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Texas True Crime： Tracking the Devil - True Crime Documentary · The Evolution of Evil - True Crime Stories

• 0:02
  Speaker 1: My name is Kelly Ann Cox. I had been abducted, righted, murdered,
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  Speaker 1: dumped and marry her.
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  Speaker 2: How scared she had to have been.
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  Speaker 3: He has no remorse for killing the girl.
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  Speaker 4: What could be a nightmare comes true for some Tiki
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  Speaker 4: Island parent.
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  Speaker 5: I know something's happened because this is just not her,
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  Speaker 5: This is out of the ordinary.
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  Speaker 4: Searchers could barely put one foot in front of the other.
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  Speaker 6: Lauras to go for a run, and then you didn't
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  Speaker 6: come back. We knew something was wrong, but our.
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  Speaker 7: Top story tight. A man and his dog discovered the
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  Speaker 7: badly people, both bodybod It.
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  Speaker 3: Was on TV that Tiffany was missing. Her car was
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  Speaker 3: abandoned after he killed her and raped her. He just
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  Speaker 3: dumped her like a bag of trash.
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  Speaker 8: He's a monster. He's a predator, not.
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  Speaker 9: Just any monster. For me, that's a monster who took
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  Speaker 9: away my mom.
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  Speaker 8: He eluded the police at least for nineteen years.
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  Speaker 10: Will Rees had criminal history which included eggamad kidnapping.
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  Speaker 11: We brought Reese out there, who had him demonstrate to
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  Speaker 11: us how he buried the bodies.
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  Speaker 6: In truth built he gives a version of the truth
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  Speaker 6: to make himself look better.
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  Speaker 11: He was only given us shades of the truth.
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  Speaker 12: Choker.
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  Speaker 13: She's still firing, and I brand that road around her.
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  Speaker 14: BI was more like a wild animal.
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  Speaker 15: State of Oklahoma versus William Reese.
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  Speaker 11: He knew that justice was coming, the time was up.
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  Speaker 15: Here's an old saying in the law. Justice delayed is
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  Speaker 15: justice denied. I sentence you to death.
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  Speaker 3: I don't expect him to say sorry, I'm gonna take
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  Speaker 3: my death fuilty. I still stand by that.
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  Speaker 11: Stay tuned to see what Reese's next move is.
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  Speaker 14: I think he got another ace.
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  Speaker 12: She trew up the sleeves.
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  Speaker 16: Four young women each disappear with no explanation. One had
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  Speaker 16: gone out for a jog, another had been at a
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  Speaker 16: theater cast party, a third on a college field trip,
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  Speaker 16: and another vanished from a car wash. For almost two decades,
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  Speaker 16: their families searched for answers about what really happened to them,
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  Speaker 16: and tell a stunning confession from a Texas prison.
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  Speaker 2: Laura, she was beautiful.
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  Speaker 6: You know, there's some people who are touched by light,
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  Speaker 6: and Laura was certainly one of those people. Everyone who
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  Speaker 6: knew Laura loved Laura. She was incredibly smart. She could
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  Speaker 6: have done anything. She had so much to contribute. It
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  Speaker 6: would have been an amazing thing to see what she
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  Speaker 6: would have done in live if she had been allowed
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  Speaker 6: to live.
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  Speaker 4: But our top story tonight, she's only twelve years years
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  Speaker 4: old and at.
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  Speaker 17: This hour she's missing.
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  Speaker 18: Did she just wander off or was there foul play
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  Speaker 18: involve On the.
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  Speaker 16: Morning of April third, nineteen ninety seven, Gay and Bob
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  Speaker 16: smithers lives changed forever.
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  Speaker 6: We were homeschooling at the time, and so I started
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  Speaker 6: making breakfast and Laura asked to go for a run.
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  Speaker 6: That was highly unusual because Laura did not like running,
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  Speaker 6: but she had been inspired to do cardio for her ballet.
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  Speaker 6: Ballet was her great love, and so she asked to
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  Speaker 6: go running, and it never occurred to me that it
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  Speaker 6: would be dangerous.
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  Speaker 16: Their twelve year old daughter, Laura was the light of
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  Speaker 16: their lives. She was a gifted student and an aspiring
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  Speaker 16: ballerina who had just been accepted into the Houston Ballet Academy.
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  Speaker 6: When I also thought, O, well, she won't be at
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  Speaker 6: mere very long, and then she didn't come back.
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  Speaker 2: We knew something was wrong right away.
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  Speaker 18: She used to ride her bike when I would run,
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  Speaker 18: so I would know more or less where she would
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  Speaker 18: where she would have gone.
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  Speaker 12: So I checked that very quickly, and she wasn't there.
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  Speaker 12: She came back and called the police.
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  Speaker 6: Within ten minutes, the policeman was here at the house
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  Speaker 6: taking our missing person report. By that evening, I mean
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  Speaker 6: I'd made a number of phone calls to get more
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  Speaker 6: people to come help, and we'd spent the day searching
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  Speaker 6: all over the area.
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  Speaker 2: Did you see.
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  Speaker 3: Anything unusual at this time yesterday?
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  Speaker 2: And by that night the media had got window edged.
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  Speaker 4: Her parents say she went out for an early morning
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  Speaker 4: jog in the neighborhood of nine o'clock this morning along this
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  Speaker 4: very road and simply never came back.
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  Speaker 6: And so all the trucks had already shown up, and
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  Speaker 6: helicopters were circling the house. And for the next morning
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  Speaker 6: there were hundreds and hundreds of people, and very quickly
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  Speaker 6: leaders within our community stepped up and organized the search.
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  Speaker 4: Searchers could barely put one foot in front of the
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  Speaker 4: other and.
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  Speaker 18: Being overwhelmed by the community support and police.
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  Speaker 17: What was it like for you and your family?
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  Speaker 12: Listen, I don't ask me.
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  Speaker 9: She is a very good girl.
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  Speaker 5: Something something very unusual has happened that she would have
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  Speaker 5: been home. There's no questions she would have been home.
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  Speaker 6: So many of our dear friends now we've met out
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  Speaker 6: of that search.
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  Speaker 9: I have for children, and I can't imagine being in
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  Speaker 9: this positions.
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  Speaker 2: They were extraordinary.
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  Speaker 14: I've got three nieces.
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  Speaker 18: I hate for it to happen to one of.
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  Speaker 2: Them every day.
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  Speaker 6: People who just step forward, and mothers and fathers, people
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  Speaker 6: from the community who didn't know Laura.
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  Speaker 2: I mean many of them did.
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  Speaker 15: I just want to let her know that we are
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  Speaker 15: going to find you and we're not going to stop
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  Speaker 15: until we do.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, But many more of them didn't.
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  Speaker 4: We offer it to you and pray that you would
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  Speaker 4: watch over Laura wherever she is.
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  Speaker 19: I was a family friend still a family friend of
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  Speaker 19: Bob and gave Smithers. I got a call from one
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  Speaker 19: of the cubs GOT leaders asking me to run a
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  Speaker 19: search the next morning, April eighth. I showed up the
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  Speaker 19: next morning out on More Road. It was a whirlwind
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  Speaker 19: and everybody got caught up in it. The city and
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  Speaker 19: people from Olliver Houston put their lives on hold and
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  Speaker 19: came and tried to find Laura. And then I ended
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  Speaker 19: up running the search some way. How it just happened,
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  Speaker 19: I don't know the.
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  Speaker 18: Desperate search for a twelve year old girl in Friendswood
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  Speaker 18: is on the sign afternoon.
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  Speaker 7: Now police are calling.
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  Speaker 2: It at abduction.
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  Speaker 3: The FBI has joined the case.
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  Speaker 4: Allen, FBI is here, Coastguard is here, the National Guard
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  Speaker 4: is here. But what has been most impressive is just
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  Speaker 4: the volunteer effort that we have seen from this community.
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  Speaker 6: Six thousand people it was estimated, searched for Laura.
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  Speaker 2: It still makes me cry.
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  Speaker 6: That's a tiny example of the tremendous compassion that the
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  Speaker 6: community had.
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  Speaker 16: But one week passed and then two with no sign
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  Speaker 16: of Laura. On Sunday, April twentieth, the community crowded into
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  Speaker 16: the auditorium at Friends With High School for an update
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  Speaker 16: on the search.
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  Speaker 18: Obviously, we're encouraged when there are new leads, but we
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  Speaker 18: wait for the final phone call that says that they
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  Speaker 18: found Laura.
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  Speaker 6: During that town hall meeting, the chief received a page.
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  Speaker 6: I think everybody in that room knew something had happened.
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  Speaker 19: I was sitting next to the police chief at that time,
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  Speaker 19: named Jared Stout, and he got his phone buzz and
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  Speaker 19: he looked over at me and frown and said, Mike,
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  Speaker 19: I gotta go.
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  Speaker 2: We all knew we just knew. We didn't know what,
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  Speaker 2: but we knew something had happened.
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  Speaker 7: On our top story tonight, a man and his dog
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  Speaker 7: discover the bad people close body of what authority say
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  Speaker 7: is a young girl. That discovery made in a sector
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  Speaker 7: hard the search for Laura casement.
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  Speaker 6: And it was probably around ten o'clock that night that
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  Speaker 6: the chief came that night to say that a body
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  Speaker 6: had been found.
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  Speaker 16: After seventeen days, Laura's Bonnie turned up at the edge
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  Speaker 16: of a retention pond in pasading A, Texas, about twelve
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  Speaker 16: miles from where she'd gone missing. The only clothing she
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  Speaker 16: had on was a pair of socks. The Harrison County
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  Speaker 16: Medical Examiner's office determined she had been beaten and there
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  Speaker 16: were signs of strangulation, and.
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  Speaker 2: Of course we immediately refused to believe it.
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  Speaker 6: And then it took until noon the next day they
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  Speaker 6: came back to say that the identification was made and
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  Speaker 6: he said it is our girl.
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  Speaker 20: A young woman found off beltwagh Age is Laura Kate Smither.
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  Speaker 20: The Smither family is in seclusion once again. They asked
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  Speaker 20: for your understanding and privacy is what they wished most.
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  Speaker 20: At this time.
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  Speaker 16: Princewood was heartbroken. Shocked and left in fear of a
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  Speaker 16: predator on the loose. Police began to question anyone who
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  Speaker 16: had been in the same area as the smither home
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  Speaker 16: on the morning of a pulfer.
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  Speaker 6: It came up that there was this man in the
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  Speaker 6: area who was a sex offender, and they brought a
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  Speaker 6: many for questioning.
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  Speaker 16: His name was William Lewis Reese, a thirty eight year
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  Speaker 16: old construction worker who would serve time in prison in
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  Speaker 16: Oklahoma for rape. He had just been released the previous year.
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  Speaker 11: William Reese was actually an equipment operator and he was
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  Speaker 11: working in the Windsor Estate subdivision located off of West
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  Speaker 11: Parkwood Avenue here in the city. Rained that day, so
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  Speaker 11: there wasn't work, you know, I think he showed up
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  Speaker 11: for work, but he was released early.
