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they got me set up like I'm a serial
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killer right
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now all right are you no I'm not I'll
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pass any polygraph you throw at
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me I you know I have no reason to
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lie if you passed him pushing a grocery
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cart
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you'd never know that inside his head he
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just thought about how to kill
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you my daughter went uh on run this
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morning and she's been gone a lot longer
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than I
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expected here's no doubt in my mind he
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would have continued slaughtering young
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women and
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girls female Dred out of a white jly she
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needs an ambulance she can't
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walk it's like we have a predator in our
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neighborhoods he had the capacity to
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become a serial killer on a scale that
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is difficult to even imagine
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just Southwest of Oklahoma City lies the
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Tiny Town of anad
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Darko population
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6,000 it's just your average rural
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Oklahoma
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town not a real high crime rate
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everybody's pretty
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laid-back there's not a lot there to
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miss or see
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really when you meet somebody new you
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ask them who their people
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are because you're going to know
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somebody in their
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family everyone in anad Darko knows
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Kathy doy and her daughter
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Tiffany my name is Kathy
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doy and I'm the mother of Tiffany
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doy
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Johnston she was always with me before
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she got married she was my shadow
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everyone that's what everyone called
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her Tiffany was very energetic loving
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caring
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hyper she cared about everyone she liked
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animals she liked to play in the
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dirt she wanted to study the pl
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and see what they how they were formed
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and what have you cuz she could grow
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just about anything she set her mind
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to Tiffany and I became friends in
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junior high I was new to town new to the
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area and uh didn't really know anybody
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didn't have any friends didn't have much
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going for me and uh Tiffany was the type
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of person that was going to take care of
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you uh she just decided she was going to
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be my friend since I didn't have any her
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and I were friends from then
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on shortly after graduating high school
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Tiffany marries her childhood
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sweetheart she said she was B madly in
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love with Ryan and all girls should
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marry their first
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sweetheart she was determined to get
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married and she
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did the young couple moved to nearby
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Bethany Ryan is is employed at a
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manufacturing plant while 19-year-old
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Tiffany Works two jobs so she can afford
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a new
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car she traded her car in on her new
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white neon she was so proud of
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that she's always cleaning it out or
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washing it or cuz she was proud of it
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was something that she worked for that
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she
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got on July 26th 1997 the newly EDS plan
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to meet at a club after work TIY had
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gotten off work and then she went and
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cleaned out her car or washed her car
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because it was hers and Ryan's 3mon
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anniversary I was actually working
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Patrol at that time and I drove by the
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Sunshine Car
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Wash there was about four vehicles that
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were there people still washing their
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car and I did observe a white vehicle in
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the furthest west stall that had no one
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around it it was about 45 minutes later
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I was again driving by that car wash and
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now there were no vehicles other than
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that one white car in the Far West Stall
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and there was nobody around the car we
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did not see anyone around the uh car
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wash at
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all detective Mobley looked in the
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passenger side and he advised me that
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the keys to the vehicle were still in
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the
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ignition that kind of raised our
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concern uh so we started to look into it
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a little
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deeper myself and mbly made entry into
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the vehicle to try to find a phone
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number or name of someone that we might
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be able to
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contact uh we did end up locating a
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number with the word mom on
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it the Tiffany Police Department called
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around
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midnight they wanted to know if Tiffany
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had a white
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car and if I knew where she
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was I started calling people I knew that
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she might go
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to no one had heard from her no one had
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seen her and this is like at 2:00 in the
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morning so by the time we got up
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here at the car wash they had everything
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blocked
