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    Texas kidnapper who helped find new remains sent to Oklahoma

    GALVESTON, Texas (AP) - A convicted kidnapper who recently led authorities to the remains in Texas of two women who vanished in 1997 has been moved to Oklahoma to face murder and kidnapping charges.

    KHOU-TV reports (http://bit.ly/2asO34r) that William Reece was moved to Oklahoma Monday. He is charged with the 1997 death of 19-year-old Tiffany Johnston.

    Reece is serving a 60-year prison sentence in Texas for another kidnapping.

    While in Texas custody, Reece led local authorities to the remains of 17-year-old Jessica Cain and 20-year-old Kelli Cox.

    His attorney has previously said Reece cooperated with authorities in part because he hoped to avoid the death penalty in Oklahoma.

    http://www.newschannel10.com/story/3...nt-to-oklahoma

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    Suspected serial killer makes court appearance Thursday, mother of Oklahoma victim ready for justice

    The mother of a woman slain in 1997 had waited for years to see someone in court charged in the death.

    So Kathy Dobry was at first lost for words when that moment came Thursday morning as Oklahoma County sheriff deputies escorted murder defendant William Lewis Reece into court.

    Dobry's daughter, Tiffany Johnston, was abducted July 26, 1997, from a Bethany car wash, according to police.

    Johnston, 19 at the time, was found the following day in Yukon. She had been strangled to death, authorities said.

    Now, nearly two decades later, Dobry said she is ready for justice after such "a long road."

    "There's just so many different things going through my head," Dobry said sitting in the courtroom. "We finally succeeded. ... We're finally getting our justice for Tiffany."

    Dobry remained composed as deputies brought Reece into the courtroom. Reece wore an orange jail uniform and shackles around his wrists and ankles. He was stone-faced while in the courtroom.

    Reece, 57, of Houston, was charged in September with first-degree murder and kidnapping in the death and abduction of Johnston.

    Advancements in DNA testing linked Reece to the 1997 cold case, according to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.

    Dobry told The Oklahoman last year that Reece was an "acquaintance" from decades ago. She said she met Reece while waitressing to help pay for her daughter's wedding.

    Johnston had been married three months at the time of her death.

    Suspected serial killer

    Reece also is suspected of killing other women in Texas. Earlier this year, Reece helped Texas investigators find two sets of female remains south of Houston, authorities said. Reece has been imprisoned in Texas since 1998 on an aggravated kidnapping conviction.

    He was brought to Oklahoma and jailed Monday so he can face prosecution for the Bethany slaying.

    On Thursday, Reece chose to waive his right to face trial within 120 days of his extradition from Texas.

    The two sets of human remains found in Texas were identified in April.

    One set of remains found at a dig site in Brazoria County was identified as Kelli Ann Cox, a 20-year-old student at the University of North Texas. Cox disappeared from Denton on July 15, 1997.

    The other set of remains was identified as Jessica Cain, a 17-year-old girl also missing since 1997.

    Reece hasn't been charged yet regarding those cases, but reportedly cooperated with Texas authorities to avoid the death penalty. Oklahoma prosecutors haven't said whether they will seek the death penalty.

    Reece also has been a suspect in the April 1997 death of Laura Kate Smither, 12, of Friendswood, Texas. He was never charged.

    Records show Reece was sentenced to 60 years in prison for the May 1997 abduction of Sandra Sapaugh in Webster, Texas. Sapaugh, a girl about Johnston's age at the time, told authorities she was forced at knifepoint into his truck. She later was able to escape after jumping from the moving vehicle.

    Reece was in prison from 1987 to 1993 in Oklahoma for first-degree rape, records show.

    Reece has pleaded not guilty in the Johnston murder case.

    http://newsok.com/article/5511493
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    Fox News Houston is reporting that the prosecutor is going before a grand jury Thursday to get an indictment for the murders of Jessica Cain and Laura Smither. There is a press conference at 3:30 p.m. to announce the results of the grand jury.

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    William Reece Indicted 19 Years After Deaths of Cain, Smither

    Nineteen years after two girls disappeared from Friendswood and Tiki Island, the man long suspected of being responsible for their deaths has been indicted on murder charges.

    A Galveston County grand jury indicted William Reece Thursday, not long after human remains belonging to Jessica Cain were discovered in a horse pasture in April. The body of Laura Smither, who was 12 when she went missing in Friendswood in 1997, was discovered within days in Pasadena.

