:05.800 Hi, Dan, it's nice to talk to you today. 58 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:10.479 Nice to talk to you. Thank you so much for 59 00:03:10.599 --> 00:03:17.159 this interview. This is among extraordinary stories. This is even topsac. 60 00:03:17.319 --> 00:03:22.000 This is one incredible, credible story. End book. Let's get 61 00:03:22.080 --> 00:03:24.120 right to that, because we have so much to cover 62 00:03:24.280 --> 00:03:27.639 in this extraordinary tale. You have so much information, you 63 00:03:27.840 --> 00:03:31.039 had access to everything. So we get to hear from 64 00:03:31.240 --> 00:03:37.159 everyone's survivors, victims, and then later on from the killer himself. 65 00:03:37.840 --> 00:03:42.840 Let's get to April twentieth, a pardon me, April third, 66 00:03:42.960 --> 00:03:48.319 nineteen ninety seven, and Laura smither As we introduced in 67 00:03:48.400 --> 00:03:55.240 the introduction, a twelve year old in Friendwood, Friendswood Texas, 68 00:03:56.360 --> 00:04:01.879 a suburb of Houston. Tell us about Laura's Smither and 69 00:04:01.960 --> 00:04:05.280 what happened that day. 70 00:04:06.039 --> 00:04:09.960 Laura Smither was twelve years old. She was going to 71 00:04:09.960 --> 00:04:14.479 be thirteen in about about a week, but she did 72 00:04:14.520 --> 00:04:18.720 not make it that far. Laura had her life already 73 00:04:18.720 --> 00:04:23.680 planned out. She and her parents and her younger brother 74 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:31.439 lived outside of Houston in a little bitty suburb. They 75 00:04:31.480 --> 00:04:35.839 lived down a country road. Their parents were very concerned 76 00:04:35.879 --> 00:04:41.519 about Houston, Houston which has it had a reputation for 77 00:04:41.600 --> 00:04:45.879 being a rough place, but that's where her father worked, 78 00:04:46.600 --> 00:04:50.279 so they moved them out into the country and they 79 00:04:50.319 --> 00:04:55.480 homeschooled them to keep them safe. That did not work 80 00:04:55.519 --> 00:05:00.439 out very well. La Laura had her entire life planned out. 81 00:05:01.079 --> 00:05:04.920 She was going to be a ballet dancer. She was 82 00:05:05.000 --> 00:05:10.000 already a member of the Houston Ballet. She practiced, she 83 00:05:11.240 --> 00:05:16.600 took lessons, and she knew that ballet dancers had to 84 00:05:16.639 --> 00:05:20.519 have very song legs, So even at twelve years old, 85 00:05:21.240 --> 00:05:25.519 she was working toward that future. And that morning of 86 00:05:25.600 --> 00:05:31.879 April third, it was it's kind of drizzling rain, but 87 00:05:31.959 --> 00:05:34.519 Laura wanted to go for a run because she did 88 00:05:34.560 --> 00:05:40.079 every morning, and her mother said, you know, I'm cooking breakfast. 89 00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:43.319 Why don't you wait? And she said, no, I need 90 00:05:43.319 --> 00:05:46.399 to go now, but I promise I'll be back in 91 00:05:46.480 --> 00:05:51.879 twenty minutes. Laura didn't come back in twenty minutes, she 92 00:05:51.920 --> 00:05:56.720 didn't come back in two hours, she didn't come back 93 00:05:57.519 --> 00:06:04.560 in two days. Laura never returned home. She met a 94 00:06:04.639 --> 00:06:09.839 man somewhere on that short run on the road that 95 00:06:09.959 --> 00:06:15.560 ran in front of her house. She somehow met a man, 96 00:06:15.959 --> 00:06:20.959 was kidnapped, raped and murdered, and her body was dumped 97 00:06:21.959 --> 00:06:25.800 in a retention pond in Pasadena, which is another suburb 98 00:06:26.199 --> 00:06:35.120 of Houston. About It only took a number of hours 99 00:06:35.519 --> 00:06:39.600 for her parents to realize there's something terribly wrong. Laura, 100 00:06:39.720 --> 00:06:43.560 even at twelve, was a very responsible young woman. She 101 00:06:43.759 --> 00:06:46.680 