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  Speaker 21: It left the construction site approximately at the same time
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  Speaker 21: Lauras Smithers ended up disappearing, and then he comes back
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  Speaker 21: by about.
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  Speaker 17: Thirty minutes later.
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  Speaker 7: He who can place him there?
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  Speaker 11: We have by witness a com placing with that location.
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  Speaker 21: But William Reefs was always the number one suspect, but
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  Speaker 21: we just had to be able to make a casel.
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  Speaker 21: The part of the process was going back and eliminating
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  Speaker 21: make sure all those other suspects were eliminated, which was
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  Speaker 21: a long drawn, drawing out process.
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  Speaker 6: He was on the radar very early on, but they
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  Speaker 6: didn't to have anything to link him to lauraw.
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  Speaker 16: On the campus of the University of North Texas. It's
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  Speaker 16: hard not to notice this stunning bronze memorial depicting a
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  Speaker 16: mother and child.
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  Speaker 1: There's a just this wonderful presence when I'm out here
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  Speaker 1: talking to her. You know, sometimes I'll just sit. If
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  Speaker 1: people come by while I'm out here, I usually talk
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  Speaker 1: to them about it so that it will resonate even
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  Speaker 1: more with them.
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  Speaker 16: Jen Bynam comes out here often to talk to her daughter, Kelly.
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  Speaker 16: She was a twenty year old student at You and
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  Speaker 16: T and a young mom. On July fifteenth, nineteen ninety seven,
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  Speaker 16: she took a field trip to the Denton Jail with
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  Speaker 16: her criminology class. Then she vanished.
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  Speaker 1: The instructor had told them they shouldn't bring anything in,
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  Speaker 1: have somebody drop them off, take a cab, use a
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  Speaker 1: hide a key, do something. She used to hide a
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: key after the tour and she called her boyfriend.
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  Speaker 3: Her words were.
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  Speaker 1: The key won't work and we'd tried the key or
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  Speaker 1: you know, she and her boyfriend had tested the key
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  Speaker 1: the night before and everything was fine. To this day,
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  Speaker 1: we don't know. We didn't find the key, we didn't
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  Speaker 1: find the hide a key box, none of that. Her
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  Speaker 1: request to him was to help her get into her car,
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  Speaker 1: and when he got there, her car was there.
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  Speaker 2: We've never seen her since.
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  Speaker 16: How do you knew that she would not just leave
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  Speaker 16: because she had a little girl.
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  Speaker 3: I knew she wouldn't.
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  Speaker 22: How old was Alexis.
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  Speaker 1: Alexis was nineteen months old, Kelly was twenty.
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  Speaker 23: They used to have to beg the babysit me. She
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  Speaker 23: would take me everywhere. They could not get me out
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  Speaker 23: of her arms.
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  Speaker 1: She had Alexis very young, but she was very focused.
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  Speaker 1: Knew she wanted to get her to get her degree.
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  Speaker 1: That's why she was in summer school. She had a
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: time frame set. She wanted to graduate in May of
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  Speaker 1: ninety eight and then start working on her master's because
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  Speaker 1: she wanted. She was majoring in psychology with a minor
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: and criminal justice.
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  Speaker 23: She would have graduated with honors.
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  Speaker 9: It was there was no doubt.
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  Speaker 23: And Niall's my dad, well Jan's husband and Kelly's stepfather
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  Speaker 23: who raised her since she was twelve.
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  Speaker 9: Then he struggled with public nights.
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  Speaker 2: Out of out of all of us.
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  Speaker 24: Out of the Lion.
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  Speaker 16: Though, twenty four years after Kelly's disappearance, her daughter Lexus
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  Speaker 16: is now a student at the University of North Texas herself.
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  Speaker 16: She was raised by Kelly's parents.
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  Speaker 1: All I telled her growing up in over the years
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  Speaker 1: is your mommy is lost and we've got a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people looking for her. We don't know where she is,
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: but there's lots of people looking for her.
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  Speaker 12: Why'd you take that all have getting a picture for
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  Speaker 12: everybody to see.
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  Speaker 23: My earliest memory is looking underneath the bed for her
• 13:00
  Speaker 23: around the room. So that's what I can.
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  Speaker 14: Remember of my mom.
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  Speaker 1: Alexis has been a godsend, so because right from the
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  Speaker 1: get go she was my focus. You know, I do
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  Speaker 1: have a job in Kelly.
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  Speaker 3: I promise you I'll take good care of.
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  Speaker 14: Her the best I can.
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  Speaker 23: I just, oh, I thank God every day that that
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  Speaker 23: that I was lucky enough to have grandparents who were
• 13:25
  Speaker 23: right there and said, yes, yes. People are always wondering, you.
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  Speaker 9: Know, or if you have a hell was your childhood
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  Speaker 9: and it was normal.
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  Speaker 25: It was completely normal.
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  Speaker 1: She was my best friend. We could talk. We could
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  Speaker 1: open up with each other, we could talk grown up talk.
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  Speaker 1: I know, a lot of times I find myself going, Kelly,
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  Speaker 1: you would be so proud of Alexis. But also then
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  Speaker 1: I always tell her, don't worry, honey, We're going to
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  Speaker 1: get justice. We will see it through.
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  Speaker 16: I know early on they thought William Rees was potentially
• 14:01
  Speaker 16: a suspect, right they did.
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  Speaker 1: They did because he was on the sex offenders list,
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  Speaker 1: and that's when they were able to locate a reced
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  Speaker 1: at one of the gas stations that showed he was
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: in Denton on that day, So that got them real interested.
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  Speaker 1: They got Kelly's fingerprints, though, when they did check his
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: truck or car or whatever, it was very carefully and
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: didn't find any fingerprints, any of Kelly's fingerprints or anything
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  Speaker 1: like that anywhere on the car.
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  Speaker 23: We never stopped putting Kelly's face on the TV. We
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  Speaker 23: never stopped all these years, we have never stopped.
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  Speaker 22: Do you come out here a lot?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean I know she's not here, but she
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  Speaker 3: knows that we're here. We're thinking of her. She was like,
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: she was very energetic and very determined. She never seen
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  Speaker 3: a stranger. I mean, she had talked to anybody going
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  Speaker 3: down street because she's brought up in a small town,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and everybody knew everyone. So tiff and I
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: was really close because everywhere I went she was with
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  Speaker 3: and everyone said it was my shadow was because she
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: was there with me everywhere.
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  Speaker 16: Tiffany Johnston was a newly went who had just moved
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  Speaker 16: to the Oklahoma City suburb of Bethany when she disappeared
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  Speaker 16: in nineteen ninety seven.
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  Speaker 3: She was going to go to college in the fall
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  Speaker 3: and she was gonna study plants because she loved working
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: with plants. She even one of her summertime jobs one
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: year was working for a landscaper. She went to with
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: her grandfather to the farm to help him with his
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  Speaker 3: guard and all the kids. That was part of their routine.
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  Speaker 3: You have to help grandma and grandpa because they lived here.
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  Speaker 3: We lived here, so you have to go out and
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  Speaker 3: help them. Tiffany and Ryan had moved to Bethany because
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: of the crime rate wasn't so big. She went to
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  Speaker 3: work at El Chico's, which is a restaurant, and she
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: worked there till two o'clock. She got off work there
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  Speaker 3: and then she went to Sight and Sound, which is
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: like a best buyer or something like that. And when
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: she got off work there, she went to the house
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  Speaker 3: and got cleaned up and then she's gonna meet Ryan
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: and they were gonna go so great their three month anniversary,
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: and so she went towards the car.
• 16:43
  Speaker 16: But the car wash was the last time anyone saw
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  Speaker 16: Tiffany alive. Later that night, her husband Ryan went out
• 16:49
  Speaker 16: to search for her after she didn't come home.
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  Speaker 3: And around midnight, the Bethany PD called me and wanted
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: to know if Tiffany was with me because her car
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: was abandoned at the car wash. And that didn't sound
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: like Tiffany at all. I mean, she didn't do that.
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: Her pager back then, the pagers was the thing, and
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: her pager was left in her car because I blew
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: it up, page in her and saying nine one one
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: that meant call immediately, and then I got a hold Ryan.
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  Speaker 3: I did him the same way with his pager. The
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  Speaker 3: Bethany Police Department called back and said that they had
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  Speaker 3: gotten hold Ryan and it was Tiffany's car, which that
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: wasn't no brainer because her id was in the car,
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: her paycheck was in the car, her money was in
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: the car, the doors on her car was opened. She
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: had her mats on the hangar so she could wash them,
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: but everything was there. We really didn't know what to
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: figure because it was just a shock to us. There
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: was people they've seen her at the car wash, but
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: they didn't see anything happen, which is really strange because
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: that is really a busy car war. Sure it was back.
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  Speaker 3: Then we got up, went to Bethany, which was is
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  Speaker 3: about an hour and a half drive from Anadarko, and
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  Speaker 3: the police have it all taped off and all they
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: would say is we think she's been a I go, oh, no,
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: not my kid. You know, that's parents' worst dream, mister Chalmers.
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: Then about three o'clock in the afternoon, the Bethany PD
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: called and wanted to know if Tiffany had any tattoos
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: or birthmarks or jewelrys because they were l looking for
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: three other girls at the same time as Tiffany. And
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: I go, yeah, she's thatt of belly button, Pa Pierce,
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: and she has a birth and they said, okay, well
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: it's not her, and I'm going, yeah it is, or
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: you wouldn't be calling asking me this stuff. I know
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: better itess. And then that evening they come to knock
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: on the door and to tell us that it was
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: Tiffany that they found.
• 19:18
  Speaker 16: Tiffany's body turned up to Rea search for another missing woman.
• 19:21
  Speaker 16: She'd been dumped in a ditch off of Interstate forty
• 19:23
  Speaker 16: your Yukon, Oklahoma, about ten miles away, and autopsy showed
• 19:28
  Speaker 16: she had.
• 19:28
  Speaker 24: Been strangled, and we know that she was sexually assaulted.
• 19:31
  Speaker 18: We know that she was received some trauma about her
• 19:35
  Speaker 18: head and shoulder areas.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: Had to go tell Grandma and grandpa. Grandpa took it
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: very hard, which we knew he would, and he goes,
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: why didn't God take me? Why did God don't take me?
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: And not believe Tiffany. That was his main thing was win.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: Why she had lots of big dreams she would have
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: succeeded in if she had been given more time. She
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: didn't have no children or anything. She's been dead longer
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: than she was alive. Then that's really sad. Someone took
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: her life before it was her time.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Flora Smither disappeared Thursday morning.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: An emotional day for a group of volunteers.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: What could be a nightmare comes true for some Teaky
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: Island parents.
• 20:28
  Speaker 10: Their seventeen year old daughter has been missing for more
• 20:30
  Speaker 10: than twenty four hours, and police say this is no runaway.
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: I know something's happened because this is just not her.
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: This is out of the ordinary. Even the neighbors know
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: that this is not like Jessica.
• 20:40
  Speaker 16: In the early morning hours of August seventeenth, nineteen ninety seven,
• 20:43
  Speaker 16: Jessica Kane's mother woke up in a panic when she
• 20:46
  Speaker 16: realized her daughter had never come home from a theater
• 20:49
  Speaker 16: cast party the night before.