    Reece has been in prison since 1998 after he was convicted of kidnapping a woman in Oklahoma, who ultimately escaped from Reece and called police. Most of the women suspected of being his victims, however, were not afforded the same fate.

    Jessica Cain disappeared in 1997 when she was 17, following a dinner party with fellow cast members of a high school play, while Smither disappeared from Friendswood after going on a jog. At the time Reece was suspected of kidnapping them, he had been out of prison for roughly one year, having finished a ten-year sentence for kidnapping and raping two other women in Oklahoma. According to the Houston Chronicle, he has been suspected, charged or convicted in at least seven incidents, five of which were in 1997 alone.

    Interest was renewed in the Cain and Smither cases last fall after Reece was indicted in September 2015 in the murder of a 19-year-old Oklahoma woman, whose case had also dragged on for 18 years before being solved. DNA tests from that case linked Reece to other kidnappings from that time period. Ultimately, Reece was temporarily released from prison and into the custody of Galveston County officials this spring to lead investigators to the site of the burials of both Jessica Cain and another woman Reece is suspected of killing, Kelli Cox. Many speculated that Reece was cooperating in hopes that he would not be given the death sentence in any of the cases.

    KPRC reported that Galveston County has agreed to that request, though it is unclear if Oklahoma authorities are willing to do the same.

    Reece has been in prison since 1998 after he was convicted of kidnapping a woman in Oklahoma, who ultimately escaped from Reece and called police. Most of the women suspected of being his victims, however, were not afforded the same fate.

    Jessica Cain disappeared in 1997 when she was 17, following a dinner party with fellow cast members of a high school play, while Smither disappeared from Friendswood after going on a jog. At the time Reece was suspected of kidnapping them, he had been out of prison for roughly one year, having finished a ten-year sentence for kidnapping and raping two other women in Oklahoma. According to the Houston Chronicle, he has been suspected, charged or convicted in at least seven incidents, five of which were in 1997 alone.

    Interest was renewed in the Cain and Smither cases last fall after Reece was indicted in September 2015 in the murder of a 19-year-old Oklahoma woman, whose case had also dragged on for 18 years before being solved. DNA tests from that case linked Reece to other kidnappings from that time period. Ultimately, Reece was temporarily released from prison and into the custody of Galveston County officials this spring to lead investigators to the site of the burials of both Jessica Cain and another woman Reece is suspected of killing, Kelli Cox. Many speculated that Reece was cooperating in hopes that he would not be given the death sentence in any of the cases.

    KPRC reported that Galveston County has agreed to that request, though it is unclear if Oklahoma authorities are willing to do the same.

    http://www.houstonpress.com/news/wil...mither-8727841
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    Remembering Laura: A 20-year search for justice

    Laura Kate Smither vanished from her Friendswood neighborhood in 1997

    By Robert Arnold
    KPRC Houston

    FRIENDSWOOD, Texas - On April 3, 1997, a 12-year-old girl by the name of Laura Kate Smither vanished from her Friendswood neighborhood.

    Twenty years later, her accused killer is finally facing trial.

    "I remember her dancing here in the living room," Bob Smither said.

    Bob and Gay Smither still live in the same home they did when Laura disappeared. Bob Smither said they would never move from a home filled with so many happy memories of their daughter.

    "Laura used to stage manage all her productions right here and dance and we have so many joyful memories, just sitting at this table playing board games," Gay Smither said. "She brought love into this world."

    Laura went for a jog on the morning of April 3 and was less than a quarter mile from her home when she vanished. Laura's body was found 17 days later near Pasadena.

    In their home, meticulously kept scrapbooks tell the story of a massive search where police, friends, neighbors and strangers worked together to find a girl who loved ballet and whose smile and curly locks became etched into our collective memory.

    "We would not have made it through April of '97 without the community behind us the way they were," Bob Smither said.

    Not long after Laura's death, the name William Lewis Reece emerged as a suspect. However, it would take nearly 20 years for law enforcement officials to charge him with Laura's murder.

    "There are ups and downs and times when you feel so frustrated because you, you're not going anywhere," Gay Smither said.

    As the years passed, the Smithers remained confident investigators had the right man, even if he wasn't charged with their daughter's murder.

    "If we didn't have that, we would have always been wondering, is the other person out there hurting somebody else's child? I don't know if we could have lived with that," Gay Smither said.