did what she was told to do, She did what 102 00:06:46.759 --> 00:06:49.639 she said she would do, and this time she said 103 00:06:49.680 --> 00:06:53.720 she'd be home in twenty minutes. Since she wasn't, they 104 00:06:53.800 --> 00:06:57.040 called the police, and the police immediately believed that something 105 00:06:57.120 --> 00:07:00.800 bad had happened to Laura. They begin looking looking for her. 106 00:07:01.240 --> 00:07:06.040 The community began looking for her. A tremendous turnout of 107 00:07:06.160 --> 00:07:11.680 people yes left their jobs, left whatever they had planned 108 00:07:11.680 --> 00:07:18.560 to do, and began looking for Laura. It took seventeen 109 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:25.639 days to find her, and when they found her, her 110 00:07:25.680 --> 00:07:30.480 body was in a retention pond in Pasadena. It had 111 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:33.360 been dumped there, and she was wearing only a pair 112 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:40.720 of socks. The medical examiner did an autopsy and said 113 00:07:40.920 --> 00:07:46.519 that her cavs showed they had been bound to the 114 00:07:46.519 --> 00:07:50.120 back of her legs. So she had been tied up 115 00:07:50.279 --> 00:08:01.399 in a horribly hurtful way, and she was riped and strangled. 116 00:08:04.639 --> 00:08:09.800 They did not know who did this to Laura. They 117 00:08:09.879 --> 00:08:13.720 had their suspicions, but they had no proof. And so 118 00:08:14.199 --> 00:08:17.959 for a very long time, a monstro got away with murder. 119 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:24.519 You say a long time. But May sixteenth, three weeks 120 00:08:25.480 --> 00:08:28.519 after Laura's body is found, and her body is found, 121 00:08:29.160 --> 00:08:32.519 like you say, in seventeen days, So in short order, 122 00:08:32.559 --> 00:08:36.120 twenty one days after Laura's body's found, there's a woman 123 00:08:36.200 --> 00:08:40.200 named Sandra Sapal and she's living with the father of 124 00:08:40.240 --> 00:08:46.159 her two kids. It's not a good situation whatsoever. She 125 00:08:46.200 --> 00:08:50.159 meets another person, nas James Sapal, and they get married 126 00:08:50.240 --> 00:08:56.039 and she's in another bad situation. Tell us about Sandra Sapaw, Well, 127 00:08:56.080 --> 00:08:59.559 what happens one day? What are the circumstances in which 128 00:09:00.200 --> 00:09:02.919 she sees a man in a white pickup truck. 129 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:10.720 Sandral was trying to survive. Basically, she had dropped her 130 00:09:10.799 --> 00:09:13.519 She had two children, she had dropped them off with 131 00:09:13.639 --> 00:09:18.840 her parents, and she was basically living from motel room 132 00:09:18.879 --> 00:09:22.360 to motel room, trying to just trying to find a 133 00:09:22.399 --> 00:09:28.480 way to make her life ride again. She had she 134 00:09:28.519 --> 00:09:31.120 had found a man who was willing to help her 135 00:09:31.759 --> 00:09:35.480 move her things out of the apartment she shared with 136 00:09:35.600 --> 00:09:42.159 her husband. She drove to a she she was living 137 00:09:42.960 --> 00:09:50.799 in a motel room. She she drove to a convenience 138 00:09:50.879 --> 00:09:54.879 store and she made a telephone call to this man 139 00:09:55.120 --> 00:09:57.759 to tell him she was ready, she needed the help, 140 00:09:58.360 --> 00:10:02.120 and he said he would come. She went to a 141 00:10:02.159 --> 00:10:07.080 waffle house and had dinner, and when she came out, 142 00:10:07.639 --> 00:10:14.639 she just going that she had a flat tire. So 143 00:10:14.720 --> 00:10:17.759 she was trying to figure out what to do when 144 00:10:18.960 --> 00:10:22.200 a man in a white pickup truck drove in behind her. 145 00:10:22.399 --> 00:10:26.039 She basically blocked her way out of there, and he said, 146 00:10:26.080 --> 00:10:28.720 looks like you've got a problem. She said yes, and 147 00:10:28.759 --> 00:10:30.799 he said, I'll be glad to help you with that. 148 00:10:31.120 --> 00:10:31.679 I'll help you. 149 00:10:31.679 --> 00:10:38.919 Change your tire, and she said, okay. The man went 150 00:10:38.960 --> 00:10:44.679 around to the front of the vehicle and she said, 151 00:10:44.879 --> 00:10:47.759 look in my truck. I need a rag. There's a 152 00:10:47.759 --> 00:10:51.440 white rag on the There's a white rag on the 153 00:10:52.559 --> 00:10:55.000 seat of my truck. Well, she leaned in and she 154 00:10:55.000 --> 00:10:56.840 couldn't find any white rag. And she said, there's no 155 00:10:56.879 --> 00:10:59.440 white rag here, and he said, oh, yeah, maybe it's 156 00:10:59.440 --> 00:10:59.840 on the floor. 157 00:11:00.120 --> 00:11:00.559 On the floor. 158 00:11:02.000 --> 00:11:05.200 Well, she began to get worried. This didn't seem like 159 00:11:06.200 --> 00:11:09.679 the kind of thing that white rag wasn't something you 160 00:11:09.759 --> 00:11:14.039 needed to change a tire, right, So she turned around 161 00:11:14.080 --> 00:11:17.720 and stood up and the man was standing right in 162 00:11:17.720 --> 00:11:20.960 front of her, invading her personal space. And he had 163 00:11:21.000 --> 00:11:27.000 a knife, and she said, get in the truck, bitch. Yeah, 164 00:11:27.120 --> 00:11:29.399 she didn't really have any choice, and he forced her 165 00:11:29.399 --> 00:11:32.879 into the truck and he took off down. This happened 166 00:11:32.879 --> 00:11:39.559 in Webster, Texas. He took off down Highway I forty 167 00:11:39.600 --> 00:11:45.840 five with her in the truck, and she knew that 168 00:11:45.919 --> 00:11:48.080 if she didn't figure something out really quick, she was 169 00:11:48.120 --> 00:11:51.600 going to die. She felt that she knew that m 170 00:11:52.240 --> 00:11:55.480 So she figured out a way to out with this 171 00:11:55.559 --> 00:11:58.639 man and he told her take off all your clothes. 172 00:12:01.080 --> 00:12:04.559 So she looked at the at the buttons on the 173 00:12:04.600 --> 00:12:09.200 truck and decided that her door was not locked. So 174 00:12:09.240 --> 00:12:11.519 she told him, well, I need to take my shoes 175 00:12:11.559 --> 00:12:13.960 off before I can take my pants off, and he said, okay. 176 00:12:13.720 --> 00:12:14.000 Do it. 177 00:12:15.240 --> 00:12:18.639 When she bent over, she grabbed the handle of the truck. 178 00:12:19.679 --> 00:12:24.879 She pulled on the door, and going at highway speeds 179 00:12:25.919 --> 00:12:28.799 on an interstate highway, she jumped out of that truck. 180 00:12:31.360 --> 00:12:35.879 When he realized what had happened, he was already a 181 00:12:35.879 --> 00:12:39.679 little way ahead of her, and he pulled over. She 182 00:12:39.879 --> 00:12:44.200 ran out onto the highway, waving her arms, hoping she 183 00:12:44.320 --> 00:12:47.519 wasn't going to get run over, and a woman stopped 184 00:12:48.120 --> 00:12:50.960 and helped her and took her back. She just wanted 185 00:12:51.000 --> 00:12:53.559 to go back to her car, but the woman called 186 00:12:53.639 --> 00:12:59.279 nine one one and paramedics came, and police came. They 187 00:12:59.279 --> 00:13:03.320 took her to the high spittle. The man in the 188 00:13:03.320 --> 00:13:08.559 white pickup truck drove very quickly away and so they 189 00:13:08.679 --> 00:13:13.039 did not know who he was. But she saved her 190 00:13:13.080 --> 00:13:16.960 own life that day. 191 00:13:17.679 --> 00:13:21.360 You say that she gave a description to police. Finally 192 00:13:22.679 --> 00:13:23.639 that was she. 193 00:13:24.559 --> 00:13:30.279 She She had been pretty badly injured and was was 194 00:13:30.320 --> 00:13:34.360 on pain