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: When I woke up and I realized she wasn't here,
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: and I woke her father immediately put into calls to
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: some of the friends that was in the plot with
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: her last night at Harbor House and found out that
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: she had left at one thirty, That they saw her
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: leave at one thirty headed home. And that's when I
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: immediately began to panic because I knew that something had happened.
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: Too much time had lapsed from the time they had
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: last seen her in the time that I realized she
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: wasn't home.
• 21:21
  Speaker 16: Seventeen year old Jessica I had been out celebrating. I'd
• 21:24
  Speaker 16: have been against restaurants after performing in a production of
• 21:26
  Speaker 16: Oklahoma at Harbor Playhouse Community Theater.
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: She loves the theater. The theater is such a stress release,
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: and Jessica was so outgoing and so uplifting and energetic
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: and bubbly that she just had so much energy for
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: everybody and always happy.
• 21:48
  Speaker 19: There was another cast party member. You had a sister
• 21:51
  Speaker 19: that lived down the streets. She asked Jessica to go
• 21:54
  Speaker 19: with her down there to her sister's apartment, and she did,
• 21:58
  Speaker 19: rode with her in her vehicle. Then they came back
• 22:02
  Speaker 19: from there and she was dropped off behind her pickup
• 22:06
  Speaker 19: and they watched him get in the pickup, then watching
• 22:09
  Speaker 19: to get on the feeder well on the access the
• 22:13
  Speaker 19: reaccess off Bay area to get on forty five feet
• 22:16
  Speaker 19: a road in the last minus, that's your last time mother.
• 22:18
  Speaker 16: Saw Jessica's cast me spotted her leaving the ben Against
• 22:21
  Speaker 16: parking lot around one thirty in the morning. Hours later,
• 22:24
  Speaker 16: her father found her truck abandoned along the side of
• 22:28
  Speaker 16: Inner Street forty five in the city of Lamark, with
• 22:30
  Speaker 16: her wallet still inside. She was nowhere in side.
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: I don't think the truck was the problem, And if
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: the truck had been a problem, I really think Jessica
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: would have sat in the truck and waited for us
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: to come. I thought about that already, and I don't
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: think Jessica would have gotten out of the truck to walk.
• 22:50
  Speaker 8: Her vehicle was pulled over, and it was, you know,
• 22:55
  Speaker 8: a stretch of forty five and it's dark, and she's
• 22:59
  Speaker 8: seventeen year old, young lady, and it just didn't feel
• 23:03
  Speaker 8: good at all because she was not that far from
• 23:06
  Speaker 8: home from the exit Tatiki. Back then, they didn't have
• 23:10
  Speaker 8: cell phones or anything. But it was scary. It was
• 23:13
  Speaker 8: a terrible feeling.
• 23:15
  Speaker 16: She vanished only one week before she was said to
• 23:18
  Speaker 16: begin her freshman year at sam Houston State University.
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: We were supposed to take her to sam Houston and
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: move in a Sunday morning. And I thought that would
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: be the hardest thing to let go. That she's an
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: only child, and I thought that would be really hard
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: to let her go off to college. She realized that
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: will be really easy to let her go off to college.
• 23:41
  Speaker 19: Jessica had a journal, and I interviewed all her friends.
• 23:45
  Speaker 19: I interviewed her teachers, I interviewed the directors at the play.
• 23:48
  Speaker 19: I'd interviewed so many people so I got to know
• 23:52
  Speaker 19: about her. She was really a delightful person. She was funny,
• 23:56
  Speaker 19: very spontaneous, very creative.
• 23:58
  Speaker 8: With words and mark investigations ask if I would go
• 24:02
  Speaker 8: into or we would several of us would go and
• 24:04
  Speaker 8: see if we could fund anything that might have Jessica's
• 24:08
  Speaker 8: DNA hairbrush, toothbrush, something of that nature, so that in
• 24:12
  Speaker 8: the event she was found, that we would have that.
• 24:16
  Speaker 8: And I remember going in there and it was surreal.
• 24:19
  Speaker 8: I remember it like it was yesterday that her things
• 24:24
  Speaker 8: were packed in her room because she was leaving for
• 24:26
  Speaker 8: college that next weekend.
• 24:28
  Speaker 16: Sam Houston volunteers spent weeks searching. Even Laura's mother's parents
• 24:34
  Speaker 16: joined in on the search.
• 24:40
  Speaker 12: Good stuff.
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: This has to be the hardest thing that they have
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: done since they have lost their child, because they have
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: personally are having to relive every moment with everything that
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: they went through with Laura.
• 24:55
  Speaker 26: I may relived, it's it's very painful. I've told her
• 25:01
  Speaker 26: to keep her faith.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: That she has she won.
• 25:08
  Speaker 26: She must never talk about her daughter in the past tense.
• 25:12
  Speaker 26: She must never give up her hope.
• 25:13
  Speaker 19: I went ahead, did the paperwork and all that.
• 25:16
  Speaker 16: Michael Barker, who was volunteer director at the Lower Recovery Center,
• 25:20
  Speaker 16: heard about the search for Jessica and agreed to help.
• 25:23
  Speaker 16: He got to know her parents and later became licensed
• 25:26
  Speaker 16: as a private investigator.
• 25:28
  Speaker 19: I get a call from Gay Smither and she said,
• 25:31
  Speaker 19: they just got a call from a family in Texas
• 25:33
  Speaker 19: City whose daughter went missing. They were going to go
• 25:36
  Speaker 19: down there and they wanted me to go. And I
• 25:38
  Speaker 19: really didn't want to go because I was being just
• 25:41
  Speaker 19: sucked in deeper and deeper to this world. And that's
• 25:44
  Speaker 19: old guys. I said, this is a completely different deal.
• 25:46
  Speaker 19: This girl's seventeen, she's not twelve. It's a free way deal.
• 25:51
  Speaker 19: This girl could be anywhere by now, you know. And
• 25:53
  Speaker 19: she said, well, we're going to go, and we want
• 25:55
  Speaker 19: you to go with us. I had trouble always saying, though,
• 25:57
  Speaker 19: to these families, how do you do it?
• 26:00
  Speaker 17: After what they've been through?
• 26:01
  Speaker 19: I said, as terrible as it is, we know where
• 26:03
  Speaker 19: Laura is, c H and SUSI. They're in a complete
• 26:06
  Speaker 19: different place. They'll have clue.
• 26:09
  Speaker 16: But despite a massive community search effort, no sign of
• 26:13
  Speaker 16: Jessica effort turned up.
• 26:15
  Speaker 19: They'll describe these cases as roller coasters, ups and downs
• 26:18
  Speaker 19: and up and down. There was never an up. It's
• 26:20
  Speaker 19: always booms down until they founder we're.
• 26:24
  Speaker 27: Having to learn patience. That is a very, very hard
• 26:30
  Speaker 27: lesson to learn to be patient and white, be still
• 26:32
  Speaker 27: and wait on God.
• 26:44
  Speaker 8: It's very common for victims of trauma not to remember
• 26:48
  Speaker 8: because the you know, the mind protects itself, so when
• 26:52
  Speaker 8: you can put your conscious mind at rest, then you
• 26:56
  Speaker 8: can retrieve the information from the subconscious.
• 27:00
  Speaker 16: The Island Police Chief sud diedrich Nantz will never forget.
• 27:02
  Speaker 16: The summer of nineteen ninety seven, just after Jessica came
• 27:06
  Speaker 16: went missing, she was asked to help in the case
• 27:08
  Speaker 16: of Sandra se Pap, a nineteen year old who was
• 27:11
  Speaker 16: abducted outside of a waffle house in Webster, Texas. She
• 27:14
  Speaker 16: managed to escape her attacker.
• 27:16
  Speaker 8: I was a forensic hypnotist and Webster PD called and
• 27:20
  Speaker 8: asked if I would come and hypnotize her because she
• 27:26
  Speaker 8: was so traumatized. She had escaped the kidnapper, jumped out
• 27:30
  Speaker 8: of his vehicle on forty five and sustained quite a
• 27:35
  Speaker 8: few injuries. She was so traumatized there was very little
• 27:37
  Speaker 8: she could recall.
• 27:38
  Speaker 16: Under hypnosis, she says. S Paul was able to recall
• 27:41
  Speaker 16: key details about her attacker.
• 27:44
  Speaker 8: She said that she pulled up in front of the
• 27:48
  Speaker 8: convenience store on Nasa Road one early morning hours she
• 27:51
  Speaker 8: went in, she bought some items, she left the parking lot,
• 27:55
  Speaker 8: she drove across the street to the waffle house, and
• 27:59
  Speaker 8: he drove up next to and asked her if she
• 28:00
  Speaker 8: needed some help, and she said that. She asked him why,
• 28:04
  Speaker 8: and he said, because you have a flat dyer. So
• 28:08
  Speaker 8: it was shortly after that that, you know, she was
• 28:12
  Speaker 8: forced into his truck at nine point, this is what
• 28:15
  Speaker 8: she's telling me and under hypnosis, and so he started
• 28:19
  Speaker 8: driving northbound on forty five, and at one point he
• 28:23
  Speaker 8: told her to take her clothes off, and she said
• 28:29
  Speaker 8: she bent down to untie her shoes, and she realized
• 28:33
  Speaker 8: that the door was unlocked to the truck, and so
• 28:38
  Speaker 8: that's when she started trying to get out of the truck,
• 28:42
  Speaker 8: and he grabbed her and for several miles she was
• 28:45
  Speaker 8: drug on the pavement and then finally was able to get.
• 28:50
  Speaker 22: Away from him on the freeway.
• 28:52
  Speaker 8: On the Freeway forty five, I.
• 28:54
  Speaker 11: Think she knew the peril that she was in and
• 28:58
  Speaker 11: she made a life or death decision by choosing to
• 29:02
  Speaker 11: go and exit the vehicle on Interstate forty five.
• 29:06
  Speaker 16: It wasn't until weeks after the hypnosis that Sudi drig
• 29:09
  Speaker 16: Nace made a chilling connection about the person s Paul
• 29:13
  Speaker 16: had been describing.
• 29:14
  Speaker 8: I stopped by Friendswood Police Department and spoke with the
• 29:18
  Speaker 8: chief there, and I said, I asked him about the
• 29:22
  Speaker 8: prime suspect in Laura's mother's case, and he told me
• 29:29
  Speaker 8: about you know who they suspected. They just didn't have
• 29:32
  Speaker 8: enough evidence. And I left his office and went home.
• 29:39
  Speaker 8: At about three o'clock in the morning, I woke up
• 29:41
  Speaker 8: and I thought, oh my god, that's who Sandra sa
• 29:45
  Speaker 8: Paul described was William Reese. And I called called the station,
• 29:51
  Speaker 8: had him call me, and I said, she described William Reese.
• 29:55
  Speaker 8: She described his truck, she described the way he looked,
• 30:00
  Speaker 8: and I also hypnotized the store clerk there who told
• 30:03
  Speaker 8: me under hypnosis about she saw him at in front
• 30:08
  Speaker 8: of the store with his truck park next to Sanders
• 30:11
  Speaker 8: at Paul's car. They went and picked William Lisa up,
• 30:15
  Speaker 8: brought his truck to the station and they put him
• 30:20
  Speaker 8: in a live lineup and she picked him out.