    Reece did spend the last two decades in prison, but that sentence was for the kidnapping of Sandra Sapaugh in September 1997. Sapaugh escaped Reece and her testimony sealed his fate. Unfortunately for the Smithers, the fog of time left many people with the false impression Reece also went to prison for Laura's murder.

    "We've encountered that over and over; 'Oh, he hasn't been charged, there's no justice for Laura, really?'" Gay Smither said.

    "So a lot of people thought it was over as far as the criminal side went?" KPRC's Robert Arnold asked.

    "Yeah, they did," Gay Smither said.

    It wasn't until last year that the Smithers would see Reece back in a courtroom.

    "What was it like to finally see this man in a courtroom in relationship to your daughter?" Arnold asked.

    "There was a sense of peace that it was happening," Gay Smither said.

    Reece had finally started talking, and not just about Laura. He led detectives to the body of Jessica Cain, who disappeared from La Marque the same year as Laura. Reece also helped police find the the body of Kelli Ann Cox, who also disappeared in 1997 from Denton. Just before these revelations, Reece was charged with the murder of a young girl in Oklahoma. Like the others, Tiffany Johnston was also killed in 1997. KPRC's sources said Reece confessed to the murders.

    "I think that's an indication of remorse, as much as a sociopath is capable of remorse," Gay Smither said.

    Reece was indicted for the murders of Laura and Jessica, but has not yet been charged with Kelli Ann Cox's murder. Shortly before these indictments, Reece was extradited to Oklahoma County to stand trial for Johnston's murder. Since prosecutors in that state were the first to file charges, Texas prosecutors made a deal that allowed Reece to be tried there first. Oklahoma prosecutors have not yet said whether they will seek the death penalty.

    "Does it matter if you ever see him in a Galveston County courtroom and hear the word 'guilty'?" Arnold asked.

    "Not really," Gay Smither said. "Knowing that he's incarcerated and he can never get out, that is enough for us."

    "In my mind, he's already said the word 'guilty,'" Bob Smither said.

    The last 20 years haven't solely been a quest for justice. Laura's death led to the creation of the Laura Recovery Center, an organization that helps families and law enforcement agencies on missing-child cases. The center has worked on more than 1,700 missing child cases and participated in more than 100 active searches. The name came from searchers in 1997 nicknaming their makeshift command during the search for Laura.

    "We just knew that God had given us a job to do, that we had to pay forward what had been given to us," Gay Smither said. "We wanted no other family to not have that support, and the manual was our way of doing that."

    What was given were the lessons learned from that search 20 years ago poured onto paper and eventually forming the center's manual, which is available online for anyone to download. The Smithers said, unbeknownst to them at the time, volunteer searchers gathered to discuss individual aspects of the search, along with what did and did not work.

    "That (manual) says, basically, how a community can get its act together and be very effective in looking for a missing child," Bob Smither said.

    Part of the center's mission also focuses on training law enforcement officers how to marshal and organize community volunteers to help search for missing children. Gay Smither said during these training sessions she always shows a particular picture from the search in 1997.

    It is a picture of a hand-painted, wooden sign that reads, "To the killer of Laura. We will get you! From: A local police officer."

    The Smithers said to this day, they do not know who painted the sign.

    http://www.click2houston.com/news/in...ch-for-justice
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    Murder defendant William Lewis Reece appears in court Friday for his preliminary hearing in Oklahoma County. [Photo by Paul Hellstern, The Oklahoman]


    Houston man confessed to 1997 Bethany homicide, law officers revealed Friday


    By Kyle Schwab
    The Oklahoman

    A Houston man accused of killing multiple women confessed to fatally strangling a 19-year-old newlywed in 1997 at a Bethany car wash, law officers revealed Friday during his preliminary hearing.

    "He didn't know why. He just said it happened," Texas Ranger James Holland testified.

    William Lewis Reece, 57, is charged in Oklahoma County District Court with first-degree murder and kidnapping in the abduction and death of the Bethany victim, Tiffany Johnston.

    Reece also is suspected of killing two girls and a woman in Texas in 1997. Last year, Reece helped Texas investigators find two sets of female remains south of Houston.

    Before the remains were found, Holland and other law enforcement spoke with Reece about the killings.

    During a March 1, 2016, interview, Reece admitted to killing "the Oklahoma girl," Holland testified. Johnston's vehicle was discovered July 26, 1997, at the car wash. She was found the following day in Yukon, authorities reported.