medication. There was a woman who was the 195 00:13:34.440 --> 00:13:37.279 police chief of Tiki Alan, which is a tiny little 196 00:13:37.320 --> 00:13:46.919 island just off the tip of Texas, right, And this 197 00:13:47.080 --> 00:13:55.039 police chief was a She had learned hypnosis, So the 198 00:13:55.080 --> 00:14:00.960 Webster police asked her, would she hypnotized Sandra and see 199 00:14:01.000 --> 00:14:03.279 if she could remember, because she really couldn't remember very 200 00:14:03.360 --> 00:14:13.159 much at all. This woman's name, I'm sorry, I've lost her. 201 00:14:13.159 --> 00:14:14.960 Name, Sue Ditrich. 202 00:14:15.399 --> 00:14:28.720 That this police chief in time did hypnotize Sandra. She 203 00:14:28.840 --> 00:14:34.679 remembered an amazing amount of detail. Under hypnosis. She could 204 00:14:34.759 --> 00:14:39.320 describe the man, she described the truck. She actually could 205 00:14:39.919 --> 00:14:45.279 read numbers that she had seen just briefly, and did 206 00:14:45.440 --> 00:14:49.159 moments of terror. She could remember part of a police 207 00:14:49.240 --> 00:14:53.720 part of a telephone number that she saw on a 208 00:14:53.759 --> 00:14:56.440 post it note on the on the truck. 209 00:14:57.559 --> 00:15:04.519 Incredible that man's description. 210 00:15:06.159 --> 00:15:08.840 Matched that of a man that police were already looking 211 00:15:08.919 --> 00:15:12.360 at in the death of Lord Smither. 212 00:15:16.399 --> 00:15:19.440 But let's laun more that. Yeah, before we get to that, 213 00:15:19.720 --> 00:15:24.360 we're in at that you talk about. They turned this 214 00:15:24.480 --> 00:15:28.000 criminal case over to the Criminal Investigation Division of the 215 00:15:28.039 --> 00:15:33.240 Webster Police Department, but short orders. In July fifteenth, nineteen 216 00:15:33.320 --> 00:15:39.200 ninety seven, Lawrence Harris, a man is in Denton, Texas. 217 00:15:40.440 --> 00:15:44.320 He's at the police department parking lot and he's waiting 218 00:15:44.360 --> 00:15:51.080 for his girlfriend. Tell us about this again, another incredible 219 00:15:51.360 --> 00:15:55.919 chapter of this extraordinary story. 220 00:15:56.120 --> 00:16:00.840 Yes, it was July fifteenth, nineteen ninety seven. Kelly Cox 221 00:16:01.039 --> 00:16:05.279 was a student at the University of North Texas in Denton. 222 00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:10.080 She was at the police department with a class with 223 00:16:10.200 --> 00:16:15.240 a criminal justice class that were touring the jail. The 224 00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:19.200 class teacher had told the students that they would not 225 00:16:19.240 --> 00:16:22.759 be allowed to bring anything into the jail, which was 226 00:16:22.840 --> 00:16:27.720 kind of a misunderstanding. They weren't going inside jail sales. 227 00:16:28.639 --> 00:16:31.279 They were going inside the jail itself, and they were 228 00:16:31.399 --> 00:16:35.240 allowed to bring things into the jail where they would 229 00:16:35.240 --> 00:16:37.639 be secured. They had a place that they secured things 230 00:16:37.679 --> 00:16:44.840 like pursues, things like that. So Kelly was told that 231 00:16:44.960 --> 00:16:51.240 she needed to leave everything in her car and come 232 00:16:51.279 --> 00:16:56.120 and empty handed, which she did. She left a little 233 00:16:56.120 --> 00:16:59.519 bit early because she had a test to take in 234 00:16:59.559 --> 00:17:04.960 another class, So just about noon she left the Denton 235 00:17:05.000 --> 00:17:10.240 Police Department. She went to her car. She had she 236 00:17:10.319 --> 00:17:12.319 had hidden a key to the car in one of 237 00:17:12.400 --> 00:17:17.640 those magnetic boxes that you hide somewhere like under a 238 00:17:17.799 --> 00:17:20.079 under a fender or something like that. She got it 239 00:17:20.160 --> 00:17:24.720 out and it would not work. She could not make 240 00:17:24.759 --> 00:17:27.759 the key open her car door, so she's locked out 241 00:17:27.759 --> 00:17:31.119 of her car because her regular car keys are locked 242 00:17:31.119 --> 00:17:38.799 insider locked inside her car, she first went to the 243 00:17:39.319 --> 00:17:43.319 Denton Police Department, is then a large building that takes 244 00:17:43.359 --> 00:17:46.960 up an entire city block. It has other city offices there. 