• 30:22
  Speaker 16: Inside William Reese's truck. Investigators found strong evidence.
• 30:26
  Speaker 8: During her hypnosis, I asked her to describe the inside
• 30:30
  Speaker 8: of the vehicle and of the truck on the dash
• 30:35
  Speaker 8: if there was anything unusual. And she said that on
• 30:40
  Speaker 8: the glove box there was a paper that had numbers
• 30:45
  Speaker 8: written on it. And I asked her if she could
• 30:50
  Speaker 8: tell me what those numbers were, and she said, well,
• 30:54
  Speaker 8: there's only about four or five that I can read,
• 30:57
  Speaker 8: and I can't read anymore. So she gave me these numbers,
• 31:01
  Speaker 8: and that's that's all she could give me. So when
• 31:06
  Speaker 8: Webster went to get him on his truck on the dash,
• 31:09
  Speaker 8: I mean on the glove box of his truck, and
• 31:12
  Speaker 8: there were there was post it notes. One was overlapping
• 31:16
  Speaker 8: the other, and you could only see about four or
• 31:20
  Speaker 8: five numbers of a phone number. That's why she couldn't
• 31:23
  Speaker 8: see the rest under hypnosis.
• 31:25
  Speaker 16: Reese's criminal record included two rapes in Oklahoma, both in
• 31:28
  Speaker 16: nineteen eighty six.
• 31:29
  Speaker 11: He was supposed to be in jail on a twenty
• 31:32
  Speaker 11: five year sentence and only did nine and a half
• 31:35
  Speaker 11: years of that twenty five year sentence.
• 31:38
  Speaker 16: After his release in nineteen ninety six, Rees found worked
• 31:41
  Speaker 16: shoeing horses and working construction.
• 31:44
  Speaker 8: He hauled heavy equipment. He hauled low boy trailer, put
• 31:47
  Speaker 8: a low boy trailer attached to his duly truck, and
• 31:50
  Speaker 8: he would hire he would haul front end loaders, caterpillars,
• 31:54
  Speaker 8: those kind of things, and we was you know, he
• 31:58
  Speaker 8: would be all over the state. He would go back
• 32:00
  Speaker 8: and forth to Oklahoma from Texas, and his work took
• 32:04
  Speaker 8: him to many different cities.
• 32:07
  Speaker 16: In Texas, Reese was charged with aggravated kidnapping and Sandra
• 32:10
  Speaker 16: Sepau's case. He also became a suspect and the kidnapping
• 32:13
  Speaker 16: and rape of a twenty two year old woman, who
• 32:16
  Speaker 16: says Reese saw her at a gas station in North
• 32:19
  Speaker 16: Houston late one night and followed her.
• 32:21
  Speaker 8: She feels like there's something wrong with her car, like
• 32:25
  Speaker 8: she might have a flat and so then she sees
• 32:28
  Speaker 8: what she later describes as a truck pulling behind her,
• 32:32
  Speaker 8: and she sees this man walking up. She gets out.
• 32:38
  Speaker 8: She starts to step out of her vehicle and she
• 32:40
  Speaker 8: sees this man walking towards her. Oh she would later
• 32:44
  Speaker 8: describe as William Race. She was dragged into the woods
• 32:47
  Speaker 8: and beaten and strangled and sexually assaulted, and she says
• 32:51
  Speaker 8: that she thinks he thought she was dead.
• 32:53
  Speaker 16: Although she did escape and later picked Reese out in
• 32:56
  Speaker 16: a police lineup. He was never charged in her attack,
• 33:01
  Speaker 16: but he did go on trial in nineteen ninety eight
• 33:04
  Speaker 16: in the standards set ponk case.
• 33:06
  Speaker 12: Fairly treated mysteries.
• 33:08
  Speaker 17: Yeah I did.
• 33:09
  Speaker 12: I'll sabot the prius.
• 33:11
  Speaker 24: You're going all out four shining name.
• 33:14
  Speaker 16: And what friends would helse in center. SEPA took the
• 33:17
  Speaker 16: stant to describe the terrifying assault. Suditrich Nance also testified
• 33:22
  Speaker 16: there were.
• 33:23
  Speaker 10: Several things and that Chief stat shared with me.
• 33:27
  Speaker 12: The description.
• 33:29
  Speaker 10: Also that William Race had criminal history which included aggamy, kidnapping,
• 33:36
  Speaker 10: forcible masodomy, walsodomy, and sexual assault.
• 33:43
  Speaker 18: Breaking News tops Line at five This afternoon's happening right
• 33:46
  Speaker 18: now down at the criminal courthouse.
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: N victor kidnapper William Rees has been sentenced to sixty
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: years in prison.
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: A jury made that decision just a few moments ago,
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: and we.
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: Can tell you that when that sentence came down, William
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: Race did not bat an eye in district corps. He
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: just stood there, his lawyer said immediately when the judge asked,
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: will there be an appeal? Yes they will.
• 34:06
  Speaker 12: Did you expect more lead? Well no, I really didn't
• 34:11
  Speaker 12: expected to be convicted.
• 34:12
  Speaker 17: Really, are you saying.
• 34:14
  Speaker 14: That the women say that attacked him are lying?
• 34:19
  Speaker 21: Yeah?
• 34:20
  Speaker 12: Yeah, I would say victims in Oklahoma.
• 34:23
  Speaker 17: I mean, if you saw these people in Oklahoma.
• 34:25
  Speaker 12: You were convicted saying.
• 34:26
  Speaker 17: To any of these people at all.
• 34:30
  Speaker 16: But while Reese went to prison for kidnapping, the families
• 34:33
  Speaker 16: of Laura Smither, Kelly Cox, Tiffany Johnston, and Jessica Kane
• 34:37
  Speaker 16: still had no answers.
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: I was the one that pushed, because if I had,
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: we wouldn't have been where we are today, because tifty,
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: no one would have pushed the harder than Mom.
• 34:56
  Speaker 16: For years after Tiffany's murder, Kathy Debrie refuw to give
• 35:00
  Speaker 16: up her fight for justice.
• 35:02
  Speaker 22: Days turned two weeks turned to years.
• 35:04
  Speaker 16: I mean, all this, oh this time, are you're just like,
• 35:07
  Speaker 16: are getting any leads?
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: No, No. It was always well, you need to talk
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: to such and such, Well, such and such didn't know anything.
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: And then I'd call the newspaper or I'd call the
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: news station. Okay, it's the anniversary date. Let's do something.
• 35:27
  Speaker 16: Then in twenty twelve, don't recall the new director at
• 35:30
  Speaker 16: the Oklahoma State Euroa of Investigation asking for help in
• 35:33
  Speaker 16: Tiffany's case.
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: I called, and he goes, I've been lating on you.
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: I've got an agent that I'm gonna sign just to
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: Tiffany's case. Lynn Williams got our case and he started
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: from scratch. He's got all the evidence, all the paperwork,
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: everything together.
• 35:54
  Speaker 24: It was a big who done it?
• 35:56
  Speaker 12: Case?
• 35:56
  Speaker 24: It's what we call them in law enforce. You start
• 35:58
  Speaker 24: with the.
• 35:59
  Speaker 18: Husband, the ex friends that she had, the close associates
• 36:03
  Speaker 18: she had.
• 36:04
  Speaker 24: None of that panned out. That's when it went cold.
• 36:07
  Speaker 16: But the OSBI was able to identify Reese as a
• 36:10
  Speaker 16: potential person of interest.
• 36:11
  Speaker 18: One of the big things that brought William Reice into
• 36:14
  Speaker 18: the radar screen of OORSBI apparently doing an interview, and
• 36:19
  Speaker 18: he had made the statement that Oklahoma was trying to
• 36:23
  Speaker 18: pin the Tiffany Dobriy case on it. Well, someone from
• 36:28
  Speaker 18: Texas called OSBI headquarters and asked if we had a
• 36:32
  Speaker 18: Tiffany Dobriy homicide that we're working on.
• 36:36
  Speaker 24: And she had been married since then.
• 36:38
  Speaker 18: She went by the name of Johnston, her married name,
• 36:42
  Speaker 18: so when they said Debray, nobody recognized it until they
• 36:45
  Speaker 18: got thinking a few hours later, said no, that's Tiffany Johnston.
• 36:48
  Speaker 18: That's where Oklahoma first started looking at William Reice as
• 36:51
  Speaker 18: a potential.
• 36:53
  Speaker 24: Person of interest.
• 36:54
  Speaker 16: Reese, as it turned out, hadn't met Kathy Debrie before,
• 36:57
  Speaker 16: who actually knew his mother. Can you talk about how
• 37:00
  Speaker 16: you knew his mother?
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: His mother did my ironing for me when I went
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: to work to pay for Tiffany's seating. Then you had
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: to have a uniform and I'm not an ironing person,
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: so she did my ironing for me. That was how
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: I sh I met her.
• 37:19
  Speaker 22: So you got to know her and then you knew
• 37:21
  Speaker 22: her son or.
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: So yeah, when h when he got out of jail,
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: cause he was in prison at the time before Tiffany
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: in ninety six, he got out on his technicality, so
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: when he got out, now she introduced me to him.
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: You know, this is my son. Well, I didn't think
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: about asking what was he in jail for. I mean,
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: you know, I f they acted like it was no
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: big deal. And I don't remember him going you know,
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: a big deal about him being in prison or going
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: to prison. Even though it's a small town. That was
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: one missed by me. I think I was probably too
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: busy keeping up with my older two kids. He went
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: to Texas a lot, he did, yeah, because he has
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: a ex wife and two kids down there.
• 38:13
  Speaker 16: Then in twenty fifteen, a break finally came in Tiffany's case.
• 38:18
  Speaker 18: The next thing I did is go to our laboratory
• 38:21
  Speaker 18: and look at and examine what evidence we actually still
• 38:24
  Speaker 18: have in the case and what could be tested the
• 38:29
  Speaker 18: advancements of DNA technology. There was the swabs ares collected
• 38:35
  Speaker 18: from the State Medical.
• 38:36
  Speaker 24: Examler's office to autopsies.
• 38:39
  Speaker 18: We discussed with the lab and they thought it'd be
• 38:41
  Speaker 18: worth a try to retest those with the new technology,
• 38:47
  Speaker 18: and that's where the DNA profile came back that matched
• 38:51
  Speaker 18: re Rees.
• 38:52
  Speaker 16: On top of the DNA match, the OSBI was in
• 38:55
  Speaker 16: touch with friends with police. Reese was still the number
• 38:58
  Speaker 16: one suspect in law's mother's.
• 39:00
  Speaker 11: Stat twenty fourteen is actually when we began a cold
• 39:07
  Speaker 11: case review. We had some discussion that probably a good
• 39:11
  Speaker 11: case to pull apart would be the the Loris Mither case.
• 39:18
  Speaker 16: Friendswood Police began looking into old evidence, including William Reese's
• 39:22
  Speaker 16: film records.