    Reece said he pulled into the Bethany car wash after his oil filter came loose and was spraying oil on his horse trailer, Holland testified. While washing his trailer, Reece got a woman wet, starting an argument, Holland testified.

    Reece said he hit the woman, grabbed her and threw her in his trailer, Holland testified. Reece said he then sexually assaulted the woman, Holland testified.

    Afterward, the woman hit Reece in the head with a horseshoe, Reece told investigators, according to testimony. Reece then "choked her until she was dead" with a rope in the trailer, a police detective from Friendswood, Texas, testified.

    Reece also told the detective, Douglas Bacon, about killing Johnston at the car wash. Bacon spoke with Reece a few days before Holland.

    Bacon testified Reece told him about taking the woman's body to a field and leaving her in some tall grass. Reece then removed the victim's overalls and threw her clothes in a creek, Bacon said.

    "He said he didn't know her," Bacon testified.

    Reece has said he knew Johnston's parents and sister at the time of the killing but denied ever having met Johnston, according to investigators. Bacon said Reece later realized whom he had killed.

    Advancements in DNA testing linked Reece to the Bethany cold case. He was returned to Oklahoma in July to face prosecution in the slaying.

    Reece has been imprisoned in Texas since 1998 on an aggravated kidnapping conviction.

    The two sets of human remains found in Texas were identified in April 2016.

    One set of remains found at a dig site in Brazoria County was identified as Kelli Ann Cox, a 20-year-old student at the University of North Texas. Cox disappeared from Denton on July 15, 1997.

    The other set of remains was identified as Jessica Cain, a 17-year-old girl also missing since 1997.

    Reece also has been accused in the April 1997 death of Laura Kate Smither, 12, of Friendswood, Texas.

    He was charged in September in Galveston County, Texas, in the deaths of Smither and Cain, according to prosecutors and news reports.

    He hasn't been charged in Cox's death, prosecutors said.

    Oklahoma County Special Judge Donald Easter heard the testimony Friday. The judge said he will decide Aug. 3 whether there is sufficient evidence to send Reece to trial. On that date, prosecutors plan to announce their intent to seek the death penalty.

    http://newsok.com/houston-man-confes...rticle/5546466
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    Oklahoma prosecutors seek death penalty for Texas man accused of being a serial killer

    By Nolan Clay
    The Oklahoman

    A Texas man suspected of being a serial killer showed no reaction Thursday when prosecutors notified him in court that the death penalty will be sought at his upcoming murder trial.

    William Lewis Reece, 58, is suspected in up to four deaths in 1997 — one in Oklahoma and three in Texas. He has confessed to three of the killings, authorities said.

    He is accused in the Oklahoma case of choking to death Tiffany Johnston after abducting her on July 26, 1997, from a car wash in Bethany. Her partially nude body was found the next day in tall weeds in Yukon, just south of Interstate 40.

    Johnston was 19 and a newlywed.

    Prosecutors charged him in 2015 with first-degree murder in Johnston's death based on the results of DNA testing. He admitted last year to killing "the Oklahoma girl," according to testimony at his preliminary hearing in April.

    "He didn't know why. He just said it happened," a Texas Ranger testified.

    Oklahoma County Special Judge Donald Easter resumed the preliminary hearing Thursday and ruled prosecutors had enough evidence for trial.

    Reece just stared ahead when Assistant District Attorney Ryan Stephenson walked over to the defense table and presented him with a legal document that states he "should be punished by death."

    In the document, prosecutors listed four justifications for their request.

    They allege he has been convicted in the past of a violent felony, that he killed to avoid arrest and that he is a "continuing threat to society."

    They also allege that Johnston's "murder was especially heinous, atrocious or cruel."

    "He deserves it," Johnston's mother, Kathy Dobry, said Thursday outside the courtroom. "They really need to go back to the olden ways of doing justice: Have trial, get it over with.

    "They should take them out and hang them and get it over with," she said. "And they should have no worry about if they're going to suffer or not because they didn't worry about the people they murdered."

    Reece also has confessed to killing Kelli Ann Cox, a 20-year-old student at the University of North Texas in Denton, and Jessica Cain, 17, who was from the Galveston area, authorities say. Last year, their remains were found after he revealed where he had buried them, authorities say.