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off down deep you knew that with all her
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personal belongings and her P her car
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that she had been inducted and she was
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probably not
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alive a frequent visitor to the car wash
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is 38-year-old William
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Reese who Kathy knows from his time in
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anad
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Darko he was always in trouble
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he stole Vehicles he stole from grocery
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stores or what have you he had been in
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jail he had already been in prison he
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had just gotten out uh shortly before
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this
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happening so William Reese was born in
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1959 in Oklahoma and so it was a pretty
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depressed area that he grew up
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in he had had a difficult upbringing an
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unstable childhood he was one of 13
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children he was in foster care system
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for a while he was forced to quit school
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in the n9th grade and go to work so this
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is somebody I think who got a pretty
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tough start in
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life there was probably a combination of
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neglect with so many siblings and there
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being some a lot of financial
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instability and I think it would have
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been a pretty harsh upbringing in a lot
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of respects there was a lot lot of
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suspicions he was abused at some point
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13 siblings a family background being
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moved around you have lots of negative
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risk factors in front of
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Reese that marriage does not last very
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long and it doesn't it Fizzles out
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pretty quickly because of how Willam ree
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is treating his wife he's drinking and
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he's physically abusive to her and she
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ends them ends the relationship
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ship this is somebody who for whatever
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reason uh doesn't respect women um feels
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entitled to behave however he wants to
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likely blams everything that's wrong in
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his life on other people and those are
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things that do not bode well in terms of
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his relationship with other women in the
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future or his ability to adjust and
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adapt effectively to to life as an adult
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his ex-wife said that he was unusually
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close to his mom
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and even she even made the comment at
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one point that she felt like his mom was
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so protective of him that quote you know
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if he killed somebody she would help him
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hide the
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body it's one day since Tiffany doy went
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missing with her car left at a Bethany
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car
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wash around 50 Mi away Oklahoma City
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Police make a gruesome Discovery while
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investigating their own missing person's
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case as they were investigating that
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scene they canvased the area and then
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ended up finding Tiffany's body on that
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same road about a 100 yards down
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you're asking yourself who did it why
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would someone want to kill
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Tiff you didn't think about your friend
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just getting
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murdered for no reason out in the middle
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of nowhere like that it just didn't
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happen the thing that always kind of
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bothered me the most is that Tiffany and
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Ryan they just started their lives
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together and uh within 3 months it got
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taken
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away if they they had their full life
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together what would have come of
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that and so we went down a list of
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people for the police to check out
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because we didn't know what else to
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do and it's the first thing that Mama
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thought of too so I I can't say that it
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didn't enter our minds cuz it
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did you don't know if he was really at
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work or not you know he could have took
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off in any case where you have someone
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that has
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disappeared you know you always you
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always got to start with people that are
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close and family members uh so
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absolutely he was looked at
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police soon determined Tiffany was last
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seen alive shortly after 6 p.m. on July
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27th her husband was at work from 3:00
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p.m. until 11:00 p.m. and is cleared of
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any
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suspicion Bethany police conduct a
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background check on local sex
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offenders in including William
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Reese they find no evidence linking him
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to the crime
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scene Tiffany's mother knows Reese's
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mother who offers to prepare Tiffany's
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clothes for her funeral her name with
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Pat she wasn't a friend but she was an
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acquaintance because she did my ironing
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and what have you for me and so we took
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Tiffany's clothes down to her for her to
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press for us cuz she called and said she
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would do
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that in
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1986 he kidnaps a woman and he rapes her
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and at that point I think he has taken a
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hard turn in his life because now he is