• 39:23
  Speaker 11: There were several document collections that took place back in
• 39:29
  Speaker 11: the nineteen ninety seven period. Some were on a consent
• 39:35
  Speaker 11: to search at the house that he was staying at
• 39:39
  Speaker 11: back in nineteen ninety seven, which another you know was
• 39:43
  Speaker 11: his truck, and you know he had phone bills, and
• 39:48
  Speaker 11: he had receids, gas receipts. You know, that really became
• 39:54
  Speaker 11: you know, the documentation, and it helped us put the
• 39:58
  Speaker 11: timeline together.
• 40:05
  Speaker 18: Part of the phone records tracks him to Oklahoma the
• 40:08
  Speaker 18: day before Tiffany Johnston's disappearance and puts him in close
• 40:12
  Speaker 18: proximity to her location where the induction took place. In
• 40:17
  Speaker 18: the next day attracts him going back to Texas. So
• 40:20
  Speaker 18: these are phone calling cards. So back when you used
• 40:23
  Speaker 18: to have a like a credit card for a phone, that.
• 40:26
  Speaker 21: Phone card is something it was almost like a credit
• 40:28
  Speaker 21: card that you could use, had account number, your own
• 40:32
  Speaker 21: account number, and you could go to a payphone and
• 40:37
  Speaker 21: actually punching your account number along with the phone number
• 40:40
  Speaker 21: he was calling, and you can make a phone call
• 40:42
  Speaker 21: out to.
• 40:42
  Speaker 17: Have you use a quarter.
• 40:44
  Speaker 21: A phone company would basically issue you a it's like
• 40:47
  Speaker 21: a little credit card. They would charge it to your
• 40:50
  Speaker 21: phone accountants.
• 40:51
  Speaker 18: It's good investigative work that French Wig was doing that
• 40:54
  Speaker 18: helped us an arcase.
• 40:55
  Speaker 16: In September of twenty fifteen, William Reese was charged in
• 40:58
  Speaker 16: Oklahoma City the kidnapping and murder of Tiffany Johnston.
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: Why would he want to kill tiff Why would he
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: wanna beat her up? Why would he cut her? Why,
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: Woody Raper, you know, this is my baby. The DNA
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: is what. He couldn't very well say, well, I didn't
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: do it, even though he did say he didn't kill
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: Tiffany at first he called the house after I don't
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: know a few days later after Tiffany when told me
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: he was sorry to hear about my daughter and that
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: he didn't kill her. When you have a house full,
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: I mean, we did not have standing room in our house.
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: That was how many people were at the house. You
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: don't think about it, you know, well that's weird to say.
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: You got people, you got funeral arrangements, your daughter just died,
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: you have another daughter, This dude to have a baby.
• 41:58
  Speaker 22: What a bizarre thing to say.
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: That's all he said was he just called to tell
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: me as sorry and that he didn't kill Tiffany. That
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: his mom had called in to tell ing his mom,
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: which she was stood in my ironing before Tiffany was murdered,
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: and she did Tiffany's clothes for her funeral services. I
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: think she knew that he killed Tiffany because we got
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: all kinds of little oh trinkets was on Tiffany's grape
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: just on her anniversary day and after his mom passed
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: away what they put.
• 42:39
  Speaker 22: So every anniversary of her possing. So did he ever
• 42:44
  Speaker 22: meet Tiffany.
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: Or no, not that we can pinpoint.
• 42:49
  Speaker 22: Do you think he'd identified her and was seeking her out?
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: It could have been because I always talked about tiff Oh,
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: TIFF's doing this, or we got this for the wedding,
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: or you know, just a baby, grade school, grade school,
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: high school, high school and then we did glamour shops together.
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: We had seen a picture of tip. I'm sure he
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: knew who she was, even though he said at first
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: he didn't know who she was and that he didn't
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: do it.
• 43:28
  Speaker 16: But just before Reese was charged in Tiffany Johnston's murder,
• 43:31
  Speaker 16: a stunning development, we started confessing to other killings in
• 43:36
  Speaker 16: an attempt to make a deal.
• 43:38
  Speaker 12: Couldn't wipers to come on at that time? Or hear
• 43:41
  Speaker 12: someting slam against my mirror and slings up against them.
• 43:47
  Speaker 13: Pastor side Dower that's where I lived in the ditch
• 43:49
  Speaker 13: and I seen her or Schmidthers landing.
• 43:51
  Speaker 12: In the ditch.
• 43:52
  Speaker 11: I mean, he knew that justice was coming you know,
• 43:56
  Speaker 11: the time was up and that he was gonna try
• 44:00
  Speaker 11: and make the best deal possible, you know, to you know,
• 44:06
  Speaker 11: number one, probably keep himself off a death row.
• 44:08
  Speaker 16: In February of twenty sixty, Texas Ranger James Holland paid
• 44:11
  Speaker 16: a visit to recent prison in Huntsville, Texas, where he
• 44:14
  Speaker 16: was serving a sentence in the Sandra s A.
• 44:16
  Speaker 23: Paul case.
• 44:17
  Speaker 16: He brought a stack of pictures and we've pulled photos
• 44:20
  Speaker 16: out of the pile of for missing or murdered girls
• 44:24
  Speaker 16: or Smither, Kelly Cox, Tiffany Johnston, and Jessica Kine.
• 44:28
  Speaker 28: The ranger had put pictures out basically to say, if
• 44:32
  Speaker 28: you want to you know, if you want to help yourself,
• 44:34
  Speaker 28: I need to know who I need to go talk
• 44:37
  Speaker 28: tos And he was referring to basically the district attorneys
• 44:41
  Speaker 28: in those different jurisdictions. So when he laid all the
• 44:45
  Speaker 28: pictures out of the girls, and you know, he asked
• 44:49
  Speaker 28: him who do I need to go speak to? The
• 44:51
  Speaker 28: rangers asking Bill, who do I need to go speak to?
• 44:54
  Speaker 28: And at first he doesn't say anything. He just kind
• 44:56
  Speaker 28: of puts his hand over all of him and he says,
• 44:58
  Speaker 28: what does that mean?
• 44:59
  Speaker 5: And he says, all of 'em.
• 45:00
  Speaker 28: So we knew that night that he was acknowledging responsibility
• 45:06
  Speaker 28: for all the girls that we had pictures there.
• 45:08
  Speaker 16: We's agreed to leave investigat us to the body of
• 45:10
  Speaker 16: Kelly Cox, who he sat was buried in a field
• 45:14
  Speaker 16: near Roch Share in Texas, where there's a.
• 45:16
  Speaker 12: Little white building grocery store. Like I pulled up one
• 45:21
  Speaker 12: side of it, opened up.
• 45:23
  Speaker 29: The door, and I kind of got out too fast
• 45:26
  Speaker 29: or fell out or almost fell out or anyway, I
• 45:29
  Speaker 29: ran into this girl.
• 45:32
  Speaker 12: Coke went all over Van and.
• 45:34
  Speaker 13: Her and when we started, I started cussing.
• 45:40
  Speaker 30: Uh, I think I pushed her. That's when she hit
• 45:43
  Speaker 30: me with the coke, fac said, Coke m and I
• 45:50
  Speaker 30: slapped her.
• 45:52
  Speaker 12: And then uh it was over. You're fighting about yes,
• 45:58
  Speaker 12: you kind what happens. Then I grabbed her around through showker.
• 46:03
  Speaker 28: He had initially drawn kind of a sketchy kind of
• 46:07
  Speaker 28: map out towards Brigoria County out off of two eighty eight.
• 46:13
  Speaker 28: Didn't know exactly again where it was, you know, but
• 46:15
  Speaker 28: we knew that was Kelly Cox from you know, from
• 46:19
  Speaker 28: dint see.
• 46:20
  Speaker 17: That's a problem these other investigators they have about that
• 46:23
  Speaker 17: is they don't think you'd kill it right there that
• 46:25
  Speaker 17: the store where people coming and going.
• 46:27
  Speaker 12: There was nobody counting and going.
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: Is is it?
• 46:31
  Speaker 17: Middad?
• 46:31
  Speaker 12: It was right in there?
• 46:32
  Speaker 10: What new?
• 46:32
  Speaker 12: Run new? I can't help that.
• 46:35
  Speaker 17: Thank It's right around the corner for a police station,
• 46:37
  Speaker 17: you know that. No, yeah, right around the corner. I
• 46:40
  Speaker 17: mean he filed two blocks from clue station.
• 46:47
  Speaker 16: In February of twenty sixteen, Greece was temporarily transferred to
• 46:50
  Speaker 16: the Friendswood City Jail so he could lead investigators to
• 46:53
  Speaker 16: Kelly Cox's remains. Friends with police led the excavation efforts.
• 46:58
  Speaker 21: It's kind of a long drawn out process because as
• 47:00
  Speaker 21: we went and we were never found anything over the
• 47:02
  Speaker 21: days of digging, a lot of the investigators out there
• 47:05
  Speaker 21: from other agencies felt that he was just kind of
• 47:08
  Speaker 21: drinking our chain and just playing as for fools. But
• 47:12
  Speaker 21: hope you'd be out there at the site and you
• 47:14
  Speaker 21: can see the concern on his face that we wasn't
• 47:18
  Speaker 21: we didn't find We'll locate, you know, any remains and
• 47:22
  Speaker 21: get back here to the station. He would show his
• 47:25
  Speaker 21: concern as well, so we felt that he was telling
• 47:27
  Speaker 21: the truth.
• 47:28
  Speaker 17: We just had to verify it.
• 47:33
  Speaker 16: When Kelly's remains didn't turn up After days of digging,
• 47:36
  Speaker 16: William Rees gave investigators a second location or he said
• 47:39
  Speaker 16: he buried Jessica Kane. Search crews began digging in a
• 47:42
  Speaker 16: field in southeast Houston near Hobby Airport, with Reese alongside
• 47:47
  Speaker 16: them in shackles.
• 47:48
  Speaker 14: He explained how he carried her out there and how
• 47:51
  Speaker 14: he had to stop in the direction, and it was
• 47:55
  Speaker 14: it was literally, it's like it was yesterday.
• 48:00
  Speaker 13: I was in ben Against, I was eating, when I
• 48:02
  Speaker 13: was drinking, I got my jeet.
• 48:05
  Speaker 12: I hear somebody arguing whatever they was doing over there behind.
• 48:11
  Speaker 13: Her, and then the next thing I know, she slams
• 48:15
  Speaker 13: her door into my cheek. I started yelling at her,
• 48:20
  Speaker 13: and she stretched me off and we got in a
• 48:25
  Speaker 13: big argument.
• 48:26
  Speaker 31: And I got on forty five driving Torch Gaveston and
• 48:30
  Speaker 31: I kept on going.
• 48:31
  Speaker 32: She just pulled right over behind him. She started yelling something.
• 48:34
  Speaker 32: She was getting out of her truck. Well, she had
• 48:37
  Speaker 32: her door open. She was yelling at me, and I
• 48:42
  Speaker 32: lost it. I just got up and walked.
• 48:44
  Speaker 12: Over and here her.
