A convicted serial rapist and assassin is ready to be executed in Oklahoma after his actions devastated a number of households.
Sixty-three-year-old William Lewis Reece was in Texas serving life sentences for murdering a younger woman, a teenage woman, and a 20-year-old lady, Fox 25 reported Monday.
In press launch Monday, Oklahoma Lawyer Common Gentner Drummond’s workplace introduced Reece had been returned to Oklahoma to face execution on the state penitentiary in McAlester.
“In 2021, Reece was convicted and sentenced to loss of life by an Oklahoma County jury for the homicide of 19-year-old Tiffany Johnston in July 1997. Reece kidnapped Johnston from a automobile wash in Bethany, sexually assaulted and killed her, then dumped her physique in a distant location west of Yukon,” the information launch continued:
The case remained unsolved for almost twenty years till 2016, when Reece confessed to killing Johnston throughout interviews with a Texas Ranger about murdering and sexually assaulting younger ladies in Oklahoma and Texas. DNA proof from Johnston’s physique confirmed Reece’s confession.
After his conviction and loss of life sentence in Oklahoma, Reece returned to Texas in 2022, the place he pled responsible to the murders of 12-year-old Laura Smither, 17-year-old Jessica Cain and 20-year-old Kelli Cox. He acquired life sentences for all three murders.
Reece spent 10 years in jail for raping two ladies in 1986 and upon his launch moved to Harris County. He later murdered Smither in April of 1997 after kidnapping her whereas she was jogging in Friendswood. Her physique was ultimately present in a retention pond, Click on 2 Houston reported Tuesday.
“In Could of 1997, Reece kidnapped Sandra Sapaugh from a comfort retailer in Webster. Nevertheless, Sapaugh was capable of escape by leaping from Reece’s truck because it barreled down the Gulf Freeway,” the outlet mentioned.
Just a few months later, he kidnapped Cox at a Denton fuel station and killed her, then killed Johnston after kidnapping her from an Oklahoma automobile wash. He killed Cain as she was driving house in Galveston County.
Drummond’s workplace mentioned the assassin is exhausting the appeals of his loss of life sentence however they are going to oppose them and request an execution date.
“This predator has left a path of devastated households throughout two states. Tiffany Johnston was a younger bride along with her complete life forward of her when he violently ended it,” Drummond mentioned. “I’m grateful to the Oklahoma Division of Corrections for its work to carry again this predator so he can face the punishment a jury decided he deserves.”