    He also is accused in the death of Laura Kate Smither, 12, of Friendswood, Texas.

    http://newsok.com/article/5558877
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    Accused serial killer William Reece charged in death of 20-year-old Texas woman

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    A Texas man suspected in the cold-case killings of two women and two girls 20 years ago now faces four murder charges.

    William Lewis Reece, charged in the deaths of 19-year-old Tiffany Johnston, 17-year-old Jessica Cain and 12-year-old Laura Smither, has now been indicted for capital murder in the kidnapping and killing of 20-year-old Kelli Cox. Her remains were discovered outside Houston and identified last year.

    Reece was already serving a 60-year prison sentence in Texas for kidnapping when he led police to graves where Cain and Cox's remains were found.

    All four victims disappeared over a four-month period in 1997. Smither was from Friendswood and Cain was from Tiki Island. Cox was from Denton, Texas, and Johnston was from Oklahoma.

    Oklahoma prosecutors have said they would seek the death penalty in the Johnston killing, and Reece has pleaded not guilty.

    http://abc13.com/accused-local-seria...death/2785038/

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    Oklahoma murder trial set for accused serial killer William Reece

    By Jennifer Bolton
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    An Oct. 22 murder trial in Oklahoma has been scheduled for accused serial killer William Lewis Reece in the 1997 slaying of a young Oklahoma woman.

    Reece, also accused in local slayings including of 12-year-old Laura Smither of Friendswood, will be tried in Oklahoma County in the strangling death of Tiffany Johnston, a 19-year-old newlywed, at a car wash in Bethany, Okla.

    Reece was transferred to Oklahoma in 2016 to face capital murder charges in the Johnston case. He was transferred from Huntsville State Penitentiary, where he was serving a 60-year sentence for kidnapping another woman.

    Reece has been indicted for murder in Texas in the slayings of 17-year-old Jessica Cain of Tiki Island, who disappeared in 1997, and of Smither, whose body was found near a Pasadena pond on April 20 1997 17 days after she was abducted after leaving her home to go jogging. Following Smither’s disappearance, more than 6,000 volunteers including the U.S. Marine reservists and the Texas State Guards searched hundreds of acres for the missing girl.

    Before Reece’s transfer to Oklahoma, he agreed to work with Galveston County detectives to locate the bodies of Cain and Kelli Ann Cox, a 20-year-old University of North Texas student who vanished from Denton in 1997.

    Reece will be transferred back to Texas following the trial in Oklahoma to face charges in the killings of Cox, Cain and Smither.

    Reece became a suspect in the Smither case after investigators learned he was a registered sex offender working off Moore Ranch Road, where the child was last seen jogging. On that particular day, Reece had been let go from work early because of rain.

    Reece spent about 10 years in the Oklahoma prison system for the rape of two other women. He was released six months before Smither’s abduction. Friendswood police identified him as a suspect early on in the investigation, but Reece was not charged due to lack of evidence tying him to the murder.

    https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/f...l-12991556.php
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    William Reece Trial Postponed; Public Defender’s Office Condition To Blame

    By Clayton Cummins
    news9.com

    OKLAHOMA CITY - The trial for a man accused of raping and strangling a 19-year-old Oklahoma girl in 1997 has been postponed. The motion was made in Oklahoma County court Monday morning in the case against William Reece.

    Tiffany Johnston, of Bethany, was abducted from a car wash and was found one day later near Yukon. Johnston’s mother left the courtroom Monday disappointed.

    Watch: Handful Of Witnesses Testify In William Reece Hearing

    "We're not happy with it but that's the judicial system,” said Kathy Dobry, Tiffany’s mother. “We want to make certain everything's, all the t's are crossed, i's are dotted, explanation marks, whatever they need because we want him to stay in jail this time."

    The Oklahoma County public defenders say office conditions are to blame. Asbestos was found inside the office in September.

    Since then, employees are working in nine different officers scattered throughout the courthouse. Oklahoma County Chief Public Defender Bob Ravitz says it’s made operation very difficult.

    Up to 90 cases, or more, could also be delayed.

    "We have some people operating on pews and in courtrooms,” said Ravitz. “We have file cabinets way off site, lawyers are on top of lawyers, it’s not a very good situation."

    If all goes to plan, the Public Defender’s Office will have their own renovated space by January of next year located inside the investor's capital building.

    http://www.news9.com/story/39290473/...ition-to-blame
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    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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