• 48:45
  Speaker 21: Why would you be going down to Galuston though built
• 48:48
  Speaker 21: just cause you live the other.
• 48:49
  Speaker 13: Way, right, I understand Uh, Man, I just didn't wanna
• 48:55
  Speaker 13: go s I didn't wanna go home.
• 48:57
  Speaker 17: I think about the girl. This girl and you were
• 48:59
  Speaker 17: in the same lot of Bennings, right, she lived down there.
• 49:03
  Speaker 21: You don't you leave the office direction, But yet she
• 49:06
  Speaker 21: ends up her car on the side of the road.
• 49:09
  Speaker 17: Just a mile or two from her house, right, And.
• 49:12
  Speaker 21: You really have no explanation as of the way you
• 49:14
  Speaker 21: was even going down there after you hit the girl
• 49:17
  Speaker 21: in UH to pick up truck, which.
• 49:19
  Speaker 17: We UH used to you now knows, right, that was
• 49:22
  Speaker 17: Jessica Cane, right? What what happened then?
• 49:26
  Speaker 12: And then uh I put her in the g cause
• 49:30
  Speaker 12: w we was on the UH office, you know, off
• 49:34
  Speaker 12: the side of the road. I don't know. We was
• 49:37
  Speaker 12: on the ground. And the last thing I remember, man,
• 49:40
  Speaker 12: that was it. She wouldn't breathe her nothing.
• 49:41
  Speaker 13: I put crap, put her in the drive the passenger
• 49:44
  Speaker 13: side seat, strap.
• 49:46
  Speaker 12: Her in and we took a car and went right after.
• 49:49
  Speaker 31: To uh Allen uh stable barn.
• 49:55
  Speaker 12: I had a stolen bulldozer raft here and I.
• 49:57
  Speaker 14: Buried her after William was really f it's just always
• 50:01
  Speaker 14: looking at it's out there. When we was when we
• 50:03
  Speaker 14: were digging and UH and I'll never forget I. I.
• 50:07
  Speaker 17: Uh.
• 50:07
  Speaker 14: I looked at William. I says, William, what is going
• 50:11
  Speaker 14: on in your mind right now? When you see all
• 50:14
  Speaker 14: this stuff going on? I I said, do you do
• 50:17
  Speaker 14: you have any remorse? And uh? And he looked at me.
• 50:21
  Speaker 14: It was just this sober look run in my eyes.
• 50:22
  Speaker 14: He said, mister Millie, you probably won't understand this.
• 50:25
  Speaker 12: He says, but.
• 50:26
  Speaker 14: People like us, we don't have remorse.
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 50:30
  Speaker 14: It's kind of took my breath away a little bit.
• 50:34
  Speaker 16: Investigators spent weeks sifting through the site, even tearing down
• 50:38
  Speaker 16: a barn on the property. Reese began to show his frustration.
• 50:42
  Speaker 28: He basically was looking at the the platt of land
• 50:46
  Speaker 28: and he kept saying, s I can guarantee you she's
• 50:48
  Speaker 28: right here. And I said, Bill, we've already dug right there.
• 50:51
  Speaker 28: And he says, well, you you didn't dig deep enough.
• 50:54
  Speaker 28: And I said, well, we dug like seven feet there,
• 50:56
  Speaker 28: and he said, well it's not deep enough. And then
• 50:59
  Speaker 28: he he kind of cussed and said, you know, you're
• 51:01
  Speaker 28: wasting everybody's time out here.
• 51:02
  Speaker 17: I don't know why you're going all the way over there.
• 51:04
  Speaker 28: He said, if you look, I could not have driven
• 51:06
  Speaker 28: my bulldozer through that fence line if I wanted to. Well,
• 51:11
  Speaker 28: the fence line that he was talking about was so
• 51:14
  Speaker 28: thin that you could walk through the fence line. You
• 51:16
  Speaker 28: could certainly drive a bulldozer through it. So I knew
• 51:20
  Speaker 28: exactly then that he was he had the wrong fence
• 51:23
  Speaker 28: line and that the next one was talking about. So
• 51:26
  Speaker 28: we continued digging for a couple of hours, going to
• 51:29
  Speaker 28: that final fence line, and you know that's when we
• 51:31
  Speaker 28: located the remains.
• 51:33
  Speaker 11: When we unearthed the initial remains of Jessica Kane, you know,
• 51:40
  Speaker 11: it kind of looked up at the sky and we
• 51:42
  Speaker 11: just figured that there was God's hand at work.
• 51:46
  Speaker 14: I did tell Williamors like you, after we did find Jessica.
• 51:50
  Speaker 22: Kane, what did he say to that?
• 51:52
  Speaker 17: He just looked at me.
• 51:54
  Speaker 14: William wanted Jessica's body found. I was still stay I'm
• 51:58
  Speaker 14: still this state trying to figure out up what his
• 52:01
  Speaker 14: motive was there, Whether it was really to get death
• 52:04
  Speaker 14: penalty taken off the table, or what if it was
• 52:07
  Speaker 14: another control thing that he was controlling, controlling people. I
• 52:12
  Speaker 14: don't think it was for any guilt, conscience or anything,
• 52:15
  Speaker 14: or wanting to help the family out and bring closure.
• 52:17
  Speaker 16: Just over a week later, search crews also discovered Kelly
• 52:20
  Speaker 16: Cox's remains.
• 52:22
  Speaker 11: We believe William Reese brought Kelly Cox back down to
• 52:26
  Speaker 11: the Brazoria County site where he killed her there, we believe,
• 52:29
  Speaker 11: and he buried her at that Brazoria County location.
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: This is the bracelet that Kelly had on that day,
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: and the detectives found this bracelet when they found her remains.
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: They had told me that they had found some remainds. Well,
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: the next morning I got a phone call that they
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: had found the gold rope bracelet with the remainders. And
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: when they said that that was that was actually when
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: I was like, that's Kelly, you know.
• 53:09
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: It was only a day or two after that then
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: that they did confirm via dental records.
• 53:15
  Speaker 23: M I remember looking him up and seeing his face
• 53:20
  Speaker 23: and then reading just reading.
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: About all these other girls, and I remember thinking.
• 53:33
  Speaker 23: He has a pattern, and if he led them to her,
• 53:37
  Speaker 23: then that's he did some awful things to her.
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: And I just remember reading and thinking.
• 53:44
  Speaker 23: About how she must have.
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: Felt and.
• 53:51
  Speaker 23: Just what was going through her mind, how scared she
• 53:54
  Speaker 23: had to have been.
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: I had nightmares that she was in some human trafficking
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: ring or sex trafficking, ring or being harmed. I mean,
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: that's those are the nightmares that I had. I mean,
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: clearly I always had hope, but my biggest.
• 54:13
  Speaker 3: Fear was is she being harmed?
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: Every day I quit having the nightmares cause I knew
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: she was in God's arms.
• 54:19
  Speaker 23: If anyone deserved to know what had happened, it was
• 54:22
  Speaker 23: Dan And I know that she always that was one thing.
• 54:26
  Speaker 23: She had always said that she wanted to know. She
• 54:29
  Speaker 23: just wanted to know. It killed her not knowing. And
• 54:33
  Speaker 23: I can never.
• 54:34
  Speaker 3: Thank God enough for the fact that she knows.
• 54:37
  Speaker 23: We know she does not have to pass not knowing.
• 54:42
  Speaker 14: And it brought some new hope to ECU Research organization.
• 54:48
  Speaker 14: Even after nineteen years, it's possible that we could still
• 54:52
  Speaker 14: fighting these people. So don't don't ever give up on
• 54:55
  Speaker 14: any of these cases. I mean, it took its emotional toll.
• 54:59
  Speaker 14: I uh still have to go to my therapist. Thank God,
• 55:03
  Speaker 14: I've still got a therapist that I go to and
• 55:06
  Speaker 14: and uh, otherwise I could get myself in emotional trouble
• 55:11
  Speaker 14: and and I have in the past on some of
• 55:13
  Speaker 14: these cases that build up and build up and build up.
• 55:17
  Speaker 14: I I I do get emotionally attached.
• 55:20
  Speaker 23: When I found out what happened to my mother when
• 55:22
  Speaker 23: I was twenty years old, and this was in twenty sixteen,
• 55:26
  Speaker 23: and when William Race led us there it I lost it.
• 55:30
  Speaker 23: I lost my mind. I lost myself completely. It threw
• 55:35
  Speaker 23: me out of reality because I didn't want to believe it.
• 55:38
  Speaker 24: I just wanted to lay bed and just.
• 55:42
  Speaker 23: Shut the world out, cause then I didn't have to
• 55:46
  Speaker 23: acknowledge what happened.
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: And I know it was very hard for Jan to
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: see me.
• 55:53
  Speaker 22: Really I did.
• 55:54
  Speaker 23: I I think I would call it a breakdown, and
• 55:56
  Speaker 23: I I had a bit of a nervous mental breakdown.
• 55:58
  Speaker 23: I went through I've been through therapy, some therapy and
• 56:01
  Speaker 23: things like that. Everything is so so much better now
• 56:06
  Speaker 23: that I have been able to work through my issues
• 56:11
  Speaker 23: rather than just try to brush them aside. And I
• 56:15
  Speaker 23: definitely have learned that mental health needs to be taken
• 56:18
  Speaker 23: completely seriously.
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: Kelly told me the happiest day in her entire life
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: was the day that Alexis.
• 56:29
  Speaker 33: Was bling, and.
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: He took that away. He took her joy upraising Alexis away.
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: I was angry.
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: I was angry at God.
• 56:46
  Speaker 23: I was angry, I was angry at William Reese. I
• 56:49
  Speaker 23: was angry at everything, and once I moved past that anger,
• 56:55
  Speaker 23: the initial anger, I realized a lot of things, you know,
• 56:59
  Speaker 23: like God didn't do it, got just overseas us and
• 57:04
  Speaker 23: puts us on this earth with free will.
• 57:07
  Speaker 9: He didn't do this to us.
• 57:08
  Speaker 23: William Reese did this does and it was his own decisions.
• 57:11
  Speaker 3: And he's a monster.
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: He's an absolute monster.
• 57:14
  Speaker 23: My heart goes out to the other families so much
• 57:21
  Speaker 23: for the for their babies that they lost.
• 57:24
  Speaker 9: Especially the Smithers. I just I couldn't imagine.
• 57:32
  Speaker 11: These these girls didn't do anything wrong. They encountered the
• 57:38
  Speaker 11: wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time.
• 57:42
  Speaker 11: I mean, Kelly had you know, she had an issue
• 57:45
  Speaker 11: with her vehicle being locked, you know, because she had
• 57:49
  Speaker 11: been on a tour at the Denton County Jail of
• 57:52
  Speaker 11: all things, and she went ahead and ran into Bill
• 57:55
  Speaker 11: Reese in that in that parking lot when Jessica's case,
• 57:59
  Speaker 11: you know, believe he went ahead and follow there, you know,
• 58:03
  Speaker 11: from the Bennigan's parking lot issue went south. I think
• 58:06
  Speaker 11: Reese was in there looking he saw somebody who he
• 58:12
  Speaker 11: was interested in, and eventually was able to get her
• 58:14
  Speaker 11: to pull over and that's when he got control over her,
• 58:19
  Speaker 11: and you know, kidnapped her.