245 00:17:47.640 --> 00:17:54.559 At that time, it also housed a community college. She 246 00:17:54.640 --> 00:17:58.880 first went to an office in the community college and 247 00:17:58.960 --> 00:18:01.640 asked the woman if she could the phone. She had 248 00:18:01.680 --> 00:18:05.079 another set of keys at her home and her boyfriend 249 00:18:05.160 --> 00:18:08.319 lived just a few houses down the street from where 250 00:18:08.359 --> 00:18:13.160 she lived in Carrollton. The woman said, if this is 251 00:18:13.200 --> 00:18:16.759 a local call, you may use the phone. If it isn't, 252 00:18:16.839 --> 00:18:19.279 we're not allowed to let people make long distance calls 253 00:18:19.279 --> 00:18:22.799 on this. So Kelly didn't know what to do, and 254 00:18:22.839 --> 00:18:26.119 the woman said, well, there's a payphone right down on 255 00:18:26.160 --> 00:18:30.279 the corner down there. You can go down there and 256 00:18:30.400 --> 00:18:33.000 use that payphone. So she had a pocket full of 257 00:18:33.119 --> 00:18:43.119 change and she went to the payphone and called her boyfriend. 258 00:18:44.480 --> 00:18:48.160 He wasn't very happy about the whole situation. He complained 259 00:18:48.200 --> 00:18:50.359 to her that he had to make the drive from 260 00:18:50.359 --> 00:18:57.119 Carleton to Denton, which was twenty five miles. Maybe they 261 00:18:57.119 --> 00:19:00.720 didn't have a very happy conversation, but he did agree 262 00:19:00.759 --> 00:19:10.039 to come. When he got there, he couldn't sign Kelly. 263 00:19:10.160 --> 00:19:12.960 He called Kelly's mother and told her the situation, and 264 00:19:13.039 --> 00:19:16.799 Kelly's mother immediately knew Kelly had an eighteen month old daughter. 265 00:19:17.279 --> 00:19:23.000 She adored that daughter right That daughter meant the world 266 00:19:23.119 --> 00:19:27.480 to her. That daughter was with the babysitter, and Kelly 267 00:19:27.640 --> 00:19:31.400 did not pick her up that day. Kelly's mother knew 268 00:19:32.400 --> 00:19:35.799 that would never have happened if Kelly had the power 269 00:19:37.839 --> 00:19:43.359 to reach her daughter. They called it in police department. 270 00:19:43.400 --> 00:19:50.240 They explained the situation. Police Chief Jezz immediately knew that 271 00:19:50.359 --> 00:19:55.440 this wasn't your normal teenage girl doesn't come home story. 272 00:19:56.559 --> 00:20:01.920 He called in every available officer he had and said, 273 00:20:01.960 --> 00:20:04.240 this is the real deal. This is a who done it. 274 00:20:05.240 --> 00:20:08.039 We need to find Kelly Cox, and we're not going 275 00:20:08.079 --> 00:20:11.960 to do anything else that we don't have to do 276 00:20:12.119 --> 00:20:17.279 until we find her. The officers worked all the rest 277 00:20:17.279 --> 00:20:19.559 of that day, They worked all night, they worked all 278 00:20:19.640 --> 00:20:23.039 day the next day. They continued to work until they 279 00:20:23.039 --> 00:20:26.880 had run down every single lead, and there weren't very 280 00:20:26.920 --> 00:20:31.119 many of them. 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He was devoted to finding Keilly. 308 00:22:07.240 --> 00:22:13.039 But he told me later there just aren't any clues 309 00:22:13.119 --> 00:22:16.079 to follow. In order to solve a crime, you have 310 00:22:16.200 --> 00:22:20.039 to follow the clues, and there aren't any. She simply vanished. 