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making choices is that the vast majority
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of people would never
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make he's become a criminal he's become
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a
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predator he was driving a truck and
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going to pick up a
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load and he picked her up in
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route her car broke down under a
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overpass and uh he stopped and asked if
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she needed help he kept on her and then
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she finally agreed and got in the truck
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with
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him ree is arrested but released after
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posting
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bail he attacks again 1 month later
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he rapes one woman while he's awaiting
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trial for raping another woman I don't
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know how you get any more of a
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definition of a predator than
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that both of these victims survive their
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ordeal and have their identities
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protected ree stands trial on two counts
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of rape he is found guilty and sentenced
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to 25 years in prison for an individual
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who is inside of a correal Institution
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for years that day is filled with
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boredom our environment creates our
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propensity to be involved in crime well
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just think of it you're surrounded by
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other people who have committed
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crimes one learns to associate with
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certain people one has to protect
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themselves inside of a correctional
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institution a lot of time to think
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Reese's attorneys claim errors were made
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during his trial and after serving 10
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years of his 25e sentence convicted
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rapist Reese is released
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early he briefly lives with his mother
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and Anna Darko before moving 7 hours
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away to Houston Texas
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my daughter went uh on run this morning
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and she's been gone a lot longer than I
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expected and what's your name please Bob
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Smither 12-year-old Laura Smither goes
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for a jog in her Friendswood Texas
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neighborhood and never returns
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home I'd never seen anything quite like
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this before I mean you had people from
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everywhere coming out of the wood work
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searching for this young
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girl they were going through Fields they
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were searching in bodies of water
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[Music]
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everywhere Laura's body is found 17 days
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later in a retention pond in nearby
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Pasadena that's to day I will never
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forget because you had a father and son
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that were out there they we're training
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a hunting dog hunting dog hits on
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something in the water father and son go
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out there to see what's going on and
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this is the part that I mean just so
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chilling because the dad looked at the
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Sun and says I wonder what kind of
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animal that is and the son looks back at
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the dad and says Dad animals don't wear
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socks William Reese became a suspect
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early on because he was a convicted sex
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offender out of Oklahoma and that's
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fairly standard when you have a child
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disappear like this police start looking
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at registered sex offenders in the area
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more than that reys had a construction
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job near this spot it got rained out the
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morning Laura disappeared so he would
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have been going home and that would have
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put him along her route about the time
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she disappeared
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there were
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fibers uh that were found that matched
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floor mats in his
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truck the fibers were unique but they
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weren't so incredibly unique that it's
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like okay these fibers could only
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possibly have come from William Reese's
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truck it wasn't unique enough and
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honestly fibers are not DNA a lot of
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that evidence had been destroyed because
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Laura was left in
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water this is a 12-year-old
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child and what that tells me is one of
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two things either William Reese did not
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recognize how young she was when he
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grabbed
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her I don't believe that number two is
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that this is somebody who is sexually
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interested in this age group and is
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willing to take advantage of an
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opportunity and rape and murder somebody
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who is that innocent and that
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young while under police suspicion and
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within their custody ree speaks with a
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Texas news channel to profess his
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innocence who are they going to look at
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first an
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excon especially if youve done hard time
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you're going to be a number one suspect
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no matter what and if they can't find
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nobody you're going to be their py
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Sandra sea a 19-year-old pregnant mother
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comes face to face with William
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Reese just south of
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Houston she goes into a convenience
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store and she comes out of the
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convenience store seees she has a flat
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tire a supposed Good Samaritan comes