• 58:22
  Speaker 15: You got the.
• 58:22
  Speaker 21: Seventeen year old girl high school and she's gonna argue
• 58:28
  Speaker 21: with you.
• 58:28
  Speaker 17: Pull off the side of the road behind you in
• 58:31
  Speaker 17: a darkened freeway. Son't you see where that old people
• 58:34
  Speaker 17: would say, owner school. I can't see that little seventeen
• 58:37
  Speaker 17: year old girl doing it.
• 58:38
  Speaker 19: He had a sister that lived down the street in
• 58:42
  Speaker 19: the same apartment complex where Jessica gone with this other lady,
• 58:48
  Speaker 19: other girl, And now did he see her there? Did
• 58:51
  Speaker 19: he follow her from there? Was he parked in the
• 58:54
  Speaker 19: ben against parking lot? There was a shell station that
• 58:58
  Speaker 19: we don't know, but he was constantly.
• 58:59
  Speaker 12: On the hunt.
• 59:00
  Speaker 16: We stayed in the Friendswood City Jail for five months
• 59:03
  Speaker 16: during the search for remains and the subsequent investigation. He
• 59:06
  Speaker 16: even sketched a drawing of the investigators he worked with.
• 59:11
  Speaker 21: Some strange way, he thought there was a friendship. I
• 59:14
  Speaker 21: guess that he could. He wanted to come off as
• 59:17
  Speaker 21: a good guy his mind he had.
• 59:20
  Speaker 17: He wanted to look somewhat.
• 59:22
  Speaker 21: Like an ordinary guy in front of us, even though
• 59:27
  Speaker 21: in the back was might he probably knew the hushole
• 59:29
  Speaker 21: that you know, we knew what he did. It was
• 59:32
  Speaker 21: always the victim did this, or the victim made me
• 59:34
  Speaker 21: do that.
• 59:34
  Speaker 11: I was drinking, drinking.
• 59:36
  Speaker 31: A lot because lor smithers. It's I can't get it
• 59:43
  Speaker 31: out of my head.
• 59:44
  Speaker 11: The shower back there in the jail only you know
• 59:49
  Speaker 11: dispench cold water. Oh, William Reese was here. He didn't
• 59:53
  Speaker 11: like taking cold showers, so he was able to repair
• 59:58
  Speaker 11: the shower in the jail so that he could avail
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 11: himself of, you know, a warm shower. He did maintenance work,
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 11: you know here, painting.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 21: He always respectful, respectful to all the other officers. If
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 21: you walked into a bar and you sit down beside him,
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 21: you probably start out for any conversation with me. But
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 21: you do you know, you'd even buy my bear.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 17: Obviously he wasn't you know?
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 28: It was that dark side doing.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 14: How would I describe William Race? William and Race would
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 14: just be one of the guys that I worked with
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 14: in my construction business. It's a normal guy that I
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 14: would drink a beer with. As have that have too
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 14: on his forehead that I'm a circle killer.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 11: That guy was probably about his calculating. I don't want
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 11: to call him clever, but you know he was definitely calculating.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 11: He really kind of thought that he was smarter than
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 11: everybody else.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 16: While he was trying to make deals to avoid the
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 16: death penalty in Texas, Oklahoma County's district attorney refused to
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 16: deal with him.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 28: He was always concerned because he knew that Oklahoma was
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 28: kind of the holdout, So he was always concerned from
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 28: day one that that wasn't maybe going to work out
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 28: the way he thought it was going to work out
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 28: in Oklahoma. There was never a promise ever made to him.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 16: In July of twenty sixteen, Friends Would investigators turned Reese
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 16: over to face charges in Tiffany Johnston's kidnapping and murder.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 11: They had in turned him over to the Oklahoma authorities
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 11: just at the location where he kidnapped Kelly Cox back
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 11: in nineteen ninety seven.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 16: In September twenty sixteen, Reese was indicted in the murder
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 16: of Laura Smither and Jessica Kine.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 34: Today brings some healing after nineteen years of determined investigation
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 34: by many many law enforcement officers and volunteers, and nineteen
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 34: years of painful waiting by some families who've been very
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 34: deeply wounded.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 16: The next year he was indicted in Kelly Cox's murder,
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 16: but it took five years for Reese to face trial
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 16: and tiffany instance murder in Oklahoma.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 3: We went through six judges, and we went through five
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 3: defense attorneys, and one of the defense attorneys quit a
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 3: week before we were supposed to have a trial.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 11: We's been up in the Oklahoma County jail for the
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 11: last five years. He's actually, you know, been on the
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 11: medical floor in kind of a trustee position, which considered
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 11: to be, you know, a privileged position, you know, as
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 11: far as being able to be out of your cell.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 3: And that was why he wanted the death penalty off.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 3: He wanted to be out so he could socialize it.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 3: He didn't want to be in solitary confinement with Ben
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 3: on death road. He would be around the other inmates.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 16: The COVID nineteen pandemic delay the trial even further until
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 16: mayf twenty twenty one, when a jury was selected. Prosecutors
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 16: announced they would seek the death penalty.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 3: The trial was three and a half weeks long. St
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 3: there and listen to hours and hours and hours of takes.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 6: We knew that there were confessions, but we didn't have
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 6: any details, and so I wanted to go here what
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 6: they said that was really important to me. So it
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 6: was a way of walking with Laura as closely as
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 6: I could.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 16: Jurors listen to recorded conversations between Reese and the Texas
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 16: ranger who got him to confess. What was that like
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 16: hearing the confession after all these years.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 6: Well, it was not a full blown confession. It was
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 6: up I would say, a half confession because he's not
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 6: telling all the truth. He did not admit to the
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 6: sexual assault of any of the Texas cases, for Jessica,
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 6: Kelly or Laura.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 29: Going back to the three other victims, to just sex
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 29: any of those victims.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 12: Did try such many victims.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 29: Okay, I guess I don't think something kind of open,
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 29: so I mean worse, well, I mean hard.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 12: I don't now.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 6: Yea only admitted sexual assault of Tiffany Jumpstone, but it's
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 6: very clear that he sixtually be assaulted all three Texas
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 6: girls back.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 12: At the Lord Smither, Yeah it was in my case, mkay.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 17: Yeah, you know, I looked at the pictures of the truck.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 17: You don't want it when Gallaxy Achadey came out there,
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 17: and I guess it's what the three days later, or
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 17: four five days later. It made a better week later. Yeah, Uh,
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 17: they got pictures of your truck. There's don't damage to
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 17: your trucker.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 12: You to your right to I then fixed it. I
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 12: didn't fix my mirror and stuff.
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 17: It was no truck to you. You d there was
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 17: no damage to your truck as well, Mum.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 12: Sort of.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 17: The pictures show like that. And if you hear that
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 17: that hard and broken, nothing like that. You know those pictures,
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 17: you would see.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 12: Something right right, I understand. Well, I can't explain that,
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 12: but I know I hear it. Yeah, I know, I'm here.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 17: You know she was also found though clothes on.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 13: No, I didn't know that, Yeah, cause when I laid
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 13: her in a pool of water, she still had uh
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 13: a black outfit on.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 17: Yeah, but they ain't come up out themselves billing.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 32: Well, I understand that, but I I I'm telling him
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 32: just being well, you and I are talking directly.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 12: Game, okay, but I'm being honest, slicking you. I laid
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 12: her in that water. Her clothes were on her. I
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 12: know for a fact her clothes were on her. I
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 12: needn't touch her clothes.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 6: I think this man has told himself so many lies,
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 6: for so many years. I'm not sure he even knows
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 6: what the truth is anymore.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 12: So you hit sminners. You never saw her, cause I
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 12: never saw her at that time on you pretty much
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 12: new she was dead, Yes, sir.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 13: When I got out of the truck and was up
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 13: a little girl down the ditch, and she was crying
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 13: and crying and yelling. So for down ditch, I'm panicking,
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 13: and uh, I was trying to get her to quit screaming,
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 13: and I put my hand over me out and she
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 13: was facing away from him. So when my trick her
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 13: head around, I felt her neck pop and she got
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 13: real quiet, and I picked her up. I put her
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 13: in the truck cause I was paying.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 12: And I had what to do. And uh, I took
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 12: her up to this attention pot.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 31: She was already dead, and I took her clothes out
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 31: and put her in the water, and uh got her.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 12: Her her clothes.
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 6: He gives a vision of the truth to make himself
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 6: look better and put the blame on the girls.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 2: It's's the girl's fault.
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 3: His first story was that Tiffany wanted him to have
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 3: sex with it.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 12: The cord worse. I pulled in and.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 13: Puts quarters in and I was spraying, bring out herdingal truck.
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 12: I started on the trailer carder and uh, that's when
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 12: I grew on yelled he. I sprayed her.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 13: I sorry, and I thought she said something I said,
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 13: started cussing at her.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 22: M.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 12: And H and her got into it. What was it
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 12: in a trader? Was fighting stuff? I saw I set
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 12: up and it was hot here and started sweating.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 17: She climbed on top of the main fartus.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 24: I mean the part as hard to believe, Yeah, is
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 24: that you gotta start.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 17: Out with a fight, right And suddenly.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 12: I ain't saying she's doing a volunteer.
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 3: And then his next story was, no, I initiated, and
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 3: I did it.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 29: Stood to put my pants and pull up my pants
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 29: and zip them up, and she hitting the back of
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 29: the head with her horseshoe. I had two boxes her horseshoes,
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 29: and ever started sweezing around the throat and I grabbed
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 29: a lead rope, grab.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 6: Around the pull that time, I never imagined I was
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 6: gonna hear as much testimony as I did, because probably
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 6: eighty percent, I know it was, a large amount of
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 6: the testimony was about the Texas cases. So Oklahoma is
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 6: one of the few states that allows testimony in the
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 6: guilty innocent phase of the trial in about previous victims.
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 8: There are other girls that testified in the trial in
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 8: Oklahoma that he had raped before uh Sandra se Paul
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 8: and they got away and they didn't necessarily report it.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 6: A whole bunch of victims were paraded before the jury
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 6: telling their story of what he did to them through
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 6: They were extremely courageous young women getting up and testifying,
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 6: and they told me afterwards they did it for Laura.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 6: They did it for Laura. But it took an awful
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 6: lot out of them, took a lot out of me
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 6: just hearing them.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 3: We watched during court and whenever they had pictures of
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 3: Tiffany and her body, he was glued to the screen.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 3: And I mean he was just glued to it. I
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 3: guess he was reliving it. Maybe I don't know, but
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 3: he was all engross and the the pictures of how
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 3: he guilteth It was really hard because you're I already
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 3: knew what to expect with the pictures, because I had
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 3: already gotten the optopsy, and I'd already read it, and
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 3: I had already looked at the pictures, and so I
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 3: was prepared. But the kids was I mean, my son
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 3: and my daughter wasn't. Brian was a Timney's husband, so
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 3: they took a little bit harder.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 33: Was it.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 16: What was it like being in the same room with awful.