311 00:22:20.039 --> 00:22:23.079 There's no blood, there's no sign of struggle, there are 312 00:22:23.119 --> 00:22:28.079 no witnesses. We've done everything we can, and we will 313 00:22:28.119 --> 00:22:32.440 continue to do everything we can, but we can't find 314 00:22:32.599 --> 00:22:37.559 Kelly without some kind of clue somewhere, and one did 315 00:22:37.640 --> 00:22:38.480 not appear. 316 00:22:39.720 --> 00:22:45.039 Right now. Five days later, July twentieth, nineteen ninety seven, 317 00:22:45.599 --> 00:22:49.759 Anjeanette Sorrentino, twenty three year old. Her and her boyfriend 318 00:22:49.839 --> 00:22:57.200 are breaking up, and this is near Tiki Island as well. Anyway, 319 00:22:58.000 --> 00:23:01.480 tell us about why she ends up at a convenience 320 00:23:01.519 --> 00:23:05.039 store looking for cigarettes and again notices a man at 321 00:23:05.039 --> 00:23:05.599 a phone. 322 00:23:05.400 --> 00:23:12.480 Booth Anginette was very upset. That night she and her 323 00:23:12.519 --> 00:23:18.640 boyfriend were breaking up. She had gone to a bar. 324 00:23:19.920 --> 00:23:23.079 He had followed her there and continued in argument with her. 325 00:23:24.160 --> 00:23:26.240 She left that bar. She was going to go to 326 00:23:26.359 --> 00:23:31.160 another one, but she stopped to buy cigarettes at a 327 00:23:31.240 --> 00:23:34.400 convenience store, and when she walked in, she saw a 328 00:23:34.519 --> 00:23:42.319 man on the pay telephone outside. She looked at him 329 00:23:42.359 --> 00:23:45.359 and he just looked strange. He had the phone to 330 00:23:45.440 --> 00:23:49.279 his ear. He pretended to be talking, but she didn't 331 00:23:49.279 --> 00:23:52.480 think he was really talking to anybody. So she went 332 00:23:52.519 --> 00:23:56.000 in and used the bathroom and bought her cigarettes. And 333 00:23:56.079 --> 00:23:58.279 she looked back outside and he's still out there, and 334 00:23:58.400 --> 00:24:04.440 he's still making talking noises. And she was really afraid, 335 00:24:04.960 --> 00:24:07.200 but she didn't have any choice. She went out to 336 00:24:07.279 --> 00:24:14.319 get in her truck. She took off in the truck 337 00:24:14.359 --> 00:24:17.799 and quickly realized that she was She had a flat tire, 338 00:24:20.319 --> 00:24:22.519 so she pulled over. And the place she pulled over 339 00:24:22.640 --> 00:24:27.880 in was it was dark. There were no streetlights. It 340 00:24:28.039 --> 00:24:34.920 was in a wooded area with no houses. She got 341 00:24:35.000 --> 00:24:37.200 out of a truck and the man came up and said, 342 00:24:38.799 --> 00:24:40.920 you look like you're in trouble. I'll be glad to 343 00:24:41.000 --> 00:24:45.400 help you. She just did not trust this man at all. 344 00:24:45.480 --> 00:24:47.759 It was the same man in the white pickup truck 345 00:24:47.839 --> 00:24:50.759 that she had seen in the parking lot. Of the 346 00:24:50.839 --> 00:24:55.480 convenience store. She turned and ran, and she ran into 347 00:24:55.519 --> 00:24:58.519 the woods, thinking that she would find houses on the 348 00:24:58.599 --> 00:25:00.519 other side of the woods and she could get help. 349 00:25:00.960 --> 00:25:07.759 But she didn't get that far. This man caught her, 350 00:25:08.960 --> 00:25:18.519 beat her, strangled her unconscious, and actually threw her in 351 00:25:18.599 --> 00:25:23.799 the back seat of his car unconscious. She woke up. 352 00:25:24.680 --> 00:25:31.400 She told Houston police that she saw him murder a 353 00:25:31.480 --> 00:25:35.480 young man who seemed to be part of the whole story, 354 00:25:36.559 --> 00:25:42.640 and his name is Joey. Houston police did not believe Enginette. 