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along oh let me help you out uh with
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that tire boom grabs her tosses her into
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the truck takes off down the
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freeway the fact that William
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Rees acts so quickly after his released
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from prison suggest to me that this is
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somebody who has thought about this and
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fantasized about this for 9 years while
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he's Behind
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Bars he tells her to take her clothes
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off she bends down to take her shoes off
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and notices that the car door is
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unlocked and she at that point makes a
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very important
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decision this may be my last opportunity
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the more secluded the more away the more
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the person is going to their environment
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rather than being in my environment
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takes the advantage away from you
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I would rather die jumping out of this
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car and leaving my fate in my own hands
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than suffer whatever is about to happen
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if I stay with this
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man female jumped out of a white dly
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unknown LP last headed
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45b she needs an ambulance she can't
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walk okay we
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got was Sandra now safe police begin
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questioning her hoping they can find her
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kidnapper before he attacks
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[Music]
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again 20-year-old kellyanne Cox goes
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missing in Denton
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[Music]
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Texas Kelly Cox was a beautiful single
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mom college student in what is
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essentially kind of a college town of
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Denton
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Texas she had just wrapped up a a school
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field trip she was studying the area of
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Criminal Justice and she stopped at this
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convenience store and unfortunately
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that's where she crossed paths with
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William
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ree she just vanished Into Thin Air and
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that's what's again so frightening about
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all of
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this it's somewhat mindboggling on the
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one hand that William ree continues his
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Killing Spree after s seal manages to
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get out and
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Escape William ree is so
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focused on finding young women that kind
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of fit his prototype and sexually
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assaulting them abducting them that he's
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not even concerned about Sandra sea he
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is thinking about his next victim and
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finding
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her kellyanne Cox's Disappearance in
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Denton Texas is around 3 hours away from
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Tiffany and ok
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Oklahoma at the time of Tiffany's
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abduction Kathy doy has no idea of these
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other
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cases 17-year-old high school student
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Jessica Kaine goes missing near
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Houston just like the others had her
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entire life ahead of her High school
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student out with friends after a school
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event Jessica was always very well
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behaved never violated curfew anything
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like that so when she didn't come home
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on time her parents were instantly
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worried and her truck was found parked
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on the side of Interstate
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45 like Laura it was like she just fell
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into a hole in the universe just
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vanished Into Thin Air but the truck was
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there purse was in the front seat didn't
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even really appear there was any kind of
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a struggle oh it's
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terrifying it's like we have a predator
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in our
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neighborhood people in the area were
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like who is hunting our
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children what we have is an apex
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predator an individual that has
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opportunity combined with skills and
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additionally being punished for the
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criminal act in the past but not being
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deterred I have always thought that the
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killing part of it for him was more
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pragmatic that I'm not going to leave a
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victim to point their finger at me again
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my needs are more important than anybody
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else's and I'm going to make sure that
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nobody's left to identify
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me Cathy do still has no idea who killed
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her
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daughter police have no suspects and
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don't suspect William Reese is
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involved but 450 M away in Texas
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kidnapped Survivor Sandra sea is now
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facing him in a
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lineup he's being asked to repeat the
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lines Sandra heard her kidnapper
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shout not
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get the
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[Music]
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truck
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[Music]
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okay the net is closing around Reese in
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Texas but will he be linked to the
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murder of Tiffany Johnston 450 mil away
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3 months after the murder of Tiffany
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Johnston Sandra SAA has identified
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William Reese as her
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kidnapper 450 M away in
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Texas as authorities gather evidence to
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prosecute him the owner of the Sunshine
