OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – An Oklahoma jury has reached a verdict within the case of an alleged serial killer.
In July of 1997, 19-year-old Tiffany Johnston’s Dodge Neon was discovered on the Sunshine Carwash close to N.W. twenty third and Council in Bethany. The newlywed’s keys have been nonetheless within the ignition however the teen was nowhere to be discovered.
The following day, Johnston’s bare physique was present in a Canadian County subject.
The Medical Examiner later decided Johnston had been strangled and raped. In keeping with 2015 data, examiners took vaginal and rectum swabbings from Johnston.
In 2015, DNA taken from Johnston was linked again to William Reece.
At the moment, Reece was already serving a 60-year sentence in Texas for the rape and kidnapping of Sandra Sapaugh.
In keeping with reviews, Sapaugh was kidnapped at knifepoint however managed to flee and name police.
Investigators stated that crime occurred two months earlier than Johnston’s dying.
Twenty-year-old Kelli Cox and 17-year-old Jessica Cain’s our bodies weren’t discovered till 2016, when Reece led Texas investigators to graves the place their stays have been buried.
Again in Oklahoma, court docket paperwork present investigators determined to check Reece’s DNA in opposition to Johnston’s unsolved case.
The identical court docket paperwork present investigators linked payphone data, proving Reece was in Canadian County on the identical day Johnston vanished.
Investigators additionally allege Reece admitted to realizing the teenager’s household.
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Reece was extradited to face trial in Oklahoma, the place he beforehand spent a decade locked up for sexually assaulting two ladies. In keeping with on-line data, Reece had solely been out of jail for one 12 months when the murders occurred.
Throughout the trial, the jury heard from investigators and even noticed a taped confession.
On Friday, the jury discovered Reece responsible of Johnston’s homicide.
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