355 00:25:44.640 --> 00:25:48.319 They thought that her boyfriend had beat her up. But 356 00:25:48.519 --> 00:25:52.440 when they checked, he had. He had an alibi and 357 00:25:52.559 --> 00:25:58.039 it was a good one and it stood. But they 358 00:25:58.079 --> 00:26:03.799 still didn't believe her story. It's not clear exactly why, 359 00:26:04.039 --> 00:26:07.640 but they just would not. They would not help Enginette. 360 00:26:09.960 --> 00:26:12.960 So she and her mother took her story the same 361 00:26:13.079 --> 00:26:15.960 Kiki Allen police chief because she had a reputation of 362 00:26:16.119 --> 00:26:27.799 helping young women. That woman's name was Sue dietrich Nance 363 00:26:29.119 --> 00:26:35.680 and she was still police chief, and Kiki Allen. She 364 00:26:35.839 --> 00:26:40.920 gathered information, She interviewed Engeanette. She put together a file 365 00:26:41.039 --> 00:26:44.279 and she took it to the Houston police and was 366 00:26:44.400 --> 00:26:49.960 told this is not your jurisdiction. We don't believe this woman. 367 00:26:50.079 --> 00:26:52.119 We think something else happened to her and she's covering 368 00:26:52.160 --> 00:26:54.759 it up. So you just go on to bag your 369 00:26:54.799 --> 00:27:06.079 business because this is our case. Well, Sue, she was 370 00:27:06.200 --> 00:27:09.279 helpless in this case. It wasn't her case. She did 371 00:27:09.319 --> 00:27:15.160 everything she could. She kept the foul, She followed every 372 00:27:15.240 --> 00:27:18.400 clue that she could come up with. She independently worked 373 00:27:18.440 --> 00:27:25.839 that case, and she came to the conclusion that the 374 00:27:25.960 --> 00:27:32.960 man who attacked a Jeanette was the same man who 375 00:27:33.039 --> 00:27:40.880 had killed Lors Smither and she was never able to 376 00:27:42.440 --> 00:27:45.359 the case wasn't her jurisdiction. The Houston police did not 377 00:27:45.480 --> 00:27:51.920 listen to her. She could not like the case against 378 00:27:52.880 --> 00:27:57.160 this man, whose name was William Reeves. He was never 379 00:27:57.720 --> 00:28:02.559 charged in a kidnapping of Engine Anne. The police told 380 00:28:02.640 --> 00:28:07.079 her that they never found any indication that a man 381 00:28:07.200 --> 00:28:13.920 named Joey had been murdered. Right, They just didn't believe 382 00:28:14.000 --> 00:28:18.200 any of this and they never did anything about it. Wow, 383 00:28:18.640 --> 00:28:21.799 So if William Reese was the man who kidnapped her 384 00:28:21.880 --> 00:28:25.160 that night, he was never charged with it. He was 385 00:28:25.319 --> 00:28:29.079 never found guilty of anything that had to do with 386 00:28:29.200 --> 00:28:37.000 Engine Anne. But she believes and Sue Nance believes that 387 00:28:37.160 --> 00:28:38.880 he was the man who kidnapped her that night. 388 00:28:40.599 --> 00:28:46.880 Certainly, certainly, now you write July twenty sixth, nineteen ninety seven, 389 00:28:47.200 --> 00:28:51.119 just a few days later, in the car wash, there's 390 00:28:51.200 --> 00:28:58.039 six stalls, and this is in Bethany, Oklahoma, and a 391 00:28:58.079 --> 00:29:03.960 couple of police officers, Detective Daniel Mobley and patrol Officer J. D. Reid. 392 00:29:04.200 --> 00:29:10.640 It's about near midnight. They spot a white sedan in 393 00:29:10.759 --> 00:29:13.960 the stall at the car wash. Tell us what happens 394 00:29:15.400 --> 00:29:15.759 after that. 395 00:29:19.480 --> 00:29:24.480 Tiffany was a newly win She had plans for her life. 396 00:29:25.400 --> 00:29:29.119 She wanted to be a nurse. She had just gotten married. 397 00:29:29.240 --> 00:29:32.000 She and her husband lived in Bethany, which is a 398 00:29:32.519 --> 00:29:35.480 it's kind of a satellite to the moship of mothership 399 00:29:35.519 --> 00:29:41.880 of Oklahoma City. She got off work that evening. She 400 00:29:42.000 --> 00:29:44.920 worked as a waitress. She actually had two waitress jobs. 401 00:29:46.000 --> 00:29:49.359