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Car Wash where Tiffany was last seen
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recognizes Reese in news
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reports he tells Oklahoma police that
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Reese is a frequent
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customer but investigators still have no
00:26:03
way of linking Reese to the
00:26:05
crime we checked people that lived in
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the area that had serious criminal
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histories and uh none of those came to
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fruition no forensic evidence at that
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time and there weren't cameras in that
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area that we could rely on for uh
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evidence
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purposes so it truly it came to where
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we believed whoever committed this came
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from outside of the
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community Bethany police passed the case
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to the Oklahoma State Bureau of
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Investigation but still no
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leads 9 months pass by and Tiffany's
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mother Kathy doy makes a solemn
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bow we had lots of red birds around that
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day
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and where we live
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is American Indians and I'm partying in
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and we believe in the Red Birds when the
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red birds come to see you is a
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visit from your loved ones from
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Heaven I told her that I would find who
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murdered her and get Justice for
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her
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because what just wasn't right they took
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away my youngest
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child if something were to ever happen
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to anyone in my immediate family Kathy
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is the first person I'm calling to start
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looking into
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it she does not know how to give up she
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does not quit and she knew that one day
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we'd get there we just didn't know
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when each anniversary of Tiffany's
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murder is met with an eerie
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coincidence every year on Tiffany's
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anniversary date which is July the
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26th there would be
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little necklaces bracelets
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and we'd gather these up we didn't touch
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them we put on gloves like you're
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supposed to and we'd give them to the
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OSBI it was concerned of members of the
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department and I and I think part of the
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family that the suspect might have been
00:28:43
the one leaving these trinkets they
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would just show up every year at the
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same time and nobody would ever own up
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to putting them there
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Cathy's dogged determination finally
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gets results in her daughter's Cold
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Case Advanced DNA testing is performed
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using the evidence collected from
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Tiffany's
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body it reveals a partial profile of her
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killer investigators compare this to DNA
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swabs from her ex-boyfriends husband
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colleagues and even patrons seen at the
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car wash the day of her murder all are
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excluded yet to be tested is anad Darko
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resident William lwis Reese a known sex
00:29:37
offender and frequent visitor to the car
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wash police also look for a link between
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Tiffany's killing and the crimes in
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Texas and realize a striking
00:29:49
connection the Interstate 45
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Corridor a perfect formula does come
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together to allow these criminal
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activities to take
00:30:02
place access very important so here you
00:30:06
have an area south of Houston Texas
00:30:09
before the very end in
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galvaston in which one can be on the
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interstate highway and quickly be in
00:30:17
another state or another part of this
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huge state of Texas very quickly
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in many respects Texas is a Serial
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Killer's
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dream you can go for miles and miles
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without seeing
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anybody there's actually a part of Texas
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that is Infamous for being called the
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Texas Killing Fields because they
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discovered about 30 bodies of young
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women there that have been
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unsolved now we have a pattern we have
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something to actually look at something
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that's solid
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uh we have other cases that we can study
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along with ours
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to help get closure for all of
00:31:07
them it's a horribly frightening thing
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especially as a father of two to think
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that there are humans out there that
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walk around look at another human go I
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want that I'm going to take that and
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they do
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by January 2014 the Oklahoma State
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Bureau of Investigation is closing in on
00:31:34
suspected serial killer William Lewis
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Reese and seeks to obtain his
00:31:39
DNA Reese is easy to locate he was
00:31:42
successfully convicted for the kidnap of
00:31:45
Sandra sea and is serving a 60-year
00:31:48
sentence in a Texas prison Sandra seaw
00:31:52
is the reason the murders
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stopped I give her up an amazing amount
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of credit because she was brave enough
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to escape him and she was brave enough
00:32:04
to never ever waver never be intimidated
00:32:07
never be too scared to identify him and
00:32:10
stick through that all the way to the
00:32:11
end he was convicted and the only reason
00:32:14
no one else was murdered is because he
00:32:16
went to prison and that was because of
00:32:18
Sandra
00:32:19
sea authorities swab Reese for his
00:32:22
DNA and compare it to the partial
00:32:25
profile taken from Tiffany's body
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the results indicate reys could be the
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killer we believe that he was probably
00:32:46
the person that did it it was just
00:32:48
finding that link to be able to put it
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all
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together you want to do everything you
00:32:55
can to find that link and and I mean