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: Awful?
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 6: And he sat there impassively through the entire trial. I
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 6: only saw one shade of emotion one time when he
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 6: turned and looked at Kathy Dobray with a really it
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 6: was a demonic look, That's what it looked like to me.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 6: And he just sat there with having no emotion through
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 6: the whole trial. I mean there was the odds spook,
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 6: but mostly just this no expression.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 16: After eight days of testimony, more than twenty witnesses, it
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 16: took the jury less than an hour to come up
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 16: with a verdict.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 3: Prosecution figured, oh, we'll take them five six hours. So
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 3: we went outside and we were standing around and my
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 3: phone's going off, my daughter's having a fit. Mama's outside
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 3: and she's not in the courtroom. They're getting ready to,
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 3: you know, to do this, and here everybody comes looking
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 3: for mom and I go, okay, okay, okay, okay, let's go.
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 2: Let's go.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 3: So we went back upstairs and they said he's guilty,
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 3: and you don't know how hard that was for me
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 3: set there or not show cause I've always wanted to
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 3: get up and say yay, you know, but they wouldn't
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 3: let you do that. So you had to sit there
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 3: and wait, and the judge dismissed us, let us go
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 3: on out, and then we got to holler.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 16: The jury recommended the death penalty for Reese. In August
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 16: of twenty twenty one, he was formally sentenced. Laura's mother's
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 16: family and Kelly Cox's who were in the courtroom.
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 9: That's how you're supposed to feel when you're coming face
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 9: to face with a monster. And isn't not just any
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 9: monster for me, That's a monster who took away.
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 12: My mom.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 15: There's an old saying in the law. Justice delayed is
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 15: justice denied. Justice will not be delayed any longer. In
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 15: this case, I sentence you to death.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 2: With him.
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: With William Reesi's first time i'd seen him, So that
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: was not all that easy.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 24: It was really harder than I thought.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 16: It was spinn of a but it's they were golden
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 16: words the entire time that.
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 9: Kathy Debery was making her vicim.
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 23: I'm not saying that Williams would not take his eyes
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 23: off of her I found not discussing.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 24: Seeing him was.
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 23: It's over, and I'm glad it was brief, and I'm
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 23: glad that no other woman's family can be hurt.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 3: It'll be twenty years before we'll see s dead, but
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 3: we'll probably be dead because he's too evil to die,
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 3: I swear he is. But at least we know he
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 3: won't be out killing someone else's kids, daughters. We got
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 3: justice for Tiffany, and that's what I was going for
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 3: all those years, was pushing and arguing and standing up
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 3: for her rights. And because this mama wasn't gonna give up.
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 8: She just wouldn't give up. She's just She's a hero
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 8: to all the mothers and parents.
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 16: Reese was granted an automatic appeal, which is given to
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 16: everyone sentenced to death in Oklahoma. He will spend his
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 16: final days on Oklahoma's death Row and McAllister, where an
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 16: inmate spends twenty two hours a day in his cell,
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 16: but murder charges and texas are still pending. He has
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 16: not faced trial in the deaths of Kelly Cox, Jessica
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 16: Kin or Laura Smither.
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: This is justice.
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 4: It is.
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 6: There was sid me a long period of time that
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 6: we thought that that was never going to happen. We
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 6: know he's not going to get out the fact that
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 6: he was received death penalty in Oklahoma. We feel that
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 6: we got that justice for all the girls in that verdict.
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 6: They're really comfortable with him sitting on death row in Oklahoma.
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 6: I'm not coming back here to face our charges because
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 6: in a death row cell where he doesn't have all
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 6: some privileges that he managed to get in the Texas system.
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 2: On death row, he will be in his cell.
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 3: It wasn't for just him, It was for all the
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 3: girls in Texas that he murdered. It was to get
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 3: justice for all the girls, even the ones that survived.
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: And I was certainly thankful for Tiffany's mom that they
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: found him guilty and that they recommended death penalty. Just
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: because he was found guilty in Oklahoma, I don't want
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: that to minimize the focus in Texas on putting him
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: before a jury and finding him guilty in Texas for
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: Kelly's murder.
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 16: Kelly Cox's family is in talks, but the District Attorney's
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 16: office in Missouri County where her rennings were found.
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: I expect him to you want to type Reese to
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: trial for Kelly's staff for murdering Kelly.
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  Speaker 23: It's really important to me just to hear what the
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  Speaker 23: DA's are thinking about, and definitely to make sure that
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  Speaker 23: they're not even considering dropping it. Just because he got
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  Speaker 23: a death penalty sentencing doesn't mean that he didn't murder
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  Speaker 23: my mom. He did, and he needs to be held
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  Speaker 23: accountable in a court of law.
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  Speaker 12: Now.
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  Speaker 23: I don't I'm not a big pusher of the death
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  Speaker 23: penalty anything like that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care.
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  Speaker 23: Just I want the guilty verdict for what he did.
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  Speaker 16: Many investigators still believe this may not be the last
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  Speaker 16: we've heard from William Reese.
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  Speaker 11: It's very likely that we'll hear from William rees again,
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  Speaker 11: and it will likely be because he is looking for
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  Speaker 11: some way to get off a death row. We're working
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  Speaker 11: with an agency now, which you know I'm not going
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  Speaker 11: to name, but you know, we are providing some evidence
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  Speaker 11: to another agency that currently is looking at William reason.
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  Speaker 8: I firmly believe that he's responsible for other deaths. And
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  Speaker 8: you know, he's not a stupid man. I don't like
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  Speaker 8: to give him any credit at all, but he's not stupid,
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  Speaker 8: and he knew how to stalk his victims and he
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 8: was successful.
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  Speaker 3: But then he left.
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  Speaker 8: One of them got one of them got away from him,
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  Speaker 8: and that's what got him.
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  Speaker 19: We will never know how many victims he has out there.
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  Speaker 19: We lost a bright star, a man that had nothing
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  Speaker 19: to offer the world has destroyed so many children that
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 19: had everything to offer Laura, Jessica and the others.
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  Speaker 16: But from tragedy comes purpose.
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  Speaker 6: The Laura Recovery is Center is obviously her biggest legacy,
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 6: and it's the legacy of the entire community.
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  Speaker 16: The Smither family founded the Law Recovery Center, a nonprofit
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  Speaker 16: aimed at preventing abductions and runaways and helping to recover
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  Speaker 16: missing children.
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  Speaker 19: Laura's case changed how law enforcement nationally. It was one
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  Speaker 19: of the critical cases that changed how they look in
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  Speaker 19: the early days when there's a missing child, exchange the
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 19: way this happens.
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  Speaker 16: Michael Barker says the emotional search for Jessica Kine inspired
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 16: him to begin writing and recording music her journal.
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  Speaker 19: I poured over the journal for hours and days and
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 19: weeks and years, trying to find a little thread that
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 19: we could follow there. And there was a passage in there.
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  Speaker 19: And this was less than two weeks before she disappeared.
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 19: She made a trip to Dallas, and she written. She
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 19: said that about sitting at the table, looking at the
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 19: candlelight and having a vision of important things, of horses,
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 19: country crows.
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  Speaker 17: And being alone.
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  Speaker 19: And as you know, she was founding a horse pasture
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  Speaker 19: and been with those horses all these.
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  Speaker 22: Year alone because she's passed.
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  Speaker 3: Is that eerie?
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  Speaker 22: When you read it?
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 24: Is eerie?
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  Speaker 17: It haunts me today.
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  Speaker 2: Did you have a vision of what was going?
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  Speaker 24: It's a process.
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  Speaker 19: I had never heard the term country crows before, but
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 19: I never ever ever dreamed of this. I started waking
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 19: up the middle of night, two or three o'clock in
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 19: the morning, and I'd had these words in my head,
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  Speaker 19: and so I ignored it for a long time, and
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  Speaker 19: then I started writing it down.
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  Speaker 17: Except for the crows and horses.
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  Speaker 9: The field stays the same.
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  Speaker 19: Couple of those words, a few of those words about
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  Speaker 19: horses and being alone I put into a song.
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  Speaker 22: What made you want to put that in a song?
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 12: I needed to.
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  Speaker 17: Put it somewhere.
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  Speaker 24: The Revvenner truth.
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  Speaker 19: She was very good with words. It really started making
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 19: me think about words, and I think it had a
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 19: lot to do with my songwriting, because I never even
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 19: ever dreamed to do anything like that.
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  Speaker 22: So she inspired you.
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 19: I do believe there was inspiration came from there. She
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 19: might be pulling the strings, but she definitely had an
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 19: impact on my life. They all did the song Still.
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: I had been abducted, riped, murdered, dumped and Barry.
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  Speaker 16: Hallie Cox's family helps. The memorial on the UNC campus
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 16: will encourage students to be vigilant and aware of their surroundings.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't want people to forget that what had happened.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted it to be something that drew people to
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: it so they would read the story.
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 2: I said.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't accomplish what we hope for if they don't
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: read the story, they don't read what happened and then go,
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  Speaker 1: oh wow, that wasn't very far from here.
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  Speaker 23: We lived in a very safe area and she was
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 23: on a field trip with a college in broad daylight,
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 23: in front of a dent in jail where cops are,
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 23: and it can happen to anyone, anyone, and the world
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 23: needs to be aware of that.
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 22: But there are other people around her.
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: It wouldn't have happened because he wouldn't have He wouldn't
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: have gone after her. After who somebody who was by themselves.
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 16: William Reese's former attorney declined a requests for comet. Reese
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 16: is now sixty two years old and has spent more
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 16: than half his life in prison.
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 25: To know that he will never be out again, that
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 25: that would be completely satisfying, just for the safety of
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 25: young girls everywhere.
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 22: You know, we talked about forgiveness.
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 3: You know, there's no forgiving him for killing Tiffany. He
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 3: might take her and he killed her. But there's one
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 3: thing that we have that he doesn't, and that's the memories.
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 3: He has the memory of killing her and getting off
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 3: on it, and we have the good memories of Tiffany,
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 3: of her growing up, playing ball and being spoiled.
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 22: What do you think about when you come out here.
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  Speaker 33: How much I'm miss sir, and what you'd be doing,
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 33: what you'd look like, Oh, she's my sweetie.
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 23: All we have to keep moving forward because that's what
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 23: she would want. And I guarantee you every day she's
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 23: looking down smiling. He took back something we can never have.
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 3: You know, you can't.
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 23: You don't hit a redo on LIFs. But that's not
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 23: going to make him stop me from living my life.
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 23: And we're going to continue on and we're going to
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 23: press forward. We're going to make sure that there's justice
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 23: for Kelly as much as we can.
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 21: Gee.
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  Speaker 1: I had a wonderful life. My greatest joy was in
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: becoming a mom to Alexis. The privilege of raising her
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: and watching her grow up was stolen from me. I
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: want everyone to live their life to the fullest without
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 1: having to cut it short by violence. If I could
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: say anything to you personally, it would be stay aware,
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: stay safe, and God bless Kelly.
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 9: The shortest stories ever told.
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  Speaker 22: By words put to verse
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  Speaker 32: The Rev Lovener Truth, exposing the pain's worth