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look it took a decade for that link to
00:33:03
finally come to
00:33:06
fruition Texas authorities discover
00:33:08
another critical clue as they
00:33:10
investigate the link between Reese and
00:33:12
Tiffany's
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murder longdistance phone
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cards so he had these cards and he used
00:33:19
one of them to make a phone call and
00:33:21
that was still in his truck when
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Friendswood Police impounded it and that
00:33:25
wound up being some very key evidence
00:33:28
that Oklahoma authorities
00:33:35
used investigators go to William Ree and
00:33:38
basically let him know that the gig is
00:33:41
up and that uh you know they have DNA
00:33:44
linking him to Tiffany Johnston and I
00:33:46
think that at this point William ree is
00:33:48
somewhat panicked because he is well
00:33:50
aware of the fact that Oklahoma has the
00:33:52
death
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penalty and so he is in prison in Texas
00:33:57
at this point point and so I think he
00:33:59
decides that if I'm
00:34:02
Cooperative with some of these other
00:34:04
unsolved murders perhaps I can avoid the
00:34:07
death penalty in Texas and won't be
00:34:10
extradited to Oklahoma to potentially
00:34:13
face the death penalty
00:34:21
there with this new information linking
00:34:23
Reese to Tiffany's murder as a
00:34:25
bargaining tool invest investigators
00:34:28
question Reese about the murders of
00:34:30
Laura Smither Kelly anx and Jessica
00:34:34
Kane he reveals where police can find
00:34:37
the bodies of Jessica Kaine and kellyan
00:34:40
Cox his cooperation means ree won't face
00:34:44
the death penalty for these
00:34:46
murders he's a chess
00:34:49
player he knows how to use his pawns he
00:34:52
knows how to use his pieces which pieces
00:34:54
to sacrifice when to get what he wants
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and I feel that he has used his victims
00:35:02
as those pieces and played them against
00:35:04
law enforcement to gain
00:35:07
favors and I don't think that we will
00:35:09
ever know how many of those pieces he
00:35:12
has held back to play
00:35:14
later there's no reason to believe that
00:35:17
there are not more that are out
00:35:19
there this is where further
00:35:22
investigation can take place but then
00:35:24
there becomes a question for the
00:35:25
individual how much more information am
00:35:27
I going to give you if I'm already here
00:35:29
for the rest of my life what advantage
00:35:31
do I
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have reys doesn't confess to any other
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murders he claims he accidentally hit
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Laura Smither while she was jogging
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along the side of the
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road so I picked her up her head rolled
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around
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backwards and I put her in a flowboard
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my truck pass side and I shut the door I
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had this little blanket and I laid it on
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her took off I don't remember how I got
00:36:06
out where I was some Dent
00:36:10
p i light in the water and I went
00:36:14
home reys doesn't say anymore about
00:36:17
kellyan Cox just that he got into an
00:36:19
altercation with her at a convenience
00:36:22
store opened up my door and boom I run
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right into and Coke went all over for me
00:36:28
and we got into it there and she hit me
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with that coke when I hit her she hit
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her head you know how your door opens up
00:36:36
M her head hit there and she slid back
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she was out I put her in the back
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seat she never woke up she wasn't
00:36:45
breathing or nothing she never woke up
00:36:48
and I dug me a little hole and put her
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in
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there reys confessed but they were
00:36:55
carefully crafted confessions to where
00:36:59
he upheld his end of the bargain that
00:37:00
I'll tell you what happened but he never
00:37:03
really fully told police what he
00:37:07
did when you listen to his confessions
00:37:09
or you hear his confessions it's
00:37:12
just it's just amazing how he distorts
00:37:16
clearly what
00:37:17
happened they'll talk about murdering
00:37:19
somebody but they won't admit to assault
00:37:21
sexual assault for for some reason or
00:37:23
they'll do what a lot of murderers do
00:37:26
which is f ways to what we psychologists
00:37:29
call neutralize their actions so that
00:37:31
might mean blaming the victim which he
00:37:34
definitely did you know oh this person
00:37:35
started it we got into a match you know
00:37:38
oh this person we got into some kind of
00:37:40
argument about spilling Coke on
00:37:43
me I can't think of a better description
00:37:45
of somebody who has no compassion
00:37:47
empathy or caring for his victims they
00:37:50
truly are objects for him to fulfill his
00:37:53
sexual fantasies
00:38:00
reys also claims an argument ensued with
00:38:02
Tiffany Johnston at the car wash next
00:38:06
thing I know this girl was yelling at me
00:38:07
that I sprayed her I don't think I
00:38:10
sprayed her but she was cussing me and
00:38:13
everything so when I grabbed her around
00:38:15
the throat start choking she wasn't
00:38:18
moving no more and I shut the door and I
00:38:20
backed
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out did you try to have sex with any
00:38:24
victims I don't think so okay um I guess
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I don't think so it kind of opens well I
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mean far as I know
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no My Vow was to find who murdered her
00:38:48
and get Justice for
00:38:50
her William Reese is convicted of the
00:38:53
kidnapping and first-degree murder of
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Tiffany Johnston
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he is sentenced to
00:39:04
death the day that we got our conviction
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on
00:39:10
Rees the red birds were lined up outside
00:39:14
our house on the light pole all the way
00:39:18
across the line and they were
00:39:23
everywhere Tiffany knew then that Mom
00:39:25
got Justice
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I'm persistent
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and like I said she was my baby and I
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made her a promise and I carried it
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out he was ice cold
00:39:55
arrogant when they sh showed the
00:39:59
pictures of his victim's bodies of what
00:40:01
he had done he would smile and lick his
00:40:05
lips Tiffany gave her
00:40:09
life to help the parents in Texas bring
00:40:13
some closure to them because if it
00:40:16
hadn't been for Tiffany's case Texas
00:40:19
wouldn't have had
00:40:21
anything reys accepts a plea deal and in
00:40:24
addition to his current sentence for
00:40:26
Sandra SA cause kidnapping he is
00:40:28
sentenced to a further three life terms
00:40:31
in a Texas prison for the murders of
00:40:33
Jessica Cain kellyanne Cox and Laura
00:40:38
Smither William Reese is currently
00:40:40
serving his prison sentences in
00:40:44
Texas so he still owes the state of
00:40:47
Texas time for Sandra Sea's kidnapping
00:40:50
and now for the murders of Laura Jessica
00:40:53
and Kelly Anne there's an appeal process
00:40:56
in Oklahoma
00:40:58
my sneaking suspicion is when he runs
00:41:00
out of appeals in Oklahoma and they
00:41:03
actually set a date for his execution he
00:41:06
will be extra guided back we got Justice
00:41:08
for Tiffany in the court system that
00:41:11
he's getting to do what he wants
00:41:15
to he can go to the
00:41:18
library he can work on horses shoes
00:41:22
leather or whatever he wants to do and
00:41:25
that's not Justice for Tiffany
00:41:30
how could someone that I ran across
00:41:33
knew his
00:41:35
mom how could he have done
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that Kathy suspects it was Reese's
00:41:44
mother py leaving trinkets on Tiffany's
00:41:47
grave there's not a doubt in my mind
00:41:51
that it was her because I think she felt
00:41:54
guilty because she
00:41:56
knew that that W her son had murdered
00:42:00
Tiffany and so that was her way of being
00:42:03
at peace with the idea that she wouldn't
00:42:05
talk to the Poli or wouldn't tell
00:42:08
them every year you could guarantee
00:42:11
there would be something out there and
00:42:14
even to this day
00:42:16
when Tiffany's anniversary date comes
00:42:20
around we always check on the
00:42:23
26th to see if
00:42:25
anything has been placed on Tiffany's
00:42:28
grave that we don't know and nothing has
00:42:31
showed
00:42:32
up since Pat
00:42:38
died I just want to know why we haven't
00:42:41
been able to bring him back I want to
00:42:43
know why the da will not sign off to
00:42:46
have him brought back and put on death
00:42:48
row he took my friend he took one of the
00:42:52
best people I've ever known in my life
00:42:55
and he robbed the world of something
00:42:56
great
00:42:57
I don't know what her plans were after
00:42:59
college but whatever they were she was
00:43:01
going to be great at it
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